Cha adds to known spells ?

[Kae'Yoss]

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.

It's the same as with skill points, really: increase doesn't give you skill points retroactively, but decrease won't rob you of any. But since known spells don't work on a x-per-level basis, it couldn't work that way. And you can permanently lose ability scores. I think known spells should not be subject to any attributes.

 

[AuraSeer]

But Sound Burst is useful nonetheless.

The most fun we ever had with that spell was when our DM let us find a wand of it.

"Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This... is my boomstick!"

 

[Kae'Yoss]

The most fun we ever had with that spell was when our DM let us find a wand of it.

"Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This... is my boomstick!"

As long as noone crates a rod with the effects of a ring of the ram....