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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 3257701" data-attributes="member: 3051">It's very similar to what I've been using for the hybrid Wizard/Cleric class within my homebrew, with a few slight differences.  Here's what we had, for comparison.> Wizards can use metamagic starting at level 2, when they select a free level 1 Metaform: Heighten I, Empower I, Enhance I, or Extend I.  (I'll explain these below.)> A Wizard gains a number of Metamagic Points (MPs) per day equal to his class level plus his primary spellcasting stat modifier (WIS for us, INT for you; in your example, you'd get 10+4.)> Using a level N metaform costs N MPs and disables that metaform for N rounds.  (So, you can't Maximize two spells in a row.)> You can only use one metaform on any given spell.  (No stacking them.)> Casting times increase as for the core rules for Sorcerer. (see below; in most cases this means a Full-Round Action.)> It's not 1 Feat per Metaform any more.  Instead, it goes like this:Expanded Metamagic: Select two level metaforms no higher than level 1.  This feat may be taken multiple times; each successive time, the maximum level of the metaforms increases by 1.Prepared Metamagic: You can memorize spells with the metamagic built-in, as 3E, by using a slot N levels higher than normal.  This doesn't consume MPs, disable metaforms, or increase casting time.We've also got a "Metamastery" Feat that reduces the metaform disable time to 1dN rounds and shrinks the casting time back down to normal, but we're still balancing it.Metaforms: We've got a list of 48, of levels 1-4 (although 10 of them are "shaping" metaforms to turn our system's standard elemental "bolt" spells into the various balls, chains, lines, bursts, etc. that the core rules use for everything; think of the Warlock rules for this).  Generally speaking the level is just how many levels the spell increased under the core rules, with a few exceptions: there are no level 0 metaforms (Substitution is changed to level 1 and is more limited now), and Delay is 4 instead of +3.Heighten is split into Heighten I (+1 to spell level for DC and penetrating Globes of Resistance), Heighten II (+2 to spell level), etc.  And yes, you can put Heighten IV on a level 9 spell to get a "level 13 spell" (which just means its DC gets huge)Empower forms increase any variable effects by 1-4 die sizes (so a 10d6 fireball becomes 10d8 with Empower I)Enhance forms increase the caster level of the spell by 2/4/6/8, and this increase can exceed any level-based caps (so a 10d6 fireball becomes 12d6 with Enhance I, plus has a slightly longer range)Extend Metaforms multiply the duration of a spell by 2/4/6/10 (meaning Extend I equals the old Extend Spell, and Extend IV is Persistent Spell)and Quicken has forms at I, III, and IV:Quicken I reduces a spell's casting time down to 1 Standard Action if it was a full-round action; if it required a "1 round" casting time, it's down to a full-round action.  This form does not increase the casting time of a spell (since that's what it's specifically designed to counteract).Quicken III reduces a spell's casting time to a Move Action if it was a Standard or Full-Round Action before, "1 round" becomes a Standard Action, and anything longer is cut in half.Quicken IV is just like III except anything requiring a Standard or Full-Round Action now becomes a Free Action (limit 1 per round as usual).One side note:As has been pointed out many times, this is NOT how Sorcerers already work.  Metamagic changes their spells to a Full-Round Action (meaning you can't move and cast), NOT to a casting time of "1 round" (where the spell doesn't come into effect until the next turn).</blockquote>

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