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Recommendations for the Incantatrix
There has been some talk about the incantatrix class and how it interacts
with classes other than wizards. Here are my opinions on the matter.
Spellcasting: I'd only let the class advance arcane
spellcasting. So you couldn't be a clr5/wiz5, take the prestige class, and
start ramping up your cleric spellcasting. This is mainly because of the
weirdness in "specialization" in a divine spellcasting class.
Specialization: If you're a non-specialist wizard or a wizard specialized in something other than abjuration, you do
get one more abjuration spell per day at each level and have to obey the
rules for abjuration prohibited schools (pick a school or schools, as appropriate,
and they can't be a school you already have as a prohibited school). If you
don't have an abjuration spell at that spell level, you can still use it
for abjuration spells of lower levels. If you don't have any abjuration spells
of lower levels, that slot is useless to you. You aren't required to use
your 2 free spells per level on an abjuration spell.
If you're already an abjurer, you can get an extra
abjuration spell per level per day, but to do so you have to pick more prohibited
schools. If you don't opt for the extra spell per level per day, you don't
have to take the additional prohibited schools. In either case, you don't
get an additional Spellcraft bonus.
If you're a bard, sorcerer, or other arcane spellcaster,
you get one more abjuration spell per day at each level, just like the wizard
who picked up a "new" abjuration specialty, but you also have to pick prohibited
schools as described in the section on wizard specialization. You aren't
requires to use any of your spells known gained at new level on abjuration
spells.
Improved Metamagic: You can only add one
improved metamagic effect to any particular spell. You can still stack other
metamagic effects on the spell. That prevents the "empowered (+1) empowered
(+1) empowered (+1) fireball as a 6th-level spell" trick.