Before I address the myraid points that have been made in the past few points, I wish to address the accusation made against me.<br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=10084.msg371842#msg371842">Quote from: Far eyes on 16-06-2007, 23:00:35</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">*Hears a little fun fact the only person complaining about rules and other people is also the only one with a password on his character sheet. Witch I only wanted to look at to see why the hell he is complaining so much  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>The website that hosts my sheet is offline, actually. Read the message asking for the password; they're upgrading the site and it'll be back Monday. I can't even access my own sheet right now, or those of the people in my own D&D game. And you proved to be violent here (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=10144.msg370259#msg370259), threatened to kill me here (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=10144.msg371535#msg371535), and this (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=10144.msg371706#msg371706) isn't exactly non-violent either.<br/><br/>I will now address the various other points.<br/><br/>First, I will not drop this. Think of me what you will, but my real-life profession is in mathematics. I address a situation from a context of logical progressions, operations, and formulas. In this situation the character issues I have identified are, by my estimation, not minor but in fact exceedingly dangerous by creating an extrema in the mathematical representation of the game. In other words, it is overpowered with a strong potential for abuse. I cannot ignore that; everything I have ever witnessed in RPs over the past decade tells me that such a situation is inherently dangerous.<br/><br/>Second, my opinion of the rules varies depending on the rule. Some things I don't bat an eye when something changes. Other things I question, but am satisfied by explaining with a house rule. The last category of things are those I identify as gamebreaking in some fashion; the changes to spells per day and the improved familiar fall in that last category. Everything else I mentioned fall in the middle category. Also, as pointed out, this was a start. The characters are not established and it is not incredibly difficult to change.<br/><br/>Third, as to being in the wrong, from my perspective I did not "call anyone out". I identified an error, I made it known to the player. The responses I expected ranged from "Oops, my mistake" to "No, see I did this" to "Darn, I was hoping no one would see that." What I got was a bag of insults the likes of which had me checking to see how long he'd been on the forum and judging my chances of getting him reprimanded for breaking the civility rules or kicked out of the game for attacking another player without cause. Granted that idea didn't last too long, but I mention it to illustrate how incredibly offended I was by this response.<br/>Also, in the PM we had, you used the word "abuse" in reference to his feats and implied that you were in agreement. You did not say or imply anything to tell me to back off, and I had already posted openly when I made that first PM. My interpretation was that you were willing to allow us to make our cases openly and I continued to post under that premise. The insults got worse.<br/><br/>To the possibility of leaving, I considered it. Not too fond of the idea; I think there are some good people here and one exception should not be allowed to ruin that. And first impressions are never all that accurate; I've had rough starts with people I consider close friends these days. To that end I ask that the issues be delt with and offer a full explination for my remaining concern.<br/><br/>The following paragraph deals with a lot of math and rules; the quintissential tool of the rules lawyer. I ask those reading to accept that the way my brain is wired that this kind of analysis is normal for me in day-to-day life and represents no particular effort on my part. I am a math geek; I make no apology for it.<br/>To the spells per day issue, as Far Eyes continues to assert that it is correct, I point out that the substitution feature he chose does not say it can be taken multiple times, and the pattern of substitutions are that by and large it is not possible to take more than one. Too, as my discrete math professor said, to test a pattern look at the limit. If he took it four times. He would have six prohibited schools and nine spells per day per level that could only be of his specialty school. The inability to cast six other schools no longer matters because there are no spell slots there anyway. He does not gain spell slots as he gains levels, except when he gains a new spell level, in which case all nine come at once. Now assume that this specialty school is Evocation, and you have a 5th level character capable of casting Fireball nine times a day. Warmages and Sorcerers and their ilk are designed with that level of specialization and cannot come close to that level of power, and the Sorc has fewer spells known even then. Granted he has chosen a less combat-oriented field, but does that make it any less powerful? Even just taking it twice, how much does that extra level of specialization hurt when he is already that specialized? It's essentially free spell slots. I don't see this as a minor issue.<br/><br/>My only other complaint was with the two feats, Collegiate Wizard and Precocious Apprentace. This issue is not based at all in the rules, in fact quite the opposite. One stems from a background heavy in college and book study, the other from personal tutoring from a single master in the field. The two backgrounds are mutually exclusive; taking both is impossible for a roleplaying standpoint, as best as I can tell. This is an extremely minor issue and is more curiosity as to how said background can be made; I mention it at this point only out of sake for completeness.