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Did a conversion for one of my favorite prestige classes, I guess it'd be fair to do one for another.
Prerequsites:
Skills: Knowledge (Arcana) 5 ranks Spellcraft 5 ranks
Feats:Any Metamagic Feat
Spellcasting: Able to spontaneously cast 1st level spells and prepare and cast 2nd level spells from a spellbook (or familiar if playing a witch)
Level--BAB--Fort--Ref--Will--Class Abilities
01----- 0 -- 0 -- 0 -- 1 --Arcane Spell Power +1
02----- 1 -- 1 -- 1 -- 2 --Expanded Spell Knowledge (1st Level or lower)
03----- 1 -- 1 -- 1 -- 2 --Augmented Casting
04----- 2 -- 1 -- 1 -- 3 --Arcane Spell Power +2 Expanded Spell Knowledge (2nd Level or lower)
05----- 2 -- 2 -- 2 -- 3 --Bonus Feat
06----- 3 -- 2 -- 2 -- 4 --Expanded Spell Knowledge (3rd Level or lower)
07----- 3 -- 2 -- 2 -- 4 --Arcane Spell Power +3
08----- 4 -- 3 -- 3 -- 5 --Expanded Spell Knowledge (4th Level or lower)
09----- 4 -- 3 -- 3 -- 5 --Bonus Feat
10----- 5 -- 3 -- 3 -- 6 --Arcane Spell Power +4 Expanded Spell Knowledge (5th Level or lower)
Skill Points Per Level (4+Int mod)
Class Skills: Craft, Fly, Linguistics, Knowledge (All skills taken seperately), Profession, Spellcraft, Use Magic Device.
Spell Casting Progression:
At all levels except 1st, 4th, and 7th, the Ultimate Magus increases their arcane spell casting level in both spontaneous spell casting and prepared spell casting class. At 1st, 4th, and 7th the Ultimate Magus increases their lowest level arcane spell casting class. If the Ultimate Magus has more than one spontaneous arcane spell casting and prepared arcane spell casting class each, he must choose which classes to increase.
Arcane Spell Power: (Ex)
At 1st level and every three levels after 4th, 7th, and 10th, the Ultimate Magus increases the caster level for all arcane spells by +1 to a maximum of +4 at 10th level. This is for spells based off of caster level only, you do not gain increased abilities gained from a familiar, specialty classes, or bloodlines.
Expanded Spell Knowledge: (Ex)
At 2nd level you can select one 0- or 1st level arcane spell from your spell book and add it to your list of spontaneous casting class, even if you cannot cast spells of that level. (In this case, you would know the spell but wouldn't be able to cast it until you had spell slots of the appropiate level).
You can add another spell from your spell book to your list of spells known every two levels there after. At 4th Level this can be a 0-, 1st, or 2nd level spell. 6th Level this can be any spell of 3rd level or lower. 8th Level this spell can be 4th level or lower. Finally at 10th Level this spell may be of 5th level or lower.
Augmented Casting: (Su)
Starting at 3rd level you can choose to sacrifice a spell or spell slot from one of your classes to apply the effect of a metamagic feat to you know to a spell cast from another arcane class. (For instance, you could sacrifice a sorcerer spell slot to apply a metamagic effect to a wizard spell being cast.) This sacrificed spell or spell slot is lost (just as if you had cast it) in addition to the spell being cast.
The level of the spell to be augmented cannot exceed 1/2 your Ultimate Magus level. For example when you gain access to this ability you can only use it for 1st level spells. While a 10th level Ultimate Magus may use this ability for any spells up to 5th level.
The level os the spell slot being sacrificed must equal or exceed the spell level adjustment of the metamagic feat. To empower a spell, for example, you would have to sacrifice a 2nd level or higher spell or spell slot. You cannot use this ability on a spell already affected by a metamagic feat.
You can use this ability a number of times equal to 3 + 1/2 your class level.
Bonus Feat:
At 5th and 9th Level the Ultimate Magus may select a bonus Metamagic Feat for which they meet the prerequisites.
Honestly, I don't think UM needs any improvement in a conversion. It's already an excellent prestige class for the type of character it represents. Allowing it to advance school and bloodline powers is just too much IMO. Only prestige classes that specifically revolve around those class features should advance them (ie, Dragon Disciple, which ONLY works for the Dragon Bloodline).
Also, you got the save chart incorrect. Pathfinder changed how prestige classes advance saves. Good saves start at +1 and advance by another +1 every odd level. Poor saves start at +0, advance to +1 at 2nd level, and get another +1 every 3 levels after that (5, 8, ...).
Hey thanks for pointing out the error.
And on second thought you are right about the bloodline/specialty class abilities. So I've taken out the paragraph for reediting.
Still if others want to toy with the Idea this is what was taken out from Spell casting Progression.
In addition at 2nd level and every 3 levels there after 5th and 8th, the Ultimate Magus may add these levels for any level dependent related bloodline ability, or specialty class. Including any abilities granted for a familiar. For example a Wizard 3/Sorcerer 2/Ultimate Magus 5, would treat her sorcerer level as if she were 4th level in the class thus gaining 2 bloodline powers and 1 additional spell. And would also treat her wizard level as if she were 5th level thus increasing her familiar or arcane bound item appropiately, and for any level dependent abilities for her specialty class.
*uses a philosopher's stone on the thread*
Sorry for the thread resurection but i had some ideas, how about giving the ultimate magus full bloodline progression with the arcane sorcerer bloodline(and only that bloodline)?
I mean it fits thematically and i think that it would be a good addition (and a small power up IMO) for the ultimate magus. If that's to be done it should be restricted to arcane bloodline, meaning any ultimate magus who chooses his sorceror levels to be his spontaneous spellcasting class must be a sorceror of the arcane bloodline.
I am against about adding ultimate magus levels to wizards shcool powers.
Also how about making the augemented casting ability 3+(CHA or INT) instead of 3+1/2 ultimate magus levels?