#NO RHOKDELAR SPELLHUNTER PLUS#

Not that I'm complaining about player power blasting things into oblivion is less useful for casters than using control magic, and Dazing Spell and Persistent Spell would be pains in the ass with or without level reducers. But that's just because high-level play is kind of silly. Only the fact that Intensified Spell can't be applied twice to increase the damage cap to 20d6 keeps this from getting kind of silly, at least compared to the CRB.Īnd yes, it is technically better to just throw around maze spells while the martials buff up and prepare to murderdeathkill the monster when it reappears.

#NO RHOKDELAR SPELLHUNTER PLUS#

Dazing Intensified Quickened fireball with a 6th-level slot, plus Dazing Intensified Empowered fireball, also as a 6th-level slot. Alternately, it can be a -1 reduction to any one spell, and you can pick a combat trait like Reactionary for the all-important initiative boost.Īnd the reductions would perhaps be fine, if it weren't for Spell Perfection (which I know doesn't show up in PFS, but is still a part of the core rules). Now, the Magical Lineage + Wayang Spellhunter combo permits a continuous -2 reduction for a specific spell of 3rd level or lower, and is available to any class. So, given that feats were much harder to come by in 3.5 than Pathfinder, it is telling just how difficult metamagic reduction effects actually were.Īnd while the existence of Persistent Spell (the 'make a personal-range spell last 24 hours for a +6 level increase' version of CoDzilla fame) showed that not all of their design choices in this region were well-thought-out, the fact is that it was relatively difficult to get a continuous -2 reduction for a given spell (and even then, only for a spontaneous caster and only for one specific metamagic feat applied to that spell), and impossible (at least through feats alone) to get a continuous -3 reduction to an arcane spell. This feat was available with no level restrictions, so a 1st-level specialist wizard could theoretically take it, which might help explain the daily use limit (though another explanation may be that the design team was aware of the other metamagic-reducing feats and didn't want to permit shenanigans like Quickened 7th-level spells. It also required that you be 6th level to take it and have the metamagic feat in question.Īnd finally, there was a feat that allowed you to reduce the level cost of a metamagic feat (chosen by you when you prepared or cast the spell) by 1, but only 3 times per day, and only for spells of a single school of magic, for which you either needed the Spell Focus feat or be a specialized wizard. This feat required either the expenditure of additional feats to qualify, or else be restricted to certain races. There was also a feat (specifically for spontaneous casters) that allowed you to reduce the spell-level increase of one metamagic feat by 1, to a minimum of 1, when applying it to any of your spells.

But you needed to have reached 6th level, and also had to be able to cast the spell that was to be modified. There was a feat in 3.5 that did exactly what magical lineage does (only for arcane spells), but with the added bonus of +2 caster level to that spell.

No rhokdelar spellhunter