Koumei wrote:Yeah, it's not a feat that I allow. I don't care that it's a nerfed Sorcerer and we have no respect for Sorcerers - Sorcerer is still a viable class, and offering a complete spellcasting class (with a small reduction in power) as a feat is just too much. Remember how pre-Tome, Wizards could replicate Fighters or Barbarians entirely with the casting of a single spell? This is like that, in the other direction.
Pretty much the same lecture I got from the Feybook director when I made a similar feat 2 years ago for single spell schools.
It was meant to give individual Fey their own specialty spells.
Instead, it ended up pushing regular casters out of work.
I was going to butt in earlier here but figured it was agreement all around...
So, yeah, don't give out entire classes with a single feat. Cohorts are one thing... packaging it all on the same character is another.
Just as with Divine Power spell or that Cleric spell making you a Rogue, two wrongs don't make right, Tome-snark of "It's broken for some. Let's fuck it up for everyone fairly" aside.
The alternative I pursued was a small pool of spells provided by the single feat.
They were mostly utility in nature, nothing exceptionally combat-worthy.
The spells got better, and I think there was an option to swap them out, but the single feat didn't provide anything near the diversity of a single-classed Spellcaster.