Vael Nir
2008-04-07, 07:41 PM
I was thinking on my way home from tonights session... I was trying to think of a way my mystic theurge could use metamagic effectively. Apart from taking DMM (which I consider very cheesy), metamagic feats and extra turning I couldn't really think of anything (plus, theurges don't get that many feats)... so I started thinking about alternatives to DMM.
So... DMM sacrifices turning attempts for metamagic. What could I sacrifice? Spell slots! Got plenty of those! Now, I like the following idea, but I'd want you guys to play with it and tell me if it could be horribly abused... i.e. turned into a mound of gouda.
Metamagic Fusion: Choose any metamagic feat you know. As a swift action, sacrifice one divine and one arcane spell slot of the spell level modifier of this feat. For the next X rounds, you may apply this metamagic feat to any spell you cast whose modified spell level does not exceed your highest known spell level.
So, as an example. I'd be taking my character to 20th level: Wizard 3/Cleric3/MT 14 (ignore that I can't actually go that many levels of theurge for now). Casting up to 9th level on both sides. At this level, you could sacrifice 1 4th level slot on either side and quicken any spell of up to 5th level for X rounds. Or, as my character is now, plain Wizard 3/Cleric 3. Sacrifice 1 1st level slot on either side and extend any other 1st level spell you still have.
This could be adapted to single class casting, sacrifice 1-2 spell slots of the spell level instead. And I'm not sure what duration would be balanced, because caster level seems a *bit* high. CL/3 maybe?
So... DMM sacrifices turning attempts for metamagic. What could I sacrifice? Spell slots! Got plenty of those! Now, I like the following idea, but I'd want you guys to play with it and tell me if it could be horribly abused... i.e. turned into a mound of gouda.
Metamagic Fusion: Choose any metamagic feat you know. As a swift action, sacrifice one divine and one arcane spell slot of the spell level modifier of this feat. For the next X rounds, you may apply this metamagic feat to any spell you cast whose modified spell level does not exceed your highest known spell level.
So, as an example. I'd be taking my character to 20th level: Wizard 3/Cleric3/MT 14 (ignore that I can't actually go that many levels of theurge for now). Casting up to 9th level on both sides. At this level, you could sacrifice 1 4th level slot on either side and quicken any spell of up to 5th level for X rounds. Or, as my character is now, plain Wizard 3/Cleric 3. Sacrifice 1 1st level slot on either side and extend any other 1st level spell you still have.
This could be adapted to single class casting, sacrifice 1-2 spell slots of the spell level instead. And I'm not sure what duration would be balanced, because caster level seems a *bit* high. CL/3 maybe?