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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 1880993" data-attributes="member: 3424">After flipping through the newspaper this morning and looking at a few slimming centre ads, I realized that Practised Spellcaster is similar. It takes something that isn't all that great (a multi-classed spellcaster), makes it look decent for a price (a feat), but doesn't make it better than someone who didn't need it in the first place (a single-classed spellcaster).The "before" and "after" pictures can show a startling improvement, but D&D isn't a competition between a multiclassed spellcaster with the feat and the same multiclassed spellcaster without it (unless your party composition is very interesting). It isn't even a competition between the multiclassed spellcasters and the single-classed spellcasters in the party (unless that's how you want to play the game). But even if it is, the single-classed spellcaster will still have an edge over the multi-classed ones in terms of spell access and spells per day - in particular, the higher level spell slots.Think about the various kinds of multi-classed spellcasters. There's the dabbler, who only has a few levels in a spellcaster class. He gets the full effect of the caster level increase, but the power of the feat is limited by the number of spells that he can cast per day and the low-level spells that he has access to.There's the majority spellcaster who has only a few levels in another class. He has almost as many spells and almost the same level of access to powerful spells as a single-classed spellcaster, and Practised Spellcaster would improve most of them. However, since he is so close to being a single-classed spellcaster, the actual caster level increase that he enjoys is small.Finally, there's the balanced spellcaster who keeps his levels in spellcaster classes even with those of another class (possibly another spellcaster class). He gets the full effect of the caster level increase on a wider number and variety of spells, including some powerful ones, but in doing so he almost certainly misses out on the most powerful spells at less than epic levels.Practised Spellcaster is a good feat and a good fix for a multiclassing system that shortchanges spellcasters. It gives the most benefit to those who need it most without allowing them to overshadow or outdo single-classed spellcasters. Of course, it would be better if the multiclassing system was fixed in the first place.</blockquote>

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