Ok so I was looking through the old 3.5 boards and so forth and came across the Easy Bake Wizard threads. And in them you had an ACF that allowed a Wizard to prepare spells from inside his own head. Kind of like the Arcanist can do.
Now what this ACF did (Drag Mag 375) was trade off Scribe Scroll and the Familiar for the ability to keep spells without putting them into your spell book.
Well I am not seeing how that could not be used for the Arcanist at least in someones home game. Scribe Scroll is a feat, so you trade away your first level feat and you can gain a familiar with your first exploit if you wanted too.
So how balanced or fair is it to trade away your first exploit and your first level feat (or human bonus feat) to gain the ability to store spells in your own head rather then have them written down in a vulnerable spellbook?
This seems to me to be fair because at early levels this means you are trading off a lot for a bit more security. A feat and a Exploit seems like a lot to a first level character.
Sure at later levels they don't seem so much but at later levels most arcanist have multitudes of hidden books or wards to protect their books.
Yes it does it also changes the spell list to witch.
It also gives you a moving target of a spellbook.
I remember the easy bake wizard and yeah not having such a weakness was fun. I think it flows well with arcanist.