Wizard ACFs that replace the familiar?

[juicycaboose]

Hey I'll be starting a new campaign soon and I've decided on a halfling wizard, but I'd quite like to trade out the familiar for something else, I know of Eidetic Spellcaster and Wizard of the Sun and Moon but neither fit the flavour at all, does the playground know of any others?

[eggynack]

The ACF list (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19872054/Alternative_Class_Features_III) probably has all the answers you need on that front. If you're a conjurer, abrupt jaunt from PHB II is a pretty popular trade, and UA has some specialist variants that can be good on occasion.

[Khatoblepas]

Dragon Magazine 338 has the Imbued Staff alternate class feature - it allows you to attune a quarterstaff as a magical companion instead of an animal. It also allows you to enchant your magic staff as a real staff, and recharge it with your spell slots.

[shendelzar]

The ACF list (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19872054/Alternative_Class_Features_III) probably has all the answers you need on that front. If you're a conjurer, abrupt jaunt from PHB II is a pretty popular trade, and UA has some specialist variants that can be good on occasion.

If your looking it up, its under "immediate magic" the only one worth looking at is the conjurer specific one, unless you really really just don't want a familiar, or have some special niche that one of the others can mesh well with.

[Spuddles]

Dragon 357 (can find it on scribd) has a bunch of ACFs for specialist wizards.

[SaintRidley]

Are you sure you want to become weak like Lightning Warrior?


Just kidding. Ditch the familiar. Take Obtain Familiar if you ever feel the need to have one and have it be better anyway.

[Perseus]

Dragon Magazine 338 has the Imbued Staff alternate class feature - it allows you to attune a quarterstaff as a magical companion instead of an animal. It also allows you to enchant your magic staff as a real staff, and recharge it with your spell slots.

This sounds mighty interesting...

[Khatoblepas]

This sounds mighty interesting...

I used it when I was playing a Shadowcraft Mage - it is pretty flavorful, especially if you get a familiar from another source (My build had Nar Demonbinder giving me an imp, so that was pretty cool). The Remote Viewing is situationally useful and allows the wizard some magical tricks without expending a spell slot. A couple extra cantrips and a Light spell is useful at level 1, and repairing the staff by sacrificing your own hit points is also flavorful. Later on with Recharge Staff I could basically enchant my staff with charges of spells that I could use a lot and rest up and reload my charges on off-days.

It's not particularily powerful, but I did enjoy using it. My build was powerful in other ways.... so I could afford to take a sub-optimal ACF like this. It was great.

[Grod_The_Giant]

The Player's Handbook 2 has a lovely set of ACFs for specialist wizards, ranging from semi-decent to semi-broken in power.

[nedz]

The ACF list glosses over the Specialist Wizard Variants from UA, but they can be found in the SRD here (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/specialistWizardVariants.htm).

Whilst the Conjuration Immediate Magic (PHB 2, p68) option is extremely powerful it shouldn't dictate the kind of Wizard you play. Moreover you're a Wizard, you shouldn't need help like this.:smallamused:

[juicycaboose]

I somehow missed the UA variants in the ACF list when i found it before I made this thread! Along with immediate magic which I knew about before now but had forgotten, thanks!

also the imbue staff one is rather interesting but unfortunately no dragon is allowed besides compendium



Dragon 357 (can find it on scribd) has a bunch of ACFs for specialist wizards.

although i would like to have a look at these anyway, could I get a page number? I can't seem to find them

[Karnith]

although i would like to have a look at these anyway, could I get a page number? I can't seem to find them
Titled "Transversed Arcana," the section can be found on pages 88-89, in Class Acts.