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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1724808" data-attributes="member: 114">I think that the fact they didn't include chain spell as a metamagic feat in 3.5e suggests that they may have realised that it opened a can of worms that you don't necessarily want to walk through.My contribution towards a consensus would be "ditch chain spell entirely, or at least rewrite it so that it (a) only works on area damaging spells and (b) has an effect exactly like that of chain lightning - so for +3 spell levels it will do full damage to the first target and then half damage to your level in secondary targets within specified range etc etc. That would probably work (although it would lose out on max damage cap of course, so it might only be worth a +2).Then write a "mass spell" metamagic which allows a single target spell (probably a non damaging one) to effect your level in targets within a 20ft radius spread or whatever at xyz range. In 3.0e this worked out quite consistently at about +3 spell levels, they messed around with some new mass spells in 3.5e and positioned them a little strangely on the spell lists so it isn't so clear now.So that's my opinion. Chain spell to reverse engineer the effects of chain lightning to it's damage spell brethren. New Mass spell to reverse engineer the effects of mass suggestion etc to their non damaging brethren.Cheers</blockquote>