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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 1020127" data-attributes="member: 6875">Um, only two?Spell Power (gained from prestige classes Archmage and Red Wizard in 3.5 DMG; from converted/adapted Prestige Class Shadow Adept in FRCS).  As I recall, the ability no longer adds to spell DCs, but adds to effective caster elvel for all purposes ... including penetrating SR.Tattoo Focus (regional feat from FRCS); adds +1 to all spell DCs in your specialised school (only specialist wizards can take this feat); adds +1 to SR penetration checks.Spell Thematics (feat from MoF, and per the Errata'd text); your caster level is increased by +1 for one spell per spell-level; this would affect SR penetration as well.Fortify Spell (metamagic from Unapproachable East); for each +1 level applied to the cost of preparing/casting the spell, you gain a +2 bonus to penetrate SR (the bonus stacks with itself and all others).Shadow Weave Magic (feat from FRCS) and it's dependant metamagicks; for Illusion, Necromancy, and Enchantment spells, it has a benefit similar to Tattoo Focus; for Transmutation and Evocation, it has the opposite (a penalty), and for all others, it's neutral.Which may be far easier said than done.Anyway, there's always a way around SR: pick the right spell; not all of them are even SUBJECT to SR.Gee, I dunno.  Tattoo Focus is both a nice +1 to save DCs in yoru specialty school, and, a door-opener to the Red Wizard prestige class.And Spell Thematics is just darned FUN -- not to mention, you will occasionally see other benefits than SR penetration (before you hit 10th level, your Fireball (if in the main theme) will do +1d6 damage, for example)....With that said, I have an Epic spellcaster in the Exodus arena -- Dhao Mavri, a Thayan shadow-weave enchanter.  With an enchantment spell, I roll 1d20+47 to penetrate SR; that, at least, won't change in 3.5e (though his save DCs will plummet, argh).  In essence, SR of less than 50 doesn't even make it onto my radar, let alone slow me down. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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