Jigokuro
2013-06-01, 01:49 PM
Collegiate Wizard gives more spells learned automatically on level up to wizards, as well as a passive +2 on Know(arcana) checks. I have this and I'm thinking of DCS it away in a level if that is possible.
See, the problem is what is lost along with the feat; obviously the +2 to skill checks goes, and at future level ups it would be 2 new spells not 4. But what of the spells already learned and in your spellbook? Can the ink just suddenly evaporate? If so, which 2 of the 4 per level would be gone? Or, would that effect of the feat be left behind after the feat is gone?
It just seems weird to me that a physical thing gained because of the feat would be able to vanish; imagine if an item you could only afford because of Mercantile Background disappeared if you retrained that. Same questions - which item?
To me, the logical thing for feats that provide an increased rate of gain of something would just revert the rate in the future, not retroactively undo gains of for no other reason than that is really hard to make work. Of course, this makes DCS even more powerful, and Lady knows we don't need that. Opinions-as-DM would be nice, but I'm more interested in a RAW ruling, if possible, as I'm working on a TO build atm where this is the least of the tricks (maybe) used.:smallwink:
See, the problem is what is lost along with the feat; obviously the +2 to skill checks goes, and at future level ups it would be 2 new spells not 4. But what of the spells already learned and in your spellbook? Can the ink just suddenly evaporate? If so, which 2 of the 4 per level would be gone? Or, would that effect of the feat be left behind after the feat is gone?
It just seems weird to me that a physical thing gained because of the feat would be able to vanish; imagine if an item you could only afford because of Mercantile Background disappeared if you retrained that. Same questions - which item?
To me, the logical thing for feats that provide an increased rate of gain of something would just revert the rate in the future, not retroactively undo gains of for no other reason than that is really hard to make work. Of course, this makes DCS even more powerful, and Lady knows we don't need that. Opinions-as-DM would be nice, but I'm more interested in a RAW ruling, if possible, as I'm working on a TO build atm where this is the least of the tricks (maybe) used.:smallwink: