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<blockquote data-quote="Naoki00_" data-source="post: 6179476" data-attributes="member: 99243"><p>Yeah I've always known the damage isn't as 'useful' as the save or die stuff, which personally I don't like much as those are boring to me lol, I mean come would you rather make a dude just drop dead, or shoot a fist sized bolt of pure plasma through their chest?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well i don't think a whole new system would be ok in the DM's eyes, he's looking through the word casting stuff as is lol, as for the concept I'm trying to go for a specialist mage, someone who's devoted their entire skill and time into mastering the forces of weather, particularly lightning. I hate how you always get stuck with "I'm a sorceror, but I have a few fire spells in addition to the same spells as other sorcerors and I can do cool fire things 1/day, so i'm a pyromancer!", spells feel like a crutch because thats all the class gets, no interesting class powers that actually really amount to making the class feel...well interesting or unique. (this is the class itself mind you, proper roleplay can make anyone cool and interesting, even if the class mechanics aren't, but I don't like playing cool guys with boring moves >.>) The magus idea is a possibility but the idea was less a dude trying to swing something, I would imagine someone thats devoted so much time would just shoot lightning at people as his 'basic' move, like it was second nature, things like the stormborn bloodline but not SO sparse and hardly worth the wait, like getting an interesting power a 9th that...once, and then aaaaall the way to 15th, you get another!..once</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Naoki00_, post: 6179476, member: 99243"] Yeah I've always known the damage isn't as 'useful' as the save or die stuff, which personally I don't like much as those are boring to me lol, I mean come would you rather make a dude just drop dead, or shoot a fist sized bolt of pure plasma through their chest? Well i don't think a whole new system would be ok in the DM's eyes, he's looking through the word casting stuff as is lol, as for the concept I'm trying to go for a specialist mage, someone who's devoted their entire skill and time into mastering the forces of weather, particularly lightning. I hate how you always get stuck with "I'm a sorceror, but I have a few fire spells in addition to the same spells as other sorcerors and I can do cool fire things 1/day, so i'm a pyromancer!", spells feel like a crutch because thats all the class gets, no interesting class powers that actually really amount to making the class feel...well interesting or unique. (this is the class itself mind you, proper roleplay can make anyone cool and interesting, even if the class mechanics aren't, but I don't like playing cool guys with boring moves >.>) The magus idea is a possibility but the idea was less a dude trying to swing something, I would imagine someone thats devoted so much time would just shoot lightning at people as his 'basic' move, like it was second nature, things like the stormborn bloodline but not SO sparse and hardly worth the wait, like getting an interesting power a 9th that...once, and then aaaaall the way to 15th, you get another!..once [/QUOTE]
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