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<blockquote data-quote="chilibean" data-source="post: 138604" data-attributes="member: 2220">Personally, I think just allowing a player to &quot;research&quot; a new unique spell that exactly duplicated the effects of a metamagiced spell (including spell level) would be a reasonable solution.&nbsp; Making a sorcerer have the metamagic feat is kinda silly, I think, because they won't have the ability to decide which way to cast it.&nbsp; They MUST cast it at the higher level.Now as for wizards doing this, I wouldn't allow them to do this with their free spells they recieve when they level up.&nbsp; Otherwise, I think it would be unbalancing.But to allow a sorcerer to pick a unique spell that just so happened to function exactly like a regular 3rd level fireball spell, except that it was 7th level and had a casting time of &quot;Free Action&quot; seems reasonable to me.&nbsp; Your DM would be wise if he limited the sorcerer to only 1 spell that was a free action per round (just like quicken).It seems entirely balanced to me to allow a sorcerer to create a new spell called &quot;Quietman's Acid Arrow&quot; that functioned exactly like Melf's version, but had no verbal components and was 3rd level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chilibean, post: 138604, member: 2220"] Personally, I think just allowing a player to "research" a new unique spell that exactly duplicated the effects of a metamagiced spell (including spell level) would be a reasonable solution. Making a sorcerer have the metamagic feat is kinda silly, I think, because they won't have the ability to decide which way to cast it. They MUST cast it at the higher level. Now as for wizards doing this, I wouldn't allow them to do this with their free spells they recieve when they level up. Otherwise, I think it would be unbalancing. But to allow a sorcerer to pick a unique spell that just so happened to function exactly like a regular 3rd level fireball spell, except that it was 7th level and had a casting time of "Free Action" seems reasonable to me. Your DM would be wise if he limited the sorcerer to only 1 spell that was a free action per round (just like quicken). It seems entirely balanced to me to allow a sorcerer to create a new spell called "Quietman's Acid Arrow" that functioned exactly like Melf's version, but had no verbal components and was 3rd level. [/QUOTE]

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