Rearranging Character Points

VariousRen · 08-24-2015, 09:32 AM

I both play in and run several fantasy games, and I noticed something when looking at my wizard's character sheet. Early on, when I had a hand full of spells and only a few were useful, I had bumped the actual spell skill up an extra level for 4 of my spells. Now I have ~15 spells, a few levels of magery, and a few levels of aspected magery. Those 4 extra points that I put into individual spells could have been used to up a level of aspected magery to normal magery, with no loss of skill levels!

This got me thinking from a DM perspective: should I allow players to rearrange points among skills and abilities if it results only in a completely positive change?

For example, if a player put an extra 10 points into a bunch of different spells (taking them from 1 point to 2), should they then be able to move those 10 points into a single level of magery? The skill levels for those spells stay the same, and all of my other spells receive a bonus.

Has anyone tried this? Are there any pit falls that I haven't noticed?

08-24-2015, 09:32 AM	#1
VariousRen Join Date: Apr 2015	Rearranging Character Points I both play in and run several fantasy games, and I noticed something when looking at my wizard's character sheet. Early on, when I had a hand full of spells and only a few were useful, I had bumped the actual spell skill up an extra level for 4 of my spells. Now I have ~15 spells, a few levels of magery, and a few levels of aspected magery. Those 4 extra points that I put into individual spells could have been used to up a level of aspected magery to normal magery, with no loss of skill levels! This got me thinking from a DM perspective: should I allow players to rearrange points among skills and abilities if it results only in a completely positive change? For example, if a player put an extra 10 points into a bunch of different spells (taking them from 1 point to 2), should they then be able to move those 10 points into a single level of magery? The skill levels for those spells stay the same, and all of my other spells receive a bonus. Has anyone tried this? Are there any pit falls that I haven't noticed?