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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 3039509" data-attributes="member: 141">A few points:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cabal Leader and Ritual Adept are inconsistent as to how many particpants there may be in a ritual spell.  Ritual Adept implies the normal number is 1 per 10 ranks of spellcraft, and Cabal Leader says the normal number 1 per 5 ranks. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The mitigating factor for increased casting time says the base casting time is 1 minute.  That should be 1 standard action, right? </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I'm wondering if the 5000 xp cost for non-divine use of the Heal seed is too high.  Heal is 5th level on the adept spell list, and so limited wish can access it.  The 5000 xp seems an allusion to the use of wish, but that amount of experience corresponds to a -20 mitigating factor.  That seems too high.  Ditto for the harm based application of the Harrow seed. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A few of the base spells used in seeds have long casting times and/or expensive material components.  Have you thought about modifying the spellcraft prerequisite in compensation? For example, true resurrection takes 10 minutes and costs 25,000 gp.  Those correspond to 15 points of mitigating factors.  So instead of a Spellcraft Prerequisite of 28, they might be 43 instead.  Resurrection has the same casting time, costs only 10,000 gp, and is two levels lower.  So it would make the Life seed have a Spellcraft Prerequisite of 36.  These considerations would also affect greater restoration aspect of the Heal seed, raising its Spellcraft Prerequisite to 36.  There are probably other examples.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Since wish doesn't have the long casting time and expensive material components, it might be that arcane access to these seeds is worth a difference of about 5 points of Spellcraft.  Just a thought.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Oh, and could you give an example where the +2/+1 rate for an intelligence buff would be broken?  How about if boosts over +10 are at +4/+1?  My thought is that it might break the saving throw mechanic by increasing spell save DCs too much- but I'm not sure if that's what you were thinking of.</li> </ul>Regarding the "blaster" type spells- I think that this could represent another route for epic spellcasters.  One involving taking lots of Improved Metamagic feats and then throwing around Maximized Empowered Quickened meteor swarms and such.  Having a somewhat underpowered Energy seed might not be such a bad idea.  It would indicate that the seed system is a more flexible system, but not always the best tool for a situation.</blockquote>

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