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<blockquote data-quote="Atavar" data-source="post: 3355458" data-attributes="member: 7136">Hello Everyone,How should I handle the case of a wild mage (prestige class from Complete Arcane) who has the practiced spellcaster feat (also from Complete Arcane)?&nbsp; The prestige class reduces your base caster level by three, but the feat increase your caster level by up to four (not to exceed your total hit dice).I don't think that allowing the feat to totally offset the caster level loss is the answer.&nbsp; The wild mage rolls 1d6 and adds the result to his caster level to get a randomized total.&nbsp; For example, a Wiz 10/WM 5 without this feat has a caster level of 12 + 1d6 every time he casts the spell for a total of 13-18.&nbsp; If the feat totally offsets the loss of three caster levels, then the caster with this feat would have a caster level of 15 + 1d6 every time he casts the spell for a total of 16-21.&nbsp; That just seems broken to me.Someone suggested that I allow the use of this feat on the condition that the total caster level never exceeded what the maximum would be without the feat.&nbsp; In that case, the caster level would be 15 + 1d6, maximum 18, with a result set of [16, 17, 18, 18, 18, 18].&nbsp; Is this how you would do it, or would you rule differently?Thanks,Atavar</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Atavar, post: 3355458, member: 7136"] Hello Everyone, How should I handle the case of a wild mage (prestige class from Complete Arcane) who has the practiced spellcaster feat (also from Complete Arcane)? The prestige class reduces your base caster level by three, but the feat increase your caster level by up to four (not to exceed your total hit dice). I don't think that allowing the feat to totally offset the caster level loss is the answer. The wild mage rolls 1d6 and adds the result to his caster level to get a randomized total. For example, a Wiz 10/WM 5 without this feat has a caster level of 12 + 1d6 every time he casts the spell for a total of 13-18. If the feat totally offsets the loss of three caster levels, then the caster with this feat would have a caster level of 15 + 1d6 every time he casts the spell for a total of 16-21. That just seems broken to me. Someone suggested that I allow the use of this feat on the condition that the total caster level never exceeded what the maximum would be without the feat. In that case, the caster level would be 15 + 1d6, maximum 18, with a result set of [16, 17, 18, 18, 18, 18]. Is this how you would do it, or would you rule differently? Thanks, Atavar [/QUOTE]

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