I am now going through the words of power section of ultimate magic, but i have a question:
What happens to the sorcerer's bloodline spells? do they get the spell as it is? do they get an extra effect or meta word? do they simply forget about lerning those bloodline spells?
Nevermind i found the answer, they just learn the spell.
Now what do you think of a sorcerer using words of power? A good choice? a bad choice?
To answer your second question, IMO I think its a great choice.
Granted, you can't take the human favored class bonus to get extra words (was said somewhere on the forums, might be in UM but unsure). If you can no biggie.
Also your damaging spells that have caps, like 10d6 or 15d6 are a lvl higher (15d6 are usually fourth level, WOP they are 5th) but I'm pretty sure you can metamagic that regularly with meta words.
WOP basically give you more versatility for spellcasting. Its more like the spell casting in White Wolfs Mage games, but in PF you have to know the base word. So, where as a sorcerer would know 5 lvl 1 spells at 6th lvl (this isn't acurate, just an example), a wordcaster could have all kinds of different spells due to how he wants to utilize and combine his words. So you're actually gaining a very good benefit by utilizing this.
It also matches sorcerers better I believe since they basically know spells by having an idea of what they want to cast and then casting it (using the rules for regular spells to stand in for their "made up" spells).
I'm not really good at this type of spellcasting, but I will eventually try it with a sorcerer (the only full casting arcane class I love).
Overall, I think its a good choice, considering your playstyle and how creative you can be.
One of my biggest problems with it is I can't cast a version of Emergency Force Sphere.
Which actually brings up a question: I noticed that it said that you can't take spells if you're a wordcaster and vice versa, but it then says that wordcasters can learn spells (or something similar to that) and then says to see the sidebar on pg 166. But the only feat there that does something like this says that spellcasters can pick a word (or something like that) but it doesn't say a wordcaster can take the feat to learn a spell. Is this a typo? Is there a feat missing? An excerpt for that feat missing?
Id like to know cause that's gonna determine whether I take WOP or regular spells with my sorcerer in our next game starting in june.
I realize that I'm a little late to the party, but has anyone been able to get a firm answer from the developers on the Human Sorc favored class bonus. It appears that they can use the FC bonus to grab an extra word, but I want to make sure because while an extra 'real spell' is powerful, every word you know exponentially increases your options - in a perfect world, at least.
I really hope it's not.
What I have done is taken my Sorcerer, who focuses on fire spells (Red Dragon Bloodline), and worked the WoP in as a role playing aspect that he has more control over fire spells than normal spells. At 1st level he took the Experimental Wordcaster (Learning the 1st level fire word), then at 7th he is going to take it again (Learning the 3rd level fire word plus the 3rd level armor word).
The versatility on being able to make lines of fire, cones, bursts, and rays as needed has been great. The limited use of the boost metaword hurts a little but overall it is useful to be able to deal damage at whatever angle the character needs shape wise.