Quasiclass: Spellcrafter

[wnxhalfwingseen]

Playing Oblivion and reading the Cleric domain thread gave me this idea

Requirements: Courteous magestry, Lore of 9 Wizard Level 5 Spellcraft of 9 Skill focus Lore Skill focus Spellcraft Intellegence of 20 Wisdom of 15 by level 6
No Bonus spell/ Bonus epic spell uses Levels for anything other than wizard levels + CC wizard levels, PM or other quasiclass's gain 0 benefit
using the HG enhanced hak to add these to spellbook
Wizards get bonus spells ( level 3 6 and 9 spells+Access to a new epic feat) Based on School.

The Epic Feat must be selected in epic levels its not automatically given

For Instance:
Generalist:
Level 3 bonus spell: Magical Burst: (CL)d3 cap of 20 magic damage to a 15ft aoe centered on self.

Level 6 bonus spell: Breathe Magic: (CL)x10 Temp HP on Target Lasts 1 turn/Caster level

Level 9 bonus spell: Freeze Time: Timestops Target for 1 round/6 Does not work on Bosses.

Epic Spell Feat: Gains the ability to cast Bonus spells 5xday free (total, 2 casts of magical burst 3 of freeze time or any other combination)

Evocation:
Level 3 Bonus spell: Ignite: Sets an enemy on fire taking (CL)x3 Damage per round for 1 round/CL Reflex Save for half

Level 6 Bonus spell: Orb of Magic: Fires a Ball of Magic at enemies dealing (CL)d4 Magic damage which explodes on contact into a medium AOE reflex save for half

Level 9 Bonus spell: Starfall: The Stars rain down on all enemies in an Enormous AOE dealing 1d6 Damage Per Caster level With no save

Epic Spell Feat: Eruption: Causes the earth to sunder and send one enemy into a pit of magma Dealing 1d12 fire and 1d8 magic damage Per Caster level with no save 1xday

Abjuration:
Level 3 Bonus spell: Shell: Caster gains 1 Shield and Deflection ac per 3 Caster levels lasts 1 round/2 caster levels

Level 6 Bonus spell: Baleful Dispel: Dispells all effects in an aoe as if by Greater Dispel Also deals 2 Magic damage per caster level to all affected targets.

Level 9 Bonus spell: Shields of Countering: Grants a damage shield dealing 1d4+1(CL) to max of 1d4+60 slashing damage along with 1 parry per 2 CLs to all allies in a large AOE.

Epic Spell Feat: Barrier: Grants Critical Hit, Sneak, poison, disease, spell decrease, spell level 5 and below, knockdown, freedom for 20 round 1xday

Conjuration:
Level 3 Bonus spell: Melf's Barrage: Casts a Melfs Acid Arrow on all enemies in a 30 ft Cone

Level 6 Bonus spell: Summon Weapon Lord: Summons a Weapon Master of level=CL with Water Breathing+Striding with an ac of 2x(CL)+10 and ab of 2x(CL) uses the weapon targetted in inventory Lasts 1 round/CL

Level 9 bonus spell: Blade of Fury: Spawns a giant sword that flies at target dealing (CL)d20 Slashing damage+CL Piercing magical damage

Epic Spell Feat: Summon Copy: Summons a duplicate of the caster who knows all the same spells in the spellbook of the caster and is equipped with the same items. Lasts 1 round/3 Caster levels

Divination:
Level 3 Bonus spell: Power Word Blind: Blinds Target Permanently ignores spell resistance

Level 6 Bonus spell: Power Word Weaken: Lower targets AB by 15 Permanently ignores spell resistance

Level 9 Bonus spell: Power word Destroy: Lowers targets Stats by 12 SR by 10 and saves by 4 Permanently ignores spell resistance

Epic spell feat: Fortune telling: Kills target enemy or makes target ally invulnerable for 3 rounds. 2xday

Enchantment:
Level 3 Bonus spell: Slumber: puts any enemies in the aoe to sleep if they fail the save

Level 6 Bonus spell: Panic: Causes an enemy to become confused if failing a save with a DC bonus of 7

Level 9 Bonus spell: Tashas Hideous Speech: All enemies in a large AOE must make a save or be knocked down for 3 rounds if failing save they take 1d10 sonic damage. save is Will based and gets a bonus of 3

Epic spell feat: Charm Enemies: All Enemies in a Gargantuan AOE must make a save or be unable to attack where DC = CL if save is passed they are forces to make another will save or be knocked down for 3 rounds. 1xday

Illusion
Level 3 Bonus spell: Visage of Death: Enemies must make a will save or reduce the enemies HP by 50%

Level 6 Bonus spell: Shield of Fear: An Image of Ghostly enemies surround the caster causing all enemies who attack him to make a will save or take CLd4 Magic damage Lasts 1 Round/10 Caster Levels

Level 9 Bonus spell: Mass Blur: All allies within a small AOE gain 1.25% Conceal per CL Lasts 15 Rounds

Epic spell feat: Illusionary Legion: Gives all allies in a small AOE the illusion of being part of a grand army and grants 150 Temp HP 10 AB 5 Dodge AC and 1d4+40 Slashing damage on hit 6 to all saves lasts 60 rounds.

