Quasi-Class - The Inventor

[halo26]

Now this isn't going to be the most expanded class ever..i just have the base idea so feel free to expand on/rip to shreds

Base Class/ Dwarf or Gnome
Class requirements - 10 Rogue
- 10 Wiz

Feat Requirements - Spell Focus Enchant
- Spell Focus Transmu
- Skill Focus Appraise
- Weapon Focus Crossbow
Stat Requirement - Int 18

You have always been a tinkerer, a jack of all trades. Your desire to learn has always kept you searching for new ways to do things. This has now led you to your ultimate invention... The Custom Blasta! This crossbow is a medley of your magic skills and your design inventions and is equipped with some impressive quarrels!

From here there are so many ways this build could be taken. The way i see it is a crossbow that is upgraded as the inventor gains levels (and perhaps int?) I was thinking of a cross bow attack bonus that goes up depending on the number of levels (max of +16). An extra attack (like on db bows) at inventor level 10, and maybe 4 or 5 custom shells that can be made (limited no. a day + financial cost)

Potential Shells...
1) Deep-borer - fired high into the sky this bolt plunges high into sky b4 burrowing into the ground before detonating cause a huge shock-wave. - Earthquake spell + chance of kd?

2)Electromagnet - Strange wires emerge from this quarrel and a faint beeping noise comes from it . When fired into a target it draws the power of storm into its target - Call lightning on 1 target yet more powerful...200/300 elec damage reflex save on damage.

3) The Acid Shot - This quarrel is made with a glass tip, underneath it it a strange green substance is bubbling...
- 200/300 acid damage + similar effect to melfs acid arrow...paralyzes opponent?

4) The Rift - using ur knowledge of spells and different dimensions you have created a quarrel that on impact opens a rift..to where u have no idea but things generally don't come back... - low level implosion?

...anyway you get the idea there are hundreds of potential quarrel you could do

Opinions?

[FunkySwerve]

Interesting, and little script overhead. Might be a touch underpowered, even, as 10 caterlevels hurts prettty badly.
Funky

[halo26]

..ok slight revision to plan while sat at work bored...
1) switch the 10 wiz to 10 bard levels, keeps the 'jack of all trade idea'
2) make the recipe for the shells/quarrels drop as loot drops in various places
3)the parts for these shells then bought in alchemist, u cant make it til u have the recipe (ur tinkering with the engineering and magic here..too much stuff might go wrong!)

4) Further abilities...

'Things are looking bad, the enemies are swarming everywhere, your caster is down and your tank is taking a meeting... With a grimace you reach to your custom blasta and flick the switch to full auto...' - works like hail of arrows but two attacks on each opponent

'It missed again! This enemy was too hard, his armour and speed making him almost impossible to hit. Reaching into your backpack you pull out your most dangerous shell! Made with an unstable critical mass and wrapped in as many forms of magic as you can (hmm...quick thought... does more damage the number of different spell focus's you have) you fire this bolt towards the enemies... it doesnt need to hit him with a blast area this big! - similar look to starfire, kd plus 300(?) neg damage + magoc damage of 10d10 x number of spell focuses..

[holla]

I had a similar idea for a Grenadier type, using wiz spells cast on empty bottles to creat types of throwable bombs, maybe this would work in conjunction? Just a thought.

Holla.

[Besiege]

holla said:

I had a similar idea for a Grenadier type, using wiz spells cast on empty bottles to creat types of throwable bombs, maybe this would work in conjunction? Just a thought.

Holla.

Idea of Grenadier is very very cool, but I always imagined him as dwarf .

[Acaos]

I really like this quasiclass idea. I was actually writing one up very similar, except I called it the Artillerist, and I required that the wizard levels be specialist evoker and require Greater Spell Focus Evocation rather than Spell Focus Enchantment/Transmutation.

It would be very nice to get the Rapid Reload and Weapon Specialization (appropriate crossbow, whichever matches your Weapon Focus) feats for free when you qualify for this quasiclass, and maybe for evocation spells to have rogue + wizard as caster level for evocation spells (for effects and penetration).

Maybe also require the Still Spell feat to qualify, and get Auto Still Spell I during quasiclass addition, plus allow EV to work for them in light armor? A good inventor/artillerist makes plans for lab accidents, and this could make use of some of the nice light armor on the server that's rarely used.

[khaine]

Mayby change the pre-requisites to not skill-focus appraise, but just a certain level of skill points, and also maybe some item-creation feats.

What I feel would make this great is a level of customisations: Still having recipies, but you gain recipies as you gain levels. The trick is that as you explore you find variations. Ways to customize aoe shapes, elements, etc.

Its a great idea though.

[magicpants11]

Maybe he could also have an ability similar to the balistas in Warcraft II...a target area thing...where he would attack an area constantly (1 or 2 attacks per round) doing relatively high dmg in a small area, but lowering AC by a balanced amount.

[Kallan/ Kallana]

I like the idea of a crossbow actually being useful.
way to think outside the box on this one.