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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 4471006" data-attributes="member: 29252">Perhaps a different measurement, still looking at damage spells.Compare, say, Burning Hands (1st) to Fireball (3rd).Both are area-effect Fire spells that deal direct-damage and permit a reflex save.Burning Hands is a 15-foot Burst (about six squares) where Fireball is a 20-foot radius Spread (around 30 squares)Burning Hands uses a d4 damage die, Fireball uses a d6 damage die.Burning Hands is essentially melee range, Fireball is Long range.Burning Hands has a 5d cap, Fireball has a 10dcap.Two spell levels, and the higher-level spell is a lot better in a lot of ways.Perhaps instead of comparing spell level, we should compare Spell Level Squared - that is, a 9th level spell slot is 81 points, an 8th level spell slot is 64 points, a 7th level spell slot is 49 points, and so on, down to a 1st level spell slot at 1 point and a cantrip (or Osiron) at 1/4 point (1/2 squared).</blockquote>