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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3893882" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p>The -1 caster level is a rather substantial penalty. I could see <em>maybe</em> making it -2. That's a big penalty--it means you're going to be a full spell level behind on that school, plus your caster-level related things will be worse.</p><p></p><p>Academy Master is not Alacritous Cogitation+ because it has pre-built into it the fact that ot won't reduce casting time, and also Alacritous Cogitation increases the cast time to full-round action (barely an increase, you just can't move), while Academy Master increases it to an entire full-round (major increase, lots of trade-off).</p><p></p><p>And it's not just all the Wizards from the Academy--it's even more specific than that: These are a rare few from the Academy. The idea is to do exactly as Manzanita noted--reward tying your character's fate to an existing organisation in the world, rather than what we used to have where each player came up with something totally distant and scattered, and we had a haphazard patchwork (frex, witness the fact that every Elan in our world except the first two have a totally different backstory for how becoming an Elan works). In a meta-context, I'd like to note that the 'Special' means, to me, that someone (probably me) gets to vet each character in a separate thread to make sure that they have all the Academy fluff straight. This goes further to make sure we actually get something cohesive (rather than just what we had before in slapdashery but they all just say 'Oh yeah, and I'm from the Academy').</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 3893882, member: 29014"] The -1 caster level is a rather substantial penalty. I could see [I]maybe[/I] making it -2. That's a big penalty--it means you're going to be a full spell level behind on that school, plus your caster-level related things will be worse. Academy Master is not Alacritous Cogitation+ because it has pre-built into it the fact that ot won't reduce casting time, and also Alacritous Cogitation increases the cast time to full-round action (barely an increase, you just can't move), while Academy Master increases it to an entire full-round (major increase, lots of trade-off). And it's not just all the Wizards from the Academy--it's even more specific than that: These are a rare few from the Academy. The idea is to do exactly as Manzanita noted--reward tying your character's fate to an existing organisation in the world, rather than what we used to have where each player came up with something totally distant and scattered, and we had a haphazard patchwork (frex, witness the fact that every Elan in our world except the first two have a totally different backstory for how becoming an Elan works). In a meta-context, I'd like to note that the 'Special' means, to me, that someone (probably me) gets to vet each character in a separate thread to make sure that they have all the Academy fluff straight. This goes further to make sure we actually get something cohesive (rather than just what we had before in slapdashery but they all just say 'Oh yeah, and I'm from the Academy'). [/QUOTE]
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