Princess Tracy
2012-07-09, 06:34 AM
So I recently got the '1001 Spells' for my birthday. Barring a few misprints and things that weren't quite updated for Pathfinder, it was pretty cool, giving enough variety to each of teh wizard schools that dumping even my less favoured schools of Enchantment and Necromancy is no longer optimal, so it got me thinking of an alternative to barring schools and keeping variety without those pretty lame Universalist abilities. Here's my take on it. I drew from inspiration from what I think was a Gray Elf substitution level for Wizard back in 3.5 but I only remember hearing of it second hand. I thought thus up off the top of my head and thought it seemed pretty solid, and worth sharing even.
Some wizards do not seek specialisation but to master all forms of magic available to the arcane professionals. Among them are adventurers who seek to learn of the many great arts and will travel the world to hone their skills, while some are just skittish and indecisive. Whatever the case may be, it remains true that few wizards are trained with greater versatility than a Generalist, and these Wizard Archetype should excel for the purposes of such varied mastery.
Generalist
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Replaces Arcane School. Generalists have no barred schools.
Wealth of Knowledge (ex): Whenever you gain a level in wizard, instead of learning 2 spells automatically you learn 3, no 2 of which can be of the same school of magic.
Flashy Stockpile (su): While lacking the endurance of a specialist, a Generalist still keeps a good supply of his best spells. Generalists gain 1 extra prepared spell of the highest level they can cast each day.
Metamagic Master (su): At 8th level, the generalist learns the versatility that comes with Metamagic and how bets to apply it. Every day when he prepares spells, the Generalist has a stock of spell levels equal to half this class level. These spell levels can be used to lower the spell level increases of spells with metamagic feats applied to them to a minimum of 0. You can only apply this reduction to 1 metamagic feat per prepared spell. This does not allow a Generalist to cast a spell whose modified level would otherwise be too high for him to cast - for instance an 8th level wizard could use these levels to apply Enlarge Spell to a Fireball spell, but would not apply Maximise Spell to the same spell. He can use this decrease when preparing spells, or if he reduces the metamagic level adjustment of the spell to 0, can apply ONE metamagic feat to a spell spontaneously, without preparing the metamagic adjustment ahead of time or increasing casting time. At 20th level, the modified level of the spell affected by the reduced metamagic level adjustment can exceed your highest available spell level - for instance, you could give up 3 spell levels to cast a Maximised Time Stop. This ability does not allow you to apply a metamagic feat you do not know.
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Thoughts?
Some wizards do not seek specialisation but to master all forms of magic available to the arcane professionals. Among them are adventurers who seek to learn of the many great arts and will travel the world to hone their skills, while some are just skittish and indecisive. Whatever the case may be, it remains true that few wizards are trained with greater versatility than a Generalist, and these Wizard Archetype should excel for the purposes of such varied mastery.
Generalist
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc277/Kid_Icarus2007/Archmage.jpg
Replaces Arcane School. Generalists have no barred schools.
Wealth of Knowledge (ex): Whenever you gain a level in wizard, instead of learning 2 spells automatically you learn 3, no 2 of which can be of the same school of magic.
Flashy Stockpile (su): While lacking the endurance of a specialist, a Generalist still keeps a good supply of his best spells. Generalists gain 1 extra prepared spell of the highest level they can cast each day.
Metamagic Master (su): At 8th level, the generalist learns the versatility that comes with Metamagic and how bets to apply it. Every day when he prepares spells, the Generalist has a stock of spell levels equal to half this class level. These spell levels can be used to lower the spell level increases of spells with metamagic feats applied to them to a minimum of 0. You can only apply this reduction to 1 metamagic feat per prepared spell. This does not allow a Generalist to cast a spell whose modified level would otherwise be too high for him to cast - for instance an 8th level wizard could use these levels to apply Enlarge Spell to a Fireball spell, but would not apply Maximise Spell to the same spell. He can use this decrease when preparing spells, or if he reduces the metamagic level adjustment of the spell to 0, can apply ONE metamagic feat to a spell spontaneously, without preparing the metamagic adjustment ahead of time or increasing casting time. At 20th level, the modified level of the spell affected by the reduced metamagic level adjustment can exceed your highest available spell level - for instance, you could give up 3 spell levels to cast a Maximised Time Stop. This ability does not allow you to apply a metamagic feat you do not know.
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Thoughts?