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dragonfan6490
2010-11-29, 07:43 PM
Ok, so my Search-fu and Google-fu fail me. I seem to remember some time ago reading about homebrew specialty list casters a la Warmage, Dread Necromancer, and Beguiler.

Could those of you whose knowledge is greater than mine point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance!

Mulletmanalive
2010-11-29, 07:47 PM
Arguskos produced the Summoner and Diviner specialist, Temotei produced the Debaser and there are various others.

Currently somewhere around the third page is the Homebrewer's Extended Signature thread, which is a mecca of links for such hings

arguskos
2010-11-29, 07:59 PM
Arguskos produced the Summoner and Diviner specialist, Temotei produced the Debaser and there are various others.

Currently somewhere around the third page is the Homebrewer's Extended Signature thread, which is a mecca of links for such hings
YOU SAY MY NAME AND I AM THERE! *poof*

Ok, so, here's (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95336) my Summoner (half of conjuration) and Savant (divination/abjuration). Ignore the Spellweaver, it's incomplete.

Also, I made the Rearranger (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99314), the Transmuter.

The Corruptor (IWILLNEVERCALLITTHEDEBASERDAMMIT:smallfurious::sm alltongue:) is not really a specialty caster, more like if the Hexblade was more magical and less martial, but rocks anyways. It can be found here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137200).

Mulletmanalive
2010-11-29, 08:34 PM
...how does he do that?

I'd forgotten about the rearranger...

Then again, it always seemed kinda broken because, well, Transmutation is so generally mental. Tgen again, as the largest pool of spells, it's going to have more poor design than the others. Did it turn out as Tier 1 as it looks?

arguskos
2010-11-29, 08:43 PM
...how does he do that?

I'd forgotten about the rearranger...

Then again, it always seemed kinda broken because, well, Transmutation is so generally mental. Tgen again, as the largest pool of spells, it's going to have more poor design than the others. Did it turn out as Tier 1 as it looks?
The Rearranger? Nah. It's actually got a surprisingly limited spell list to draw from. The issue is that it can do certain things very very well, and gishes out incredibly effectively, but it doesn't do much else. It can't defend itself, it can't beat other casters, it has almost no utility beyond the purely physical (a rearranger can make a boulder into mud, but can't actually get to the top of a mountain without turning the entire mountain into mud one square at a time).

For instance: a rearranger can't actually fight a dragon on even footing, due to sheer inability to REACH the damn thing. If the dragon ever decided to stop flying around and land, they'd have a fight, but as it stands, the rearranger literally just can defend himself from breath weapons with walls of stone and hiding behind metal and whatnot.

I say all this from experience, I had a player play a rearranger for quite awhile, and he reported (and I observed) that while he was GREAT in a dungeon or a land-based fight, once you got outside of that he started to have issues.

PairO'Dice Lost
2010-11-30, 12:06 AM
I made an abjuration/divination caster a while back, the Oracle.

gkathellar
2010-11-30, 01:47 AM
Ah, I put together a campaign setting using these at one point, so I have a bunch from these forums indexed. Here are ones other people haven't already linked to:

From T.G. Oskar: a Retooled Healer (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133118) and a Retooled Warmage. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131346)

From Frog Dragon: the Spellshifter, a transmutation specialist. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162170)

From Jarrick: another Summoner (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8362297) and a Witch class. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9176244)

From Saph: the Teleporter. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=168948)

Temotei
2010-11-30, 02:00 AM
he Corruptor (IWILLNEVERCALLITTHEDEBASERDAMMIT:smallfurious::sm alltongue:) is not really a specialty caster, more like if the Hexblade was more magical and less martial, but rocks anyways. It can be found here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137200).

I wasn't going to post, but this always makes me happy. I might have changed its name had you not been so bothered by it. :smalltongue: