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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 2403240" data-attributes="member: 29252">1 & 2: Ah well, that must have just been the munchkin in me calling out.... and yet... the feat does say it lets a Sor/Bard prepare spells "as a Wizard does" - how does a wizard prepare spells?  A wizard can prepare any spells he or she has access to that are either inherently known (as Read Magic or a spell for which the caster took Spell Mastery), that are in the wizard's spellbook, or that are in a borrowed spellbook (with a spellcraft DC of 15+spell level).  The entry under spellcraft for preparing from a borrowed spellbook is listed as "Wizard Only" ... and it is preparing spells ... and the feat lets a Bard/Sorceror prepare spells "As a wizard" ... and preparing from a borrowed spellbook is something a wizard could do.... but that could very easily make the feat too unbalancing for Sorcerors.... and could also pull the sorceror's ability to prepare his or her own sorcerously known spells with metamagic feats.... hmm....3) Come to think of it, the PrC does mention a Sorceror using the Spellpool - a Sor 5 Mage of the Arcane Order 5 is listed in the Spellpool example for the highest a debt is premitted to incurr, and it differentiates on the effects of prepared vs. spontaneous casters when repaying the spell debt.  Hmm....It could also be argued that a spontaneous caster's spell slots are open and unused until the spontaneous caster spontaneously casts them.Honestly, though, I suspect the Spellpool is more usful for prepared casters than for spontaneous casters - a prepared caster can't normally have any standard spell (which pretty much means any spell in his book, plus quite a few) he could cast available on one round's notice, while a Sorceror (unless out of slots of the appropriet level, of course) always has any spell he could cast available on even less notice.</blockquote>

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