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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 4159836" data-attributes="member: 50987"><p>Well, there is the Eschew Focus feat (on page 15):</p><p></p><p><span style="color: SlateGray">Eschew Focus [General]</span></p><p><span style="color: SlateGray"><strong>Benefit:</strong> Choose any three spells that you can cast, of 2nd level or lower. You may now cast these spells without the need for your spell focus. The casting of these spells still requires all other components listed (such as material, verbal, and somatic components), and still provokes attacks of opportunity as normal.</span></p><p><span style="color: SlateGray"><strong>Special:</strong> you may take this feat multiple times. <s>Its effects do not stack.</s> Each time you take this feat, it allows you to cast three more spells without your focus.</span></p><p></p><p>A spellcaster who has taken the Eschew Focus feat and selected <em>mending</em> and/or <em>make whole</em> is in pretty good shape. </p><p></p><p>In one of our PvP playtests, the paladin sundered our cleric's holy symbol...but she had planned ahead with the Eschew Focus feat for <em>make whole, sanctuary,</em> and <em>shatter.</em> The look on his face when she sundered his +1 longsword without her focus was priceless. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /> </p><p></p><p> (nod) Yup, that's what I'm seeing here as well. I've decided to scrap it. It is okay to want to "improve" a focus, and the best way to do that IMO is to make them more durable...not with magic bonuses.</p><p></p><p>How about this:</p><p></p><p>A wand made from adamantine is considerably harder to sunder than one made from oak...but maybe it gives its wielder some sort of special power over Constructs? Maybe werewolves suffer a -2 penalty to save throws against spells cast with a silver wand? A cold iron pentacle could impose a penalty to a fey's save throw too, now that I think about it.</p><p></p><p>Food for thought. At any rate, I think this is much better than having to deal with <em>yet another</em> item that grants bonuses to a check...</p><p></p><p>True, it doesn't have a lot of panache...but it gets the job done.</p><p></p><p>The more I think about it, the more I think that this is out of scope of the rule system I am trying to write. "Ritual" magic and incantations feels like it should be an entirely different house rule altogether (one that would work well with this system, mind you, but still a different rule.) Like reserve feats.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 4159836, member: 50987"] Well, there is the Eschew Focus feat (on page 15): [COLOR=SlateGray]Eschew Focus [General] [B]Benefit:[/B] Choose any three spells that you can cast, of 2nd level or lower. You may now cast these spells without the need for your spell focus. The casting of these spells still requires all other components listed (such as material, verbal, and somatic components), and still provokes attacks of opportunity as normal. [B]Special:[/B] you may take this feat multiple times. [S]Its effects do not stack.[/S] Each time you take this feat, it allows you to cast three more spells without your focus.[/COLOR] A spellcaster who has taken the Eschew Focus feat and selected [I]mending[/I] and/or [I]make whole[/I] is in pretty good shape. In one of our PvP playtests, the paladin sundered our cleric's holy symbol...but she had planned ahead with the Eschew Focus feat for [I]make whole, sanctuary,[/I] and [I]shatter.[/I] The look on his face when she sundered his +1 longsword without her focus was priceless. :cool: (nod) Yup, that's what I'm seeing here as well. I've decided to scrap it. It is okay to want to "improve" a focus, and the best way to do that IMO is to make them more durable...not with magic bonuses. How about this: A wand made from adamantine is considerably harder to sunder than one made from oak...but maybe it gives its wielder some sort of special power over Constructs? Maybe werewolves suffer a -2 penalty to save throws against spells cast with a silver wand? A cold iron pentacle could impose a penalty to a fey's save throw too, now that I think about it. Food for thought. At any rate, I think this is much better than having to deal with [I]yet another[/I] item that grants bonuses to a check... True, it doesn't have a lot of panache...but it gets the job done. The more I think about it, the more I think that this is out of scope of the rule system I am trying to write. "Ritual" magic and incantations feels like it should be an entirely different house rule altogether (one that would work well with this system, mind you, but still a different rule.) Like reserve feats. [/QUOTE]
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