Spellcasting Prodigy


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I'm with ruleslawyer on this one -- it still seems quite powerful, even without the save increase. I don't even know if I'll allow it in my games now... unlikely.
 

ruleslawyer said:
My only quibble with this house rule is:

"Crippled"?

How is an extra 1st-level spell per day (with an Int of 18) with corresponding better results at high level weak for a feat, even if you have to take it at 1st level?

Because it's weaker than Extra Slot/Extra Spell (always weaker than Extra Spell for a Sorcerer), since you cannot even choose the spell level and it eats up your first level slot. Except for extremely high stats (28+) it usually won't give more than a single extra spell of a pretty low level (and that only, if you have a high stat and full access to stat-boosting items), since you rarely have access to the highest spell levels you got bonus spells in (for pretty low stat/item availability, it might actually work, tho). For a Wizard (or Cleric/Druid), it's about as good as a Pearl of Power 1st or 2nd, for a Sorcerer it's basically completely useless (at least considering, that you cannot pick another feat, since you pick this one).

It's obvious why they had to do away with the DC increase, considering the change to Spell Focus, but the way the feat works now, it isn't justified that it can only be chosen at first level (which is a disadvantage, altho it only comes into play sometimes (more for non-human casters than humans)).

CRGreathouse said:
I'm with ruleslawyer on this one -- it still seems quite powerful, even without the save increase. I don't even know if I'll allow it in my games now... unlikely.

You got to be kidding! April Fool's Day is over. :D

Bye
Thanee
 
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Thanee said:
Since Spellcasting Prodigy has been seriously crippled in the Player's Guide to Faerûn, I thought about how to change the feat to make it reasonable.

How about this: just leave it the way it was? If you don't like it, don't change it.
 

Because its a balance issue in 3.5
changes made in the core books makes Spellcasting Prodigy unbalanced as is. I belive Rich spoke of this on Wizo's forums.
 

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