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<blockquote data-quote="kenada" data-source="post: 8926677" data-attributes="member: 70468">To expand on what was said by [USER=7026617]@Thomas Shey[/USER] on the previous page: PF2 does not have custom spell lists per class. Pathfinder doesn’t even try to divide them up. A class that tried to pare down the list would be weird and probably confusing to players because it’s unprecedented in the system. Any assumptions you have about how spells work would now have an exception for that one class. However, it might be interesting to have a class built around focus spells. You would have a bigger point pool that you could spend on different effects, but those would all be specific to your class. The other approach is using the existing customization options to implement a magic-using class, which is what the <a href="https://downloads.paizo.com/PZO2113_KineticistClassPlaytest.pdf" target="_blank">kineticist</a>† does.The kineticist in PF1 featured a tone of class-specific customization options. The approach Paizo is taking in PF2 is to implement that all as class feats. You pick your element, and you choose various different impulses based on what you want to do. An impulse is (more or less, though not actually) a spell. You get a bunch of different ones as you advance. Of course, there are downsides to this approach. Kineticists don’t benefit from new spells that might be useful to them, and they presumably can’t learn new spells like other magic-using classes can. On the other hand, they get to do their thing without upsetting the system’s parity between casters and martial characters.[HR][/HR]† Note: This is a link to playtest material. It’s possible the class could change when it is released with Rage of Elements.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kenada, post: 8926677, member: 70468"] To expand on what was said by [USER=7026617]@Thomas Shey[/USER] on the previous page: PF2 does not have custom spell lists per class. Pathfinder doesn’t even try to divide them up. A class that tried to pare down the list would be weird and probably confusing to players because it’s unprecedented in the system. Any assumptions you have about how spells work would now have an exception for that one class. However, it might be interesting to have a class built around focus spells. You would have a bigger point pool that you could spend on different effects, but those would all be specific to your class. The other approach is using the existing customization options to implement a magic-using class, which is what the [URL='https://downloads.paizo.com/PZO2113_KineticistClassPlaytest.pdf']kineticist[/URL]† does. The kineticist in PF1 featured a tone of class-specific customization options. The approach Paizo is taking in PF2 is to implement that all as class feats. You pick your element, and you choose various different impulses based on what you want to do. An impulse is (more or less, though not actually) a spell. You get a bunch of different ones as you advance. Of course, there are downsides to this approach. Kineticists don’t benefit from new spells that might be useful to them, and they presumably can’t learn new spells like other magic-using classes can. On the other hand, they get to do their thing without upsetting the system’s parity between casters and martial characters. [HR][/HR] † [B]Note:[/B] This is a link to playtest material. It’s possible the class could change when it is released with [I]Rage of Elements.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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