Help please! Need inspiration!

[Balsamic Dragon]

I promised one of my players that I would finish writing up a prestige class for tonights game and I have procrastinated all week and now I have writers block!

Here's what I have:

Arcane Trapmaker - the party is going through Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil and has discovered a dwarven library with a bunch of ancient books. Through studying these books, one of the PCs is picking up this prestige class. Basically it's, um, well, a trapmaker that does, you know, arcane stuff! I have major writers block and need help!

I need a description, requirements and some cool abilities.

The class will have d6 hit points, 4 skill points per level (already picked which skills), +1 level of spellcasting each level. That means that I want about one new special ability every other level, for a total of 5-6 special abilities. Any ideas? Please? Otherwise this is getting written on the train home and will probably suck

Balsamic Dragon

 

[Valicor]

Maybe a insight bonus to detect traps, & Disarm them.

level 4 +2
Level 6 +4
Level 8 +6

 

[bloodymage]

cool ablities?

Just something off the top of my head, no particular order:

Nondetectable trap (possibly w/ degrees of nondetect)
Sprung signal to know when trap is tripped.
Scry thru your trap
Automatic reset?
Scaling lethality every time it's tripped
Speak thru trap (maybe in conjunction w/ scry?)
Portable trap
Keyed traps (portal for you, lethal for others)

Maybe try free associating off this list, you'll come up with something. Hope it helps.

 

[Eye Tyrant]

Well, right off the bat I can think of the following:

- Bonus(es) to Craft magical traps
- Bonus(es) to Search for/Spot magical traps
- Bonus(es) to Disable magical traps

You could look at these:

- Bonus(es) to Saves vs. magical traps
- Come up with some (say 4) new spells for the PrCls


Not very creative I know, but I am at work and don't have access to my books...

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Salutations,

Are you using a trap making system? From S&S, Quint Rogue, or any of the other sources?

The Quint. Rogue, iirc, has trap making rules the revolve around a "matrix" - which has magical like effects.

You may want to flip through that at your lgs and works powers around that.

Respectfully submitted
FD

 

[Balsamic Dragon]

Thanks for all of the ideas so far!

I definately will use the insight bonus. I really like the idea of scrying through traps, specifically an ability that lets you roll scry to know when one of your traps goes off. I also like the idea of being able to set your traps to only trigger when certain things pass through.

I won't have time to pick up the Quint. Rogue, but it sounds interesting. I'll try to flip through it when I get the chance.

Thanks for the ideas so far! I will check again when I get home from work and then type everything up in my normal pre-game frenzy

Balsamic Dragon