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<blockquote data-quote="FrankTrollman" data-source="post: 1188718" data-attributes="member: 14225">Of course, noone is actually going to be unable to cast their top-end spells after being hit by Touch of Idiocy.Imagine, if you will, that you started life with a 17 in your spellcasting stat. With Gray Elves or Point Buy it can be higher - but we'll assume 17. Now you are 4th level. Your Spellcasting stat is now an 18 - you lose 6 poins of it and you can still cast 2nd level spells - your highest.Move on down the line to 6th level. You can afford a Headband of Spellcasting Stat +2 - and would thus be foolish to not have one. Your Spellcasting Stat is 20, so the maximum penalty brings you to 14 - which is enough to cast 4th level spells except that you can't actually cast those because you aren't high enough level.At first level your spellcasting stat starts out about 6 points higher or more than the minimum needed to cast your highest level spell. Dedicated spellcasters get spellcasting stat at a rate higher than 1 per two levels, so Touch of Idiocy never catches up to the point where it could actually shut down spell levels.-Frank</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrankTrollman, post: 1188718, member: 14225"] Of course, noone is actually going to be unable to cast their top-end spells after being hit by Touch of Idiocy. Imagine, if you will, that you started life with a 17 in your spellcasting stat. With Gray Elves or Point Buy it can be higher - but we'll assume 17. Now you are 4th level. Your Spellcasting stat is now an 18 - you lose 6 poins of it and you can still cast 2nd level spells - your highest. Move on down the line to 6th level. You can afford a Headband of Spellcasting Stat +2 - and would thus be foolish to not have one. Your Spellcasting Stat is 20, so the maximum penalty brings you to 14 - which is enough to cast 4th level spells except that you can't actually cast those because you aren't high enough level. At first level your spellcasting stat starts out about 6 points higher [i]or more[/i] than the minimum needed to cast your highest level spell. Dedicated spellcasters get spellcasting stat at a rate higher than 1 per two levels, so Touch of Idiocy [i]never[/i] catches up to the point where it could actually shut down spell levels. -Frank [/QUOTE]

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