Malapterus
2018-01-03, 10:53 PM
I have a class concept that I am working on, but I want to give it an ability that I am unsure of the scope of.
Basically, in this class, you'd cast mostly evocation-like spells and healing spells. The evocation spells exclusively evoke positive energy. These would be the only 'attack' spells you can do, and are meant more for healing. Obviously, you'd be murderous against Undead, but that is largely it.
The class feature I want to add is a caster level boost - each level of this base class counts as 1.5 caster levels; so at level 2 you be caster level 3, caster level 15 at level 10, and caster level 30 at level 20.
I don't really know how big of a deal this is, but 10 bonus caster levels seems like a lot. It would help you heal allies with SR without them lowering it & help you destroy undead sorcerers, but paired with the extremely limited casting I still think it might be OK.
Do you guys think that this would be better as a 1/3rd or 1/4th bonus instead of 1/2?
There are other features, mostly about casting heal spells better & having lots of HP.
Note: The 'positive energy evocation' will be taking a few select spells, such as fireball, scorching ray, lightning bolt, etc, stripping their energy descriptor, and having them do dice of positive energy instead.
Basically, in this class, you'd cast mostly evocation-like spells and healing spells. The evocation spells exclusively evoke positive energy. These would be the only 'attack' spells you can do, and are meant more for healing. Obviously, you'd be murderous against Undead, but that is largely it.
The class feature I want to add is a caster level boost - each level of this base class counts as 1.5 caster levels; so at level 2 you be caster level 3, caster level 15 at level 10, and caster level 30 at level 20.
I don't really know how big of a deal this is, but 10 bonus caster levels seems like a lot. It would help you heal allies with SR without them lowering it & help you destroy undead sorcerers, but paired with the extremely limited casting I still think it might be OK.
Do you guys think that this would be better as a 1/3rd or 1/4th bonus instead of 1/2?
There are other features, mostly about casting heal spells better & having lots of HP.
Note: The 'positive energy evocation' will be taking a few select spells, such as fireball, scorching ray, lightning bolt, etc, stripping their energy descriptor, and having them do dice of positive energy instead.