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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 1738435" data-attributes="member: 19130">Oh, and one more thing!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Zeltrachaon and that other one (you know who you are), the Technologist is done as a class, except that, well, there are no devices to choose from.  That's because I pretty much just pulled the Technologist out of my DM's hat, so making devices will be what I politely call a "player-directed activity."That means I let you make them, and then approve them and add them to my ever-growing list of devices to choose from.  I'll be available for contact here and via e-mail if you need any help, and if you're truly pressed for time I can do this part for you if you can give me a general idea of what you want each device to do.The rules are pretty simple.  I'm attaching a rough spell effects classification chart - it lists various basic spell effects, and rates them according to the Wizard's, the Cleric's, and the Technologist's ability to manifest that particular effect.  For instance, if an effect has a 2 for Technologists, a 1 for Clerics, and a 3 for Wizards and you have a Wizard spell in mind you want to use as the base of the device's effect, you would increase the "spell level" by 1 to make up for a technologist's slightly-reduced ability in that area.  If it had been a cleric spell, you would have instead reduced the spell level by 1 for this purpose.  Zeroes are a special case: they represent minus 3 levels, basically things that that character class just can't do (Wizards and healing spells, for instance).Once you have a phantom spell level, price it as below, and see what type of device selection will be required:1st level - 5 (gadget)2nd level - 10 (gadget)3rd level - 15 (gadget)4th level - 15 (technology)5th level - 30 (technology)6th level - 45 (technology)7th level - 45 (artifact)8th level - 90 (artifact)9th level - 135 (artifact)The numbers up there, from 5 to 135, are the costs for activating an instantaneous effect at that level.  If it instead has a duration, divide that number by 5 to find the per-time unit cost.  Technologist devices do not have per-level durations - they have a time unit (1 round, 1 minute, 10 minutes, 1 hour) and must be paid for as a swift action to keep them going.Upgrades are like metamagic feats from the PHB/SRD - artificer upgrades are +1 levels, technologist upgrades +2 levels, and technomancy upgrades +3 levels.Whew.  That's the, uh, short version.</blockquote>

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