Talk:Metashape (3.5e Feat)

Ick
Part of the point of the Tome metamagic feats were specifically to get away from the whole "using this adds X levels to the spell", which made metamagic alternatively weaksauce or abusive depending on how you used it, but never somewhere in between. Surgo 21:56, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

I feel that the "adding levels to the spell" is rather appropriate, myself, and feel that most of the Tome Metamagic feats are too strong. Particularly the ones that freely add things like empower or maximize to "every offensive spell you choose not to widen" and such. While I appreciate your design philosophy, at my metaphoric table we mostly use Tome content to bring melee and quasi-melee up to the level of full casters (or Wizard level), not increase casters to a new crazier level, and the Metafeats we use represent that philosophy - the exchanging of spell levels or additional power points gives the full caster more OPTIONS as to how to use his spells, without making him more powerful overall, as the Wizard is the level of balance I strive for, and thus full casters really don't need a whole lot MORE.

Someone wishing to follow the rest of the Tome feats in synch could easily remove the power point/spell level increases though - they're probably at the right level with the rest of the Tome stuff then. Iceciro 03:32, 30 December 2010 (UTC)