deuxhero |
That, as written, you do not need to expend a spell for lower levels is right.
As for balance:
The cost being nothing, even with expensive components, is also an issue (free stoneskin is the obvious one, though Communal Stoneskin+False Focus does it at the same spell level for one pretty good feat)
I'd go with a 1 week limit, (justified by rotting ect. that normally happens to stuff stuff made of "berries, [...], and other natural ingredients" does. Remember you have to be able to chug a pint of in less than 6 seconds, which rules out I can think of as "preserved".) without refrigeration) and selling them works as selling spellcasting as a service does (limited by imminent demand because they can't be stored) and barring expensive components.
Derklord |
(free stoneskin is the obvious one, though Communal Stoneskin+False Focus does it at the same spell level for one pretty good feat)
Nope, communal Stoneskin got fixed in the Ultimate Combat errata.
Luckily, there aren't that many druid spells with expansive meterial components: Stoneskin, True Seeing, possibly Awaken, Raise Animal Companion and Reincarnate (if you can pour the hippie drought down an animal or dead guys's throat).
Also, as written, I think you don't even need to have the spell prepared, you merely need to "expend a spell slot of the same level".
Ventnor |
Nothing says all druids need nature to be untouched. It's the purpose of the planet's resources to be used. plants purpose is to feed rabbits. Rabbits to feed birds. Birds to feed humans.
Like we have wasteland druids and stuff where the druids destroy all living things around them. Because they like the destruction part of nature.
Don't forget Blight Druids, who believe that the purpose of all living things is to give viruses a home. If some or all of them get sick and die, it's an acceptable sacrifice.
Diego Rossi |
Stoneskin: 5th level, true seeing 7th level 8for a druid), so they work like infusion. And infusions require the costly components.
The ability say:
She can also create a special concoction of any spell higher than 3rd level that she can cast, but to do so, she must expend a spell slot of the same level. These special concoctions do not cost her anything to create and function like extracts created by an alchemist with the infusion discovery.
but I am fairly sure that the intention is that there is "no cost" for making the special concoction, not that you skip the cost of the costly components.
Orfamay Quest |
Rereading the alchemist description, you are indeed right. "If a spell normally has a costly material component, that component is expended during the consumption of that particular extract."
So the creation is indeed free, but the material component isn't paid during the creation anyway.
Which makes sense from a game-design perspective. It costs a wizard nothing to PREPARE her spells, but it may cost to CAST them. The alchemist is similar: it costs her nothing to PREPARE her extracts, but it may cost to actually USE/CONSUME/"CAST" them.