Words Of Power: Lower Level Effect Words at Higher Level?


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Silver Crusade

As the table lists, a 4th level spell can have 2/0/0 effect words. Can this divide further to 0/0/0/0 effect words?


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zanbato13 wrote:
As the table lists, a 4th level spell can have 2/0/0 effect words. Can this divide further to 0/0/0/0 effect words?

I'd wondered the same thing. As far as I can tell, the RAW doesn't support anything other than what the table shows (with the caveat that it does let you substitute in a lower level effect word if you'd like).

That said, it looks like all of the entries with three effect words were made by splitting the second level in an entry with two effect words. So, at least in theory, it should be perfectly fine to allow splitting to 4 effect words.


In terms of game balance it should be fine, but considering that Wordcasters are already a little infamous for "analysis paralysis" I'd be hesitant to allow further breakdowns.


Yeah, not so much. The action economy on WoP is already strong. No need to make it stronger.


There aren't enough 0 level effect words that can be used in an allowed interaction to justify a 0/0/0/0 configuration. Similarly, there aren't enough of any level effect words that play will together to justify breaking up your spell slots like this. It's hard enough trying to find 3 effect words of a given level that play well together.

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