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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6982510" data-attributes="member: 4937">I like the idea of the reserve feats, I just think they aren't designed very well.This is a great example of why this feat is useless.  Because this does nothing for you that having basic utility spells like mage hand and unseen servant doesn't do.  And those spells are infinitely more useful and diverse in their applications and don't cost you a feat and don't require you to keep a spell slot filled.  More over, in the average campaign, how often does a locked in the jail scenario occur?  Less than once on average I would think.  You might go through 5 or 10 campaigns before anything like that happened.  And in my campaign, characters are locked in jail not only with the minimal precautions that the medieval jailers would have took, but also with the sort of precautions that people who know that they live in a world of magic would take.  So you are certainly not getting out through some simple movie trick.  You've not got freedom of your cell.  You're feet are in stocks that are chained to the floor.  You may have a canque around your neck, or manacles limiting the motion of your hands.  You've got no light to see by, so no line of sight.   Entrance to the donjon is probably through a hole in the roof, which doesn't really need a fancy lock, just a bolt or two to close it.  If they know you are a spellcaster, they probably took a hammer to your fingers and crushed them, and put your tongue in a brank or other restraining device (if they didn't just snip it out), and blindfolded you.  And you are probably not in for a term, but awaiting an exorcist to arrive so that they can burn you alive and make sure your spirit isn't around to curse or haunt them.  The whole idea that jail is this thing we are going to get out of almost immediately is probably bogus, and if it is a planned scenario (you are supposed to get out) then you don't need a feat to help you do it - it will just happen regardless of how minimal your resources are.Another example of why I would ban this feat.And another.And another.  Those sort of uses don't add much of anything to the game, and they remind me of when in 1e I decided cantrips were so weak that M-U's could cast them at will, and the game was derailed for a few hours while the PC's went around making people belch and fart.  Yeah.</blockquote>

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