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====Cost Analysis====
The sizes of the pools and the costs listed in the table work to allow casters to cast more of their top level spells when they first acquire them than could under a Vancian system, which is to be expected in a trade up points style system. Because of the steeper differences in cost, however, you trade two spells of similar level for a spell of the level above. Casting your highest level spells thus carries a much higher opportunity cost than in other point systems, and casting them exclusively is almost always a bad idea as a result.

While you are discouraged from casting your highest level spells with this arrangement, the eventual reduction in cost to 0 means that you are encouraged to cast a lot of your lower level spell effects. Part of this is simply a pragmatic change, since in most spell point systems the cost of spells this far below your maximum is very small compared to the size of your pool. Tracking them is more a nuisance and rarely works out to limiting you in meaningful ways. Since there is no compelling reason to continue tracking them, we simply eliminate the costs and thus the tracking.

{{Underbar|On Novas and the 5-Minute Workday|These rules don't do much to stop a caster from blowing all of their spells in an encounter or two, and then telling the party to stop so they can rest to recover their spells. The primary reason this is ignored is because removing the ability to nova in a spell points system means reducing the pool size substantially, from 50 down to 12 or 15. This is really only workable if you then increase the recharge rate substantially. If you regain your pool over the course of 5-15 minutes, you can get a spell of your highest level off reasonably often and generally complete an adventure in a standard fashion.

One of the side effects of doing a faster recharge is that you can cast a ''lot'' more of your highest level spells in a day, even though they are spread out. Again, this sort of increase in caster power is not desired in this rule. But while you can cast a lot more of them spread out, you can't cast them in quick succession. And the effect of that is to make long combats trying in the same way that long days would otherwise be. Since my preference is to allow design space for drawn out combats where people can contribute more than 1 or 2 spells and to encourage higher level resource commitment decisions on a per combat basis rather than a per round basis, I have elected to allow for the nova and workday problems. If you prefer otherwise, I hope I have given you a clear set of suggestions to utilize and some idea of what to expect from those changes.}}
Author	Tarkisflux +
Identifier	3.5e Variant Rule +
Rating	Unrated +
Summary	A spell point system that doesn't allow novas or become more of an accounting chore as you grow in level, and comes with a set of adjustments to spellcasters to make them a bit MAD. +
Title	Static Spell Points +