Re: session re****t

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:54:29 +0000 (UTC),
mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Mary K. Kuhner) wrote:

>It's also painfully clear that paladins and similar make crappy
>casters:  they cast at half their level which ruins their durations
>and their chance to go through SR, the spells (even if powerful) have
>low nominal level so saves are too easy against them, and they
>can't afford to take things like Concentration or Spell Penetration.

One of my house rules is to change paladin & ranger caster level to
(character level -3) from (character level/2). Of course that still
leaves them unable to afford spell-boosting feats & skills. 

It just seemed to me that "half the character's level" is way too big
a penalty to caster level, much as "half the character's level" is way
too big a penalty for cross-class skills. (I think I've mentioned
before that my house rule wrt cross-class skills is "double cost for
the first three ranks, then normal cost, with a cap of (level) for
cross-class vs (level+3) for class skills.)

I've tended to think of paladin & ranger spellcasting as being a bit
of nifty coolness worth the rough equivalent of a feat or two, rather
than as a major aspect of their power. The official rules seems to
have a split-personality view, though, between the spellcasting being
a Big Deal & it being a bit of valueless chrome. 

-- 
Erol K. Bayburt
ErolB1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]