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<blockquote data-quote="Trouvere" data-source="post: 3893807" data-attributes="member: 37250"><p>I think Academy Prodigy might be overpowered, at least by comparison with other means of accomplishing similar things. The two that spring to mind are:</p><p></p><p>(1) the transmuter Spell Versatility variant, which allows a transmuter to pick one single spell and treat it as a transmutation spell at each of 5th, 10th, 15th and 20th levels, at the cost of not gaining wizard bonus feats</p><p></p><p>and</p><p></p><p>(2) a series of 3 feats in <em>Lost Empires of Faerun</em>. The first can be taken at 1st level and adds one spell from a prohibited school. The second feat requires the first feat and 5th level, and allows the use of items from prohibited schools. The third feat requires the second feat and 10th level and finally gives full access to everything from one prohibited school.</p><p></p><p>Academy Master is Alacritous Cogitation plus. The CharOpt people thought AC was the bee's knees, but I'm not sure how much of that was their wilful misinterpretation of the casting time clause to allow casting 24 hour casting time spells in 1 round, which errata has fixed. It's still situationally very powerful. </p><p></p><p>Beyond any specific criticisms, I have a vague philosophical objection to the idea that in a world with a diameter of 25,000 miles, the only wizards who can ever accomplish these things are those from this one Academy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trouvere, post: 3893807, member: 37250"] I think Academy Prodigy might be overpowered, at least by comparison with other means of accomplishing similar things. The two that spring to mind are: (1) the transmuter Spell Versatility variant, which allows a transmuter to pick one single spell and treat it as a transmutation spell at each of 5th, 10th, 15th and 20th levels, at the cost of not gaining wizard bonus feats and (2) a series of 3 feats in [I]Lost Empires of Faerun[/I]. The first can be taken at 1st level and adds one spell from a prohibited school. The second feat requires the first feat and 5th level, and allows the use of items from prohibited schools. The third feat requires the second feat and 10th level and finally gives full access to everything from one prohibited school. Academy Master is Alacritous Cogitation plus. The CharOpt people thought AC was the bee's knees, but I'm not sure how much of that was their wilful misinterpretation of the casting time clause to allow casting 24 hour casting time spells in 1 round, which errata has fixed. It's still situationally very powerful. Beyond any specific criticisms, I have a vague philosophical objection to the idea that in a world with a diameter of 25,000 miles, the only wizards who can ever accomplish these things are those from this one Academy. [/QUOTE]
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