A question for those who have read Ultimate Magic and are good with system/balance type stuff.
I'm not a big fan of prepared spellcasting but really like the Magus. Would there be any balance issues if I were to play them as a spontaneous spellcaster, using the Bard's spells known/ per day progression table, keeping the Magus list?
Thanks ahead of time for any thoughts.
A question for those who have read Ultimate Magic and are good with system/balance type stuff.
I'm not a big fan of prepared spellcasting but really like the Magus. Would there be any balance issues if I were to play them as a spontaneous spellcaster, using the Bard's spells known/ per day progression table, keeping the Magus list?
Thanks ahead of time for any thoughts.
You would have to decide what to do with certain class abilities. Spell Recal for instance recovers a spell you've already cast. Recovering a spontaneous casters spell slot is not the same (and more powerful) then recovering a single spell you have cast. There are a couple others too that work around preping spells.
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A question for those who have read Ultimate Magic and are good with system/balance type stuff.
I'm not a big fan of prepared spellcasting but really like the Magus. Would there be any balance issues if I were to play them as a spontaneous spellcaster, using the Bard's spells known/ per day progression table, keeping the Magus list?
Thanks ahead of time for any thoughts.
I don't know if it would be a balance issue per se, but the Magus' arcane recall ability becomes considerably more powerful with a spontaneous caster, since you would be using it to refresh an open SLOT instead of a single specific spell.
Maybe consider a spontaneous "archetype" for your homegames that swaps out arcane recall for a sorcerer bloodline power of some kind? Otherwise, arcane recall is going to give you the ability to cast far more spells than any other spontaneous caster.
Also Knowledge Pool feature should be replaced (it allows Magus to prepare Magus spells that he does not have in his spellbook).
Interesting ideas. Maybe swap out Spell Recall for a third level sorcerer bloodline power?
I'm thinking Knowledge pool would just take a spell from the spell list and add it to spells known for the day. Seem right?
Interesting ideas. Maybe swap out Spell Recall for a third level sorcerer bloodline power?
I'm thinking Knowledge pool would just take a spell from the spell list and add it to spells known for the day. Seem right?
Again that is considerably more potent then adding a single instance of the spell. If you add it to your spells known you could potentially cast it as many times as you have spell slots. The normal ability would only allow one casting per use of this ability.
I'm thinking Knowledge pool would just take a spell from the spell list and add it to spells known for the day. Seem right?
Might be too powerful. Maybe if limit it to single spell every day and make it cost 1 point per level of the spell known gained in this way, but I am uncertain about this.
Hmmm, okay, maybe eliminating knowledge pool altogether and just taking two bloodline abilities from the sorcerer then? It would be neat from a flavor perspective. Choose a bloodline at 3rd level and gain the associated 3rd and 9th level powers (at 3rd and 9th level).
It's almost like an archetype as Fatespinner suggested, but seems like it could be fun.
Any balance concerns?