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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7491433" data-attributes="member: 37579">Looking at what I mused earlier and pulling from swordmage flavour, this class could be the guy in no armour or light armour that fights with a sword and magic but is protected by an inherent mage armour effect. Calling that "Aegis". That's a good solid level 1 feature as it sounds cool and invokes feelings of defence while also sounding arcane. IIRC the swordmage has a similarly named power. Off the top of my head, I'd say that you can activate your aegis after a long rest through 1 minute of meditation, surrounding yourself with a light magical aura of protection that lasts for twelve hours. While your aegis is active, so long as you are wearing light armour or are unarmoured, you add your Proficiency bonus to your Armour Class. And at higher levels, the Aegis could be augmented with other effects. In addition to Aegis, the class maybe needs a small ribbon. Perhaps a couple small cantrips. Non-combat ones like prestidigitation. Make blade ward as well.I still like the idea of the class imbuing their weapon (or shield) with magic. This might be a buff that lasts for 1 minute but recharges after a long rest. But you can burn a spell slot to activate it again, or augment the effect. Which allows it to scale nicely. As this should balance with a 1st level spell (so a 1st level spell slot can recharge it), we can look at the wizard's Arcane Recovery as a guide for how many uses this should get. Which keeps the class in line with a multiclass fighter/wizard. Personally, I'd try and balance this class against a character using the build rotation of an eldritch knight fighter, wizard, fighter, fighter. So 1/4 wizard but 1/2 caster. That means the class might get a second free usage at level 14.This would make the class look like: [TABLE="width: 500"][TR][TD]Level[/TD][TD]PB[/TD][TD]Features[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]1[/TD][TD]+2[/TD][TD]Aegis, Cantrips[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]2[/TD][TD]+2[/TD][TD]Fighting Style, Imbue Magic (one use), Spellcasting[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]3[/TD][TD]+2[/TD][TD]Subclass[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]4[/TD][TD]+2[/TD][TD]ASI[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]5[/TD][TD]+3[/TD][TD]Extra attack[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]6[/TD][TD]+3[/TD][TD][/TD][/TR][TR][TD]7[/TD][TD]+3[/TD][TD][/TD][/TR][TR][TD]8[/TD][TD]+3[/TD][TD]ASI[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]9[/TD][TD]+4[/TD][TD][/TD][/TR][TR][TD]10[/TD][TD]+4[/TD][TD][/TD][/TR][TR][TD]11[/TD][TD]+4[/TD][TD][/TD][/TR][TR][TD]12[/TD][TD]+4[/TD][TD]ASI[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]13[/TD][TD]+5[/TD][TD][/TD][/TR][TR][TD]14[/TD][TD]+5[/TD][TD]Imbue Magic (two use)[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]</blockquote>

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