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<blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 1883410" data-attributes="member: 2486">It's on the powerful side.&nbsp; The major drawbacks of the Elemental Savant (presumably against whom this was posited) is predictability and lack of flexibility.&nbsp; A Fire Savant going toe-to-toe with a red dragon is going to be seriously handicapped, and any NPC opponents with have a brain going against the party will prepare Protection from Fire, be warded with Fire Resistance-granting spells, invest in Ring of Fire Resistance and the like.&nbsp; This PrC not only does not have this limitation, it has full spellcasting progression as well (ES has 9/10).&nbsp; Vis-a-vis a standard wizard, it's clearly superior, since in exchange for a couple of metamagic feats and familiar progression, it gets resistance 10 to all elements, +2 penetration for all elemental spells, +1 caster level for all elemental spells and a slew of miscellaneous abilities.&nbsp; For a sorceror, who loses just familiar progression, it's almost a no-brainer.Tone it down.&nbsp; Either restrict the abilities, or cut the progression.&nbsp; I'd say 8/10, dropping caster levels at 5th and 10th are probably reasonable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Al, post: 1883410, member: 2486"] It's on the powerful side. The major drawbacks of the Elemental Savant (presumably against whom this was posited) is predictability and lack of flexibility. A Fire Savant going toe-to-toe with a red dragon is going to be seriously handicapped, and any NPC opponents with have a brain going against the party will prepare Protection from Fire, be warded with Fire Resistance-granting spells, invest in Ring of Fire Resistance and the like. This PrC not only does not have this limitation, it has full spellcasting progression as well (ES has 9/10). Vis-a-vis a standard wizard, it's clearly superior, since in exchange for a couple of metamagic feats and familiar progression, it gets resistance 10 to all elements, +2 penetration for all elemental spells, +1 caster level for all elemental spells and a slew of miscellaneous abilities. For a sorceror, who loses just familiar progression, it's almost a no-brainer. Tone it down. Either restrict the abilities, or cut the progression. I'd say 8/10, dropping caster levels at 5th and 10th are probably reasonable. [/QUOTE]

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