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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 1004912" data-attributes="member: 5137">Hm. I would say the ally who retargetted it. However, that's a good point - perhaps this should be limited to instant spells?Missiles: mainly because missile spells typically have multiple missiles, or strange special effects - the balance aspect is a lot harder to predict, and would require custom text for each weird missile type.To-hit penalty: Not a bad idea. Maybe the same as the DC penalty.The metamagic does not require that you deal damage at all - a touch attack is fine.Hm. Actually, I think I'll drop the damage bonus entirely, and just make it boost save DCs.I'm still deciding if I want to adopt the 3.5 cone (fixed cone size, rather than range-based cone size), or reword this to exclude cones (and use Expand Spell instead for cones). Either way, cones won't be affected by this metamagic feat.Good idea on touch spells - otherwise, I'm pretty fine with it as is. Remember, chain spell and mass spell both hit targets within 30 ft, but mass spell is a level higher. It's also in line with other mass spells.fireball:normal 10d6 averages 35 dmg and is 3rd levelempowered 15d6 averages 52 dmg and is 5th levelperfected 10d6 max does 60 dmg and is 6th leveldouble-empowered 20d6 averages 70 dmg and is 7th levelRemember that they won't be any more powerful at 2 levels higher - a 3rd level shield spell is a pretty severe trade-off for someone else's shield. The most worrisome one, I think, would be tenser's transformation, which would be an 8th level spell this way.Yeah, this was basically my plan - in standard campaigns, you may wish to specify that force AND sonic energy get +1 automatically, rather than just force energy.</blockquote>

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