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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dante Inferno" data-source="post: 3075420" data-attributes="member: 11430">I agree absolutely that the sorcerer suffers from the "get prestige class as early as possible" phenomenon.  It would be nice if there were some kind of reason to stick with the class for 20 levels...bonus feats might just fill that need.  I also agree that they are frequently perceived to be underpowered...I've had the same thought myself.  In actual play though they can really surprise you.Be careful about what you give them without taking something significant away.  They are pretty weak at 1st-3rd level...but from that point on (assuming solid spell choices) they can be very powerful indeed.  I've had sorcerer PCs in multiple campaigns that I've run and they are generally the powerhouse of the party.  This happens even with my players and I preventing gate/shapechange/polymorph/summon monster tactics from dominating play....tactics that the sorcerer could really abuse.My suggestion, if you are going to give them a bonus feat everytime a wizard gets one (1st, 5th, 10th, etc), would be to take away the familiar and trim their spells per day by one per spell level.  Have it top out at 4 or 5 instead of 6.  They'll still have plenty of available resources but noticeably less than they currently do.  4 would give them the same number of slots as the wizard, but with their spontaneous caster ability they would in practice still enjoy a spell slot advantage...it's probably a tad over-restrictive though, I think 5 is a better number.If you were going to use a system like Imruphel suggests (bonus feats every other level, 4 skill points, etc) I don't know what would be an appropriate penalty but it would have to be huge.  Those bonuses are, IMHO, way over the top.</blockquote>

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