I have made the following changes to all metamagic feats.
First of all they all are all now useable 3/days....if you wont more then 3 uses you can get another feat in that metamagic feat and increase it by 3 more per day.
- you can not uses metamagic uses on your highest level of spells. So for 1st Wizards they can only uses them on their cantrips. (this was brought up from a player of mine who couldn't wait to use metamagic uses on 9th level spells)
- you are limited to how many metamagic uses you can use on one spell at one time. Still using the level adjucts from the old system. I now total that up, this can not excide the caster casting stat bonus.
Example: 5th level wizard, intel 18(+4) with silent, empower and quicken metamagic feats...all useable 3 times per day. the rogue finds some goblins around the next corner and a few yards down the hall in a open cavern....picking over a body of an advanture they just killed......the wizard moves around the corner where they all were hiding.....spot check for goblins...failed....now the wizard casts magic missle and useing one metamagic use form silent and empower.....he then use one metamagic from quicken and cast one spell as a swift action before this turn is up given away his location......as the goblins hear the wizard speaking fastly cating his spell.....before the first one even really hits.
IMO your system makes too little difference between the different feats (ie quicken and silent)
I used a modified system that I think was referred to in unearthed arcana. We allowed 2/day but 3/day was recommended. If you took another feat it only added 1/day.
The highest level spell you could effect with a metamagic feat was the number of levels below your max equal to the usual level difference
ie a 5th wizard could empower a 1st level spell, or silence a 2nd level spell and is not high enough level to quicken anything.
This worked well for us for the last 5 years through all levels.
Unearth arcane......did not buy that book and only looked through it a few time......so for the level adjustment.....quicken spell feat is +4 so a 5th level wizard has 3rd levels spells as his max.
So here is my math and fix it if i'm wrong: 3rd - 4lvs.= -1, not even usable on his cantris right......not to sure if i'm going to use that adjust to our system....we only in that last for months like 6, when we wonted to mix 4th with 3rd....the best of both systems. worked on a different metamagic system from the old style that we never used.
- I limit i imparted was the level adjustments from the feats could not exceed your stat bonus from your stat tied to casting spells, Intelligence for wizards. I find that this worked good - it limits them from using quicken with other feats....and no one in my campaign started with an 18 in his casting stat....only after a few levels did the wizard that had a 16 in intel. get high enought to use the feat the had pick up at 3rd level.....hehe would not let him change his pick.
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The highest level spell you could effect with a metamagic feat was the number of levels below your max equal to the usual level difference
ie a 5th wizard could empower a 1st level spell, or silence a 2nd level spell and is not high enough level to quicken anything.
This worked well for us for the last 5 years through all levels.