Necromancy:
Level 3 Bonus spell: Aura of Death: Creates an aura around caster all enemies within the aura makes a fortitude save every round or takes (CL)d3 Negetive Damage Aura lasts 1 Round/CL

Level 6 Bonus spell: Grip of Death: If a touch attack succeeds target makes a fortitude save or take 10 Negetive Energy damage per CL

Level 9 Bonus spell: Vampire Spirit: Imbues an ally with a vampiric spirit causing their weapons to cast Vampiric touch on hit where the CL = 1/4 casters level max of 15

Epic spell feat: Soul Drain: An enemy must make a fortitude save or die target must need Implosion immunity 5xDay

post thoughts so far ill get to transmutation when inspiration hits

[chirikov]

a bit confusing, but apparently the gist of it is that a wizard can get a few special bonus spells at the cost of 3 feats (4 if you include the epic spell) and specialization

there are two main issues i can see - one, while cleric domains just add a few spells, wizard specialization knocks off a whole school. i dont think anyone would take specialization divination or enchantment, because they would lose access to ethereal visage, perhaps the most important buff a wizard can get

other issue would be that youve turned the wizard into a one-trick pony (or perhaps two or three tricks). lets say you took divination as your specialization and the spells as listed. all you do is load up on those power word weaken and destroy (i suppose you can use blind too but that ones currently useless) and just hit everything in sight (at high enough levels you even have the slots to do that). or perhaps evocation, you lose conjuration but now youve got a spell that works more than twice as well as meteor swarm since its got no save (and thus evasion doesnt prevent). screw maxing your dc, load up on the con instead

the second can be worked around (heh, anyone who saw my original cleric domain stuff knows how bad that was before reworking) but its important to keep in mind that whatever you offer shouldnt completely replace previous spells. aim for diversity, not raw power; the current power is fine

also, allowing pure wiz with no penalty on the normal wiz spells slightly defeats the purpose of making it a quasi anyways. slinger is the only current quasi that allows a pure single class, and even then it comes at the cost of caster levels (for non-slinger spells)

[wnxhalfwingseen]

Well Generalist aside i would consider sacrificing a whole school a nasty drawback. in fact thats kind of how i judged the power of the new spells. Divination gets some nice Spells because they give up ethereal visage weird ghostly visage displacement ect.

As for Evocation particularly you can deal at most 360 damage which is actually close to the average for Meteor Storm. the only real benefit of that spell over is the save lacking HOWEVER its magic damage and quite of a few enemies get resist and and magic immunity before they get divine. and if you refer to the epic spell 1xday for evocation its only 1xday

As for Powerword blind it was my attempt at giving back to the class for losing concealment. Blinding an enemy gives a 50% miss chance and with blindfight its 25% and permanent blind with no save is a nice way of taking down on even bosses because well they immune to wof and such but this spell they wouldnt be immune it ^^.

Well what im adding typically would only suppliment the current spells. even evocation as at pure wizard the average damage of starfall is 210 which is less than the average of 330 if passive save and a bit better than 165 if failing save. so it would depend on situation whether to use it or not

As for the one trick pony concept. Er i didnt have to do that the specialization did that not me. and after all i havent seen a single person complain about how PM's are 1 trick ponies. >.>

Please know im not saying your dumb or any crap like that for commenting i appreciate it alot. just trying to let ya know i try to consider everything before picking my spells though i do overlook a few things.

[chirikov]

specialization in and of itself is not a nasty drawback, its the fact that the schools are not quite evenly balanced that is. bioware already messed around with the opposing schools stuff because of how uneven the schools were, for example its impossible to get evo necro and abj as your opposing school. just about every pm takes illusion specialization, because losing enchantment means only losing charm person type stuff, although one or two spells now have some use. theyre not hurting in any case

early on magic resistance doesnt quite matter so much, because you still have the option of using meteor swarm. endgame it would matter more, and the lack of save means that you can ignore trying to max your dc and pump another stat. missile barrage isnt a good comparison, because it fires damages in smaller packets so even a palty 10/- resistance can take off a large amount of damage

i dont think blind creatures even get a miss percentile if they have true seeing

like it or not, those spells would completely replace existing spells. using divination as an example again - with metamagics, you can have four full levels of weaken. done correctly, itd turn a mob of heavy hitters into a stroll in the park

pms are weak in anything other than necro/illu spells, but they gain a lot more on the side. full crit immunity, high ac and damage immunity, lifeblight, etc. this quasi gains 3 spells, option for a feat, costs 3 feats, loses a whole school. perhaps not so much of a one-trick pony since you can still use grabby hands and such, but if you exploit the lack of saves and leave int at 20 you can max con or dex. how would a dex based 39wiz/1aa work with this quasi?

oh, and your current stat reqs means its a subrace only quasi. no way to get 20 int 15 wis by 6 if youre not using a sub since youre only going to have 1 stat point and max int at creation is 18

[wnxhalfwingseen]

Yea i did make it a int boosting subrace only quasi for exactly the reason you said about pumping a stat. i didnt want to see any dwarf maelephant spellcrafters with over 1600 hp or some crap.

also yea with true seeing they still have miss chance. well at least PC's do -.-

yea early on that starfall is great and in certain places (desert and such) but remember it IS a lootbreaker.

yea ill make it only -10 AB so its a SR ignoring Bigbys hand thats perm

I thought about making the spells weaker but that would slaughter this quasi more.

and i have it so the weaker spells you lose the weaker spells you get in the case of generalist you get crappiest spells. (barring freeze time as thats very nice)

[chirikov]

heh, i think you should flesh out the schools and spells a bit more before i offer more comments. i didnt know starfall is supposed to be a lootbreaker (or that it did magic damage) based on the original description

(edited for clarity)

[wnxhalfwingseen]

Yea sorry for not being clear my brain works faster than my fingers when im typing i miss words and sometimes replace words with other ones after i get the inspiration for transmutation ill work on revising perhaps you could PM with your ideas for the other schools