Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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Hello!
My dnd group uses a modified version of the spell point system, specifically found here:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/dmg-2014/dungeon-masters-workshop#VariantSpellPoints
Does anyone else use this system or something similar? If so, what is the best way to track it within D&D beyond? Currently we are level 16, so we have quite a few spell points and it's getting quite difficult to track.
at level 20, you get 133 points?
and a 9th level spell costs 13 points to cast?
So you can regularly cast ten level 9 spells per long rest?
How does this not break literally everything?
Because it's limited to one spell per long rest above level 6.
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Granted, it still can lead to casters just going nova with 5th level spells, especially on low encounter days. Which is one of the reasons why they've left the spell slot system in place- it allows the power level to expand without encouraging casters to completely ignore low level spells and just constantly throw the biggest punches they can. Note that per the example case given, it's 43 points for your 6-9 slots. That leaves 90 points for other casts, which breaks out to 12 5th level casts. Given the way spells typically scale in 5e, that's a lot more DPR than a character working off of slots.
At the end of the day, you can't really reconcile a Vancian tiered system with a spell points system- any pool size and spell costs balanced so that it can imitate the slot progression also allows for the user to simply keep throwing the heaviest punches they can until they're empty, typically to much greater effect.
Well, not necessarily, you can construct a system that doesn't allow that, but then it allows absolutely spamming low to mid level spells instead.