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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6944660" data-attributes="member: 12731">An article that explores ways to open up metamagic for those who'd like all spellcasters to have access to metamagic, from cautiously adding a Magic Initiate type of feat, to a full-blown extraction of the metamagic subsystem out of the Sorcerer class, complete with a replacement for those who feel a concept as abstract and intellectual as metamagic is a poor fit for a spontaneous natural caster such as the Sorcerer.Psionics. Hopefully the 5E design realizes that something akin to the DMG spellpoint variant is really really hard to balance. The Sorcerer's sorcery point system is a much better implementation of a way to convert spell slots into other spell slots without that getting out of control. (Spell or power point systems has always had a huge problem: it's way too easy for a Psion to abuse the 5 minute workday by blowing all her PPs on huge effects and then calling it a day)And metamagic is a much better fit for Intelligence-based classes like Wizard or Psion anyways.That doesn't mean I am denying Sorcerers the ability to shoot twin rays or cast spells when bound and gagged. Only that these effects should not be described using metamagic terminology. Sorcerers might do that, but they do it subconsciously, spontaneously and by raw manipulation. They should not have to bother with "metamagic points". They should simply get (to choose) a number of Quickens or Stills or Subtles, and then simply use them as needed. No point system. No way to exchange one thing for another.Leave the calculations and the arithmetic to the brainy ones, the trained ones, the disciplined ones. Psions first and foremost, but I would love for Clerics and possibly even Druids and Bards to have metamagic too. Even Wizards, though I acknowledge how the schools grant similar effects already.And while we're at the subject: metamagic should not be one monolithic subject!While I'm okay with Sorcerers casting spells without verbal or somatic components, no way that ability should be called "subtle"!Sorcerers doesn't do subtle! Bookworms and nerds do subtle, and Sorcerers aren't either!Likewise, while Empower and Extend are effects appropriate for Sorcerers, Careful is not. I would definitely not mind if each metamagic-capable class got its own tailor-made list of possible metamagic effects. For instance, Careful and Subtle fits Bards like a glove. Perhaps those two are the only ones they get?If there should be one class that gets them all, it sure is Psion.</blockquote>

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