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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6953650" data-attributes="member: 6787650">I suspect the triple spell point/slot cost for spontaneous casting would do a lot to deter constant rummaging, even without an additional sorcery point cost on top of that. (You could either exclude cantrips from this rule, or just impose a minimum cost of 6 spell points or 3 first-level slots, even for a cantrip.)But I'm actually interested in a deeper question: what would actually happen? Would anything break in the game? Would sorcerers suddenly become the dominant spellcasting archtype, displacing wizards, druids, clerics and bards? (Warlocks are their own thing.) I suspect not. I predict that you'd get a bunch of sorcerers casting pretty much the same spells they would have cast anyway without the special rule, and a bunch of players who are happier with the feel of their sorcerers, and maybe a few players trying out sorcerers who wouldn't be inclined to do so otherwise. Maybe once in a blue moon someone would spontaneously cast Fly or Dominate Person when it was appropriate to the situation, which would make all the players at the table happy.I guess that's my real question: if there anyone here who would be unhappy if triple-cost spontaneous casting of any spell on the sorcerer list were introduced by their DM at the start of a new campaign? (What about spontaneous battlemaster maneuvers for double cost?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6953650, member: 6787650"] I suspect the triple spell point/slot cost for spontaneous casting would do a lot to deter constant rummaging, even without an additional sorcery point cost on top of that. (You could either exclude cantrips from this rule, or just impose a minimum cost of 6 spell points or 3 first-level slots, even for a cantrip.) But I'm actually interested in a deeper question: what would actually happen? Would anything break in the game? Would sorcerers suddenly become the dominant spellcasting archtype, displacing wizards, druids, clerics and bards? (Warlocks are their own thing.) I suspect not. I predict that you'd get a bunch of sorcerers casting pretty much the same spells they would have cast anyway without the special rule, and a bunch of players who are happier with the feel of their sorcerers, and maybe a few players trying out sorcerers who wouldn't be inclined to do so otherwise. Maybe once in a blue moon someone would spontaneously cast Fly or Dominate Person when it was appropriate to the situation, which would make all the players at the table happy. I guess that's my real question: if there anyone here who would be unhappy if triple-cost spontaneous casting of any spell on the sorcerer list were introduced by their DM at the start of a new campaign? (What about spontaneous battlemaster maneuvers for double cost?) [/QUOTE]

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