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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 453737" data-attributes="member: 114">Off hand there are a couple of reasons why I wouldn't make a change to the current system.1. It allows for greater differentiation between wizards. As it stands, you will have some 11th level wizards with still spell, silent spell, empower spell; others might have maximise spell, extend spell and quicken spell.If all wizards had pretty much access to all the metamagic feats (which would happen pretty quickly if they got more than one at once) by mid-levels most wizards would look pretty much the same in terms of capabilities. I prefer giving wizards (and to a greater extend sorcerers) hard choices in terms of which feats they want to get.2. The sorcerer ability to metamagic stuff on the fly is *extremely* useful by the time they reach high level. The wizards comparitive lack of flexibility is balanced out by the greater number of metamagic feats they get (up to 4 extra, depending upon level). If metamagic feats were clumped together more, it would be easier for the sorcerer to get access to all of them, and reduce or eliminate the wizards balancing factor.Basically I'm pretty happy with the mechanism as it stands at the moment. One interesting alternative that you could consider is allowing metamagic to be applied to spells without increasing the spell level, but introducing a backfire chance of 10% per unapplied level (and metamagics have to be fully applied or not at all).Thus a 1st level wizard could attempt to prepare a quickened, maximised magic missile - but it would have a 70% backfire chance.(actually, the more I think about this the more I like the idea... "classical" fantasy fiction often relies upon wizards over-reaching their power and thus inviting disaster - an issue that doesn't come up in D&D unless you mess around with higher level scrolls. This could be used to give a quick and dirty method of playing with fire, and could make wizards.... entertaining)Cheers</blockquote>

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