Noctis Vigil
2012-01-26, 06:02 PM
I decided to make a caster class that could cast any spell. However, instead of using spells, I gave him spell-like abilities. I also tried to make it heavily knowledge based; I'm not sure how well I succeeded there. Anyways, without further ado, I give you:
The Sage
Many are smart. Many study magic. Many have innate magic. But none of them have quite the level of knowledge or power as the Sage.
Sages tend to be loners, secluding themselves alone at an early age to learn, although many like to pass what they've learned along to others as well. They tend to get along well with other studious classes or those seeking knowledge.
Religion: Sages tend not to pay too much heed to religion, though some of them do find solace in religious tomes or worshiping a deity of knowledge.
Alignment: Most Sages tend to be Lawful, though some are Neutral, with the very rare occurrence of a Chaotic Sage. Morally, Sages tend to be Neutral, though Good and Evil are not unheard of.
A Sage's class skills are: Appraise (Int), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Forgery (Cha), Gather Information (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (all skills, taken individually) (Int), Listen (Wis), Profession (Wis), Search (Int), Sense Motive (Cha), Spot (Wis), Speak Language (None), and Spellcraft (Int).
Skill Points: 2+Int Mod (x4 at 1st level)(see also Knowledgeable class ability)
Hit Die: D4
Level
BAB
Fort
Ref
Will
Special
Spell Level
1st
+0
+0
+0
+2
Lore, Knowledgeable
1
2nd
+1
+0
+0
+3
Keeper of Knowledge
1
3rd
+1
+1
+1
+3
Scribe Scroll
1
4th
+2
+1
+1
+4
Piercing Power
2
5th
+2
+1
+1
+4
Skill Focus, Meta-Spell-Like Ability
2
6th
+3
+2
+2
+5
Detect Magic
3
7th
+3
+2
+2
+5
Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability
3
8th
+4
+2
+2
+6
Meta-Spell-Like Ability
4
9th
+4
+3
+3
+6
-
4
10th
+5
+3
+3
+7
Skill Focus, Greater Power I
5
11th
+5
+3
+3
+7
Meta-Spell-Like Ability
5
12th
+6/+1
+4
+4
+8
Greater Power II
6
13th
+6/+1
+4
+4
+8
Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability
6
14th
+7/+2
+4
+4
+9
Meta-Spell-Like Ability, Greater Power III
7
15th
+7/+2
+5
+5
+9
Skill Focus
7
16th
+8/+3
+5
+5
+10
Greater Power IV
8
17th
+8/+3
+5
+5
+10
Meta-Spell-Like Ability
8
18th
+9/+4
+6
+6
+11
Greater Power V
9
19th
+9/+4
+6
+6
+11
Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability
9
20th
+10/+5
+6
+6
+12
Skill Focus, Supreme Power
9
Class Abilities: The following are the class abilities of the Sage.
Proficiencies: The Sage is proficient with the quarterstaff, dagger, and one simple or martial weapon of his choice. He is not proficient with any armor or shields.
Spell-Like Abilities: A Sage is filled with an innate mystical power. He gains a number of spell-like abilities to draw upon. At 1st level, he chooses 5 spells from any spell list and gains those spells as spell-like abilities useable once per day. At each level, he learns 3 more spell-like abilities. The highest level spell he can learn as a spell-like ability is listed on the table. He may choose to learn a spell more than once; doing so grants him an additional use of that spell per day.
In order to learn a spell as a spell-like ability, he must have a Wisdom score equal to 10+the spell's level. The DC for a saving throw against a Sage's spell-like abilities is 10+the spell level+the Sage's Wisdom modifier. A Sage does not gain additional spell-like abilities for a high Wisdom score. For the purpose of determining how strong your spell-like abilities are and what feats or items you may use, treat your Sage level as your caster level.
He may choose to learn a spell of lower level than his maximum. Doing so grants him extra uses of the ability. Choosing a spell one level lower than your maximum grants you two uses a day. Choosing a spell two levels lower grants you three uses per day. Choosing a spell three or more levels lower grants you five uses per day. This does not take effect retroactively; if you took a first level spell at 1st level, you must choose the ability again to get more uses of it.
When choosing spell, check what spell lists the spell is on. If a spell is on the list of a class with half casting (such as the Bard or Paladin lists) and a spell list of a full caster (such as the Cleric or Wizard lists), consider its spell level to be the level it appears as on the full caster list. If it shows up on multiple full caster lists, consider it the lower of the two spell levels.
