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Thread: Pyromancer?
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2007-08-08, 07:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Pyromancer?
Hullo all. Just wondering if such a prestige class exists. I mean, I have a sorceror who primarily goes around catching things on fire, and I was kinda hoping there would be a class like "Pyromancer" or "Flame Adept" or something to that effect.
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2007-08-08, 07:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Well. there's always the Elemental Savant.
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2007-08-08, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Well, with psionics, there's the Pyrokineticist
Dunno about any others off the top of my head.
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2007-08-08, 07:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-08-08, 07:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Well, the Pyrokineticist sounds good and all, but I'm fairly sure we can't use Psionics in the campaign I'm in at the moment...
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2007-08-08, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-08-08, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Hm...I must be thinking of something else then...
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2007-08-08, 07:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Elemental Savant (Complete Arcane) is a arcane PrC that allows you to be more effective with your chosen element, and eventually you become immune to your element of choice, and you gain all the special abilities and movement rates of a medium elemental of that type. Your type also changes to elemental, and you gain all the penalties and bonuses thereof.
Pyrokineticist (Expanded Psionics Handbook) is a Psionic PrC that allows you to gain supernatural fire related abilities.
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2007-08-08, 08:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Hm. They both sound good, I'll have to take a look into them. Thanks guys!
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2007-08-08, 08:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Elemental Savant also has the downside of loosing two caste levels and, of course, being a blaster PrC.
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2007-08-08, 08:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-08-08, 08:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Warlocks can light things on fire starting at level 6, and they can light things on fire until their fingers hurt. I wouldn't recommend it, but Hellfire warlocks if you're into fire as a symbol of hell.
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2007-08-08, 08:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-08-08, 08:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
I'm pretty underwhelmed by the class. I just don't think it makes you better in your element, as you both lose spellcasting and about 1/2 the abilities are about making you an elemental, and the others are(mostly) replaceable by feats(Spell Focus and Penetration). Immunity to your element is nice, and so is becoming and elemental(especially an air), but if you want to be the "bet fire mage evar", straight sorcerer would be better(though some reserve feats would be very good for a complete pyromaniac).
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2007-08-08, 08:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
I know there's a homebrew PrC that centers around the Fireball spell somewhere around here on these forums...
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2007-08-08, 09:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Play an Evoker. Use the Focused Specialist variant. Pick up lots of fire and heat spells. If you find a spell that does what you want but doesn't seem fiery, MAKE it fiery somehow and run it past your DM. Icicle Spikes? Nope, now they're spikes of partially-cooled magma (cold damage becomes fire damage). Prestidigitation's cleaning effect is a tiny wave of fire that washes over the area/object. Mage Armor is visible as a faint fiery aura. And so on. Changing fluff is remarkably effective. Of course you'll want to pick up at least one Reserve Feat and get the elemental damage changed to Fire if it isn't already. That'll give you an infinite use fire blast for your pyromaniacal tendencies as well as boosting your other fire spells. Maybe get a homebrewed item that grants a +1 to the CL of spells with the Fire descriptor (it's not that expensive. Just take the Ioun stone that grants +1 to CL, cut the price in half (slotted item), then cut it by 1/3 (only works on Fire spells).) There's also a feat SOMEWHERE that grants a +1 to CL while under moonlight, which could be readily changed to sunlight for the whole fire thing. Oh, and of course you'll want the Searing Spell metamagic feat at some point, because dangit, NOBODY resists your fire blasts short of a fire elemental or red dragon.
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2007-08-08, 09:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Blistering Spell from PHB2
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2007-08-09, 09:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2007-08-09, 11:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Wow. Just...wow. OzymandiasVolt, thats...wow. I'm going to have to do that. Soon.
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2007-08-09, 11:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Don't forget Energy Substitution (Complete Arcane). If you can't get your DM to houserule some fire-based versions of spells, you can make'em that way with this metamagic feat. Not the most optimized feat in the world, but fun if you really, really like fire.
In addition, this is a spell in PHB II that can give a creature vulnerability to an energy type if they fail a Will save. Can't remember the name right now, though.D&D: Libra Edition
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2007-08-09, 11:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pyromancer?
Hm, yes, energy substitution. I could change my Sucktacular "Ray of Frost" into an underpowered version of "Scorching Ray"!