Class and Level Geekery XIII - Comic As Written, not Comic As Intended

[Grey_Wolf_c]

He could do it easier by being a Metamagic Specialist sorcerer variant, which sacrifices the familiar class feature for casting metamagic without an increased casting time. Better than burning four feats, for sure. And no evidence either way.

There is circumstantial evidence that he has the Metamagic Specialist. First and most obvious is that he does not have a familiar. Yes, I know that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence - thus circumstantial. But "Power = Power" Xykon is not one to leave a character bonus behind when it might give him an edge, so I find it unlikely that he would have forgotten he has a familiar; instead, he must have traded it in for something, and Metamagic Specialist fits (I don't know what other alternative exchanges exist).

The other circumstantial evidence is, I believe, the Maximized Energy Drain. I'm not sure of the details, but isn't there an issue with how this spell was cast that was explainable by the MM Specialist? At least, I can't imagine were else I would've heard of the concept.

Grey Wolf