Buff Master [Archive] - Wizards Community

Buff Master [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
Tesserax
09-29-04, 02:28 PM Ever have a spell (a buff) whose target was 1 creature that you wanted to have affect more creatures? Well, I came up with a way to do this! I created a Metamagic Feat called Mass. This feat allows a spell that is non-offensive in nature (all the time, thus it could not be applied to a heal spell and used against undead) and affects a single target to affect 1 target per caster level. Now, I think that the trade off should be 2 levels, as I have seen an example of this in a pair of spells, 'Darkvision' and 'Mass Darkvision', a 2nd and 4th level spell respectively. Now, instead of having to learn the low level single target spell and then learn a multi target version of the same spell, the caster can instead pick up this feat and make those low level spells count for more!
kSquared
09-29-04, 02:47 PM No, this should be +4. There is ample precedent for this throughout the PHB: cat's grace is 2nd, while mass cat's grace is 6th, for instance. Similarly, cure critical wounds is 4th, while mass cure critical wounds is 8th.
tarkin
09-29-04, 03:14 PM There already exists a feat called chain spell. I believe it is a +3 meta cost, for 1 target per level, with restrictions to ranged touch attacks, and 1/2 damage instead of full.

So I would say to get full effect, +4 is correct.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Tesserax 09-29-04, 02:28 PM	Ever have a spell (a buff) whose target was 1 creature that you wanted to have affect more creatures? Well, I came up with a way to do this! I created a Metamagic Feat called Mass. This feat allows a spell that is non-offensive in nature (all the time, thus it could not be applied to a heal spell and used against undead) and affects a single target to affect 1 target per caster level. Now, I think that the trade off should be 2 levels, as I have seen an example of this in a pair of spells, 'Darkvision' and 'Mass Darkvision', a 2nd and 4th level spell respectively. Now, instead of having to learn the low level single target spell and then learn a multi target version of the same spell, the caster can instead pick up this feat and make those low level spells count for more!
kSquared 09-29-04, 02:47 PM	No, this should be +4. There is ample precedent for this throughout the PHB: cat's grace is 2nd, while mass cat's grace is 6th, for instance. Similarly, cure critical wounds is 4th, while mass cure critical wounds is 8th.
tarkin 09-29-04, 03:14 PM	There already exists a feat called chain spell. I believe it is a +3 meta cost, for 1 target per level, with restrictions to ranged touch attacks, and 1/2 damage instead of full. So I would say to get full effect, +4 is correct.