Dark Sun: Athasian Wizard

[jlord]

I'm gonna be running a Dark Sun campaign soon. After looking at the 2nd and 3rd edition Dark Sun wizards and the rules for defiling and preserving, I decided to kind of combine them into an easy to fit archetype. Here is the result:

Athasian Wizard

Let me know what you all think. Wizardry is so rare and despised in dark sun, wizards don't have the luxury to specialize in schools of magic (at least in 2nd edition they couldn't), so I decided to create a "Defiling school" It rewards the evil defilers with more power, and weakens the good preservers all while dangling that power within their reach...

Anyway, let me know what you all think of it!

[Bill Lumberg]

This looks pretty good to me. I would suggest requiring caster level prerequisites for Distance Raze and Sickening Raze because if they are used in combination they can be devastating. A defiler could potentially defile the area that his targets are occupying and inflict the penalty for being in the defiling radius. The targets would also suffer the effect of whatever spell is cast on them. Then, the would suffer the nauseated condition for that round. That is a tremendously effective combination to hit enemies with.

[jlord]

Actually the raze feats are exactly as they were in the 3.5 version. Doing that combination for a wizard would be a three feat combo, but it would be easily doable even at level one if a human... I probably should add something. being able to do that at low levels could be pretty devastating.

[UsagiTaicho]

Dude, nicely done. Saves me the trouble of making the archetype myself, which I was going to do. Thanks a lot. I agree though that the feats should get some pre-reqs to limit their access until later levels.