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I am getting ready to run a military campaign. The warmage class from Complete Arcane really fits into my ideas but I'm concerned with the Pathfinder defensive casting rules. It is now much harder to cast without provoking, and while I get that for regular wizards and other casting classes, it does not fit well with the warmage class. They are trained specifically to cast spells in combat. Any ideas from the community of how I could work around this without messing up things? My only idea right now is giving Warmages another class ability at first level that would allow them (and only them) to cast on the defensive as it was in 3.5 ( concentration DC 15 + spell level instead of the 15 + double spell level. ) My concern here is that it would make it too easy to cast at higher levels since you now use your caster level + ability mod as the bonus to your concentration check. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Someone is playing a Warmage in my campaign straight out of the tin in a Pathfinder campaign and is absolutly fine as is.
I am getting ready to run a military campaign. The warmage class from Complete Arcane really fits into my ideas but I'm concerned with the Pathfinder defensive casting rules. It is now much harder to cast without provoking, and while I get that for regular wizards and other casting classes, it does not fit well with the warmage class. They are trained specifically to cast spells in combat. Any ideas from the community of how I could work around this without messing up things? My only idea right now is giving Warmages another class ability at first level that would allow them (and only them) to cast on the defensive as it was in 3.5 ( concentration DC 15 + spell level instead of the 15 + double spell level. ) My concern here is that it would make it too easy to cast at higher levels since you now use your caster level + ability mod as the bonus to your concentration check. Any help would be very much appreciated.
At low levels it will be slightly difficult, but at higher levels it will get easier. Clerics, and druids also go into melee, but they dont get a bonus, so the warmage should not either. It is just the cost of being a caster. I will say however that combat casting is your friend, you should not leave home without it.
The 15 + double spell level sounds harder than what it actually is. A warmage would need a 17 to cast a 1st level spell defensively.At first level he gets his class level(1)+cha mod(3 hopefully at least)+ combat casting(+3). That means only a 10 on the dice at first level with combat casting, and it will get slightly easier to cast you higher level spells advance.
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I am getting ready to run a military campaign. The warmage class from Complete Arcane really fits into my ideas but I'm concerned with the Pathfinder defensive casting rules. It is now much harder to cast without provoking, and while I get that for regular wizards and other casting classes, it does not fit well with the warmage class. They are trained specifically to cast spells in combat. Any ideas from the community of how I could work around this without messing up things? My only idea right now is giving Warmages another class ability at first level that would allow them (and only them) to cast on the defensive as it was in 3.5 ( concentration DC 15 + spell level instead of the 15 + double spell level. ) My concern here is that it would make it too easy to cast at higher levels since you now use your caster level + ability mod as the bonus to your concentration check. Any help would be very much appreciated.At low levels it will be slightly difficult, but at higher levels it will get easier. Clerics, and druids also go into melee, but they dont get a bonus, so the warmage should not either. It is just the cost of being a caster. I will say however that combat casting is your friend, you should not leave home without it.
The 15 + double spell level sounds harder than what it actually is. A warmage would need a 17 to cast a 1st level spell defensively.
At first level he gets his class level(1)+cha mod(3 hopefully at least)+ combat casting(+3). That means only a 10 on the dice at first level with combat casting, and it will get slightly easier to cast you higher level spells advance.
combat casting is a +4
just fyi
Can always go with caster or character level portions.
I.E. DC 10 plus a portion of the will save or other things mixed.
I dunno, just some ROUGH ideas for ya to mess with.