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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hejdun" data-source="post: 1113799" data-attributes="member: 839">I call DM Metagaming.Stoneskin is 250gp per casting.  At a possible 3 castings per day, that's 750gp a day.  Even if he only casts it once per day for two weeks, that's the cost of a minor magic item.  Unless he's got cash hoarded away with nothing to do with it, he'll cast himself poor in no time.Also, keep in mind that this is his ONLY 4th level spell.  Due to the respectable cost of Stoneskin, he won't want to cast it a whole lot (3 castings a day for two weeks = 10,500gp.  That's not exactly pocket change) since he'll be sucking up his gold.  So why did he take a spell that he won't bother casting unless in dire circumstances?  He's effectively wasting his 3 spell slots per day.  Why would anyone voluntarily do this?Think of it from the character's perspective.  He knows that he won't be able to cast it a whole lot, and certainly not his 3 allowed castings a day, every day.  That means he's flushing away all of his best spell slots.  If you were playing this character, would you do this?  I would certainly hope not, and that means that this sorceror taking Stoneskin is a pretty blatant attempt to screw your PCs.  It's a good spell, yeah, and the sorceror should have a few scrolls of it in his possession, but having the sorceror actually take the spell?  That's more than a little munchkiny.</blockquote>