LEW Feats: Elementalist

Erekose13

Explorer

• Mar 23, 2007

• #21

Regarding the rule against Base Classes, it was my Buccaneer that was first subject to that rule. It had been an attempt to create a light armor fighter for use in LEW, specifically Ravensblight because the city was known for its Dueling culture.

I would have liked to see that one and Bront's Noble class in play here. Ah well.

And yes UA variants and the like are acceptable. We've got a few as mentioned above, but also including the totem barbarians too.

Specifically regarding the domain wizard, they are like specialists who don't loose anything. I'd say they are overpowered, but not by a great deal. I'd say maybe loose familiar and 1st level feat. That way they are not front loaded at all.

 

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Bront

The man with the probe

• Mar 24, 2007

• #22

FYI, the specific reason to not allow it was for simplicity for judges and players. I'm all for discussing and potentialy overturning it, but I can understand the sentiment.

 

Rae ArdGaoth

Explorer

• Mar 25, 2007

• #23

I agree, Domain Wizard is slightly more powerful. One more spell per day per spell level, from a very specific list. Limited, but no drawbacks compared to the normal wizard. I'd be in favor of losing the familiar and/or 1st level feats, not much more than that, though. Or perhaps, making it more like the specialist and banning a school of magic.

As for base classes, I feel like they're tough to balance and over-complicate the basics. I feel like pretty much any character you want to create could be made using the current base classes and perhaps a new PrC or a new feat chain. You want a noble? I'd say rogue or bard, a high skills class. A duelist? Again, rogue: light armor and sneak attack damage, with some feats to improve feinting. Noble as a PrC is plausible, though I can't imagine too many PCs taking it. I'd be open to a Rogue modification that removed sneak attack in favor of some more "noble" abilities, though again, I can't see many players giving up SA. I am willing to be persuaded, though.

 

NakuruSai

First Post

• Mar 26, 2007

• #24

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#wizardVariantDomainWizard

With the domain wizard, would it be balanced as a first level feat and when you choose your domain you had to permanently give up another domain's spell list? Like take the cold domain and give up the fire domain? While some of the spells in the domain lists aren't wizard spells I looked through and I don't see a domain I would haphazardly give up without thinking about it.

 

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Bront

The man with the probe

• Mar 29, 2007

• #25

Still not good. You're talking 1 spell/level at most. That's hardly a downside.

 

NakuruSai

First Post

• Mar 29, 2007

• #26

Bront said:

Still not good. You're talking 1 spell/level at most. That's hardly a downside.

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Hmm..agreed. Ok, so what if it has a prohibited school like a specialist like Rae said?

 

Bront

The man with the probe

• Mar 30, 2007

• #27

A prohibited school would make it better.

I suggest that you might want to start a new thread on this specific subject though, so we can fine tune it.

 

Velmont

First Post

• Mar 30, 2007

• #28

So, the suggestion is have a domain wizard but with only 1 prohibited shool instead of two (making only divination domain wizard useless). That seems fine with me...

I must tell it is tempting for me to switch Opale from Illusionist to Domain Illusion if that should be approved. Prohibiting Evocation and Necromancy make Opale hard to play, even more in a higher level group than herself... but it also that make the charm of the character.

 

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Knight Otu

First Post

• Apr 18, 2007

• #29

Is this proposal still current, or does the domain wizard variant take its place?

 

NakuruSai

First Post

• Apr 24, 2007

• #30

Knight Otu said:

Is this proposal still current, or does the domain wizard variant take its place?

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I would still like to propose the feats: Energy Specialization and Elemental Familiar. In my opinion they allow more customizability and work well with elemental energy domain wizards.

There is a similar metamagic feat as Energy Specialization currently in LEW rules, however it's a chosen energy descriptor as opposed to a "locked-in" energy descriptor. If a forced energy descriptor is too powerful/weak we can balance it a little.

The only thing Elemental Familiar has that Improved Familiar has is the ability to augment your current familiar instead of dismissing your current and calling a new one. I've always played this as a house-rule but I wanted to be sure this was possible in LEW.

 

Last edited: Apr 24, 2007