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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8232809" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Thank you for the useful feedback!The Spellcasting needs a lot of rewording, for sure.  The subclass should absolutely “replace” Spellcasting at level one.  You get ritual casting for utility, and your subclass gives you plenty of combat efficacy. If that isn’t the case right now with the existing subclasses, that can be fixed, but level 1 isnt actually an important balance level, it’s mostly just important to avoid being noticeably too powerful at level 1, and even that is mostly for MC consideration.giving them simple weapon proficiency is fine, but the glaive isn’t just a “specialized battlefield weapon”, it is used here to represent weapons like Odin’s long fighting spear, the reaper’s scythe, etc.Yes, they are better ritualists than spellcasters, and are better ritualists than pretty much anyone else.All controlled creatures. Summoning and controlling is pretty much the central ID of the class, so having a way to go hard on that is a must, but the class needs to be broad enough that you don’t have to specialize in that, and can branch out a bit instead.IIRC you do it as an action. I’ll check the wording to be sure, but the intention is that it’s an action, and that you are attacking as if you’d taken the attack action. So, it can benefit from things that benefit the attack action. The wording is rough, but will be greatly clarified with iteration.Yes. This is where it’s most key to remind the reader that you end up with all three Implements eventually.You can only have one Implement active at a time, and all benefits of the Implement require it being your active Implement. “Attune” was a hasty word choice. I know I need to make that explicit.I’m not sure what you mean by more swappable?Just like a Wizard can find scrolls or spell books or learn from another Wizard.That’s one extra prepared spell. I’m okay with that. The class spell list is one area where power will come down as I iterate and collect feedback about balance, so having more prepared, from a spell list that only has combat power in control and summoning, which are nearly all concentration spells, is probably fine. I’ll keep an eye on it though, and possibly decrease the subclass to 1/level if really necessary.</blockquote>

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