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Old 09-14-2015, 07:52 PM   #23
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Default Re: [Sorcery] Handling Specialists

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Originally Posted by Lia Valenth View Post
I also disagree here. I thought the point was pretty much to use Sorcery as a form of UB that allows access to spells that count as AA without requiring all the thematic linking AAs normally require.

IMO, if you do not need Sorcery to gain access to other spells and can just use spells as AAs of each other, there would be almost no point in taking the Sorcery advantage. Yes, it is a campaign switch, but it is an assumed campaign switch if you are using Sorcery. Assuming that campaign switch is active, spells must be AA of Sorcery as the primary, college-limited sorcery does have a problem.
Remember that bit normal improvisation and hard core improvisation is based on your Sorcerous Empowerment. That is what you get for the UB part. I would think that alone would make it worthwhile. If you used only the spells you could not do either type of improvisation.

In fact I do think that allowing separate "Spell like abilities" might be a nice idea once you have big enough list of spells in the spellbooks for people to chose from, they would simply be spells that are not in any way linked to the other spells and might have other limitations like a limited number of uses/day or others that are not used when the spells are sorcery based.
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