Problem with maximum spells per level

Alonso

According to the manual, the intelligence of spell casters determines how many spells they can learn for each spell level. In the attached save Nalia has learned 15 level 5 spells and 17 level 6 spells. Nalia's intelligence is 17, so her limit is 14 spells per level. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Mr2150

If you've drunk a potion of genius (for example) you have temporarily raised her intelligence, so she can learn more spells.

After the potion wears off you don't forget those spells... it's a 'workaround' for mages to learn more spells than their base intelligence allows.

I usually wait until I have quite a few unlearnt spells and then chug a potion, and add them all in one go.

Alonso

Yep, that's it, for sure. I always drink a potion or two before learning spells, but I just do it to get better learning chances. Never thought of this "side effect". Sounds a bit cheesy, but I guess it's better than if the game randomly erased some spells when the effect of the potions wore out.

sarevok57

also, drinking potions of INT is the only way a lot of the mage casters are going to be getting some level 9 spells, unless you wait for machine of LtM and wear the golden ioun stone