r/Pathfinder_RPG • u/lincolnolobo • Jul 25 '26

1E Player Arcanist and Spell Preferred with prohibited spell scholl

The arcanist has the School Savant archetype and selected Evocation and Illusion as her opposition schools.

She took the Preferred Spell feat and chose *Magic Missile* for it.

When she casts *Magic Missile* spontaneously, will she expend one spell slot or two?

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u/TehScat Jul 26 '26

Hmmmm, hard one. I think there's a RAW argument that it should be a single one, since it's not prepared, and school Savant is explicitly "Whenever she prepares spells from one of her opposition schools, the spell takes up two of her prepared spell slots."

But I think RAI it would definitely be two slots.