One of my players wants to play a magus, but prefers the sorcerer spellcasting system. If I allowed him to change it would it make the class unbalanceD, and if so is there any way to fix it?
I don't think it would really. The Magus spell list is already extremely limited, I don't think swapping him to Spontaneous casting would really bust anything, even if you still let him learn new spells from spellbooks and such.
There are actually archetypes for this. Look at the Cabal Archetype.
Thanks, exactly what i needed
A Spontaneous Magus... Would be pretty much the old Duskblade, cept more streamlined with it's spell strike ability & more versitile with it's arcane pool.
I don't personally like that over the vanilla magus, but to each their own.
Can someone link the Cabal Archetype? My search fu fails me.
That being said it's probably as simple as treating spellcasting like a bard and switching Arcane Pool feature from int to cha - done and done. Probably not unbalancing.
Keep in mind that the spontaneous version of a class always gets more goodies than the prepared caster.