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Handbooks / Re: Metamagic and You: A Thesis
« on: November 11, 2011, 04:55:48 PM »
REDUCING METAMAGIC COSTS
This is the real bread and butter of the magic-user who wishes to effectively use metamagic.

Feats
Arcane Thesis (Complete Arcane): For one spell, total up the number of metamagic feats and reduce the adjustment by -1 for every metamagic feat applied.
Easy Metamagic (Dragon Magazine, #325): -1 to a specific metamagic feat's cost.
Forceful Magic (Dragon Magazine, #308): -1 metamagic once per day.
Metamagic School Focus (Complete Mage, page 45): Reduce metamagic costs by -1 for any school of magic you have Spell Focus in or are specialized in 3/day.
Practical Metamagic (Races of the Dragon, page 101): -1 to a specific metamagic feat's cost when applied to a spontaneously-cast spell.
Undead Battery (Dragonlance: Age of Mortals, sidebar page 209): Drain undead of Hitdice; store 1 energy per hitdie (up to cha mod; degrades at 1 level/10 minutes). Use stored energy to reduce metamagic costs at 1 level of stored energy per adjustment. This feat becomes Purple if playing any of the following: Spellstitched with animate dead as one of your spell-likes, Dread Necromancer, or any character that likes making the creations of the Gods their Pokèmon.

Class Features
Halruuan Elder 1/4/7/10: Reduces the metamagic cost of a specific feat by -1, to a minimum of +1. Cumulative, or can be spread out among different feats. This would be Green, but it's FR.
Incantatrix 10 (Player's Guide to Faerun, page 61-63): -1 to all individual metamagic costs, to a minimum of +1 adjustment. Honestly, if you are taking Incantatrix to 10, you get other benefits that are just as good; this is just icing on the cake.
Dweomerkeeper 10 (Complete Divine Web Enhancement): -1 to all individual metamagic costs, to a minimum of +1 adjustment (+0 if the metamagic feat is already +0). Like the Incantatrix, if you take it to 10, you get all kinds of benefits.
Metaphysical Spell Shaper 3 (Book of Erotic Fantasy, pages 81-83): -1 to final metamagic cost. Like the Incantatrix and Dweomerkeeper before it, pure freaking gold.

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Handbooks / Metamagic and You: A Thesis
« on: November 11, 2011, 04:55:26 PM »
Metamagic and You
by Xtis Cee, Gnome Shadowcraft Mage

My previous theses (On Illusions and Erogenous Zones of Females Across the Multiverse) touched on the subject of metamagic only briefly. For good reason; the manipulation of the parameters of known spells is not a subject for the faint of heart. While any mage can extend or remove the need for somatic or verbal components (and rarely both), doing more is usually more trouble than it's worth. It is usually better to perform a spell of a spell level equal to the adjustment of most metamagics, such as empowering or maximizing.

However, it's come to my attention that there are magic-users who manage to do so with great efficiency. Over the last few years, I've devoted myself to researching the methods that these wizards, sorcerers, clerics, beguilers, dread necromancers, archivists, and so on manage to do so without being driven mad by the consumption of spell slots that could have been used for something equal or better. With a little focus, however, not only can they keep from being driven mad, but they can usually reduce these costs to the point where it would be stupid not to use metamagic.

The results of my research are outlined below.

Results highlighted in Green are excellent options.
Results highlighted in Blue are decent options.
Results not highlighted are okay options.
Results highlighted in Red are horrible, horrible options that should die fiery deaths.
And results highlighted in Purple, my personal favorite, are options that are so good, you would be a mentally handicapped halfling if you didn't seek them out.

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D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder / Re: JaronK's Tier list for classes.
« on: November 11, 2011, 04:17:27 PM »
Oh goodie. It's back. Sure to be as valuable a contribution as it was the first time around.

If you would, remove the quote tags and bold the relevant parts, while making them a larger font size. It won't guarantee anyone reads them and takes them to heart, but it might help cut down on a few of the arguments.

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the only balance that really matters in D&D is the interclass balance between the various PCs in a group

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This post is NOT intended to state which class is "best" or "sucks."  It is only a measure of the power and versitliity of classes for balance purposes.

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Introduce Yourself / Here I am. The most overpowered of familiars.
« on: November 11, 2011, 04:13:47 PM »
I am the Relentless Imp. I come to rock you like a hurricane. God made me a cannibal to fix problems like bad Practical Optimizers. Yadda yadda yadda, I don't enjoy personal threads like this.

You want information? Here.
25 years old, smoker, Tennessean, no outstanding warrants or previous felonies, player of D&D 3.5, straight-laced and occasionally foul-mouthed. I've been around the optimization scene for the past ten years or so, only becoming an active member of said community in the last five years. My only outstanding crimes against optimization involve wanting a marriage of fluff and crunch.

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