[Poll] Is the Flame Freak over the top/wimpy?

[kreynolds]

Heh, you don't know my game group. Give them something like this and they will want to spend all their time wreathed in flames.

One group is different from another though. My group doesn't play like that, so luckily, its not something that I have to worry about.

In fact, you might want to build in a time limit on that ability

I thought about doing that, but I didn't see a reason for doing so. While in fire form, there are some serious drawbacks (don't get hit with a cold spell!), such as setting nearly everything you touch on fire. That's something that my group enforces; fire. Fire elementals don't really have to punch a boat to set it on fire. They can just stand there for a round, or two at the most.

However, for groups that aren't like mine, it could be easily altered to demand a time limit or daily usage limit, or something like that, but its not necessary for my group.

This is basically just like a prestige class. Prestige classes are campaign specific, and group specific, to an extent. Some prestige classes are abused in the hands of some players and some are not abused. It all depends on the player.