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<blockquote data-quote="Cinderfall" data-source="post: 1949511" data-attributes="member: 24178">We use it.My group uses it.&nbsp; It works for us pretty well.&nbsp; It's simple and straight forward.&nbsp; As Thanee said it does drastically increase the power of the wizard, which is ok because in our campaign wizards are extremely rare and we are more careful about which spells we allow in the game.&nbsp; There is a downside though - for some spells (primarily damage spells such as fireball, magic missile, and lightningbolt) the cost is increased as the damage is.&nbsp; High damage spells drain your points pretty fast (for example, Haste costs 5 points regardless of level, a 10d6 Fireball costs 10 points). Also, magic missile is no longer the bargain spell it used to be (which doesn't bother me or my group too much).&nbsp; Oh, and the Sorcerer class is pretty redundant.&nbsp; We would probably offer the class a bit more in skills to offset this - should anyone ever decide to play one.&nbsp; We like flexibility and one of my players has said he &quot;doesn't think he could ever go back to the old way.&quot;&nbsp; And no, our game group isn't &quot;suddenly&quot; playing a bunch of wizards, we have one - like we would in any game.To offset the power increase we have banned several spells and modified others (blast area spells, like fireball, have there effect areas halved).&nbsp; Some of the spells banned or altered were done so because they would otherwise be too disruptive to our current campaign setting (Birthright) or have proven to be too disruptive in our previous games.&nbsp; Naturally, the enhanced flexibility works against the PCs when they face an enemy spellcaster and it can also make them even higher priority targets in melee combat.&nbsp; Overall, we really really like it.&nbsp; It makes spellcasting easier to handle and takes less time to pick spell load-outs (and prep badguys).&nbsp; Hope this helps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cinderfall, post: 1949511, member: 24178"] [b]We use it.[/b] My group uses it. It works for us pretty well. It's simple and straight forward. As Thanee said it does drastically increase the power of the wizard, which is ok because in our campaign wizards are extremely rare and we are more careful about which spells we allow in the game. There is a downside though - for some spells (primarily damage spells such as fireball, magic missile, and lightningbolt) the cost is increased as the damage is. High damage spells drain your points pretty fast (for example, Haste costs 5 points regardless of level, a 10d6 Fireball costs 10 points). Also, magic missile is no longer the bargain spell it used to be (which doesn't bother me or my group too much). Oh, and the Sorcerer class is pretty redundant. We would probably offer the class a bit more in skills to offset this - should anyone ever decide to play one. We like flexibility and one of my players has said he "doesn't think he could ever go back to the old way." And no, our game group isn't "suddenly" playing a bunch of wizards, we have one - like we would in any game. To offset the power increase we have banned several spells and modified others (blast area spells, like fireball, have there effect areas halved). Some of the spells banned or altered were done so because they would otherwise be too disruptive to our current campaign setting (Birthright) or have proven to be too disruptive in our previous games. Naturally, the enhanced flexibility works against the PCs when they face an enemy spellcaster and it can also make them even higher priority targets in melee combat. Overall, we really really like it. It makes spellcasting easier to handle and takes less time to pick spell load-outs (and prep badguys). Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]

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