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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Purzel" data-source="post: 1646175" data-attributes="member: 11201">I was looking thru my "Tome and Blood" Guidebook, when i stumbled over the "Sculpt Spell" Feat.With this i can change area spells into <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">10 ft radius, 30 ft high cylinder</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">20 ft radius ball</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">40 ft cone</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">four 10 ft cubes</li> </ul>and that at a price for only +1 level increase in the spell slot used.That's pretty nice so far and reasonable for a lot of spells (fireball, cone of cold, most detect spells) ... but then i wondered how this spell could be abused and i came up with examples, that make me think so:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Burning Hands, normally a 15 ft. range cone-shaped burst can become 40 ft cone? Or can't the spell leave the built-in range?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Glitterdust, normally having a 10ft spread can be made 'Glitterball' with twice the radius?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Detect Poison, only checking a 5ft cube in its original form, can now check LUDICROUSLY larger areas?</li> </ul>Compared to the "Widen Spell" (3.5 SRD) feat, which can alter a burst, emanation, line, or spread shaped spell to increase its area (numeric measurements of the spell’s area increase by 100%.), which costs a +3 level increasement something looks very wrong with "Sculpt Spell".So i checked the net for any "Tome and Blood" errata, or any other people saying that this feat is broken and needs to be revised. But: Null -- Nada -- Niente -- Nichts!What to do with this feat in a campaign? Not allow it? Or how to repair it and make it balanced? Do official errata exist and i was just too stupid to find them?</blockquote>

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