Whirtlestaff's Wizards' Academy Revisited, OOC01

[renau1g]

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[Leif]

Arcanaflex

Ok, this is going to be a totally new development in the world of wizardry that is just about to be perfected by a Professor at Whirtlestaff's (to be named more specifically later). He's SURE to be awarded Tenure for this one, too! Our wizards will hear about it soon enough in Quail Valley, from Magus Crus, who is in touch at times with Professor "Jack" Claret, among others. So, I don't think you get a feat at 5th level, so this won't even be a problem now. But, if you want to take this feat later, you'll need to return to the Whirtlestaff's campus, and learn it 'at the feet of a master' ('feat of a master,' quoth sd) as it were.

 

[Leif]

Note the edit to the above post.

Also note the edit to my reply to your response.

 

[Scott DeWar]

ovaltine was for kids, so yes geritol was it should have been.

how about 'adaptable arcanist'?

learn it 'at the feet of a master' as it were

*gag choke cough hack*
[facishious] that was soooooo cute [/facishious]

 

[Lou]

I like Arcane Flexibility or whatever it gets called.

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

At first glance, I like it if I'm playing a Wizard . . . not so much if I'm playing a Sorcerer or DMing the game. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it seems to me this is trying to have your cake and eat it too.

There are only three reasons to take a sorcerer (that I can think of at the moment). The first - because you like the idea of a 'natural' spellcaster rather than a 'practiced' one - won't go away for much of anything but that's OK because it's only impact is role-play.

The second - a higher volume of spells to cast per day - is offset by the very limited number of different spells a Sorcerer can learn.

The third (and most important to my mind) is the flexibility the ability to cast spells from slots (without preparing specific spells ahead of time) gives the class. Not only is this one offset by the very limited number of different spells a Sorcerer can learn, there are very specific rules limiting the Sorcerer's ability to change out one spell for another. This feat would basically make the Wizard a Sorcerer who could change out his entire selection of spells every day, rather than waiting for his next level and only trading out one spell then (and that one limited to two levels below the highest level spell the sorcerer can cast).

If I were playing a Sorcerer in a game where this feat was made available, I'd be wondering why I bothered to take all the limitations that come with the class so I'd be able to do what a Wizard could do with a simple feat and still get an unlimited spell selection.

I guess my two cents worth would be - if the restriction of learning specific spells each day chafes you should play a Sorcerer. If you want the best of both worlds, you should take the worst of both worlds as well and multiclass.

 

[Scott DeWar]

he makes a goed point

 

[renau1g]

The other side of the coin is that sorceror's would still get many more "spell slots" than a wizard, especially of their highest level (and usually most powerful).

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

This is true, the sorcerer would still get to cast more spells per day. Still limited to the very few different spells he's actually allowed to learn.

I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade - this could be something that would work for a particular DM or in a particular campaign. It might even work in this one, and if it is available I'll surely consider it for Manny. Then again, there aren't any Wizard/Sorcerer multiclasses amongst the party (and not likely to be any, I think, though I did consider it at first).

I just wouldn't put it in my games because it seems to me it grants for the price of a feat an ability that makes an entire class unique.

 

[Leif]

Well, shoot! Thanks, Mowgli, for raining so thoroughly on my beautiful parade! I have to admit that you do have a point. But, on the other hand, the whole idea of this campaign is to play Wizards. I'm not even talking about anything that would extend beyond the borders of this specific game. In fact, I'd limit it even further by limiting it to Wizards trained at Whirtlestaff's Academy. But, what we could do, if it would make you feel any better at all, would be to make it take two feat slots, so if you put your 6th level feat towards it, you'd have to give up one of your earlier feats or else wait until you had two feat slots to spend on it. Does that help at all?

(Anyway, I have great contempt for Sorcerers! Well, maybe not....)

SD: feats don't fail me now!