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<blockquote data-quote="Asha'man" data-source="post: 5205256" data-attributes="member: 52424">I've been mulling this over for a while, and there's one thing I have to ask Celebrim: How do those feats interact with caster characters who aren't multiclassed into other roles, but have prestige classes that lose caster levels, like the Elemental Savant or Blood Magus? Those feats seem to be a no-brainer choice for such characters. Maybe the loss of two feats makes up for it (most if not all such characters take Practiced Spellcaster anyway) but if the class is well-designed, those caster levels are lost for a reason. It seems that replacing the drawbacks of the PRC with an increased &quot;feat tax&quot; makes characters more uniform and creates even more disincentive to play a straight-classed caster.&nbsp;From what I've seen of your views on game design/GMing, I wouldn't be surprised if you simply didn't care about those PRCs (most of them are really badly designed, after all) but I'd still like to know your opinion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Asha'man, post: 5205256, member: 52424"] I've been mulling this over for a while, and there's one thing I have to ask Celebrim: How do those feats interact with caster characters who aren't multiclassed into other roles, but have prestige classes that lose caster levels, like the Elemental Savant or Blood Magus? Those feats seem to be a no-brainer choice for such characters. Maybe the loss of two feats makes up for it (most if not all such characters take Practiced Spellcaster anyway) but if the class is well-designed, those caster levels are lost for a reason. It seems that replacing the drawbacks of the PRC with an increased "feat tax" makes characters more uniform and creates even more disincentive to play a straight-classed caster. From what I've seen of your views on game design/GMing, I wouldn't be surprised if you simply didn't care about those PRCs (most of them are really badly designed, after all) but I'd still like to know your opinion. [/QUOTE]

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