Quasiclass: Magic Tinkerer

[dodrudon]

Requirements:
Base Race Gnome
Great Spell Focus Evocation
5 Levels each of two of the following classes: Wizard/Sorcerer/Bard

All by level 11.

The Tinkerer's learned magic at an early age, becoming obsessed with the simplest spells. Instead of learning newer and more powerful spells, the Tinkerer improves upon the old spells, bringing them to their full potential.


The Tinkerer's level (TL) is the sum of all wizard, sorcerer, and bard levels.

Many high level spells change to become more like lower level spells. Spells not listed below are cast at 2/3rds TL.


Meteor Swarm -> TL/6 simultaneous fireballs centered on caster, doing half blud, half fire damage, OR casts fireball on each individual mob, so a small crowd of 5 mobs would each be hit by 5 fireballs
Wail of the Banshee -> Finger of Death (with FoD's normal DC) cast on effected mobs
Weird -> those failing the initial Will save are inflicted with fear, those failing a fortitude save die
Timestop -> attempts a Power Word: Stun on all mobs in area
Energy Drain -> attemps a Bestow Curse and Ray of Enfeeblement on target in addition to normal effects

Incendiary Cloud -> casts Combust once per round on all mobs within the cloud, avoidable by reflex save
Horrid Wilting -> also lowers strength as per Negative Energy Burst
Mass Charm -> attempts a Flesh to Stone (without the bonus +5 to DC) on affected mobs

Prismatic Spray -> in addition to normal effects, all creatures must make a Will save or be stunned
Delayed Blast Fireball -> a triple strength fireball
Banishment -> all outsiders and elementals take TLd4 magic and divine damage

Acid Fog -> duration is instantaneous, casts Melf's Acid Arrow on mobs in area, evadable for half damage vs reflex save

Evard's Black Tentacles -> casts Negative Energy Burst once per round, affecting Dex instead of Str

Magic Missle -> at TL 40, Magic Missle becomes Issac's Lesser Missle Storm; at TL 50, it becomes Issac's Great Missle Storm
Negative Energy Burst -> at TL 50, attempts a Ray of Enfeeblement on all affected mobs


More spells would be modified than this, but that's all that comes to mind right now.

[dodrudon]

A few more ideas.

Magic missile -> Becomes Force Missile. Damage per missile progressively increases to double normal amount, the target also must make a save or become KDed.
ILMS -> each missile has a different effect, either 10d6 of a random element, 5d6 of a random exotic, or save or stunned, or savepolymorphed, or save or die, or Melf's Acid Arrow, or Combust
IGMS -> Damage increases by 1 point per three points per LL, if the CC is Tinkerer, as well as an additional point at level 60.
Greater Spell Breach -> infects target with an effect similar to Melf's Acid arrow, every round it attempts to dispel the strongest two buffs on the target, lasts TL/10 rounds.
Spell Breach -> similar to GSB, but only attempts to dispel a single buff

The Epic Abjuration for TL has an additional effect: after three rounds, a mord is cast on affected creatures for a second time. The concealment strip is not repeated.