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2009-11-01, 01:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hermetic Mage? (D20 3.5 new casting class options)
Just wondering what can be done to devise a balanced hermetic casting class?
NOTE: No redefining the rules or defining your own system, please. Vancian magic is for wizards, let's leave it that way. For the ignorant, hermetic magic is anime, final fantasy style magic.
I want to discover a way to devise this style of magic into D&D with everything else and make it run mechanically well.Last edited by imp_fireball; 2009-11-01 at 01:20 PM.
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2009-11-01, 01:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hermetic Mage? (D20 3.5 new casting class options)
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2009-11-01, 01:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hermetic Mage? (D20 3.5 new casting class options)
The existing rule that most closely matches that style of magic is what the SRD calls incantations. d20 Modern takes incantations further, and basically says any D&D spell of 6th level or higher, if it exists at all, can only be done as an incantation (which generally then requires plenty of house-ruling by the GM to design the incantation in question).
I guess a systematic way of converting the core spells (or those that are reasonable as incantations) would be needed for starters.
There was also a hermatic mage prestige class presented in d20 Modern's Dark Matter supplement, although the effect of that class was a bit naff.