Complete Arcane: Which classes are you allowing?

[Remathilis]

Part 3 of 4. Which classes are you using.

 

[wayne62682]

All of them, including the Wu Jen (which I would rename and ditch the Asian flavor. Maybe make it something like an Elementalist?).

 

[Odhanan]

All of them (and a single button for "all of them" would be cool too, please).

 

[Crothian]

All of them, and a single all of them button would not be that useful. I like clicking many things!!

 

[Evilhalfling]

My world is just not big enough to have all of them - So I have a few that are in the game that started after ComArc. A few others in the game that existed since 3.0, esp some of the hold overs from tome and blood.
Old Game
Acolyte of the Skin
Alienist
MindBender
Effigy master (ratmen only so far)
Geometer (theoretically)
Enilghtined Fist (under consideration)
Sublime Cord (theoretically)

Green Island campaign
Warlock
Sublime Cord
Intiate of seven veils
elemental savant

This is probably the most integrated of all the splat books-
next is the Com Adv. Using very few classes, but feats, spells and equip see alot of uses.
the 3rd most used book is PHBII

 

[FrostedMini1337]

anyone played a mage of the arcane order? They seem wildly out of balance.....

 

[Sejs]

anyone played a mage of the arcane order? They seem wildly out of balance.....

I have. It's not that bad. The main feature is the spellpool, and really it totals out to be a smidge of utility. You're not going around leveling mountains, but when you run into situations where you think to yourself "damnit, if only I'd memorized X niche spell" you're better off.

It plays out roughly equal to purchasing some scrolls and having a good degree of forethought.

 

[airwalkrr]

I "allow" all of them in the sense that they all have a place in my campaign (I run Greyhawk). Some are far better known than others and some have various stigmas attached to them however that makes them virtually unplayable as PC options.

 

[Robert Ranting]

Truth be told, I don't get much use out of Complete Arcane, since my Homebrew uses Arcana Evolved's magic system, and the Variant Bard out of The Complete Book of Eldritch Might. However, there are a few Prestige Classes that seemed to fit my campaign's flavor.

Blood Magus- I've always liked "innate magic" and you don't get much more innate than making your blood magical.

Enlightened Fist- I'm a sucker for magic martial arts.

Seeker of the Song- My cosmology is based on the discarded/innacurate designs of Kepler, when he was still holding onto romantic ideas like Perfect Solids and The Music of the Spheres, and thus, the Primal Music seemed a good fit (though mechanically, it took some work).

Wayfairer Guide- If I could have taken this with my Shackled City character, that campaign would have been so much easier. AE's teleport is slightly less reliable than D&D, and so, we got telefragged or had to leave people behind too often. Worth the effort of converting it just to have the satisfaction of knowing it's there.

Thusfar, I've had one Enlightened Fist NPC, and one of the PCs in my next campaign is going to be an Aasimar Bard/Seeker of the Song.

Robert "Pick and Choose" Ranting

 

[Gold Roger]

All, though some have slight flavor changes, especially:

Warlocks aren't connected to fey and fiends- doesn't make sense for fey and fiends to grant so many abilities they don't have themself.

Wu-Jen aren't asian wizards, they are just variant wizards.

Elemental Savants are Energy Savants: I don't like the element-energy type system.

Greenstone Adepts are Adamantine Adepts.

Edit: Almost forgotten, I've changed Warmages to Int based casters.