Possible solution for over-powered caster pclasses?

[Tsyr]

Ok, I like a good caster class, but more often than not, they are too powerful because they still allow full spell progression. On the other hand, if your going strait-up caster, it's really painful to loose full progression. So I thought up a potential house ruling for it, wondered what anyone had to think.

Basicly, whenever you take a level in a pclass that offers full spell progression + cool benefits every level (Might be a few classes that are balanced enough not to need this fix, after all...), you don't count those levels towards your feat level count. IE, in 10 levels of the class, you would never get a new feat. I know it sounds steep, but it's really only meant for overpowered classes, despite the way I've worded it here... I'd probably have to make it a judgement call on each individual class, not just a broad sweeping catagorization, but...

Thoughts?

 

[Crothian]

That is probably too much. I'd perfer limiting each individual class on a case by case basis.

One way around your system it to take character levels that gain feats as a normal class.

 

[tmaaas]

I liked the method used by the Arch Mage class in FRCS, where you sacrifice individual spell slots rather than losing a whole level of spell progression. I've always been surprised more prestige classes don't use it.

If having full spell progression is too powerful, and partial progression too weak, it makes sense to go somewhere in the middle. Losing spell slots then makes sense.

-- tmaaas