
You can never have more sorcery points than shown on the table for your level. The Sorcerer's Font of Magic feature states: The feat increases your maximum Sorcerery Points if it didn't, the additional points would be useless for a Sorcerer Optimally, you would use the SP from the feat first, before spending your normal SP on metamagic similarly, always create normal SP first, before creating the feat's SP. It creates a second type of sorcery point. You have to do some accounting.Ī sorcerer with this feat creates something you have to keep track of. So your maximum is definitely 5 points, and there is no reason you would have to spend the feat SP before creating new SP with spell slots via flexible casting. Metamagic Adept specifically isntructs us to add the SP from the feat to SP had from another source.

If a specific rule contradicts a general rule, the specific rule wins. This is a case where we apply the specific beats general rule: You gain 2 sorcery points to spend on Metamagic (these points are added to any sorcery points you have from another source

These two points can:įlexible Casting's function of creating spell slots is not metamagic, so you cannot create spell slots with the two points from the feat. The 2 points from the feat cannot create slots.

Therefore, there is no reason you cannot create the 2 feat sorcery points by converting a spell slot - your max is 5. Your maximum SP with the feat is your old max +2. These points are added to any sorcery points you have from another source It's clear from the feat that you add the SP from the feat to your current pool:
