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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 3181567" data-attributes="member: 4303">I agree. I also like its official informality. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> I'm not keen on this buyback mechanism, it's kind of clunky: essentially, all you're doing is providing a reservoir of factors that can be freed up to do something else - you may as well just come straight out and say [Blast] has X free factors, which you can assign during spell development. Which I don't want to do either, BTW. [Blast] is such a damn pain in the arse. Yet Another Blast30d6, and make empower cheaper (+6 SP): it means that it will increase its base damage by 15d6 every 6 levels; Matt can garner 4 x AMCs (= 2 x empowers for his dbf) over the same range: Matt gains more flexibility, and creeps ahead of the game. A x2 feat is still viable - at 50th level Matt can 10 x empower his dbf for 120d6; if Jake has a x2 feat, his [blast] will do 180d6. If +12SP = double empower, then the secondary seed / admixture conundrum is also solved. I'd drop the +1d6/SP factor altogether.My Kernelese is different to yours (see post 392 in the big thread), but this [blast] is still a medium weight: 20 (kernel) + 24 (4 x empower) +7 (heighten) +4 (flexible area). I've also included more area options.I've called out admixtures specifically, and included a primordial option - kind of a corollary of the missing aligned option. See what you think  :\ .[Blast] Evocation [Acid, Cold, Electricity or Fire]Root Spell: Delayed blast fireball, lightning boltPreferred Mitigation: Backlash Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 standard action Range: 1200 ft. Area or Effect: See textDuration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Reflex halfSpell Resistance: Yes This seed uses whichever one of four basic energy types you choose: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. You may cast the energy forth as a 120-ft. line, a 60-ft. cone, a cylinder 10-ft. wide and 40-ft. high, an area of four 20-ft. cubes, or as a spread with a radius of 20-ft. The energy type is set during spell development; you may choose the blast shape at the moment of casting.Mitigating Factor: If you choose to set the area shape during spell development, reduce the Spellcraft Prerequisite by -4.A spell developed using the [blast] seed releases energy which deals 30d6 points of damage of the appropriate type, and all in the spell’s Area must make a Reflex save for half damage. If a line or cone is chosen, it begins at your fingertips; a spread begins as a pellet of energy which detonates at a distance you determine, unless it strikes some intervening body or barrier, in the same manner as a fireball.  Factors: You may choose to develop a spell which discharges another type of damaging energy. The options and the associated costs are as follows:• Sonic energy (+4 SP). The spell receives the [sonic] descriptor. Sonic damage ignores an object's hardness.• Slashing, piercing or bludgeoning (+6 SP). This damage bypasses Damage Reduction. To have the spell damage interact with Damage Reduction as a magical weapon of the appropriate type, reduce the SP modifier to +4. If the damage will be treated as a non-magical weapon of the appropriate type, reduce the SP modifier to +2.• Force damage (+6 SP). The spell receives the [force] descriptor. Force damage affects incorporeal and ethereal creatures, but not objects; to include objects, increase the Spellcraft Prerequisite by an additional +1.• Typeless (+8). The spell loses the energy descriptor. The damage is of no particular type, and is not subject to resistance or energy immunity.• Primordial (+10). The spell retains its energy descriptor, but ignores all resistances and immunities to that energy, even those possessed by a creature with an elemental subtype. Creatures who normally possess special vulnerability to the energy type remain vulnerable.• Admixed (+12). The spell deals an additional amount of damage of a different energy type equal to the base damage of the seed (30d6). The spell gains an additional energy descriptor. This factor stacks: each time you apply it, the spell does an additional 30d6 points of damage of another energy type, and gains an additional energy descriptor.Factor: Delay (special). To delay the effect of the spell, increase the Spellcraft Prerequisite by +1 for every 2 rounds (or fraction thereof) that the spell can be delayed. See delayed blast fireball for details.Factor: To empower the base damage by 50%, increase the Spellcraft Prerequisite by +6. This factor stacks. If the spell is an admixtured spell, each energy type must be empowered separately.ConditionsA ray which includes [blast] as its base seed changes its Saving Throw entry to Fortitude: Half.</blockquote>

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