DarkOne-Rob
2014-12-26, 09:03 AM
I was considering the Words of Power alternate magic system recently and had a thought: how amazing could an Arcanist using Words of Power be?
Then I realized that the Arcanist was still a "prepared" caster, which IMO makes WoP less exciting to me (I find the WoP Sorcerer to feel more spontaneous than your standard Vancian Sorcerer and like the feel of that). However, would you as a DM allow an Arcanist to use WoP as if he were a spontaneous caster? He could theoretically learn all words eventually (like a wizard) but only prepare certain ones for use in a given day, giving them the best of both worlds!
Would you as a DM find that to be too powerful? Or, since Word Casting has so much less splatbook support would it be alright?
Then I realized that the Arcanist was still a "prepared" caster, which IMO makes WoP less exciting to me (I find the WoP Sorcerer to feel more spontaneous than your standard Vancian Sorcerer and like the feel of that). However, would you as a DM allow an Arcanist to use WoP as if he were a spontaneous caster? He could theoretically learn all words eventually (like a wizard) but only prepare certain ones for use in a given day, giving them the best of both worlds!
Would you as a DM find that to be too powerful? Or, since Word Casting has so much less splatbook support would it be alright?