If a spell learned by the Sage has verbal and somatic components, the spell-like ability likewise has them, and thus suffers spell failure chance when cast in armor. If a spell has a material component or focus worth less than 100 gold, you may ignore it to cast the spell-like ability. You must still provide any component worth more than 100 gold, or provide any EXP called for by the spell.
A Sage is considered to have all spells on his spell list for the purpose of using magical items. Likewise, he is eligible to take item creation feats to create magic items using spells he can cast as spell-like abilities.
When you take your first level of Sage, choose arcane or divine. When multiclassing into prestige classes, any class that grants "+1 level of spellcasting" can increase his spell-like casting, provided it grants additional casting for the type you chose. This is the only effect this choice has, and once made, this choice is permanent and cannot be changed.
Lore: A Sage has picked up lots of little pieces of knowledge in his studies. At 1st level, he gains the Lore ability. This functions exactly like Bardic Knowledge, except he uses his Sage level instead of his Bard level on the check.
Knowledgeable: A Sage gains 2 additional skill points at each level that must be spent on ranks in Speak Language or Knowledge skills of his choice. These bonus skill points are also multiplied by 4 at 1st level. In addition, all languages are bonus languages to the Sage.
Keeper of Knowledge: A Sage has come across much in his studies. Starting at 2nd level, he gains a bonus to all Knowledge checks equal to his class level.
Scribe Scroll: A Sage gains Scribe Scroll as a bonus feat at 3rd level.
Piercing Power: A Sage's powers are all strong enough to pierce magical protections. At 4th level, he gains a +1 bonus to caster level checks to overcome spell resistance. This bonus increases to +2 at 8th level, and by an additional +1 at every 4th level after that, to a maximum of +5 at 20th level.
Meta-Spell-Like Ability: At 5th, 8th, 11th, 14th, and 17th level a Sage may take a Metamagic feat. A number of times per day equal to one quarter his class level rounded down plus his Wisdom modifier, he may choose to modify one use of one of his spell-like abilities with the metamagic feat. He may also opt to take additional metamagic feats as his bonus feat at each third level, granting him the same number of uses as normal. Any metamagic feat can be applied to any spell he knows, but he may not make the spell's total level equivalent pass his maximum spell level (so no applying every metamagic you know to one spell-like ability).
Skill Focus: At 5th level, and every five levels thereafter, the Sage gains a bonus feat. This feat must be a Skill Focus (Knowledge) feat of the Sage's choice.
Detect Magic: Starting at 6th level, a Sage may use the spell detect magic at will.
If the Sage had taken the chosen detect magic already through his normal spell-like abilities, he may reselect those spell-like abilities.
Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability: At 7th level, the Sage is considered to be able to cast spells of one level higher for the sole purpose of applying metamagic to his spell-like abilities. Thus, a 7th level Sage could only learn any spell up to third level, but could apply metamagic to them to boost his spells up to fourth level.
This ability increases to two levels higher at 13th level, and again to three levels higher at 19th level.
Greater Power I: At 10th level, the Sage chooses either a first level spell or two zero level spells, and gains it/them as at-will spell-like abilities. Any spell chosen as an at-will power must have a casting time of one standard action or longer.
If the Sage had taken the chosen spell already through his normal spell-like abilities, he may reselect those spell-like abilities.
Greater Power II: At 12th level, the Sage chooses either a second level spell or two first level spells, and gains it/them as at-will spell-like abilities. Any spell chosen as an at-will power must have a casting time of one standard action or longer.
If the Sage had taken the chosen spell already through his normal spell-like abilities, he may reselect those spell-like abilities.
Greater Power III: At 14th level, the Sage chooses either a third level spell or two second level spells, and gains it/them as at-will spell-like abilities. Any spell chosen as an at-will power must have a casting time of one standard action or longer.
If the Sage had taken the chosen spell already through his normal spell-like abilities, he may reselect those spell-like abilities.
Greater Power IV: At 16th level, the Sage chooses either a fourth level spell or two third level spells, and gains it/them as at-will spell-like abilities. Any spell chosen as an at-will power must have a casting time of one standard action or longer.
If the Sage had taken the chosen spell already through his normal spell-like abilities, he may reselect those spell-like abilities.
Greater Power V: At 18th level, the Sage chooses either a fifth level spell or two fourth level spells, and gains it/them as at-will spell-like abilities. Any spell chosen as an at-will power must have a casting time of one standard action or longer.
