💾 Archived View for gemini.theuse.net › textfiles.com › rpg › divine_magic.txt captured on 2022-01-08 at 19:48:26.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
"This item incorporates or is based on or derived from copyrighted material of TSR, Inc. and may contain trademarks of TSR. The item is made available by MPG-Net under license from TSR, but is not authorized or endorsed by TSR. The item is for personal use only and may not be published or distributed except through MPG-Net or TSR." I had been looking to make the priest class more different from the wizard class, because right now, what more is the priest than a religious wizard who get spells from his god instead of a book? Going on this, I decided that there was no reason to have priests memorize spells at the beginning of the day. This, however introduced a new problem: priests would be overpowered. So I developed a new system where the player DOESN'T KNOW how many spells he can cast. He simply asks his diety (prays) when he needs one, and he MAY get it. -* New Priest spellcasting system *- The base spell progression for a priest is the same as before, but one level lower, so a second level priest would have a base of one first level spell, and a first level priest would have a base of no spells. Also, there is always a base chance of spell failure. This is figured by looking at the WIS table as if the priest had a WIS four lower than his actual WIS score. (17 & 18 WIS have a 0% spell failure) Bonus wisdom spells still apply IF a normal AD&D priest would be high enough level to cast them. That's the easy part. When a priest goes a day without using any spells, the spell levels are "stored" (kept track of by the DM) If a priest has a progression of 4/3/1, and he uses three first level spells and two second level spells that day (leaving one spell of each level uncast), he stores six spell levels (1+2+3) If he had cast three first, one second and one third, he would have stored five spell levels (1x1 + 2x2 + 0x3) A MAXIMUM OF TEN SPELL LEVELS PER CASTER LEVEL MAY BE STORED. A fourth level caster can store only up to forty spell levels. Now it gets tricky. These spell levels can be used to cast spells beyond the caster's base progression. The costs of spells are listed below. A caster may cast spells that he ordinarily wouldn't have access to, but in order to do that, he'd have to go days without using any spells, and the %failure still applies. Also, if a caster uses these bonus levels to cast more than one spell of the same level in the same day, the cost increases each time. This prevents a caster from 'taking advantage of his diety' by casting forty-two cure light wounds spells. First level spell costs 8 spell levels, then 16, then 24, etc... Second level spell costs 24 spell levels, then 32, then 40, etc... Third level spell costs 40 spell levels, then 48, then 56, etc... Fourth level spell costs 56 spell levels, then 64, then 72, etc... Fifth level spell costs 72 spell levels, then 80, then 88, etc... Sixth level spell costs 88 spell levels, then 96, then 104, etc... Seventh level spell costs 104 spell levels, then 112, then 120, etc... This might at first seem to be a bit powerful, as a ninth level caster could cast sixth level spells at some points, but keep in mind that the player does not know when he can cast what, whether he has spells remaining in his progression, or whether the spell will fail or not. If a player has a progression of 4/3/1, has used 4/2/1, has 6 spell levels stored, and tries to cast a cure light wounds, it fails! (unless you decide to allow the 2nd level slot to be used for the first level spell) This might also seem to limit the priest too much, but take into account the fighting ability and HP of priests, second only to warriors, and the greatly increased versatility and higher level spells available to priests under this system, and I think it will work nicely. ________________________________________________________________________________ Greg Howley | Bristol, CT | NEVER accept a teleport spell Central CT State U | from a mage with no legs Howley_Gre@CCSUa.CTStateU.Edu | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------