12.05.2024

Spell points ever heard of them probably. not it's in one small section in the. back of the dmg that you may not have. ever read because it's kind of around. things that people don't really pay any. attention to but if you want to know. what they are and potentially why people. are interested in them stay tuned hi. friends my name is Ted and this is nerd. immersion this is kind of a new series. that I'm undertaking I thinking of. calling you nerd immersions guide to. everything as a pawn off of those an. authority I'd to everything kind of a. thing but where I basically am going. through and looking at stuff you may. have forgotten about or just general. things involving dungeon the Dragons. fifth edition that I find cool I've done. some stuff like this in the past under. other names but let's take a look what.

We're gonna be talking about now is the. variant spell points and there's an. entire chapter in the dungeon masters. guide that I feel like didn't get as. much love or doesn't I'm not deceiving. you really love it just has a lot of. interesting things that just kind of get. overlooked because I feel like the main. reason people went there was explained. away and let me just go ahead and show. you what I'm talking about here so we're. in chapter 9 of the Dungeon Master's. guide called the dungeon masters. workshop and what here is a whole bunch. of different this is actually probably. gonna be the majority of this series is. gonna be going through a lot of the cool. stuff here one of the things that I say. kind of doesn't get looked at as much. anymore was there was a section here. called creating new character options.

And that had a version of a ladrón and a. version a version of azemar which were. what we kind of got as the first. goaround of those and they if you. you've probably seen them. Elad room was just basically a high off. with a free misty step and azemar was. essentially a just a flip of tiefling. rather than like the new version of. azemar we have in bolos guide to. everything but this is something a lot. of people have mentioned I've seen. people talk about this as a way to fix. sorcerer which has a potential but if. you use it for sorcerer than you kind of. have to use. for everybody but it's this idea of. spell points so what the concept is and. I'm gonna paraphrase this whole. paragraph here for you is essentially. instead of getting a set number of spell. slots which if you look at any character. break down you see there's that table.

That tells you you have four first level. slots and three second all the slots and. so on up to ninth level with only one. spell out of each instead of that you. get a number of points and what you. basically do is use those points to. create a spell slot which is kind of a. funky way to describe it but that's what. makes the most sense the way things are. written so if you look at this table. here to create a first level spell slot. it uses two spell points can't trips. don't require any spell points they're. free to cast so now we need to worry. about that and there's a table down here. that shows you how many spell points you. get for each level so if you look at. this right at first level you get four. spell points and there's also a maximum. spell level you can cast so right you. could have a ton of spell points but.

That doesn't mean that you could cast a. fifth level spell at level 5 you can't. cast the fifth level spell until level 9. similar to the way you get spell slots. as things are written in the game as it. stands maximum at level 20 is a hundred. and thirty three spell points and the. maximum spell level you can cast is. ninth level so here you can see the. breakdown of how much it is to cast each. spell to four first level spell seven. four fifth level spell up to 13 for a. ninth level spell however there is a. catch you cannot cast you can only cast. spells of 6th 7th 8th or 9th level once. per long rest. using spell points the thought process. being if you could with a hundred and. thirtythree. spell points you could just cast a ton. of 9th level spells and in the book. you're only ever allowed to cast one /. by the way most classes work as written.

So that's how they kind of balanced that. at six seventh eighth and ninth level. spells once per long rest utilizing all. of your spell points but under that. fifth level and below if you have. whatever level of spell points you have. left you can just go to town. and cast as many spells as you want. which means you could potentially cast. five times as many first level spells. like that's obviously not gonna be the. case but let's do a quick calculation. here right so if you take at 20th level. you get a hundred and thirty three spell. points if you cast a ninth eighth. seventh and sixth level spell that's. gonna leave you ninety spell points left. so that is 90 points to cast any spells. between 1st and 5th level I haven't done. the exact math but my guess is it's. probably gonna come out relatively close. to however many spell slots you two.

Actually have for character but if we. were to take that you could in theory. cast 45 first level spells with that or. however you want to break it up between. there I don't know what spells of what. class you have but this table just to. point this out is for bards clerics. druids sorcerers and wizards only. sorry warlocks you don't get spell. points you still have to deal with your. spell slot training against that you. have it says if you're a paladin. arranger take this level and cut it in. half as they're a cast half caster and. for elders knight and arcane trickster. they're 3rd casters so take this and. divide it by 3 that's how many spell. points you can get and then associated. with that so I have heard people talk. about using this as a way to fix the. issues that sorcerers have the limited. numbers of spell known is my biggest.

