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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matthias" data-source="post: 5965875" data-attributes="member: 3625">All the above has been good input. Probably the most elegant way to 'prescribe' a hits-anyway effects (HAEs0) is to key them off spell school, subschool, descriptor type, and so on, perhaps offering one or two posisble effects for each one, but all standardized. would also confine the HAEs to the power level one expects from alchemical items, perhaps relating them further to a range of alc. item cost (1st-3rd level =~ 0-5 gp, 4th-6th =~ 5-25 gp, 7th-9th level =~ 25 gp and up). The point is entirely valid that a passed save vs. some spell should not rise to the penalty of a failed save of a spell at anywhere near a comparable level. But with this design approach, perhaps a +1 slot adjustment will be necessary, and if the feat is allowed to be applied multiple times for multiple effects, there would be a +1 slot markup for every HAE added.Thus, a necromantic spell with [evil] and [cold] descriptors could take a necromancy, OR an evil, OR a cold hits-anyway-effect for one application of the metamagic.With these specifications, the next question becomes whether a caster should be able to take the feat just once and be able to emphasize any school and any descriptor, or should a caster be limited to a certain list of preselected descriptors, not counting spell school, which are chosen when the feat is taken (for example, 3 + magic ability modifier)?Further, I would not as a rule have  other metamagics normally be able to enhance the effects of this feat (i.e. no Maximized HAEs). How does this look?Emphasized Spell [this is only a placeholder name, I'm not attached to it or anything]prereqs: ability to cast magic, magic ability score 13+effect: Choose a number of spell schools equal to magic ability modifier. You can add a 'hits anyway effect' according to spell school, of any spell you cast from those school. (Caster can choose from a list of standardized effects at the time the metamagic feat is applied.)Special: Feat can be taken multiple times, no stacking, choose additional schools each time feat is taken, etc.Improved Emphasized Spellprereq: Emphasized Spelleffect: similar to parent feat but choose a number of spell descriptors to Emphasize (standardized effects given for each.)Greater Emphasized Spellother metamagics can enhance Emphasized Spell HAEs ?</blockquote>

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