Arcane Evolution Remastered


Rules Discussion


I'm confused by the terminology of how this L4 Sorcerer feat is written in the remaster.

Arcane Evolution wrote:
Your arcane legacy allows you to perceive how magic affects everything. You become trained in one skill of your choice. Additionally, you can use arcane arts to tinker with your selection of spells. During your daily preparations, you can choose one spell in your spell repertoire to be a signature spell that day. You can use the Learn a Spell activity to add more arcane spells to the list you choose from, but if you prepare a spell that isn’t in your repertoire, you temporarily add it to your repertoire at the spell rank of your choice instead of making it a signature spell.

Reading carefully through this, I see three benefits. The third is the one I'm not parsing well.

1. You become trained in one skill.
2. Each day during daily preparations, you make one of the spells in your repertoire a signature spell.
3. You can use the Learn a Spell activity to add more arcane spells to the list you choose from...

The terminology in three doesn't seem to match the class. "You can use the Learn a Spell activity to add more arcane spells to the list you choose from..." Sorcerers don't have a list they choose from. They have a repertoire. What does this mean?

Then it continues, "...but if you prepare a spell that isn't in your repertoire, you temporarily add it to your repertoire..." Sorcerers don't prepare spells. What is it referring to? How long is temporarily?

Are people interpreting benefit 3 not to be a separate benefit but further explanation of benefit 2? So instead of getting a free signature spell from your repertoire, you could pick another spell from the arcane list as a non-signature spell? If so, why is it written this way? When it says you can add more "arcane spells" (plural), does that mean it's not limited to one? Learn a Spell says it takes one hour per spell rank to learn, and you must pay the price on the Learning a Spell table. Does that mean if you want to add a 5th level spell to your repertoire, you have to spend 5 hours during your daily preparation and pay 70gp and then it's only temporarily added until your next daily preparation?

I would appreciate hearing folks' opinions on how they're parsing this, thanks!

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