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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8323488" data-attributes="member: 6796468">So... Thoughts on Defiling:I now agree with people that making Preserving suck and Defiling good is probably the wrong way to go about it. I feel like Preserving should be essentially default-5e spellcasting, while Defiling improves it, somehow.I'm really enamored of the idea of using a point-system to show that the environment has a specific amount of potential defilable material/water/whatever before it is wiped out. That way every arcanist knows that the system is there, and can feel the energy right at their fingertips and know they -could- be stronger... at a cost.So far I'd been planning on slashing Sorcerers with the intention of highjacking Metamagic and Flexible Casting for use as the core Defiling mechanics. Give the land Defiling Points, let any arcane character tap into them for Metamagic stuffs and free spell slots... Very simple and elegant.But there's been some pushback on axing Sorcerers. And suggestions to make Sorcerers into a Defiler-Specific class which is particularly -good- at defiling.So what sort of system can we implement in place of Flex-Casting and Metamagic to make Defiling particularly tempting? It needs to:1) Improve spellcasting power in a measurable fashion. We can't have it be -just- more spell slots, because that doesn't make a Defiler's magic more powerful, it just means they have more of it. Which doesn't really matter in a fight against a Preserver since one or the other will be dead well before they're out of spells.2) Improve multiple aspects of spellcasting. We can't have it -just- increase damage dice. There's so many more spells out there that improving dice size or quantity wouldn't assist. Though having it increase the size of a damage dice could be interesting... But spells like Hold Person are much more powerful when twin-cast, for example, or have a higher target count.3) Be useful as a reserve. A Wizard who has run out of spell slots, who is in a lush garden, and who sees their friends in danger, their life coming to an end, and desires to protect them and their cause... should be able to make the terrible choice to defile that place of beauty.</blockquote>

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