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<blockquote data-quote="Will" data-source="post: 5034153" data-attributes="member: 5566"><p>I'm a fan of using existing material as much as possible. Making yet another new system of alchemy or whatnot is messy and runs considerable risks of being unbalanced as hell.</p><p></p><p>Houserule: Skills as caster levels</p><p>Certain skill ranks 'count' as caster levels to qualify for a craft feat. Alchemy, for example, permits learning Brew Potion and Craft Wondrous Items. Wondrous Items must be in the form of elixirs and similar.</p><p></p><p>As a noncaster, you have a recipebook. You can fill it with sor/wiz spells, cleric spells, and druid spells. Transcribing a spell into the book is handled like wizards adding spells to their spellbook. Once transcribed, you 'know' the spell for magic item purposes.</p><p></p><p>Your sorcerer/wizard caster level, for the purposes of whether you can learn the recipe, is your ranks in Knowledge (arcana).</p><p>Cleric, Knowledge (religion).</p><p>Druid, Knowledge (nature).</p><p></p><p>So an Alchemist with a decent Knowledge (nature) would be somewhat of an herbalist, able to make a variety of useful potions for curing ailments and infusing with natural might.</p><p></p><p></p><p>One might complain that this cuts into the role of casters, but a caster can do this stuff with 0 skill investment, has more options for Craft Wondrous Items, and doesn't have to blow cash on spells he can't actually cast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Will, post: 5034153, member: 5566"] I'm a fan of using existing material as much as possible. Making yet another new system of alchemy or whatnot is messy and runs considerable risks of being unbalanced as hell. Houserule: Skills as caster levels Certain skill ranks 'count' as caster levels to qualify for a craft feat. Alchemy, for example, permits learning Brew Potion and Craft Wondrous Items. Wondrous Items must be in the form of elixirs and similar. As a noncaster, you have a recipebook. You can fill it with sor/wiz spells, cleric spells, and druid spells. Transcribing a spell into the book is handled like wizards adding spells to their spellbook. Once transcribed, you 'know' the spell for magic item purposes. Your sorcerer/wizard caster level, for the purposes of whether you can learn the recipe, is your ranks in Knowledge (arcana). Cleric, Knowledge (religion). Druid, Knowledge (nature). So an Alchemist with a decent Knowledge (nature) would be somewhat of an herbalist, able to make a variety of useful potions for curing ailments and infusing with natural might. One might complain that this cuts into the role of casters, but a caster can do this stuff with 0 skill investment, has more options for Craft Wondrous Items, and doesn't have to blow cash on spells he can't actually cast. [/QUOTE]
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