CapnZapp
Legend
I started to think "I wonder how close the Lyceian Arcana variants of the core spellcaster classes will come to the official magic point using version of these?" and then I had to stop at the following question.
I'm referring to the Unearthed Arcana variant rule on spellpoints. If we apply this rule we get Wizards and Clerics with magic points, because unless I'm horribly wrong we can equal 1 spell point with 1 magic point.
However, UA spellcasters get significantly less magic points than EoM:R spellcasters. For instance, a 20th level Sorcerer gets 232 SP. A EoM character with CL 20 gets 370 MP.
So I checked Psions (from Expanded Psionics Handbook), they get 343 PP (Power Points, another name for essentially the same commodity) not counting bonus points for a high ability score.
So EoM is about (or exactly?) the same as XPH. Perhaps there's nothing controversial about the EoM point pool after all, perhaps the relevant question is "what's up with the UA point pools?".
This has been discussed elsewhere, for instance here:
http://www.wakinglands.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=14&t=101&st=0#entry836
Now Wizards get 324 spell points, while Sorcerers get 486 (at 20th level). Now EoM is somewhere in the middle, and the comparison looks much better.
So, is there more to the EoM point pool than this? And am I ill advised to compare to UA?
I'm referring to the Unearthed Arcana variant rule on spellpoints. If we apply this rule we get Wizards and Clerics with magic points, because unless I'm horribly wrong we can equal 1 spell point with 1 magic point.
However, UA spellcasters get significantly less magic points than EoM:R spellcasters. For instance, a 20th level Sorcerer gets 232 SP. A EoM character with CL 20 gets 370 MP.
So I checked Psions (from Expanded Psionics Handbook), they get 343 PP (Power Points, another name for essentially the same commodity) not counting bonus points for a high ability score.
So EoM is about (or exactly?) the same as XPH. Perhaps there's nothing controversial about the EoM point pool after all, perhaps the relevant question is "what's up with the UA point pools?".
This has been discussed elsewhere, for instance here:
http://www.wakinglands.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=14&t=101&st=0#entry836
Now Wizards get 324 spell points, while Sorcerers get 486 (at 20th level). Now EoM is somewhere in the middle, and the comparison looks much better.
So, is there more to the EoM point pool than this? And am I ill advised to compare to UA?