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<blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 739916" data-attributes="member: 1264">Alchemist: That's a reasonable approach if your only goal is to strengthen alchemy, at the expense of Brew Potion. But you still tie the production of alchemical potions to specific magical spells. I would prefer my alchemy to be more distinct from magic. I.e. there should be things you can do with spells but not with alchemy, and vice versa! (You might argue that magic should be able to do anything, but then at least there should be things tat are much easier to do with alchemy.)In terms of alchemical concoctions, I think we're starting to get somewhere if you combine all the published sources. Just having a d20 to combine all the OGL alchemical preparations (except for Bastion Press) would be a big step forward. Maybe with a license from Dragon Magazine for their published items as well.However in terms of supporting rules, there's still a real gaping hole. Here's a couple of places where I think there's room for improvement:- have at least ONE non-magical alchemist PrC- some feats to allow faster creation times, higher DC's, damage (the pyro feat seems rather poorly done IMHO), etc.- some rules regarding ingredientsA lot of these issues overlap with poison making and mechanical tinkering (another area where there's a surprising lack of non-magical PrC's!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Conaill, post: 739916, member: 1264"] Alchemist: That's a reasonable approach if your only goal is to strengthen alchemy, at the expense of Brew Potion. But you still tie the production of alchemical potions to specific magical spells. I would prefer my alchemy to be more distinct from magic. I.e. there should be things you can do with spells but not with alchemy, [i]and vice versa[/i]! (You might argue that magic should be able to do [i]anything[/i], but then at least there should be things tat are much easier to do with alchemy.) In terms of alchemical concoctions, I think we're starting to get somewhere if you combine all the published sources. Just having a d20 to combine all the OGL alchemical preparations (except for Bastion Press) would be a big step forward. Maybe with a license from Dragon Magazine for their published items as well. However in terms of supporting rules, there's still a real gaping hole. Here's a couple of places where I think there's room for improvement: - have at least ONE non-magical alchemist PrC - some feats to allow faster creation times, higher DC's, damage (the [i]pyro[/i] feat seems rather poorly done IMHO), etc. - some rules regarding ingredients A lot of these issues overlap with poison making and mechanical tinkering (another area where there's a surprising lack of non-magical PrC's!) [/QUOTE]

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