If the Sage had taken the chosen spell already through his normal spell-like abilities, he may reselect those spell-like abilities.
Supreme Power: A Sage has mastered his internal power, and can overcome any obstacle. At 20th level a number of times per day equal to half his class level rounded down plus his Wisdom modifier, a Sage may choose to make one use of one of his spell-like abilities unaffected by antimagic fields, dispel magic attempts or spell resistance of any kind.
Epic Sages
Level
Special
Spell Level
21st
Bonus Feat
9
22nd
-
9
23rd
-
9
24th
Bonus Feat, Piercing Power+6
9
25th
Skill Focus, Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability
9
26th
-
9
27th
Bonus Feat
9
28th
Piercing Power +7
9
29th
-
9
30th
Bonus Feat, Skill Focus
9
Spell-Like Abilities: A Sage continues to gain three spell-like abilities per level as normal after level 20. However, an Epic Sage may improve his spell like abilities.
An Epic Sage may take the epic feat Improved Spell Capacity, however it works slightly differently for them. Instead of spell slots, in increases the maximum level they can learn spell-like abilities of by one. So a 21st level Sage with Improved Spell Capacity could learn 10th level spells as spell-like abilities, and apply metamagic to boost them up to 13th level using Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Abilities.
An Epic Sage may take Epic metamagic and epic feats to enhance his spell-like abilities (such as Epic Spell Penetration and Epic Spell Focus). He must still meat all prerequisites for these feats as normal.
An Epic Sage's spell-like abilities count as 9th level spellcasting, and can be used as a prerequisite for the feat Epic Spellcasting. His class bonus to Knowledge checks granted by the Keeper of Knowledge ability do not count as skill ranks for determining how many Epic spells he may cast.
Piercing Power: The Sage's Piercing Power progression continues to increase every 4th level.
Skill Focus: The Sage continues to gain bonus Skill Focus (Knowledge) feats every 5th level after 20th, though he may now choose to take an Epic Skill Focus (Knowledge) feat instead should he wish.
Bonus Feats: An Epic Sage gains a bonus feat at 21st level, and every three levels thereafter. This may be any feat they qualify for.
Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability: Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability continues to increase in power every 6th level as normal.
There it is. It's only been in the works for some 6 months now. Please read it and tell me what you think. And please comment, even if only to tell me you like it or dislike it. Enjoy! :smallsmile:
The Sage
Many are smart. Many study magic. Many have innate magic. But none of them have quite the level of knowledge or power as the Sage.
Sages tend to be loners, secluding themselves alone at an early age to learn, although many like to pass what they've learned along to others as well. They tend to get along well with other studious classes or those seeking knowledge.
Religion: Sages tend not to pay too much heed to religion, though some of them do find solace in religious tomes or worshiping a deity of knowledge.
Alignment: Most Sages tend to be Lawful, though some are Neutral, with the very rare occurrence of a Chaotic Sage. Morally, Sages tend to be Neutral, though Good and Evil are not unheard of.
A Sage's class skills are: Appraise (Int), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Forgery (Cha), Gather Information (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (all skills, taken individually) (Int), Listen (Wis), Profession (Wis), Search (Int), Sense Motive (Cha), Spot (Wis), Speak Language (None), and Spellcraft (Int).
Skill Points: 2+Int Mod (x4 at 1st level)(see also Knowledgeable class ability)
Hit Die: D4
Level
BAB
Fort
Ref
Will
Special
Spell Level
1st
+0
+0
+0
+2
Lore, Knowledgeable
1
2nd
+1
+0
+0
+3
Keeper of Knowledge
1
3rd
+1
+1
+1
+3
Scribe Scroll
1
4th
+2
+1
+1
+4
Piercing Power
2
5th
+2
+1
+1
+4
Skill Focus, Meta-Spell-Like Ability
2
6th
+3
+2
+2
+5
Detect Magic
3
7th
+3
+2
+2
+5
Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability
3
8th
+4
+2
+2
+6
Meta-Spell-Like Ability
4
9th
+4
+3
+3
+6
-
4
10th
+5
+3
+3
+7
Skill Focus, Greater Power I
5
11th
+5
+3
+3
+7
Meta-Spell-Like Ability
5
12th
+6/+1
+4
+4
+8
Greater Power II
6
13th
+6/+1
+4
+4
+8
Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability
6
14th
+7/+2
+4
+4
+9
Meta-Spell-Like Ability, Greater Power III
7
15th
+7/+2
+5
+5
+9
Skill Focus
7
16th
+8/+3
+5
+5
+10
Greater Power IV
8
17th
+8/+3
+5
+5
+10
Meta-Spell-Like Ability
8
18th
+9/+4
+6
+6
+11
Greater Power V
9
19th
+9/+4
+6
+6
+11
Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability
9
20th
+10/+5
+6
+6
+12
Skill Focus, Supreme Power
9
Class Abilities: The following are the class abilities of the Sage.
