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First thing I noticed while reading the Arcane Schools was that the DC for the Spells you get were 10 + the spells level + the caster's Charisma modifier. Huh?... This has got to be an error.. Why would a Wizards power be based on Charisma and not Intelligence?
I am thinking this is a misprint. If it is not, why?
If this has been addressed already I apologize *I looked did not find it*
Director of Games
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First thing I noticed while reading the Arcane Schools was that the DC for the Spells you get were 10 + the spells level + the caster's Charisma modifier. Huh?... This has got to be an error.. Why would a Wizards power be based on Charisma and not Intelligence?
I am thinking this is a misprint. If it is not, why?
If this has been addressed already I apologize *I looked did not find it*
Nope. This one was intentional. First, we wanted to spread out Wizards a bit so that they care about a stat other than Int. Second, many of these powers are Spell-like abilities, which are frequently based off Charisma as a representative of the character's Force of Will.
Hope that helps.
Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
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Second, many of these powers are Spell-like abilities, which are frequently based off Charisma as a representative of the character's Force of Will.
Isn't charisma a representative of that character's force of personality? Will seems to fit better with wisdom (since it does determine your "will save" and all).
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Nope. This one was intentional. First, we wanted to spread out Wizards a bit so that they care about a stat other than Int. Second, many of these powers are Spell-like abilities, which are frequently based off Charisma as a representative of the character's Force of Will.
Hope that helps.
Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Though I understand the Spell like ability reason..
Wizards do not need another stat to worry about other then Int. They already do.
Dexterity for AC *Lack of armor means they needs this*, and reflex saves, and if they want to hit anything with a Ray they will need to something in Dex.
Constitution for HPs and Fort, they have a low enough HPs already, with out something in Con they are even worse..
Making them put something in Chr now just hurts the Wizard IMO, and not only that, a lot will just take schools that have less powers that require saving throws so they don't have to worry about Chr.
I hope there are other things introduced to kill min/maxing.
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Nope. This one was intentional. First, we wanted to spread out Wizards a bit so that they care about a stat other than Int. Second, many of these powers are Spell-like abilities, which are frequently based off Charisma as a representative of the character's Force of Will.
Hope that helps.
Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
I still don't agree with the idea of that (in the same way I don't actually agree with the granting of spell-like abilities, but that is in another thread). A wizard's power should be based off his INT - it always has been in the past. Forcing a wizard to boost his CHA too is another reason why the spell-like abilities feel sorcerer-y - I just don't like the flavour of this, it flies in the face of what wizards have been about in 3E (and prior to then too).
I kind of like this idea, because it reinforces how I saw them, as sort of by products of the specialist knowing how to manipulate his "school energy" instead of actually casting a spell.
yay thats how I saw it too its not a spell but they know how to manipulate magic energy to produce the effect.