Problem with sorcerers so I don't know. why this would fix it but this would in. theory like I said let you cast more. lower level spells than you frequently. could obviously there is no scenario. where in a long rest you could cast 45. first level spells after casting a six. seventh eighth and ninth level spell. that's just impossible obviously that's. in if you're doing that you're for going. second through fifth level spells but. again you get my point so this is a. concept so it doesn't actually change. too much the process of converting spell. points into spell slots is free they. don't actually give you any way to. understand how you could do things like. if you were a sorcerer and how you can. convert sorcery points into spell slots. I guess in theory. you would convert that sorcery point. into a spell slot on this table here and.

In turn it would be that many spell. points that you could then use to cast. something else right so in theory right. with that you could take if you're a. sorcerer and you've converted sorcery. points into a fourth level spell slot. that would be six spell points which you. could then use to fuel three first level. spells I'm only using first level spells. because it's a good example of how many. more you could cast than you normally. could I've never really had any desire. to use this system myself but enough of. you have actually requested the idea for. me to go over this and talk about it so. I thought I would it says we're here to. stop at the top here with this variant. system a character who has a spell. casting feature can use spell points it. gives a caster more flexibility at the. cost of greater complexity and that is.

Absolutely the case right you are now. potentially tracking a number into the. hundreds that you need to keep track of. rather than just checking off a little. box I've used a first level spell slot. check your now like well I've used 15 or. 50 spell points whatever it is to figure. out that amount it also for something. like D&D Beyond and most online. character creators are not equipped to. use spell points as an option most. things including character sheets that. are printable from you know the players. handbook are designed for you to use. spell slots so you'd have to create your. own custom character sheet or just have. a separate scrap paper where you track. the points. it also doesn't again another weird. scenario right let's say you're a wizard. or a land druid and you have the arcane. recovery type thing where you get spell.

Slots back on a short rest as that then. again spell slots that you're converting. it to spell points which just adds a. whole nother level of complexity to. things I don't know again I haven't. thought about it right so if you're a. paladin at 10th level you're gonna have. 64 spell slot or spill points and. highest spell you cast this fifth level. but you could cast I think as a paladin. or a ranger you can only ever cast one. fifth level spell maybe two obviously. this will allow you to cast. significantly more but again there's. that greater dealer of complexity and I. feel like fifth editions. kind of general motto is keep it simple. stupid so that everybody can easily jump. into a game and understand it and I do. think this actually reminds me a lot of. psionics and sigh points which I never. really liked in older editions like.

Psyonix just drove me up a wall to the. point with the amount of numbers that I. had to keep track of that I just was. just like I'm not ever gonna play a Sai. on a character obviously that may your. mileage may vary if that's something you. like keeping track of a lot of things. it's really only two numbers right how. much each spell slot costs and the total. number of spell points you have so it's. an option I don't know I'm not a huge. fan of it myself but you know it's an. option you can choose to do if you. really want to switch things up and you. know what I think could be a fun thing. might be to use this as some sort of. like aha in a one shot maybe to just. test it out you know we're not have high. stakes of an ongoing campaign or what. could be really fun would be some sort. of real funky magic thing happens in.

Your world and for like a session the. goddess of magic the god of magic. something happens and everything's. twisted and warped and for this session. we're using spell points instead of. spell slots just to make it like a fun. alteration to the norm and then things. get resolved with a course of the. session and the players fix everything. and then it goes back to normal but. that's a fun way to try out this concept. see what your players think see what you. think as a dungeon master and if you. love it then maybe you'll go with it. going forward or if you hate it well you. just leave it buried in the back of the. dmg where everybody else did so thank. you all so much for watching I hope you. enjoyed this new series where I'm going. to just be touching on some interesting. things that people haven't really. thought of or I'm gonna do a whole one I.

Think just on optional rules there are a. lot of interesting things they're. flagged as optional in fifth edition. that some I think are super useful. others maybe not but yeah let me know. what you guys think. have you used spell points in your games. have you even ever heard of this in the. first place are you at all interested in. it going forward I really don't know I. mean I sounds like from what I've heard. people telling me they use that to fix. the sorcerer. maybe people are using spell points and. I'm just the ignorant one. or not if you like this video guys feel. free to give us a thumbs up if you don't. thumbs down that's how that's why the. rating system is there and then again. leave me your thoughts on spell points. in the comments below and I will see you. guys at whatever the next one of these. videos is.