Hello, again. I have yet another conundrum which may, simply be me being overly cautious.
One of my players is building a device that unwittingly mimics Trackless Step.
Going over the device, I realized that Trackless Step just doesn't work out right. It starts off with a non-existent Base 4 and just goes south from there. It appears to me to be a legacy spell that they simply took the 4th edition 10th level and backed out the base from there. In 4e, it had R: Per/Touch, D: Spec (it lasted until you came to a stop), T: Ind. Now, it has R: Touch, D: Conc, T: Ind.
I'm thinking that the base should actually be 2 ("Control or move dirt in a slightly unnatural fashion") or possibly 3 ("Control or move dirt in a very unnatural fashion"). Adding +1 for Touch and +1 for Concentration would make the "correct" spell level 4 (or possibly 5). I'm leaning toward Base 2, but could be convinced it's 3 with a minimum of effort. But I wanted to see what you guys thought before I house-rule the change (and thereby set a precedent for any other "broken" spells out there...I thought I had seen a list of them on here last night, but now I I can't find it).
tl;dr: Should Trackless Step be a 4th (or possibly 5th) level spell instead of 10th?