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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 3932242" data-attributes="member: 6533">I like this approach, but I have an objection:Spell Shaper is not a good name for this feat.  I mean it works, but only if you don't have another feat which allows you to adjust the actual shape of the spell from say cone to line or sphere to wall.Star Wars Saga has a similar feat called something like Gentle Strike, but that honestly sounds more like a Kung Fu or therapy technique than a puissant arcane technique.Which points to the larger problem of GWA, it's a very hard feat to name except through some sort of branding device.Either by having it be the only 'adept' feat with other tradition feats getting names like Ferocious Tiger Initiate or Jade Crucible Apprentice, which then become Adept, Initiate, and Apprentice when you strip the adjectives off.Or by making all Golden or Wyvern or Golden Wyvern feats about exempting teamates from damage.The other other approach would be to give the feat explicitly meta-gamey nomenclature like No-Team Kills Approach, but to my mind that breaks the flavor far worse than giving the feat some sort of Heraldry.Huge Side Note:Opus Dei isn't what I would call a secret organization.  Discrete perhaps, but they are pretty open to the public.</blockquote>