1st ed Illusionist, bringing back the feel of in 3rd ed.

[Joseph Elric Smith]

For me a prestige class doesn't cut it, because I don't want a regular mage who has decided to be an illusionist, but I liked the original class as a dedicated illusionist. I I guess I just have too many fond memories of playing an illusionist, and having fun surprising the encounters with my spells.
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[Particle_Man]

Thanks to all of you for your advice. I have looked into Fantasy Flight's School of Illusion, although I am not sure if it is in Canada yet.

I also appreciate the work that went into the illusionist on that web site.

I wonder if I am caught in a bind. As a DM, I could restrict the spells available to non-illusionists, thus maintaining the flavour, but then I can't play one. On the other hand, it is highly presumptuous of me to ask another DM to restrict the spell lists of all non-illusionists just to be able to play one that is compatible with the old style. But the ideas above have given me reason to hope.

thanks again.

 

[Malin Genie]

Illusionist Core Class

Illusionist Variant Core Class:

No familiar
Add Bluff, Disguise, Knowledge (Arcana), Perform, Sleight of Hand to skill list
Remove Alchemy, Knowledge(Any) from skill list
4 + Int skill points/level

Scribe Scroll at 1st level
At 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th bonus feat. Either Metamagic or pick one of: Create Wondrous Item, SF (Illusion), GSF (Illusion)#, Arcane Defence (Illusion)+, Improved Concentration (new, described below)

0th level: Arcane Mark, Control Shadow%, Dancing Lights, Daze, Detect Magic, Elfsight%, Light, Mage Hand, Prestidigitation, Read Magic

1st level: Cause Fear, Change Self, Colour Spray, Comprehend Languages, Conceal Thoughts%, Detect Secret Doors, Erase, Ghost Light@, Hypnotism, Invisibility to Undead^, Leomund's Trap, Net of Shadows#, Nystul's Magical Aura, Nystul's Undetectable Aura, Obscuring Mist, Shadow Mask*, Silent Image, Sleep, Unseen Servant, Ventriloquism

2nd level: Amplified Invisibility%, Blur, Claws of Darkness*, Control Light%, Daylight, Darkness, Darkvision, Fog Cloud, Hypnotic Pattern, Illusory Script, Invisibility, Magic Mouth, Minor Image, Mirror Image, Misdirection, Moonbeam#, Obscure Object, Pyrotechnics, Scare, Secret Page, See Invisibility, Shadow Spray*, Silence, Undetectable Alignment^, Whispering Wind

3rd level: Blacklight#, Blink, Clairaudience/Clairvoyance, Daylight^, Deeper Darkness^, Displacement, False Sensory Input%, Flashburst*, Hallucinatory Terrain, Illusory Wall, Invisibility Purge^, Invisibility Sphere, Khelben's Suspended Silence*, Major Image, Nondetection, Phantom Steed, Rope Trick, Sculpt Sound, Sepia Snake Sigil

4th level: Aiming at the Target@, Detect Scrying, Dispel Magic, False Vision, Fear, Gaseous Form, Hold Person, Improved Invisibility, Mirage Arcana, Phantasmal Killer, Rainbow Pattern, Scrying, Seeming, Shadow Conjuration, Shadow Well*

5th level: Confusion, Dream, Greater Shadow Conjuration, Ghostform+, Leomund's Secret Chest, Mass Invisibility, Mind Fog, Mislead, Nightmare, Programmed Image, Servant Horde@, Shadow Evocation, Shadow Hand*, True Seeing, Veil

6th level: Brilliant Blast%, Greater Dispelling, Greater Shadow Evocation, Guards and Wards, Fantastic Machine#, Permanent Image, Prismatic Eye*, Repulsion, Sequester, Shades, Shadow Walk, Translocation Trick*

7th level: Aura Alteration%, Ethereal Jaunt, Finding the Centre@, Mind Blank, Prismatic Spray, Screen, Sequester, Simulacrum, Teleport, Vision

8th level: Dream Travel%, Insanity, Limited Wish, Maze, Plane Shift, Prismatic Wall, Sunburst, Vanish, Weird

9th level: Antipathy, Astral Projection, Clone, Greater Fantastic Machine, Moonfire#, Prismatic Sphere, Spell Turning, Sympathy, Teleport Without Error

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