Domain Wizard Variant

[Patlin]

I believe Orsal's post is consistent with the proposal, and vote Yes.

 

[Erekose13]

yes Orsal's final version looks like where you were going narukusai and I'm ready to vote on it.

 

[NakuruSai]

Orsal's clarification is correct in what I was trying to propose. Sometimes I run around the subject too much - my apologies.

 

[Erekose13]

That means it passes after the 48hr deadline. We'll need to drop it into the Rules thread, but you can go ahead and create a domain wizard now.

 

[Velmont]

I know that generally, a rule that have been approved can be applied to an old character retroactively... could that rule be applied to a specialist wizard? I don't think I'll change Opale speciality for a Domain (even if I seldom regret the choice of my forbidden schools), but maybe someone else could be interested.

 

[IcyCool]

Out of curiousity, what happens if one of your Domain spells belongs to the school that you chose as your prohibited school?

 

[NakuruSai]

Out of curiousity, what happens if one of your Domain spells belongs to the school that you chose as your prohibited school?

I was looking at that with Cold domain, necromancy prohibited - chill touch is necro...

 

[IcyCool]

I was looking at that with Cold domain, necromancy prohibited - chill touch is necro...

My suggestion would be, "A Domain wizard cannot choose a school as a prohibited school if one or more of the spells in his chosen Domain is from that school."

That will keep the theme a bit (if you have access to chill touch, you should probably have access to all necromancy spells), and then all we have to do is make sure that no Domain (new or old) has a spell from every school except Divination and Universal.

 

[Velmont]

I was telling, for example of Cold domain, I wouldn't mind much to see someone taking Necromancy as his forbidden school. Being able to understand one spell among a whole school is not such a big deal. But then I thought, what if I choose Necromancy Domain and Necromancy as a forbidden school?

Just for that example (and all other schools example) I think you are right. Even if that chill touch seems the most acceptable example to go against that, all other make less or no sense to me. I don't see a Battle domain wizard forbidding Transmutation (with most boost spell) or Evocation (with most offensvive spell) or Abjuration (with most defensive spell).

 

[Rae ArdGaoth]

I don't know that we really need a modification to the rules as written. If somebody wants to take a domain with prohibited spells in it, they will be at a disadvantage, so... they wouldn't! Unless for some flavor reasons they wanted to (or a DM making an NPC wanted to), in which case we could leave the option open. I don't think we need to protect the players' from themselves.