PRC: Gifted Mage

[Sigurd]

I have a confusion over the basis, 'Gifted'. You mean all the other wizards who work their asses off are just too stupid to take this class . Shouldn't a gifted mage just be better at the base class? Why don't you come up with a setting element that is at once a reason and a constraint on the class? (Perhaps bodily exposure to the weave, or a really dangerous source of magic?) If a character is going to get a better deal than the other ones (and this is undeniably a better deal they need a real risk or at least less common prereqs.


Sigurd.

 

[szilard]

I have a confusion over the basis, 'Gifted'. You mean all the other wizards who work their asses off are just too stupid to take this class . Shouldn't a gifted mage just be better at the base class? Why don't you come up with a setting element that is at once a reason and a constraint on the class? (Perhaps bodily exposure to the weave, or a really dangerous source of magic?) If a character is going to get a better deal than the other ones (and this is undeniably a better deal they need a real risk or at least less common prereqs.


Sigurd.

As I said, this is more a thought experiment than anything else.

-Stuart

 

[szilard]

Take a look at this: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/magic/magicRating.htm
Combined with the Practiced Spellcaster feat, it might not be so terrible.

That's interesting...

I'd glanced at it before, but never really read it.

Hmmmm...

-Stuart