Feat stacking question

[stevelabny]

Hypothetical situation:

Take Bloodline of Calimshan feat from Forgotten Realms which grants +2 DC to spells with the "fire" descriptor.

Take Energy Substitution from Tome and Blood feat which allows you to choose "fire" and change any other energy descriptor to fire.

1> Would changing an ice/lightning/earth/etc spell to fire grant the +2 to DC?

2> Would this stack with Spell Focus: Evocation

3> Am I am a munchkin?

 

[Epametheus]

1) That should work.

2) That should work, too.

3) Nah. Enemies might actually fail their saves; that's all.

 

[trentonjoe]

I think you are fine with 1 and 2. I don't think it makes you a bad guy either.

 

[the Jester]

I gotta agree with both trentonjoe and Epametheus.

 

[andargor]

What the heck, gotta round out my post count. So I'll pitch in with the others and say that its fine.

Actually, you scored some brownie points with me, since I play an Elemental Savant (Fire) with Spell Focus (Evocation). Should've thought about that feat. *sigh*

Andargor

 

[Li Shenron]

1> Would changing an ice/lightning/earth/etc spell to fire grant the +2 to DC?

Yes. The substituted spell now has the Fire descriptor. Obviously, if you did the other way around, such as cold-substituting a fireball, you would lose the bonus.

2> Would this stack with Spell Focus: Evocation

Yes.

3> Am I am a munchkin?

Not yet. But you may be on the right track

 

[Hypersmurf]

Yes. The substituted spell now has the Fire descriptor.

That's one reading

-Hyp.

 

[Li Shenron]

That's one reading

-Hyp.

The feat says that you can apply it to spells with an energy descriptor. As typical, it says it changes the "type of damage" but it doesn't say specifically that it gets the new descriptor. You don't really think it would be wiser to keep the old descriptor?

Things get out of hands only when you consider Energy Admixture, since you have one spell which deals two different types of damage, but I don't remember if it could have more than an energy descriptor at the same time.

 

[Hypersmurf]

The feat says that you can apply it to spells with an energy descriptor. As typical, it says it changes the "type of damage" but it doesn't say specifically that it gets the new descriptor. You don't really think it would be wiser to keep the old descriptor?

Oh, I'm making no judgement as to 'wiser', and I suspect I'd apply the new descriptor myself.

But it's a possible reading.

After all, a Lawful Good Devil retains the [Evil] subtype... so it wouldn't be inconsistent for a Cold-Substituted Acid Fog to retain the [Acid] descriptor.

-Hyp.

 

[Darklone]

Kewl, Hyp, that reading would mean that I can nuke the red dragon with a fire substituted Cone of Cold ?