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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 290436" data-attributes="member: 944">Thanks for the feedback all!I calculated the point costs exactly as if Wizards spells per day were converted into power points.I have playtested this in a matter of speaking, well the second edition anyway during a 1 shot Diablo Dungeon crawl--The results were pretty good except that the mage basically was a magic missle machine gun--- I just didn't want, say a second and third level spell to become 5 magic missles spells per day so I implimted the extra "blast spell' costIt also tweaks the flavor and encourages  more "subtle" uses of magic.For a more "Zap" friendly game just drop the extra cost.As it is in the standard rules a wiz5 can cast  4/3/2/1 or 10 spells per day plus appropriate bonus spellsIn the power point system he has 4+6+6+4 or 20 spell point worth of spells plus appropriate bonus for stats bonus.This basically number of spells per level x spell level +1The costs are spell level +1Under my system  he can do less zapping (5 three die magic missles or 2 five die fireballs) or more low level stuff (10 armor spells) or the exact same amount of regular non attack spellsIf you drop the "Zap" penalty our mage can do 5 fireballs or even 10 magic missle spells (ouch)I think if I were to use this system in a more regular version of D&D instead of the lower powered version I plan to I would drop the extra "zap" cost</blockquote>