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<blockquote data-quote="Morandir Nailo" data-source="post: 4402395" data-attributes="member: 67674"><p>Good ideas for spell balance there (I especially like #2), but I really see balancing spells as a separate issue here; IMO, 3.5 spells need balancing anyway (Polymorph line, I'm looking at you).</p><p></p><p>Personally I'm inclined to make Teleport's casting time 1 hour, but that's just me. And one other thing I think I would do is only allow spell swaps every 4 levels, instead of every two; since so many spells scale with level, it's not as important that Casters be able to trade up.</p><p></p><p>Actually a lot of the utility spells could simply have their casting times increased. Charm should be OK though; remember that a Warlock can cast Charm at will. I guess there are quite a few spells which would require tweaking. Bother.</p><p></p><p>It's funny that no one's mentioned it yet, but Metamagic could become a problem here. Having a Maximized Scorching Ray as one of your readied spells would just be crazy. So what I propose is that Metamagic, rather than raising the level of the spell, uses up a number of your "readied" slots equal to its level adjustment. So a lvl 1 Wizard could have a Maximized <em>Magic Missile</em> readied if he wanted, but nothing else (1 slot for the spell itself, 3 for Maximize). Considering that a Caster will only ever have 12 readied slots, this makes Metamagic very costly, but I think it may be necessary. Of course this would also necessitate getting rid of all those feats that reduce the level adjustment of Metamagic feats.</p><p></p><p>Mor</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morandir Nailo, post: 4402395, member: 67674"] Good ideas for spell balance there (I especially like #2), but I really see balancing spells as a separate issue here; IMO, 3.5 spells need balancing anyway (Polymorph line, I'm looking at you). Personally I'm inclined to make Teleport's casting time 1 hour, but that's just me. And one other thing I think I would do is only allow spell swaps every 4 levels, instead of every two; since so many spells scale with level, it's not as important that Casters be able to trade up. Actually a lot of the utility spells could simply have their casting times increased. Charm should be OK though; remember that a Warlock can cast Charm at will. I guess there are quite a few spells which would require tweaking. Bother. It's funny that no one's mentioned it yet, but Metamagic could become a problem here. Having a Maximized Scorching Ray as one of your readied spells would just be crazy. So what I propose is that Metamagic, rather than raising the level of the spell, uses up a number of your "readied" slots equal to its level adjustment. So a lvl 1 Wizard could have a Maximized [I]Magic Missile[/I] readied if he wanted, but nothing else (1 slot for the spell itself, 3 for Maximize). Considering that a Caster will only ever have 12 readied slots, this makes Metamagic very costly, but I think it may be necessary. Of course this would also necessitate getting rid of all those feats that reduce the level adjustment of Metamagic feats. Mor [/QUOTE]
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