Talk:Safe Caster (5e Feat)

Is this a common enough occurrence for this feat to be worth taking? Any examples? Marasmusine (talk) 09:41, 17 April 2018 (MDT)

Any spell that can damage creatures that doesn't explicitly exclude you from the effect should damage you if you center it on yourself. Some spells, like Fireball, allow this to occur. Ideally, this would mean you don't normally cast it in a way that could injure you, but in some circumstances enough enemies could be close enough to you or positioned in the right way that putting yourself in the line of fire (Literally if it's a Wall Of Fire) can be the best option, assuming you don't get yourself killed doing so. This feat allows you to be less cautious in such circumstances, as well as help cover for potential mistakes. What do you think? I'm only one person, and it may be that this still needs tweaking to make it balanced properly with the power level you normally have with Feats. --Supersmily5 (talk) 11:54, 17 April 2018 (MDT)

I'm picking up what you're putting down, and I just had literally the most obvious idea. --Supersmily5 (talk) 06:09, 14 September 2018 (MDT)

In case you end up wondering, the last bit of parenthesis is there to ensure the Sorcerer class metamagic still has a use, since one of them is explicitly built to make creatures of the caster's choice succeed on the save, but those creatures normally still take half damage. A Sorcerer with this feat and that metamagic could, within the rules of the game, make any creature they want be unaffected by their spell damage, unless it was a targeted spell. Of course, many people I know already homebrew it so that Sorcerers already deal no damage (Playing the metamagic incorrectly to do so) when using this, so for me at least it's redundant. --Supersmily5 (talk) 06:16, 14 September 2018 (MDT)