The Spellpoint System

The spell point system allows casters to more freely pick and choose which spells they cast each day, giving greater flexibility, as well as a more realistic approach to the many IC questions that come up in-game about how you cast your spells or blessings.

Every spellcaster has a reserve of spell points based on class and level. Characters also gain bonus spell points from a high ability score (just as a normal spellcaster would gain bonus spells from a high ability score). These spell points provide the magical power behind the caster’s spells: He or she spends a number of spell points appropriate to the spell’s level to cast the spell. Once spent, spell points are expended until the caster has sufficient time to rest and prepare new spells.

Preparing Spells

Spellcasters still prepare spells as normal (assuming they normally prepare spells). In effect, casters who prepare spells are setting their list of “spells known” for the day. They need not prepare multiple copies of the same spell, since they can cast any combination of their prepared spells each day (up to the limit of their spell points).

Spontaneous Spellcasting

Characters who cast all their spells spontaneously—such as bards and sorcerers—don’t have to prepare spells. They can cast any spell they know by spending the requisite number of spell points.

Casting Spells

Each spell costs a certain number of spell points to cast. The higher the level of the spell, the more points it costs.

Multiclass Spellcasters

A character with multiple classes (such as a cleric/wizard) has a separate pool of spell points for each spellcasting class. Such characters may only spend spell points on spells granted by that class. Bonus spell points from a high ability score apply to each pool separately, even if the same ability score is tied to more than one spellcasting class. In the rare situations when a character has prepared or knows the same spell in two different slots (such as a druid/ranger preparing delay poison as both a 2nd-level druid spell and a 1st-level ranger spell), the character can cast the spell using either pool of spell points, but the spell is treated as being cast by a caster of the level of the class from which the spell points are drawn.