Jan/Bards and Level 9 Spells
Mythdracon
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Can Jan cast these? I understand he's a multi-class so he won't be reaching that level yet, but he's got over 3 million XP on him and he only just got (2) Level 7 spells....when will he get Level 9 spells? And what about my bard, for that matter? He hasn't even reached Level 7 spells at all yet.
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Bards can cast up to 6th level spells.
Also, learning spells is unrestricted; you can scribe to your spellbook long before you get the slots to use those spells, and in the case of bards even if you never will. I have an endgame party in which Haer'Dalis has a spellbook full of level 7-9 spells - because I wasn't going to use those scrolls for anything other than experience anyway.
The experience counts required to get at least one slot of each arcane spell level: The numbers there are total experience, in thousands. This assumes the standard 8M experience cap and the standard BG/BG2 spellcasting tables. The last two columns are for two-class mages such as Jan or Aerie and for three-class mages.
While I don't remember most of them, one was the HIgh Level Campaigns book, where bards got a level 8 spell slot at level 30.
The Tweaks anthology mod offers a component which is closer to P&P and which I consider to be a bugfix.
Yeah, but capping at 6 is pretty extreme. The really good stuff doesn't start until you get to level 7.
Even with Rogue Rebalancing, Bards wouldn’t be able to do either of those two things as P&P only goes to 8th level for them.
A warrior uses a weapon. He travels through the game, and he finds a better weapon. This replaces his old weapon.
A mage uses spells. He travels through the game, and finds more scrolls, learning new spells. These spells are only added to an increasingly large pool of things he can do.
Finding weapons is fun, but finding spells is more fun imo. That +1 dagger you got off Fuller will only be pawned off for pocket change when the next cool thing comes along, but that armor spell in the cabinet in Winthrop's Inn will stay in your book straight through Throne of Bhaal..
More Spells means More Fun.
Mages are quite the same. Hoard less efficient spells until you get the best ones per level, then only memorise and cast those spells until the end of the game. If you happened to find that elusive reflected image spell it goes right in the book and you will likely never even cast it.
Finding spells is not more fun than finding new weapons. Finding the better spells is fun just like finding the better weapons is fun.
I love finding new weapons. It's like pulling teeth to sell anything magical for me. Half my inventory spaces in BG2 are taken up with weapons and armor that I probably don't need.
What was the original topic, again?