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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 6280815" data-attributes="member: 87"><p>A quick example of something along these lines that is balanced is the Magi prestige class in my setting. Spells in my setting are split into five colors of magic (what can I say, I like the flavor of MtG). A magi has a color of magic they focus on. Each color is allied to two colors and has two enemies. If a spell belongs to the magi's focus color he gets to use it at the lowest level from among all levels listed for it. He can also use it even if it belongs to another class so long as the level of the spell is lower than his magi level. The tradeoff? He doesn't count his magi levels when determining his caster level for spells belonging to his enemy colors, even if they appear on his class list. So a 5th level Valran Magi, 5th level wizard can cast raise dead (Valra, 5th), but his fireball spells only hit for 5d6 damage and he can't use Wall of Fire at all.</p><p></p><p>As a class the magi can cast any spell. But any given character in the class cannot.</p><p></p><p>To make this work I had to assign a color to all 1000 or so spells in Pathfinder which took me nearly a year. While it was fun, and reasonably balanced, it wasn't worth it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Morris, post: 6280815, member: 87"] A quick example of something along these lines that is balanced is the Magi prestige class in my setting. Spells in my setting are split into five colors of magic (what can I say, I like the flavor of MtG). A magi has a color of magic they focus on. Each color is allied to two colors and has two enemies. If a spell belongs to the magi's focus color he gets to use it at the lowest level from among all levels listed for it. He can also use it even if it belongs to another class so long as the level of the spell is lower than his magi level. The tradeoff? He doesn't count his magi levels when determining his caster level for spells belonging to his enemy colors, even if they appear on his class list. So a 5th level Valran Magi, 5th level wizard can cast raise dead (Valra, 5th), but his fireball spells only hit for 5d6 damage and he can't use Wall of Fire at all. As a class the magi can cast any spell. But any given character in the class cannot. To make this work I had to assign a color to all 1000 or so spells in Pathfinder which took me nearly a year. While it was fun, and reasonably balanced, it wasn't worth it. [/QUOTE]
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