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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7059843" data-attributes="member: 1465">My first thought would be adding some new feats that are applicable to Sorcerers only. Not sure if you'd say they match your criteria:1) Fulcrum point tweaks. Those feats would provide bonus spells known, additional metamagic*, and bonus spell points.2) Authentic feel. Feats pretty much work like &quot;patches&quot;, and those are such no-brainers that they could have definitely been in the PHB.3) 5e Precedent. My idea is weakest on this one... essentially 5e feats do not include basic boosts to class features (like 3e feats did very often), they rather focus on giving something new, or someone else's class features (in tiny bits).4) Lack of invalidation. Feats being purely additive, there is absolutely no change to anything already written in the books.5) Feels right. Well what do you feel about it? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />IMHO the only problem with such solution is that it carries a high risk of being received as &quot;tax feats&quot; i.e. something that every Sorcerer should take or otherwise they'll lag behind. But at the same time, this was pretty much your premise!*Edit: some care needs to be taken to make sure only Sorcerers can take these feats, especially the metamagic ones otherwise the feats would actually damage the Sorcerer by making its unique feature available to every other caster. So the feats should actually require that the character already has spell points. A bonus spells known feats could also be available to others, it would probably be also a very good feat for Rangers and Warlocks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7059843, member: 1465"] My first thought would be adding some new [B]feats[/B] that are applicable to Sorcerers only. Not sure if you'd say they match your criteria: [B]1) Fulcrum point tweaks. [/B]Those feats would provide bonus spells known, additional metamagic*, and bonus spell points. [B]2) Authentic feel. [/B]Feats pretty much work like "patches", and those are such no-brainers that they could have definitely been in the PHB. [B]3) 5e Precedent. [/B]My idea is weakest on this one... essentially 5e feats do not include basic boosts to class features (like 3e feats did very often), they rather focus on giving something new, or someone [I]else[/I]'s class features (in tiny bits). [B]4) Lack of invalidation. [/B]Feats being purely additive, there is absolutely no change to anything already written in the books. [B]5) Feels right. [/B]Well what do you feel about it? :) IMHO the only problem with such solution is that it carries a high risk of being received as "tax feats" i.e. something that every Sorcerer should take or otherwise they'll lag behind. But at the same time, this was pretty much your premise! *Edit: some care needs to be taken to make sure only Sorcerers can take these feats, especially the metamagic ones otherwise the feats would actually [I]damage[/I] the Sorcerer by making its unique feature available to every other caster. So the feats should actually require that the character already has spell points. A bonus spells known feats could also be available to others, it would probably be also a very good feat for Rangers and Warlocks. [/QUOTE]

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