Proficiencies: The Sage is proficient with the quarterstaff, dagger, and one simple or martial weapon of his choice. He is not proficient with any armor or shields.
Spell-Like Abilities: A Sage is filled with an innate mystical power. He gains a number of spell-like abilities to draw upon. At 1st level, he chooses 5 spells from any spell list and gains those spells as spell-like abilities useable once per day. At each level, he learns 3 more spell-like abilities. The highest level spell he can learn as a spell-like ability is listed on the table. He may choose to learn a spell more than once; doing so grants him an additional use of that spell per day.
In order to learn a spell as a spell-like ability, he must have a Wisdom score equal to 10+the spell's level. The DC for a saving throw against a Sage's spell-like abilities is 10+the spell level+the Sage's Wisdom modifier. A Sage does not gain additional spell-like abilities for a high Wisdom score. For the purpose of determining how strong your spell-like abilities are and what feats or items you may use, treat your Sage level as your caster level.
He may choose to learn a spell of lower level than his maximum. Doing so grants him extra uses of the ability. Choosing a spell one level lower than your maximum grants you two uses a day. Choosing a spell two levels lower grants you three uses per day. Choosing a spell three or more levels lower grants you five uses per day. This does not take effect retroactively; if you took a first level spell at 1st level, you must choose the ability again to get more uses of it.
When choosing spell, check what spell lists the spell is on. If a spell is on the list of a class with half casting (such as the Bard or Paladin lists) and a spell list of a full caster (such as the Cleric or Wizard lists), consider its spell level to be the level it appears as on the full caster list. If it shows up on multiple full caster lists, consider it the lower of the two spell levels.
If a spell learned by the Sage has verbal and somatic components, the spell-like ability likewise has them, and thus suffers spell failure chance when cast in armor. If a spell has a material component or focus worth less than 100 gold, you may ignore it to cast the spell-like ability. You must still provide any component worth more than 100 gold, or provide any EXP called for by the spell.
A Sage is considered to have all spells on his spell list for the purpose of using magical items. Likewise, he is eligible to take item creation feats to create magic items using spells he can cast as spell-like abilities.
When you take your first level of Sage, choose arcane or divine. When multiclassing into prestige classes, any class that grants "+1 level of spellcasting" can increase his spell-like casting, provided it grants additional casting for the type you chose. This is the only effect this choice has, and once made, this choice is permanent and cannot be changed.
Lore: A Sage has picked up lots of little pieces of knowledge in his studies. At 1st level, he gains the Lore ability. This functions exactly like Bardic Knowledge, except he uses his Sage level instead of his Bard level on the check.
Knowledgeable: A Sage gains 2 additional skill points at each level that must be spent on ranks in Speak Language or Knowledge skills of his choice. These bonus skill points are also multiplied by 4 at 1st level. In addition, all languages are bonus languages to the Sage.
Keeper of Knowledge: A Sage has come across much in his studies. Starting at 2nd level, he gains a bonus to all Knowledge checks equal to his class level.
Scribe Scroll: A Sage gains Scribe Scroll as a bonus feat at 3rd level.
Piercing Power: A Sage's powers are all strong enough to pierce magical protections. At 4th level, he gains a +1 bonus to caster level checks to overcome spell resistance. This bonus increases to +2 at 8th level, and by an additional +1 at every 4th level after that, to a maximum of +5 at 20th level.
Meta-Spell-Like Ability: At 5th, 8th, 11th, 14th, and 17th level a Sage may take a Metamagic feat. A number of times per day equal to one quarter his class level rounded down plus his Wisdom modifier, he may choose to modify one use of one of his spell-like abilities with the metamagic feat. He may also opt to take additional metamagic feats as his bonus feat at each third level, granting him the same number of uses as normal. Any metamagic feat can be applied to any spell he knows, but he may not make the spell's total level equivalent pass his maximum spell level (so no applying every metamagic you know to one spell-like ability).
Skill Focus: At 5th level, and every five levels thereafter, the Sage gains a bonus feat. This feat must be a Skill Focus (Knowledge) feat of the Sage's choice.
