Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
ShortQuests -- Pocket Sized Adventures! An all-new collection of digest-sized D&D adventures designed for 1-2 game sessions.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="alkabong" data-source="post: 1125227" data-attributes="member: 14228">For each spell level, you choose the higher number, remembering to adjust for Intelligence (from the wizard chart) and Charisma (from the sorcerer chart).  See the bottom of this post for the reason why it is done this way.Yes, the maximum number of spells that you can prepare comes from the wizard chart.The maximum spells slots that can be left "free" comes from the sorcerer spells/day chart, not the Known table.  (The known table is used to determine how many spells you have mastered)If your character that morning decided to leave two slots "free" and prepared three cantrips, that's exactly right.I don't know if I'd say you get them ON TOP OF each other, I'd say the spells/day "overlap" or you could say that they don't stack.  That means if you got 4/3 spells/day from both charts, you would get 4/3 spells per day.  In this case you could decide how many slots are "free" (and therefore can be used to cast a mastered spell) or filled with a prepared spell (and must be cast as you prepared them).1: The wizard spells/day chart puts a maximum on the number of spells that can be prepared.2: The sorcerer spells/day chart puts a maximum on the number of spell slots that can be left "free".So back to your Q1: Why is the number of spells/day chosen this way?  It's kind of a result of the previous two points, assuming your maximum prepared is from one chart and your maximum free is from another, your number/day is the greater of the two.</blockquote>

Verification