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Sorry if this has been covered in another thread, couldn't find it.
My group have now hit level 16 in the age of worms. The wizard in the group is a univeraslist who now has a potential 8 points to spend spontaneously converting spells to metamagic without spell slot expense thanks to his 8th level universalist feature.
This makes his caster all sorts of powerful for no cost.
I like metamagic, but I always felt the slot cost for metamagic was really nicely balanced. Wizards could keep slots open if they needed to, or prep ahead if they want those spells cast.
I understand wizards are menat to be specialists in catering for all occasions, but in our game this has led to a real power shift for the wizard. His statement to me was "Why would you bother taking anything else?"
Now, that's his opinion, I can think of all sorts of reasons not to take universalist, but combine this feature with the alternate to familiar (soulbond item?? can't remember name) and now he's a spontaneous caster almost.
As DM I've found it has removed a vital limitation to a powerful mechanic that I certainly felt aided game balance. For most game sessions, he's not going to run out of spells and he gets to use metmagic every encounter at no cost to spell slots.
Case in point, Quicken spell for your highest spell, then cast it again. It's cost you only one spell slot of your highest level spell to do this, and you may have just wiped a complete encounter.
Anyone else thinking this?
I'd like to see it changed so they can cast metamagic at a reduced cost, but certainy not "no cost". Maybe it costs one slot less. This measn some metamagic feats will still be free but the big ones wont be.
Cheers