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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8618241" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>I mean, as a DM I'd probably say that the Eldritch Knight's full potential as far as spells are concerned is the spellcasting of a 20th level Eldritch knight (and so they get those spell slots early - at 16th level it's not going to matter that much, especially if you also have two full sorcerers on the team).</p><p></p><p></p><p>However if you want to go down this route and give the Eldritch Knight those spell levels, the question is what do you mean by "punishment"? Do you mean the cost in-world for making this wish, or do you want to make that wish mechanically balanced in some way? Or both? </p><p></p><p>If balance is on your mind - both because magic has a cost and mechanically in game - you could rule that the Eldritch Knight and the sorcerer who made the wish now share the sorcerer's spell slots of 5th level and above through the mystical connection of the wish. The sorcerer has now unlocked the EK's "full potential" by sharing some of their own magic power with them. The sorcerer doesn't lose them outright, but now they're sharing their power with someone else.</p><p></p><p>If you want to have a story idea for it, the EK could instead unlock one spell of each level from 5th to 9th as they level up from levels 16 to 20 but each of those spells are actually stolen from some powerful entity who is going to come looking for the person who stole that magic from them and eventually trace it back to the sorcerer who made the wish..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8618241, member: 19857"] I mean, as a DM I'd probably say that the Eldritch Knight's full potential as far as spells are concerned is the spellcasting of a 20th level Eldritch knight (and so they get those spell slots early - at 16th level it's not going to matter that much, especially if you also have two full sorcerers on the team). However if you want to go down this route and give the Eldritch Knight those spell levels, the question is what do you mean by "punishment"? Do you mean the cost in-world for making this wish, or do you want to make that wish mechanically balanced in some way? Or both? If balance is on your mind - both because magic has a cost and mechanically in game - you could rule that the Eldritch Knight and the sorcerer who made the wish now share the sorcerer's spell slots of 5th level and above through the mystical connection of the wish. The sorcerer has now unlocked the EK's "full potential" by sharing some of their own magic power with them. The sorcerer doesn't lose them outright, but now they're sharing their power with someone else. If you want to have a story idea for it, the EK could instead unlock one spell of each level from 5th to 9th as they level up from levels 16 to 20 but each of those spells are actually stolen from some powerful entity who is going to come looking for the person who stole that magic from them and eventually trace it back to the sorcerer who made the wish.. [/QUOTE]
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