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Message: <blockquote data-quote="accipiter" data-source="post: 3489639" data-attributes="member: 50893">Interesting (and thank you for the link)!  An entire class might be a little deeper than I was thinking, but I really like the idea of a focus item!  How did you find it worked in play?  Did it scale well?  I wonder if I could convert some of your class features into, say, a feat that allows a similar use of a focus?I think we were discussing using the specialist wizard mostly because my players seem to feel specialists are underpowered (ie, not worth taking ever).  I'd mentioned that my own wizard character had Signature Spell and Spell Mastery, and my wizard player thought it was a neat combo, but that the drawbacks made it useless to him (essentially, he'd have to wait so long to take Spell Mastery with spells powerful enough to make it worthwhile that he could have long since gone another route).I'm also trying not to outshine the cleric or the druid, or to elide the sorcerer or warlock -- just to give a wizard willing to go the specialist route some perks that might make it worth playing in my players' eyes.What we hashed out was basically that a specialist wizard, in addition to what he already gets and loses, can pick one spell from his particular school every few levels that becomes basically a Signature Spell for him.  So, say one every time he gets a stat boost, plus one at first level, would be 5 spells over the course of his career... roughly equal to Spell Mastery?  And Signature Spell requires you to pick one of those Spell Mastery Spells, so it'd be like getting five free Signature Spell feats.I think that seems to be overpowered, on paper -- six free feats plus the regular benefits for giving up two schools of magic?  On the other hand, the spells would be across a range of levels and entirely from one school.  On the other, other hand, this might be way too good for the guy who specializes in fireball, but not nearly good enough for the guy who wants to be an illusionist.</blockquote>

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