ditching the schools of magic?
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Storyteller01
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ed.han said:
Arcana Unearthed had specialization via spell templates. Made for a very nice system.
An option would be to play around with the news spells that Wizards gain at each level. You could build pre-selected lists of spells to be learned that followed some type of themic pattern, and give the Wizard character the equivalent to spell school bonuses with those spells. I.e. a Wizard selects a set of "elemental" spells in advance that she will learn at each level. She then gets a bonus spell slot with just those spells, plus the other spell advantages. Of course she would have to give up something, such as one of the other schools.
storyteller: i'm familiar w/ AU & AE and am a fan of monte's work. :> i wish the unfettered were a core PHB class betimes.
robjh: you seem to be describing an arcane "domain". conceptually, i find that idea very interesting. very interesting indeed.
i ask this question b/c i'm working on a variant magic system and find that i get precisely 0 mileage out of the schools. the subschools, however, are useful to me. so i was considering re-grouping the spells into something more immediately useful, or perhaps just adding enough descriptors as to make schools completely unnecessary.
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robjh: you seem to be describing an arcane "domain". conceptually, i find that idea very interesting. very interesting indeed.
i ask this question b/c i'm working on a variant magic system and find that i get precisely 0 mileage out of the schools. the subschools, however, are useful to me. so i was considering re-grouping the spells into something more immediately useful, or perhaps just adding enough descriptors as to make schools completely unnecessary.
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I like the 'Domain' idea of themed spells being made a set
In one setting I was working on spells were designated by an Elemental Theme (Earth-Wind-Fire-Water-Life/Death-Soul) called a Tradition. A character casting within their tradition gained bonuses, outside there tradition gained penalties and a few spells were neutral.
A character would start with a particular Tradition and use feats to access more if they wished.
In one setting I was working on spells were designated by an Elemental Theme (Earth-Wind-Fire-Water-Life/Death-Soul) called a Tradition. A character casting within their tradition gained bonuses, outside there tradition gained penalties and a few spells were neutral.
A character would start with a particular Tradition and use feats to access more if they wished.
