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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gaiden" data-source="post: 1336302" data-attributes="member: 103">No reason to get sassy.  ;PIDHMBWM and what's more, I have been at lab for something like the last week.  Days and nights have merged into a perpetual din that distracts me from writing my candidacy defense due wed at 1100.  (This board distracts me enough as is <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).  My memory is darn rules-lawyer-ish when it comes to citing rules (well maybe except for dispel magic and spell resistance, if you have been keeping up with some other threads that have been going on) but regrettably I do not have such a mastery with the Dragon Articles.I know they are in there.  In fact, I made my players piss (well figuratively speaking) when I used a first level spell from BoVD and metamagicked it with some ray metamagic feats to, I think it was an 8th, or possibly 9th level spell and wiped out an ENTIRE SCHOOL of wizards.Yep the entire school.  The spell was the one that makes the target's eyes explode in acid.  I made it into a burst effect with one of the ray metamagic feats and then used enlarge spell to increase the range of the burst emanation to cover a massive amount of area.  (There may have been more in there, I can't remember, the details - it's been a while).  Anyway, the really nasty part about the tactic was that even if you saved, if the people around you did not save, their eyes exploded with the acid having a splash effect.  The guy caught them all at a lecture (he was the lecturer - go figure) and wasted all but the highest of casters (whom had contingencies and what not).  It was...vile <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.Anyway, enough with the anecdote.  There are feats that turn your ray into a cone, a burst, an AoE, etc.  Moreover, there are several feats in T&B that are pretty useful in combination with them and for a sorcerer whose spell choice is limited, taking lots of cool ray spells (very cool for flavor) and then feats to increase their versatility in number of opponents they affect is very useful.  Finally, there are somewhere around 20 new ray spells, most ranging from 1st to 4th level I believe.Really, I would never worry about PBS and PS for a ray character because trues strike and 3.0 haste was always available.  However, now that to accomplish the same thing you need quicken spell, those above two feats look alot more appropriate.  Spell selection is not really limited to rays - anything with a ranged attack, be it rays or something else.  I'd really want to take advantage of those feats though.edited for clarity</blockquote>

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