Basically how thematic and balanced would it be to make a feat or feats that allow a wizard once the have achieved a certain level in one of the original 8 schools of magic, to be able to essentially minor in a second school? Instead of an ASI or other feat they can pick another one of them8 schools and take the 2nd level ability from that school no earlier than level 4 and the 6th level ability no earlier than level 8? Would this be cool or way too much? Im posting this in 3 separate forums to get different perspectives. Im posting it in the Wizards forum, the Home-brew forum and the Mechanics forum. My concerns are story/thematic relevance and balance. thought… Lets discuss :)
This would basically be Feats with a Class, Level, and for the upgrade - Feat requirements (Something not uncommon in 3rd edition, but rare to non-existent now). The levels your offering are a bit too early in my opinion. The Minor School's 2nd level Features should be available at Wizard 8th level, and it's 6th level Features should be available at Wizard 12th or 16th level. Those are levels by which the player has achieved around double the progress in their Major and they would have reached a level that such a choice could be made.
You'll need to figure out if it needs an ability increase or not, but other than that it should be fine.
Those would just be the levels that they feats would be available at. Plus to get the 2nd and 6th level abilities they would have to burn another ASI/feat selection. Im considering making it just one ability not 2 though. The first abilities are all bread and butter of their classes with the exception of necromancy, so im thinking about making the minor be the 6th level ability or allowing the selection of one of the 2 but not both.
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Basically how thematic and balanced would it be to make a feat or feats that allow a wizard once the have achieved a certain level in one of the original 8 schools of magic, to be able to essentially minor in a second school? Instead of an ASI or other feat they can pick another one of them8 schools and take the 2nd level ability from that school no earlier than level 4 and the 6th level ability no earlier than level 8? Would this be cool or way too much? Im posting this in 3 separate forums to get different perspectives. Im posting it in the Wizards forum, the Home-brew forum and the Mechanics forum. My concerns are story/thematic relevance and balance. thought… Lets discuss :)
This would basically be Feats with a Class, Level, and for the upgrade - Feat requirements (Something not uncommon in 3rd edition, but rare to non-existent now). The levels your offering are a bit too early in my opinion. The Minor School's 2nd level Features should be available at Wizard 8th level, and it's 6th level Features should be available at Wizard 12th or 16th level. Those are levels by which the player has achieved around double the progress in their Major and they would have reached a level that such a choice could be made.
You'll need to figure out if it needs an ability increase or not, but other than that it should be fine.
Those would just be the levels that they feats would be available at. Plus to get the 2nd and 6th level abilities they would have to burn another ASI/feat selection. Im considering making it just one ability not 2 though. The first abilities are all bread and butter of their classes with the exception of necromancy, so im thinking about making the minor be the 6th level ability or allowing the selection of one of the 2 but not both.