Timeline for Practiced Spellcaster (Bard) for Sublime Chord?
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| Jul 17, 2017 at 15:42 | history | edited | KRyan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
more detail/clarity
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| Jul 17, 2017 at 4:05 | comment | added | KRyan | @ThomSmith I wouldn’t word it as a bonus; arguably, you could say that bonus applies “after” Practiced Spellcaster and thereby allow exceeding the HD cap. I would just say that sublime chord level stacks with a chosen arcane spellcasting level for caster level, and then uses that caster level. But other than that quibble, yes, that’s the idea. | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 3:49 | vote | accept | Thom Smith | ||
| Jul 17, 2017 at 3:42 | comment | added | Thom Smith | That makes sense. Is that equivalent to the following replacement wording? “Choose an arcane spellcasting class you belong to. You gain a bonus to your caster level for that class equal to your Sublime Chord level. Your caster level for Sublime Chord spells is equal to your caster level in that class.” | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 3:36 | comment | added | KRyan | @ThomSmith No, the reading I recommend is to treat sublime chord as stacking with bard for the sake of caster level (so a bard caster level of 9 on taking your first level of sublime chord), and then sublime chord uses that same bard caster level. You could argue for a reading wherein your sublime chord caster level is 3rd, but that’s an extremely obtuse reading that doesn’t quite square all of the relevant rules unless you squint really hard. | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 1:07 | comment | added | Thom Smith | So under this reading, the result would be that after taking my first Sublime Chord level, I'd have a Sublime Chord caster level of 3? I suppose that locks me into “just rewrite the damn ability to work how the authors probably meant it to and hope my DM agrees”. Or, I suppose, spend my last ten levels as a glorified Mystic Theurge with even worse spellcasting. Sublime Chord giveth and Sublime Chord taketh away! | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 0:12 | history | answered | KRyan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |