Ambient Tempest, Good or just meh?

[mostlyharmful]

There is a Prestige Class in the Bestiary of Krynn that gives flexibility to spontaneous casters within a weeks preptime for any spell at the price of a single level of caster progression. As a bonus it gives metamagic to spontanious casters as the same time demands as a prepared caster, it allows for negative bonuses on certain metamagic to simulate an intuitive grasp of magic and an oppertunity to grab improved metamagic at pre-epic levels!!!

Does this redress the spontaneous/prepared difference in any realistic mannor? It requires at least two feats if you have a spell-like ability or a supernatural ability, but then gnomes get that as a standerd player race

[Kurald Galain]

I'm not sure if I understood your sentence about the negative bonuses, but in general any class, presclass, or feat that allows you to reduce the metamagic spell level adjustment smells of cheese.

[Arbitrarity]

Sooo.. it's an incantatrix who also can prepare all spells as a spontaneous caster?

Cheeeese.

Note, however, if you used such a thing, any intelligent player wishing to compete would drudge up their PGTF, and laugh at you.

[Matthew]

The spontaneous/prepared axis is not really the problem.

[Sleet]

... but then gnomes get that as a standerd player race

Dragonlance gnomes do not (and presumably you'd be using the Bestiary of Krynn in a Dragonlance game, yes?)