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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1760727" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>Mini-rant</p><p></p><p>I was just reading the "sorcerer picking feats and prestige classes" article in Dragon 324 and saw to my horror</p><p></p><p>"Sorcerers also greatly benefit from Energy Substitution (presented in <em>Complete Arcane</em>)"</p><p></p><p>I had really hoped that with 3.5 that silly feat (fancy a fireball that freezes water?) had finally been staked through the heart, had its head removed and stuffed full of holy wafers and left outside on a sunny day.</p><p></p><p>But no. It appears that it is rising from the grave it so richly deserves once again.</p><p></p><p>/Mini-rant</p><p></p><p>Coda: I know that lots of people love this feat, and that is fine. I just think it is stupid to have it change an energy type but not change special side effects. They could resolve this by giving distinct side effects for different energy types as per the XPH but I doubt they'll go that far.</p><p></p><p>Watch out for those fire substituted freezing spheres though...</p><p></p><p>p.s. the prestige class info in that one-page article leaves a lot to be desired too - it recommends "archmage" and says a sorcerous archmage loses little and gains much - well, if you don't include spending three of his five/six feats on pretty suboptimal choices (skill focus spellcraft and two spell focus feats) and ensuring that your 6 spells of 5th level and above that you know cover 5 different schools.</p><p></p><p>Or the Loremaster which he recommends... although a sorcerer would have to spend tons of cross-class skill points to be able to enter Loremaster... just after reaching 17th level. Still, who wouldn't want to spend precious slots on lots of divination and forego a couple of useful class skills in order to, uh, not get much - it is a small range of secrets to choose from unless you have a great INT.</p><p></p><p>Surely it would only take a few minutes for authors to check up prereqs and take that into consideration? The idea of the class based pages is a nice one, it would be a shame to see it not rise to its fullest potential.</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 1760727, member: 114"] Mini-rant I was just reading the "sorcerer picking feats and prestige classes" article in Dragon 324 and saw to my horror "Sorcerers also greatly benefit from Energy Substitution (presented in [I]Complete Arcane[/I])" I had really hoped that with 3.5 that silly feat (fancy a fireball that freezes water?) had finally been staked through the heart, had its head removed and stuffed full of holy wafers and left outside on a sunny day. But no. It appears that it is rising from the grave it so richly deserves once again. /Mini-rant Coda: I know that lots of people love this feat, and that is fine. I just think it is stupid to have it change an energy type but not change special side effects. They could resolve this by giving distinct side effects for different energy types as per the XPH but I doubt they'll go that far. Watch out for those fire substituted freezing spheres though... p.s. the prestige class info in that one-page article leaves a lot to be desired too - it recommends "archmage" and says a sorcerous archmage loses little and gains much - well, if you don't include spending three of his five/six feats on pretty suboptimal choices (skill focus spellcraft and two spell focus feats) and ensuring that your 6 spells of 5th level and above that you know cover 5 different schools. Or the Loremaster which he recommends... although a sorcerer would have to spend tons of cross-class skill points to be able to enter Loremaster... just after reaching 17th level. Still, who wouldn't want to spend precious slots on lots of divination and forego a couple of useful class skills in order to, uh, not get much - it is a small range of secrets to choose from unless you have a great INT. Surely it would only take a few minutes for authors to check up prereqs and take that into consideration? The idea of the class based pages is a nice one, it would be a shame to see it not rise to its fullest potential. Cheers [/QUOTE]
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