wilcoxon wrote:
Spell Affinity has no effect on Advanced Spells (or Base spells) unless they are being cast with Adaptations and for it to affect Advanced Spells, you must have Spell Affinity with both base spells (something you can't do until Tier 2 since it is limited to once per tier).
You are absolutely right. Bad me for not reading more carefully. Thank you.
wilcoxon wrote:
I dislike making Metaphysical Understanding tiered in such a way. For one thing, you'd need to get tier 2 before even matching what it currently gives. For another, it would delay further when you can cast advanced spells (something I at least want to avoid).
I'm not thrilled with the sum-12 CTN and existing Metaphysical Understanding but at least it is a way to get the CTN to a reasonable (to me) level for T1+T1 (effectively CTN 22 in most cases).
In that, in general, not true. Since right now, Metaphysical Understanding give a bonus to casting, and most serious caster who do this will have prodigy, the two don't stack, so you would end up getting a +1 to cast, +2 if not a prodigy. The proposed change would effectively give a +1 to cast actively which would stack and give a +1 to cast passively. A prodigy with this talent would have the same effective bonus to cast actively and a +1 to passive casting.
As to the level of difficulty, that is pretty much being driven by Pedro. (though I personally feel that we are at the ballpark of reasonable, and yes I do play an arcane caster.)