Rejakor
2007-08-31, 10:15 AM
"THIS IS MY FIREBALL. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT, BUT THIS ONE IS MINE. MY FIREBALL IS MY BEST FRIEND. IT IS MY LIFE. I MUST MASTER IT AS I MASTER MY LIFE. MY FIREBALL, WITHOUT ME, IS USELESS. WITHOUT MY FIREBALL, I AM USELESS."
Come on, you all know it. The quintessential spell, the iconic mage with a ball of flame. That has how people have thought of wizards for centuries. And I have a new take on it. People, I want a class. Not just any class, I want a martial themed arcanist, I want a master specialist, trained in a military camp, and taught a simple mantra, 'My Fireball is my Life'.
Flavourwise, this class will be much like the Warmage class from Complete Arcane. A caster class designed to be the 'battlefield artillery' in a military. But while the warmage is designed to support infantry battalions, and be a sort of all around evocator, this class will be even more focused.
Trained purely to be the ultimate military unit, a Marine Firecaster is the master of the fireball. He or she uses it like other people use a sword or a bow. Working in tight groups, these military specialists use tactics and strategy as much as brute magic to defeat their foes, but are never afraid to get right into the thick of it, wielding their trusty flame with consummate skill.
Many a Uru'gar goblin's last sight has been the tiny bead of fire that has erupted into flame, consuming and burning, or a team of firecasters working through their ranks, hands flashing as flame leaps from their fingertips into goblin ranks.
((Okay. Now what i'm looking for isn't some kind of pyromaniac, or robed wizard. I'm looking for a soldier, trained to use every means available to him to disable the enemy, with extreme prejudice.
I'm mainly looking for a base class, but if you feel a prestige class coming on, i'm not stopping you.
Ideas: Take a look at the Warlock's mechanic, as that fits very well with the whole 'my fireball is my weapon' idea of this class.
Failing that, the ability to control a fireball's shape, power, and size would work well with this class. As would some shock-and-awe style class abilities. (check up your conditions, dazzled is a nice one for this kind of thing).
I want to emphasize the 'soldier' thing here, not the 'magic' thing, so any class abilities along the 'being a soldier' line would work well.
Anyway, that's all from me, get to it!))
Come on, you all know it. The quintessential spell, the iconic mage with a ball of flame. That has how people have thought of wizards for centuries. And I have a new take on it. People, I want a class. Not just any class, I want a martial themed arcanist, I want a master specialist, trained in a military camp, and taught a simple mantra, 'My Fireball is my Life'.
Flavourwise, this class will be much like the Warmage class from Complete Arcane. A caster class designed to be the 'battlefield artillery' in a military. But while the warmage is designed to support infantry battalions, and be a sort of all around evocator, this class will be even more focused.
Trained purely to be the ultimate military unit, a Marine Firecaster is the master of the fireball. He or she uses it like other people use a sword or a bow. Working in tight groups, these military specialists use tactics and strategy as much as brute magic to defeat their foes, but are never afraid to get right into the thick of it, wielding their trusty flame with consummate skill.
Many a Uru'gar goblin's last sight has been the tiny bead of fire that has erupted into flame, consuming and burning, or a team of firecasters working through their ranks, hands flashing as flame leaps from their fingertips into goblin ranks.
((Okay. Now what i'm looking for isn't some kind of pyromaniac, or robed wizard. I'm looking for a soldier, trained to use every means available to him to disable the enemy, with extreme prejudice.
I'm mainly looking for a base class, but if you feel a prestige class coming on, i'm not stopping you.
Ideas: Take a look at the Warlock's mechanic, as that fits very well with the whole 'my fireball is my weapon' idea of this class.
Failing that, the ability to control a fireball's shape, power, and size would work well with this class. As would some shock-and-awe style class abilities. (check up your conditions, dazzled is a nice one for this kind of thing).
I want to emphasize the 'soldier' thing here, not the 'magic' thing, so any class abilities along the 'being a soldier' line would work well.
Anyway, that's all from me, get to it!))