Arcanist Question


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I'm having trouble understanding this bit.

"An arcanist casts arcane spells drawn from the sorcerer/wizard spell list. An arcanist must prepare her spells ahead of time, but unlike a wizard, her spells are not expended when they're cast. Instead, she can cast any spell that she has prepared consuming a spell slot of the appropriate level, assuming she hasn't yet used up her spell slots per day for that level."

Perhaps it's because I've been awake 24 hours but for some reason this rule isn't making sense to me. Explain it like you're talking to a 6 year old... lol


Say you have 6 spells per day.
Say you know 12 spells.
Say you can choose to prepare 4 different spells.

You can cast those 4 prepared spells in any order and even various times each. But you cannot cast spells of that level more than 6 times.

Note: The 6, 12 and 4 were pulled out from nowhere.


Thanks. I *thought* that's what it meant, but it just wasn't clicking for me.


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While not the 'six year old' explanation ... think of it as a sorcerer who can change his Spells Known every day.

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