Friendship Through Superior Firepower! Magical Girl Base Class, Set Up! [3.5]

[Serafina]

Alternate Version for the Cartridge System, using feats:

Cartridge System:
You have learned to store some of your magic in small trinkets and use them to enhance your Device.
Prerequisite: Radiant Focus
Benefits:You gain the Magus Arcane Pool class feature. You use your Charisma instead of Intelligence to determine the size of your Arcane Pool and the effect of any of your Arcana.
Special: If you gain the Arcane Pool class feature from any other class, your class levels in Magical Girl and that class stack. You must choose which attribute deterimes size and effect of your Arcane Pool&Arcana.

Explosion!
You have learned how to power your attacks by rapidly expending Cartridges.
Prerequisite: Cartridge System
Benefit: You can learn one Magus Arcana. Count your Magical Girl level as levels in Magus for the purpose of selecting your Arcana. You can only learn Arcana that requires the expenditure of Arcane Pool points.
Special: You can select this feat multiple times. Each time you must select one new Arcana.

New Arcana:

Maximized Illumination:
Prerequisite: Magical Girl 12
Benefit: You can maximize an Illumination by spending three points from your Arcane Pool. If that Illumination is a strike, the damage die of your melee attack that is part of that strike is also maximized

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This is definitely simpler than the Archetype-version, and probably more balanced as well. It also adds a large amount of customization choices to the Magical Girl.