Spellsword Quasi Class

[Talamanthalon]

This quasiclass is an attempt to bring back the classic Fighter / Wizard multiclass combination that was so prevelant in the original D&D game. To breath life back into a multiclass that I loved playing:

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For the purposes of HG this class ends up being constructed like a minor staffmaster / lifethreader

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- The Spellsword quasiclass combines the Fighters melee prowess with the combat spells of the wizard to create an armored caster that wades into the thick of battle with prepared spells cast on weapon / shield and armor.
- To qualify for Spellsword the character must have 10 levels of Fighter, 10 levels of Wizard, and Weapon Focus (Longsword) + (Greatsword) + Skill Focus (Concentration) + Skill Focus (Discipline) before level 40.

-- Based on the levels of fighter and wizard the class takes, they are also given the following free feats:

-- Wizard (10): Spell Penetration
-- Wizard (15): Greater Spell Penetration
-- Wizard (20): Epic Skill Concentration

-- Fighter (10): Iron Will
-- Fighter (15): Great Fortitude
-- Fighter (20): Epic Skill Discipline

If the Spellsword progresses through their life at equal levels studying both magic and sword as they progress through level 40 and obtain an even Wizard/Figther combination of 20/20 they will receive the following modifications to spells due to their intimate understanding of sword and magic:

Spell Mantles: The number of spell levels absorbed increase by +5 per 5 CL above 15, up to 1d12+20 at CL40, then by +1 per additional CL, reaching 1d12+40 at CL60

Tenser's Transformation
- Spellswords get an extended duration on the Tenser's Transformation spell. It lasts for 1 turn per casterlevel instead of 1 round per casterlevel

Armored Casting:

Wizard Fighter Combinations allow them to use various armors without spell failure:

Light Armor ( NO Shield ): 10 Wizard / 10 Fighter
Medium Armor + Shield: 15 Wizard / 15 Fighter
Heavy Armor + Shield: 20 Wizard / 20 Fighter


Vampiric Touch:
Spell swords gain a permenant ON HIT: Vampiric Touch that is cast from their sword in an small size AOE and gain a bonus on their AB for touch attacks equal to: AB + Concentration Skill / 5 + Discipline Skill / 5

- The amount of healing the Vampiric Touch heals for is: (Discipline skill + Concentration skill * 3/4)d8 + CL healing, with a minimum of 1d8 and a maximum CL bonus of +15.

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Spellswords spells are limited to only spells that can be cast directly on a single target and simply create an ON HIT bonus on their weapon for the same effect.

The amount of spells they can cast on their weapon to create an ON HIT Bonus is calculated by the amount of wizard + fighter levels that are equal / 10

Eq. 20 Wizard + 20 Fighter = 40 / 10 = 4
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Eq. 10 Wizard + 30 Fighter = 20 /10 = 2
or.
15 Wizard + 25 Fighter = 30 / 10 = 3

Each ON HIT effect is powered by a Spellswords memorized spells. For every successfull ON HIT a Spellsword spell memorized by the Spellsword will be drained to fuel the spellswords power. The maximum level of the spellsword spell to be drained may be set by issuing the SIMtools commands !dam1 through !dam9. ( THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE VAMPIRIC TOUCH AOE Spell, this is a permanent effect)

To set the spells they want to cast on their weapon, spell swords will obtain an seperate autocaster that they can cast their spells on. Upon using the autocaster their current weapon will be imbued by the new ON HIT bonuses.


The following spells use both the fighter + wizard levels of the charcter for the calculation of DC and Spell Penetration.


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Note for future edits: Need to supply a list of wizard spells that can be cast on a target. This should be the list of spells that this class can use at the Fighter + Wizard DC level.

I'm using Discipline and Concentration as their primary skills to show the nature of th class and their need to be able to concentrate while in the middle of fighting to focus their arcane spells.

Additional spells besides target spells to be modified to be same as caster - Etheral Visage, Premonition(Effects work with Heavy Armor) + GMW


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They can still stand back and cast spells normally if they choose or wade into battle with some of their spells on their weapons. Provides for great flexibility.


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LBAB and BAB = Same as Fighter Progression

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Can still gain the extra abilities a fighter would gain as he levels up, the hone weapon + disarm + knockdown + additional concealment from the parry

[Acaos]

Sept 13, 2008 19:36:29 GMT Talamanthalon said:

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- Spellswords receive Autostill I / II / III for free.

- Armored Casting: Wizard Fighter Combinations allow them to use various armors without spell failure...

Having Auto Still obviates the need for the Armored Casting ability.

Acaos

[Talamanthalon]

Would drop the free autostills and just keep the armored casting. That way it allows the creator of the class to really customize how far they want to take the class.

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Edited to remove the 3 autostills

[uncanny]

Sounds like a fun quasi. One thing I'd look at though would be kicking in on a wizard level, as this would be a pain to play until your abilities start kicking in.
A potential abuse would be making it 20fighter, then taking the 20 wizard for full ab at both legendary and pre-epic. So, I'd suggest making it that you need the required elements BEFORE lvl21:

• 10 Fighter
  
• 10 wizard
  
• Weapon Focus: Longsword OR greatsword
  
• Skill focus: Discipline
  
• Skill focus: Spellcraft
  
• 20 Spellcraft ranks
  

Or something..

[Talamanthalon]

- To qualify for Spellsword the character must have 10 levels of Fighter, 10 levels of Wizard, and Weapon Focus (Longsword) + (Greatsword) + Skill Focus (Concentration) + Skill Focus (Discipline) before level 40.

The requirements are heavy to show the need to have a strong ability to focus on your spells while fighting. Also to compensate for the fact that fighters get a ton of feats.

The greatsword feat is for someone who might want to play with a two hander instead of sword and board. I chose the longsword because it just seems to fit the old Elven Fighter / Mage role. I was debating on making this an Elven class only because of the old ability for only Elves to multiclass Fighter / Mage.

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Also posted that maybe the BAB should be that of a fighter still, even LBAB

I posted lvl 40 for the requirements so that the wizard componenet could gain as many available slots per level of spells as they can.

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Still wondering if the spell slots drain while fighting for the on hit bonus should be changed to a fraction of the spells per on hit, since the book would be drained very quickly. Something like for every 3 on hits, it drains one spell slot instead maybe. Not sure.

[starlandra]

maybe it should be weapon focus in any 'sword' type? It makes no sense if a brownie wants to take this quasi and has to take a feat it could never use.

[Talamanthalon]

Am toying with the idea of spell replenishment from the characters spell mantle. Meaning for every 5 lvls of spell absorbed while thye have their special mantle up, they are able to recharge 1 spell. It also absorbs the magic from attacks, every 200 points of damage received replenishes one spell slot.

Not sure about this though, but it could be a solution to them chewing through their memorized spells rather quickly.

[FunkySwerve]

We can't add any fighter quasis until some pending edits for fighters are made, along with some pending weapons edits.

Funky

[hackenslay]

I didn't look too close(pretty tired tonight), but all I see are special abilities, w/o many negatives to balance them out... I'll look closer tomorrow, after some sleep, but maybe because the levels don't stack for spells like most quasi's it'll balance out... What do y'all think? (I used to love the fighter/mages myself)

ps- I removed the "elf only" limitation in my campaign, couldn't justify it when humans could be better mages than elves.