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This thing:
Wanderlust
Source: Advanced Race Guide pg. 1, Advanced Player's Guide pg. 1
Halflings love travel and maps. Halflings with this racial trait receive a +2 bonus on Knowledge (geography) and Survival checks. When casting spells or using abilities that provide or enhance movement, halflings treat their caster level as +1 higher than normal. This racial trait replaces fearless and halfling luck.
Specifically this part:
When casting spells or using abilities that provide or enhance movement, halflings treat their caster level as +1 higher than normal.
This is kinda vaguely worded. Does it only refer to spells that give you more speed (such as Longstrider) or a new form of movement (such as Touch of the Sea)? Or would anything that has to do with movement be affected? Such as Feather Step? What about Jump, which clearly lets you move further away but mechanically doesn't mention movement at all?
And when it comes to changing shape things get even more complicated, as many transformations change your movement somehow, but this is kinda a secondary effect and would make the "Wanderlust" a bit too strong, I guess.
RAW anything that gives you a movement speed, including wild-shape, which would make it just nuts.
I have wanderlust, now behold i can turn into a t rex a level early!
It does sound like it would include touch of the sea and the like for fly and swim speeds, which i think would be good for keeping the trait relevant.
RAW anything that gives you a movement speed, including wild-shape, which would make it just nuts.
I have wanderlust, now behold i can turn into a t rex a level early!
Increasing caster level doesn't let you access spells or abilities earlier. It only affects parts of those abilities that scale with level. For most of these, it will only affect the duration, but in the case of jump you'll get the increased bonus a level early.
Note, wild shape is a SU ability, and thus increasing its CL by one changes nothing.
I'm not following this line of reasoning. At the minimum, shouldn't the duration on wild shape go up?
Increasing caster level doesn't let you access spells or abilities earlier. It only affects parts of those abilities that scale with level.RAW anything that gives you a movement speed, including wild-shape, which would make it just nuts.
I have wanderlust, now behold i can turn into a t rex a level early!
What forms you have access to scales with your level.
I'm not following this line of reasoning. At the minimum, shouldn't the duration on wild shape go up?
Note, wild shape is a SU ability, and thus increasing its CL by one changes nothing.
Duration of wild shape depends on Druid level, not caster level.
As wild shape (su) gets better with Druid level it acts as higher level spells. So even if the ability affected Wildshape, BeastformII only acts as beastformII. It does not give better forms with level, only increases in durration, which is different than the durration Wildshape(Su) provides.
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Okay, well, maybe I'll take it for my Halfling Druid, as it fits thematically really well.
I'll just have to be careful not to mix character and caster levels.
It is kinda shame that it mostly affects the duration but, it makes sense because of fluff. These halfling are supposed to be those that wander around all the time, makes sense they'd like their spells to last longer when exploring, etc.