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Hello all,
This is my first stab at making an archetype. I plan to present it to my DM who is new to Pathfinder. I need it to be understandable and I want it to be fair. My goal was a wizard who could cast spells psychically. I love the ability to know a lot of spells even if I can't cast as many each day.
*Occult Mind*
Spells
Your Wizard spells count as psychic instead of arcane. You use thought and emotion components instead of verbal and somatic components when casting your spells. Occult Minds cast spells from the Psychic’s spell list.
Instead of a spell book, an Occult Mind forms a bond with a crystal worth at least 100g and is available at character creation. This crystal is also the subject of the Occult minds Occult Bond. See below.
An Occult Mind must focus on his crystal each day to prepare his spells. Crystals store all of the spells that an Occult Mind knows, and an Occult Mind cannot prepare a spell that is not stored in his crystal. An Occult Mind’s crystal begins play storing all of the 0-level psychic spells plus three 1st level spells of the Occult Mind’s choice. The Occult Mind also selects a number of additional 1st-level spells equal to his Intelligence modifier to store in his Crystal. At each new witch level, he adds two new spells of any spell level or levels that he can cast (based on his new Occult Minds level) to his crystal. An Occult Mind can also add additional spells to his crystal through a special ritual. This process is similar to the method a Wizard uses to scribe addition spells into his spell book in that he must either have a scroll, spellbook or another Occult Minds crystal to add additional spells to his spell book.
Occult Bond
An Occult Mind must choose a bonded object as his Occult Bond. This object is his focus crystal this crystal may be part of an amulet, ring or other item that may be altered or upgraded as normal for the class feature.
An Occult Mind loses Scribe Scroll as a bonus feat and gains Psychic Sensitivity.
Seems like a nerf but if you're fine with that it should be fine.
Obvious problem for me is that there is less reason for psychic scrolls to be floating around and the chances of finding a focus crystal are much lower than the chances of finding another wizards spell book, so you lose the main advantage of being a prepared caster.