The subject says it all. Does a specialist wizard gain a bonus slot for 0-level spells? I tried searching for an answer in the forum, but there are about 600 pages of threads with these terms in them so not able to find anything and I don't have time to read through 600 or so pages of threads, so forgive me if this has been asked before. I also didn't see anything in the FAQ about it.
I ask because the book is a little ambiguous. I've always read it that they don't gain a bonus 0-level slot. But then a new player to Pathfinder today read it that they do gain a bonus 0-level slot. I'm getting ready to start a new campaign so looking for an answer before we get started.
The wording is "In addition, specialist wizards receive an additional spell slot of each spell level he can cast, from 1st on up."
I've always read the "from 1st on up" in reference to spell level. My player new to the game today read it as caster level. I can see how it could be interpreted that way. I'm wondering which is correct? My gut says that it is no bonus 0-level as high intelligence also doesn't give you any bonus 0-level spells.
I would be willing to gamble the new guy is incorrect in his interpretation. The sentence is referencing spell levels and spell slots, not caster levels.
Not that it is an official source, but HeroLab calculates it out to having 0 bonus level 0 spells. They've been around for a while and are pretty close to RAW as one can get when it comes to things that do all the numbers for you.
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The wording is "In addition, specialist wizards receive an additional spell slot of each spell level he can cast, from 1st on up."
I've always read the "from 1st on up" in reference to spell level. My player new to the game today read it as caster level. I can see how it could be interpreted that way.
While I am not a native speaker: It's a lonely '1st', with no noun afterwards, so it seems to belong to the previous 'spell level'.
Even if not, who says it would be about the caster level then? It might be the '1st cat you feed', '1st looted spellbook' or '1st time you "accidently" fireballed the rogue'.
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So I was talking to my player again and he said something that made me realize how I could find the answer. That was to look at all the officially published stats for NPCs from Paizo. I looked in the NPC Codex, and a big selection of Adventure Paths and modules. I wasn't able to find an instance of a specialist wizard who go a bonus 0-level spell slot. They all had the base amount. For me that is answer enough for my question. Thanks to all who took the time to answer.