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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 3123244" data-attributes="member: 141">:scratches head:So you want regular choices of AMC to be a viable choice for a krustean, but not a jacobean?  Jacobeans will have to specialize if they want to be competitive?  I don't see how this will work, but I'm sure you have a picture in your mind.  How many paths (seeds) could a jacobean wizard be competitive on, assuming he takes those specialist feats?  If your thought was that a jacobean could be competitive in one area (disintegrating things) but would be way behind everywhere else (the base curve, before it steps up).... well, I'm sure you don't mean that.  But I don't know what else you might mean.Maybe you want a more flavorful diet of feats for the jacobean wizard?  I don't really think that a bland diet of feats (all AMC) is necessarily a bad thing.  They translate into better epic spells, and there's a lot of fun there.  Not that a wizard can't specialize with all kinds of wonderfully named, evocative feats; that's great, too, but I don't think it should be mandatory.  And deciding on the benchmarks for those specialist feats; the context has to be what a generalist wizard of the same level can do, doesn't it?  In which case it has to be a balanced, viable choice to be a generalist.</blockquote>