Okay, a bit of a warning. This is a pretty nice class but you may never ever want it anywhere near your table.
What this is is pretty much a wizard. It has the wizard spell list and casts with Int. Has the same saves, HD and basic stats. What it does not have is a school, arcane bond or bonus feats. Instead it gets a mage talent every other level. The Talents are actually pretty interesting. They grant various buffs to different casting, one grants a familiar, one gives you access to a 'college' that has it's own talents for a form of magic. All around it's a pretty okay class.
Then there's the controversial part. The single most interesting and broken thing: It casts spells infinitely. Basically you can only have one spell prepared at a time, but you can prepare spells as many times as you want per day. Preparing a spell takes a full round action for the first level. As you level up your lower level spells can be prepared faster while your more powerful spells still take a full round to prepare. You don't have a spell book but you can spend money to memorize a new spell. You are capable of learning spells from a new level at the same rate as a wizard. If you're familiar with the Wizard's spell list this is broken beyond reason. About the only place it's not broken is in mid combat when you have to start preparing things while being attacked but the out of combat versatility is way too much.
But I'll give it this, in combat it is pretty worthless so there's that. And that's why it has such a high rating really. Its a different kind of wizard that wins in different ways. A more interesting and dynamic way and if the wizard spell list were different I'd allow it. But this thing is way too good out of combat, to the point of probably being able to avoid it altogether. But you may be able to have fun with it and I'm just paranoid so I'm leaving it with three stars but noting that I won't let this class ever touch my games.
You can find this over on Paizo.com here.
Retrospective:
Its been a while but my feelings on this class stays the same. I still marvel at how it's designed and how it has this 'all day' aspect to it that feels more natural than spell slots. But there's the whole issue that spells themselves, particularly the ones on the Wizard spell list, are so pervasive that I don't feel comfortable with this thing having access to higher level spells too many times a day. I'm just too afraid of using this and it's neat design is the only thing that's keeping it from a one star rating.
What this is is pretty much a wizard. It has the wizard spell list and casts with Int. Has the same saves, HD and basic stats. What it does not have is a school, arcane bond or bonus feats. Instead it gets a mage talent every other level. The Talents are actually pretty interesting. They grant various buffs to different casting, one grants a familiar, one gives you access to a 'college' that has it's own talents for a form of magic. All around it's a pretty okay class.
Then there's the controversial part. The single most interesting and broken thing: It casts spells infinitely. Basically you can only have one spell prepared at a time, but you can prepare spells as many times as you want per day. Preparing a spell takes a full round action for the first level. As you level up your lower level spells can be prepared faster while your more powerful spells still take a full round to prepare. You don't have a spell book but you can spend money to memorize a new spell. You are capable of learning spells from a new level at the same rate as a wizard. If you're familiar with the Wizard's spell list this is broken beyond reason. About the only place it's not broken is in mid combat when you have to start preparing things while being attacked but the out of combat versatility is way too much.
But I'll give it this, in combat it is pretty worthless so there's that. And that's why it has such a high rating really. Its a different kind of wizard that wins in different ways. A more interesting and dynamic way and if the wizard spell list were different I'd allow it. But this thing is way too good out of combat, to the point of probably being able to avoid it altogether. But you may be able to have fun with it and I'm just paranoid so I'm leaving it with three stars but noting that I won't let this class ever touch my games.
You can find this over on Paizo.com here.
Retrospective:
Its been a while but my feelings on this class stays the same. I still marvel at how it's designed and how it has this 'all day' aspect to it that feels more natural than spell slots. But there's the whole issue that spells themselves, particularly the ones on the Wizard spell list, are so pervasive that I don't feel comfortable with this thing having access to higher level spells too many times a day. I'm just too afraid of using this and it's neat design is the only thing that's keeping it from a one star rating.
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