Cha adds to known spells ?

[Chacal]

I thought the CHA bonus add only to spell/day, not to known spells.
The following article :

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/bk/20030307a

is telling me otherwise.

Was I wrong ? Did the rule change ? or was I only blind ?

Chacal

 

[Christian]

I don't know of any rule change; I think the author is just in error.

He's not the Sage, after all-he can make mistakes.

 

[AuraSeer]

You are correct. A high attribute gives you more spell slots, not spells known.

That author has apparently been smoking the oregano.

 

[Chacal]

[speculation mode]
perhaps this will change in 3.5e ?
[/speculation mode]


Chacal

 

[Pielorinho]

One of several errors in that breezy, not particularly useful article. My favorite:

Sound burst hits a 10-foot radius area causing 1d8 points of sonic damage to all creatures. The creatures then need to make a Will save or be stunned for 1 round. A wizard at the same level has no spells that do damage to multiple targets

Uh, except for burning hands and magic missile and (in rare cases) summon swarm.

Daniel

 

[JoeBlank]

[speculation mode]
perhaps this will change in 3.5e ?
[/speculation mode]

If the author is in the know about changes to the bard in 3.5e, someone forgot to tell him about the changes to haste. I think it is just an error, and a glaring one at that.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Uh, except for burning hands and magic missile and (in rare cases) summon swarm.

Daniel

Also, there are non-core spells that do that (Scorcher and Snowball Swarm, both Sor/Wiz 2), and we're talking about one single level here, after that the wizards get fireball and lightning bolt...

But Sound Burst is useful nonetheless.

 

[Pielorinho]

Also, there are non-core spells that do that (Scorcher and Snowball Swarm, both Sor/Wiz 2), and we're talking about one single level here, after that the wizards get fireball and lightning bolt...

But Sound Burst is useful nonetheless.

It's definitely useful, don't get me wrong. I just was annoyed that he'd make an incorrect statement like that, and that the editors wouldn't catch it. I mean, I can understand his not mentioning summon swarm, since it only covers one 5' square (if I read it correctly) and will rarely damage multiple opponents. I can even understand not mentioning magic missile, since he was trying to refer to area of effect attacks, most likely. But burning hands is pretty freakin' obvious, and it was silly for him to forget about it.

Daniel

 

[Gez]

On WotC's web feature forum, the thread about the first instalment of that column was titled "Bardic Knowledge. Awful." or something like. The latest thread on that column is entitled "I don't want to be rude, but..." (implied "I have to").

Since they fired the guy who said "the halfling outrider's BAB ? Well, he don't has one, the R&D team took that liberty, and, errmm, he's not a combative guy, just a scout, and, erm, well, that's it"; it's unlikely we could get WotC to officialize this blatant obvious error and makes them include it in 3.5. Even if that would be nice.

 

[Spatzimaus]

I'd chalk it up to Author Error. That being said, it works very well as a house rule. We did that IMC, let CHA add to spells known instead of spells per day. However, to make it work you have to limit it to PERMANENT Charisma, so a Cloak of Charisma wouldn't give extra spells known (because what happens when you take it off?), and likewise a decrease in CHA from poison, psionic attacks, etc. wouldn't remove known spells.

It does increase the power of the class a bit (4 spells known with 6 per day is usually better than 3 spells known with 7 per day), so we actually made it a Feat.