Metamagic List

[seasong]

Re: Variant Metamagics

Couple ideas buzzing through my head today.

Ideas I can steal?

How about a special ammendment to metamagic feats in general stating:

You may choose for a metamagic feat to affect only 1 spell, if you do then decrease the amount of spell levels it takes to use it by 1, and you may use it without preparing it, without additional action, once per day.

My only issue with this is that the strong advantage this provides would encourage players to be one-trick wonders. It looks really cool, but it would tend to focus wizards down to a very narrow palette of their "win/win spells", and they would feel punished by situations that required other aspects of their repertoire (which I try to do a lot of ).

I like Planesailing's Sorcerous Mastery better, as sorceror's already receive so few spells that being able to enhance a few of them makes those spells more personal. Like, "Fear Razzgen the Fire sorceror, for his flames are more potent then most". Maybe he chose to affect 3+cha fire spells. Granted, Seasong's method is nicer because as you gain levels, your metamagic which you chose to enhance is still not taking a full-round action.

IMHO, with a sorcerer's low spell selection, Plane Sailing's method will tend to encourage sorcerers to have this with all spells of a certain spell level (the highest one they had when they took the feat), rather than a particular style of spell.

And heres something that I thought of a little earlier:

Leash Spell [Metamagic]
Spell Level +1
Using this metamagic feat allows you to cast a spell and then hold it (not cast it) for a number of rounds equal to your primary casting attribute modifier. It is a standard action to "leash" the spell to yourself (and this does not have any verbal, somatic, or foci involved), and only a move-equivelent to "unleash" it (this part uses the foci, verbal, and somatic components). If you have not unleashed it when the time is up, you gain the spell back in your memory, but it is not enhanced with metamagic. Unleashing a spell does not count towards the limit on spellcasting, you can cast a quickened spell, a spell as a standard action, then unleash a spell in the same round.

I like this. I would make several changes, though:

- I would make it a readied action rather than a move equivalent, so that it can interrupt what someone is doing.
- I would base the time it lasts on something other than an ability score... maybe level.
- I would not allow it to stack with quicken for +1
- I might make it last longer, but require the casting components when you leash it, and nothing when you unleash it... and no AoO, either. If I did this, +2 though.

 

[las]

Some of these I can see in my game so im going to use em. Hope its not a problem (usly people post so other people can use as well as give ideas right?)

 

[seasong]

Some of these I can see in my game so im going to use em. Hope its not a problem (usly people post so other people can use as well as give ideas right?)

Not a problem - if it was, I wouldn't be posting it here .

 

[las]

well the one that realy has ben added is chain spell. The others are good but not my flaver.

 

[Technik4]

Leash Again

Leash Spell [Metamagic]
Spell Level +1

As a standard action you may cast a spell but withold the effects. Casting the spell in this manner does not provoke an AoO nor does it require any somatic, verbal, or foci components. In order to finish the spell, the caster must ready an action or cast it on thier initiative. The spell may be leashed a number of rounds equal to the highest level spell the caster can cast. Once unleashed as a free action (which counts as a quickened spell) the spell provokes an AoO and requires any components needed to cast the spell. If the spell is not unleashed it remains memorized but at its original level. For spellcasters who do not memorize/prepeare spells, it uses a higher level slot (Spell Level +1), but if unused becomes a lower level slot (Spell Level).


I'm not sure what you meant by using it as a ready action. Meaning it MUST be a ready action, or that it CAN be a ready action? And of course, anything I post is for anyone who wants to use it

Technik

 

[seasong]

Re: Leash Again

As a standard action you may cast a spell but withold the effects. Casting the spell in this manner does not provoke an AoO nor does it require any somatic, verbal, or foci components. In order to finish the spell, the caster must ready an action or cast it on thier initiative.

So what I was saying before is that this seems a bit backward - casting the spell originally doesn't require components, allow an AoO, etc., but then unleashing it later does?

I'm not sure what you meant by using it as a ready action. Meaning it MUST be a ready action, or that it CAN be a ready action?

CAN be a ready action. I like how you wrote this part in this version, however.

-seasong

 

[Technik4]

Well it works under a hazy principle. I mean, the point of the feat is to allow a new action for wizards, particularly paranoid ones, to be better prepared, and it works at lower levels than quicken spell or contingency. Additionally, I don't want the spell to be used/wasted if it is not in fact cast. So if you leashed a spell with a material component and then ended up not casting it, the material component would still be gone.

Thats why I wrote the first part as basically readying the spell in everything except the final gesture, word, execution, whatever. That way if you don't do the final aspect, the spell remains with you, although it cannot be leashed again (unless youre a sorceror, but either way its eating up slots).

I had intended for the spell being cast to cost more than it does usually (standard + move-equiv) but now I'm leaning towards making it sort of a lite-quicken, standard to leash, free to unleash. Of course, it can then not be used in conjunction with quicken, and it doesnt remain leashed very long.

As far as readying your action, I believe you can do that in both incarnations unless there is some text Im missing.

Technik

 

[seasong]

Well it works under a hazy principle. I mean, the point of the feat is to allow a new action for wizards, particularly paranoid ones, to be better prepared, and it works at lower levels than quicken spell or contingency. Additionally, I don't want the spell to be used/wasted if it is not in fact cast. So if you leashed a spell with a material component and then ended up not casting it, the material component would still be gone.

Hm... I actually like that, though . Especially if it allows it as a free action - that's the chance you take for the benefit at +1 spell level .

Well, I'm going to think about this. I like the idea, but I'm not sure how I want it implemented for the setting.