Sorceror WOTC optional rule question

[Darmyth]

I'm confused on how a sorcerer would suddenly know all these other spells and have forgotten how to do the ones they've been doing for the past 10 years.

 

[bret]

I'm confused on how a sorcerer would suddenly know all these other spells and have forgotten how to do the ones they've been doing for the past 10 years.

"I wish that starting today I could cast Glitterdust instead of Protection from Arrows."

If you allow this to work, it makes about as much sense as any other use of wish. Wish is already able to change the past, this is just changing the abilities of the target without giving any abilities that they could not have already had.

 

[Darmyth]

Wish on the fly or via Wish spell?


being able to change to any spell up to the level of spells that you can cast sounds unbalancing. That's if you're able to change on the fly and not via Wish Spell.

Now you have a larger list of available spells than a wizards and didn't have to find or research them, able to cast more spells per day than a wizard, and don't need to memorize ahead of time.

What am I missing on this? I have to be missing something since this sounds unbalancing.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

We of course talk about the wish spell.

 

[RigaMortus]

May be we will have somethinh like this in 3.5e ? If not, prepare to hear the "shaft" word this summer...

That shaft is a bad mother.....

 

[Igarashi]

That shaft is a bad mother.....

Shut yo mouth!

 

[Spatzimaus]

I freely allow Sorcerers to upgrade spells. The catch is the term "upgrade". Summon Monster 3 is an upgrade of SM2, so that'd be allowed, but Glitterdust is not an upgrade of Protection from Arrows.

Basically, it has to be in the same school, at a higher level, have the same basic effect, and be able to reproduce or exceed the original spell in every way. So, Polymorph Self is an upgrade of Alter Self, but neither is an upgrade of Change Self (which is a glamer, not a transmutation).

 

[DM_Matt]

Shut yo mouth!

But I'm talking 'bout Shaft!