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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fuindordm" data-source="post: 2466015" data-attributes="member: 5435">I come into it as a DM, and just to be clear--the system I would prefer, if I believed that more sacrifice was necessary on the spellcaster's part to cast in armor, would be a single 'armored casting' feat.  But I admit that I haven't playtested it; I've removed ASF from my own game, but no one has taken advantage of it yet.  It's an Eberron game, and the only spellcasters in the party are an artificer and a warforged cleric.  We just had a kalashtar wizard join, and I mentioned the option to the player, but he turned up his nose at it.I'm not sure what you mean by that last comment.  Unearthed Arcana has the concept of a 'base magic bonus' that would give multiclassers a higher caster level even for fighter levels, and the Practiced Spellcaster feat can also be considered a way around this sort of thing.  I'm OK with both of these systems, personally.On the other hand, a fighter can take a feat to make Use Magic Device a class skill, then invest skill points in it to read from scrolls pretty reliably.  Isn't that OK?As a DM, I'd rather enable interesting PC ideas than place poorly founded restrictions in the name of 'flavor'.  I think flavor should come from the setting you play in, not from the game mechanics--although you can never really get away from the latter.Cheers,Ben</blockquote>