reapersaurus said:
OK, you begged me to ask.
WHY exactly does having the Spellfire feat apparently guarantee that they will be kidnapped by some Arch-Mage and studied or something?
Is this written in the rulebooks, or something?
I presume this is people insisting that whatever happened to Alias (or whoever it was that was in the books) will happen to the PC.
Sure, the DM could just give the character the feat and treat it on the lines of "oh, see, he can wield spellfire. Just like the guy we met last week." "yea, and my auntsie can do it, too. You know the baker in pit lane who uses it to get his bread baked?" In this world, every third guy and their pet would have spellfire, and noone would think of taking them to get their secrets. Just like all the drow have a resistance to magic and noone thinks it's that special, it's a drow thing, you get it because you're drow, if you're not drow, you don't get it.
Or, the DM could do his job right, play the Realms as they're meant to be, and introduce spellfire properly: a gift from the gods, only a handful people have it at a time, and several organizations (with really good spy networks, and an informer in every other city), like the Black Network, several evil churches, the Cult of the Dragon and the like will pay handsomly for every bit of information about the whereabouts of spellfire gifted ones. Depending on how often and how open the character uses his spellfire, the others will ask questions: "Why did my spells just go away? He could not save against them all!" and "Why can he blast raw magic out of his fingertips and his eyes. That's no spell I know, and I know most of them." Sooner or later, someone will come to the right conclusion that it's spellfire he's dealing with, and surely one organization or the other will hear about it, and the hunt is on again. And it will take considerable causalties on the sides of those organizations, without any success, to make them stop badgering (and probably wolfing and grizlybearing) the poor chap.
Or, if he doesn't want to use spellfire that way, he could just outrule the feat, at least for PC's. If you don't do that properly, don't do it at all.
