[Feat Idea] Additional Spells

[Metaphysician]

Additional Spells ( Feat ): The character gains an additional set of spells added to their "spells known" list, equal to their character level. These may be distributed in any way the player chooses. Two Level 0 spells count as one Level 1 spell. Each spell chosen must be an eligible choice, based on their class and any other relevant conditions. On achieving a new level, this set of additional spells may be reconfigured.

So, thoughts? Balance issues?

[Joe Jungers]

My initial thought is that what you're proposing seems like a lot of bonus spells for the cost of a feat.

Perhaps gaining a number of spell levels in spells known equal to your character's level, distributed as you see fit, might be more balanced.

[Xenocrat]

The Pathfinder version would give you one extra spell known per feat, or two if you chose a spell level below your max known. It certainly wouldn't add anything to your spell list. Anything more than that seems very unbalanced.

[Metaphysician]

Pathfinder also grants a lot more spells available by default, and has a lot less balanced of spells. Hence why I figure adding more options would not be broken. That, and only getting one or two spells known for a feat always struck me as radically underpowered, compared with nearly everything else you could spend a feat on.

That said, yeah, my intent was "number of spell levels = to character level", if I miswrote that, apologies.

[breithauptclan]

Yeah, I read the original post as 'character level# of spells of any level'. So a 7th level character could be adding 7 level 4 spells.

Making that be 1 level 4 spell and 1 level 3 spell for the 7th level character would be better. But that still means that you need to track what level you gained the feat at.

Maybe just a flat 1 spell of each level you can cast. Forward looking, so when you can cast an additional level of spell, you get an additional spell of that level also.

Might want to make a companion feat that increases your spell slots too. (At least, I don't think that feat already exists)

[Ascalaphus]

The Pathfinder feat (1 spell of any level, or 2 of a level lower than your max) is a decent feat to take once or twice in Pathfinder, even though you already have more spells there.

So I imagine it would be "quite good enough" in Starfinder too.

[Garretmander]

If anything I'd do something like 1/day you can temporarily change out a spell known for another one in your spellbook/spell-flashdrive/whatever until you take an 8-hour rest. You can have a number of spell levels recorded in your device equal to your character level.

Bring back the spell book flavor and versatility without completely skewing the balance of spells known.