Detect Magic: Starting at 6th level, a Sage may use the spell detect magic at will.
If the Sage had taken the chosen detect magic already through his normal spell-like abilities, he may reselect those spell-like abilities.
Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability: At 7th level, the Sage is considered to be able to cast spells of one level higher for the sole purpose of applying metamagic to his spell-like abilities. Thus, a 7th level Sage could only learn any spell up to third level, but could apply metamagic to them to boost his spells up to fourth level.
This ability increases to two levels higher at 13th level, and again to three levels higher at 19th level.
Greater Power I: At 10th level, the Sage chooses either a first level spell or two zero level spells, and gains it/them as at-will spell-like abilities. Any spell chosen as an at-will power must have a casting time of one standard action or longer.
If the Sage had taken the chosen spell already through his normal spell-like abilities, he may reselect those spell-like abilities.
Greater Power II: At 12th level, the Sage chooses either a second level spell or two first level spells, and gains it/them as at-will spell-like abilities. Any spell chosen as an at-will power must have a casting time of one standard action or longer.
If the Sage had taken the chosen spell already through his normal spell-like abilities, he may reselect those spell-like abilities.
Greater Power III: At 14th level, the Sage chooses either a third level spell or two second level spells, and gains it/them as at-will spell-like abilities. Any spell chosen as an at-will power must have a casting time of one standard action or longer.
If the Sage had taken the chosen spell already through his normal spell-like abilities, he may reselect those spell-like abilities.
Greater Power IV: At 16th level, the Sage chooses either a fourth level spell or two third level spells, and gains it/them as at-will spell-like abilities. Any spell chosen as an at-will power must have a casting time of one standard action or longer.
If the Sage had taken the chosen spell already through his normal spell-like abilities, he may reselect those spell-like abilities.
Greater Power V: At 18th level, the Sage chooses either a fifth level spell or two fourth level spells, and gains it/them as at-will spell-like abilities. Any spell chosen as an at-will power must have a casting time of one standard action or longer.
If the Sage had taken the chosen spell already through his normal spell-like abilities, he may reselect those spell-like abilities.
Supreme Power: A Sage has mastered his internal power, and can overcome any obstacle. At 20th level a number of times per day equal to half his class level rounded down plus his Wisdom modifier, a Sage may choose to make one use of one of his spell-like abilities unaffected by antimagic fields, dispel magic attempts or spell resistance of any kind.
Epic Sages
Level
Special
Spell Level
21st
Bonus Feat
9
22nd
-
9
23rd
-
9
24th
Bonus Feat, Piercing Power+6
9
25th
Skill Focus, Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability
9
26th
-
9
27th
Bonus Feat
9
28th
Piercing Power +7
9
29th
-
9
30th
Bonus Feat, Skill Focus
9
Spell-Like Abilities: A Sage continues to gain three spell-like abilities per level as normal after level 20. However, an Epic Sage may improve his spell like abilities.
An Epic Sage may take the epic feat Improved Spell Capacity, however it works slightly differently for them. Instead of spell slots, in increases the maximum level they can learn spell-like abilities of by one. So a 21st level Sage with Improved Spell Capacity could learn 10th level spells as spell-like abilities, and apply metamagic to boost them up to 13th level using Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Abilities.
An Epic Sage may take Epic metamagic and epic feats to enhance his spell-like abilities (such as Epic Spell Penetration and Epic Spell Focus). He must still meat all prerequisites for these feats as normal.
An Epic Sage's spell-like abilities count as 9th level spellcasting, and can be used as a prerequisite for the feat Epic Spellcasting. His class bonus to Knowledge checks granted by the Keeper of Knowledge ability do not count as skill ranks for determining how many Epic spells he may cast.
Piercing Power: The Sage's Piercing Power progression continues to increase every 4th level.
Skill Focus: The Sage continues to gain bonus Skill Focus (Knowledge) feats every 5th level after 20th, though he may now choose to take an Epic Skill Focus (Knowledge) feat instead should he wish.
Bonus Feats: An Epic Sage gains a bonus feat at 21st level, and every three levels thereafter. This may be any feat they qualify for.
Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability: Enhanced Meta-Spell-Like Ability continues to increase in power every 6th level as normal.
There it is. It's only been in the works for some 6 months now. Please read it and tell me what you think. And please comment, even if only to tell me you like it or dislike it. Enjoy! :smallsmile: