powerful spell casting questions

[Jonathan.Link]

@ironboundtome

@lvgreen

We were nattering about how to design a magus who had high casting totals.
After going through the obvious with Magical Foci and Life-linked boosting, we came up with some questions with Method Caster, Special Circumstances and spell mastery (+1 to casting total for each level of spell mastery)

Some of the questions that came up:

1. Flawless Magic states "Further, your Study Totals for mastering spells are doubled." Would this mean that at character creation that if you took "Flawless Magic", then took the "Mastered Spells" virtue that the 50 experience points towards mastering spells is effectively doubled to 100 experience points at character creation time?

Nope, as you are not generating a study total in character creation, you only get the xp. Just like you don't create a Longevity Potion at character creation. Nice try though.

Flawless Magic is part of Errata and it has been discussed here, as well.

@ArM5 Errata

Flawless Magic (p. 42): Change the final sentence to read "Further, all experience points you put into Spell Mastery Abilities are doubled."