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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gadget" data-source="post: 7708946" data-attributes="member: 23716">But you are, you can't make comparisons between the cost of different things without taking context and the whole into account.  There is such a thing as opportunity cost and making apples to apples comparison. My thoughts are that the sorcerer's conversion from sorcery points to spell slots and vice versa was designed to be inefficient and, more importantly, designed specifically for the sorcerer chassis, not the wizard.  If we want to talk about giving the Wizard sorcery points and such, I suppose we can do so, but I'm sort of at a loss at why I would ever play a sorcerer if that were the case.  Of course, there is the optional magic point system in the DMG, but even that does not convert the top level spells into pure points and limits them into a once a long rest usage pattern.That may be so, but I would find such a system a tad too convoluted for my taste.  YMMVYes, that is correct.  And when I win the lottery and retire, I will no longer draw my weekly pay check.  Please try to contain your sympathy for my dilemma.  Look I know you are not making the argument that this sub-class is balanced, but I think you are ignoring a lot of context in making a direct, cross class comparison from sorcery points to wizard spell slots.  The wizard does not have sorcery points, so the only other remotely fungible currency they can offer (without grafting a whole new sub-system onto a sub-class or using Hit Points, which opens up whole new can of worms) is spell slots.  And a level one slot is the smallest denomination that currency has to offer.  Is this the same as a sorcery point?  Don't know, but I don't think it is as simple as converting from dollars to pounds to euros; or the formulae for doing so is a bit more complex.  The Sorcerer pays for the privilege of using sorcery points by having a limited spell list, a very curtailed number of spells known, and the lack of the ability to cast ritual spells without spending a spell slot (if said spell happens to be on their list).  If we were to count the various Sorcerer & Wizard sub-class features as a wash, that is a somewhat hefty price to pay for the privilege.  Until wizards start paying a similar price, I find the comparison of 1 sorcery point to 1 level one wizard slot kind of spurious.</blockquote>

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