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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jalkain" data-source="post: 315725" data-attributes="member: 2473">I don't have time to post more, but here's an idea outline for the combat spell focus.Each level of battle mage gives 1 'focus level'. This focus level can be put towards adding a metamagic feat to a spell without increasing the level of the spell slot.  This can only be applied to spells from your focus group (i.e. area effect, touch etc), and you must actually possess the metamagic feat being applied (hence the requirement that you have some metamagic feats to join the PrC).Example: A 5th level wizard, 4th level Battle Mage gets 4 focus levels.  He can empower 2 Fireballs (which are still prepared in 3rd level slots, not 5th level), or quicken one Cone of Cold (still 5th level), or anything which adds up to 4 levels of metamagic.You can also prepare extra metamagic spells on top of your free allowance, but these are handled as normal.To balance this, I suggest you take the wizard spell list and remove most of the non-combat spells above 2nd level.  This forms the Battle Mage spell list.  He can cast some low-level utility spells from when he was just a normal wizard, but otherwise is very combat oriented.  To summarise the advantages and disadvantages over a normal wizard- Get some extra weapons, plus armour proficiency and reduced spell failure chance- 'Free' metamagic spells from spell focus- d6 instead of d4 for hit points- Only gets partial caster progression- Limited spell list</blockquote>

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