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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3451864" data-attributes="member: 13966">Not finished with my Aurelian version of the sorcerer or its three variants yet.For my Rhunaria homebrew, I added houserules for three kinds of sorcerer, with a brief mention of rumors that other, stranger varieties of sorcerer may exist, but those are unconfirmed as of yet.The spirit sorcerer was added to accomodate Karil's backrgound and desired flavor for his spellcasting and its source.  Fit well enough anyway into Rhunaria's abundant profusion of spirits and spirit realms.  The talisman sorcerer was likewise put in to accomodate Mouse's little flavor, always flinging coins to cast her spells, with the coins disappearing afterward.  The natural sorcerer was just accomodating the standard, common sorcerers of the world with a few minor benefits to balance out with the other sorcerer variants (and the wizard, since sorcerers are a bit too disadvantaged by comparison).  A sorcerer PC would just choose which of the three kinds they'd be upon taking the class, and receive the appropriate benefits.I'll put my Rhunarian sorcerer houserules into a spoiler block, since they take up a handful of paragraphs in total (considering the spirit sorcerer's various differences, whereas the other two are quite simple).  Note that I use 3.0 rules as a base, so one or two things may seem a bit unusual or something for 3.5 players.[sblock]Sorcerers in Rhunaria come in various types, bearing different gifts and sources for their power.Common sorcerers are called blood sorcerers or natural sorcerers, as their arcane talents comefrom a magical heritage, some ancestor or parent who belonged to a magical race such as dragons,celestials, fiends, or fey.  Many descendants of these creatures have a talent for sorcery, thoughonly some pursue the development of this talent further.  As a houserule, Rhunarian bloodsorcerers gain a bonus metamagic feat, Spell Focus feat, Spell Penetration feat, or Skill Focus featat their 3rd sorcerer level and every four beyond that.The next most common variety of sorcerer in Rhunaria is known as the talisman sorcerer orfetish sorcerer, who requires some unique sort of extra material component for every spell, out ofsome unknown eldritch connection to that type of item.  Theories abound on how or why theseconnections are formed, ranging from divine selection to spirits' favor to mysterious astrologicalarcana.  Some think this type of sorcerer is created artifically through some alchemical or arcaneritual used by some unknown cult or secret society.  In any case, the type of talisman or fetishused as a reagent varies by the individual but is consistent for that individual.  Thus, some usecoins as reagents, others use teeth, yet others use dragon scales, many use handfuls of particularspices or herbs, and a few even use such odd reagents as knives or tankards of ale!  As ahouserule, Rhunarian talisman sorcerers must sacrifice an appropriate material component inorder to cast any sorcerer spell, but in exchange the save DCs of their spells are increased by +1,and they learn an extra spell at each even-numbered sorcerer level.A fairly rare type of sorcerer is the spirit sorcerer, who possesses some inherant bond with theGhostlands and is favored by worldly spirits, for reasons unknown to sages.  Spirit sorcerersbefriend spirits who serve them through tasks appropriate to the spirit's nature, such as a firespirit lighting campfires or building walls of flame to keep enemies of the spirit sorcerer at bay.Often the spirit sorcerer doesn't know why the spirit has befriended him or her, and the spiritsseem offended or agitated if asked why they serve the sorcerer, so there's no telling what theirmotives are.  Then again, spirits are otherworldly beings not easily comprehended by mortals, sothey may simply refuse to explain because it could be beyond mortal ken.  Spirit sorcerers mustoften focus their attention on their spirit benefactors, whether they like it or not, as the spiritsdemand constant attention by the sorcerer and seem to crave mortal interaction or answers.As a houserule, Rhunarian spirit sorcerers gain the ability at 1st-level to sense the presenceof most worldly spirits and communicate with them, partly through speech and partly through thespirits' mental communication.  Often the spirit sorcerer is contacted through dreams to conversewith the spirits, but rarely remembers these sessions upon waking.  Spirit sorcerers are notinherantly able to sense ephemeral spirits, such as wraiths and ghosts, who have no worldly formand only take on temporary forms to harass mortals.  Through the spirits they do sense, however,they can tell what sort of mood has been around the area recently, infer minor hints about recentactivities in the area, determine the alignment of any recently-deceased creatures in the area(whether or not corpses remain), judge the general health of an area or individual, and sometimesnotice the presence of magic, evil, good, law, or chaos in the vicinity.  Of course, the sorcerer canonly detect that which the spirits allow him or her to, as all he really senses is what sort of spiritsare in the area, and he can't really identify specifics (such as a spirit's name) and he cannot sensethe presence of creatures (whose spirits/souls are too tightly bound to their bodies).  Hostile orsingle-minded spirits are unlikely to reveal their presence to a spirit sorcerer, let alone speak.Spirit sorcerers may, at 1st level, choose to gain Knowledge [Spirits] in place of Knowledge [Arcana] as a sorcerer class skill.  A spirit sorcerer's familiar is always a spirit creature, regardless of whatever templates or creature types it technically has; the familiar gains the Spirit subtype from Oriental Adventures, which pretty much just renders them susceptible to certain spells from that supplement.  At 5th-level a spirit sorcerer gains the Improved Familiar feat, from the 3E D&D supplement Tome & Blood, and it costs them nothing to replace their familiar at that time, if any, with a new familiar appropriate to the feat.  For purposes of the Improved Familiar feat, however, the spirit sorcerer does not get to choose their type of familiar, and cannot dismiss it afterward; only death will separate them from that particular familiar, and then allow them to summon another random familiar after a year and a day.  However, intentionally killing the familiar is likely to prevent any other spirits from ever answering a familiar summons by that spirit sorcerer.  Aside from their spirit sense and familiar differences, a spirit sorcerer gains a bonus feat at 10th-level, which can be either a Spell Focus, Spell Penetration, Combat Casting, or metamagic feat, or can instead be any other feat that requires spellcasting ability, as long as the spirit sorcerer meets any prerequisites.  Spirit sorcerers of 17th-level or higher gain See Invisible as a permanent supernatural ability, and if they already knew that spell, they learn a new spell of the same level in its place.  Spirit sorcerers often learn various custom spells based on the spirits that befriend them.Rumors abound of rare, mysterious, exotic sorcerers in Rhunaria, such as totem sorcerers, shadowsorcerers, bone sorcerers, necrophage sorcerers, elemental sorcerers, exalted sorcerers, stormsorcerers, chaos sorcerers, ley sorcerers, void sorcerers, phantom sorcerers, abyssal sorcerers, ormachina sorcerers.  However, while these rumors are common, they are generally laughed at bysages and discredited as uneducated observances of shamans, shugenja, wu jen, or druids.Nonetheless, at least a few of these rumors likely hold kernels of truth.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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