Free Lesser Metamagic for Sorcerers?

[whydirt]

I know a lot of people have attempted to add some flavor and/or a little more oomph to the Sorcerer.

Here's an idea I had recently and wanted to bounce off of some people: What if the Sorcerer gained the ability to use any Metamagic feat, but at an additional cost of +1 spell level to use it (i.e. Silent Spell would cost +2 Spell Levels to use). A Sorcerer who takes a Metamagic feat can use it normally.

Would this be too powerful or prone to abuse?

 

[Stalker0]

I like this idea, and I don't think it would be broken. I mean, if your sacrificing +2 spell levels for a silent spell, then I have problems with you getting a silent spell.

A +3 empower seems fine, and a +4 maximise I doubt I would ever use.

 

[Machiavelli]

It shouldn't be compatible with Divine Metamagic, though. Only metamagic feats you actually take should work with that. All the rest that you use with this Metamagician feat (heh, I like that name) have to actually use higher spell slots.

 

[Wolf72]

SKR (iirc) had a good reccomendation way back in the beginning of 3.0.

allow metamagicked spells to be taken as a regular spell.

for example, magic missle is a 1st level spell ... taking the metamagic feat: still spell would allow a sorceror to use still spell with any of his spells. OR that sorceror could a spell called 'stilled magic missle' as a 2nd lvl spell ... in effect her/his 2nd level magic missle spell is the exact same spell as the 1st level version, but now without somatic components ... that and it's one level higher just like a metamagicked spell (except for the DC issue for save spells)

 

[Vrecknidj]

I think you'd want to test it, but it looks fairly innocuous.

Dave