I intend to ban prepared casting for my campaign.
What would be the spells known progression for the paladin and ranger?
Also what class features would they have to trade in to have the same amount of spells per day/known as a bard?
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No class feature loss.Count Geiger wrote: What would be the spells known progression for the paladin and ranger?
Also what class features would they have to trade in to have the same amount of spells per day/known as a bard?
Here, take a gander at this:
http://dungeons.wikia.com/wiki/Kantian_ ... e_Class%29
Paladin with Charisma-based spontaneous casting and Bard spells-per-day and it's pretty good.
The Paladin and Ranger would NOT have to trade in features. They could really GET features, and the casting buff.
Although Rangers shouldn't have spells. Really, a Ranger is a fighter who lives out in the woods and probably owns a bow.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Edited just a bit, but don't want to ninja.
Anyways, one of these days I'm going to make up a few alternative features for the Tome Fighter and call it the Ranger and leave it at that for my games...
Anyways, one of these days I'm going to make up a few alternative features for the Tome Fighter and call it the Ranger and leave it at that for my games...
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Count Geiger
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Not a damn clue, honestly. I've never played a druid OR a ranger.Count Geiger wrote:I know rangers are basically combat druids but I like them almost as they are. What spells would you put on their spells known if they could cast spells like that kantian paladin.
Edit: Wait a minute, I know how to start this.
What do you want rangers to do with their spells?
Personally, I can see them being oriented towards terrain/battlefield control, whistling up help through summons, some buffs/healing and maybe the less-flashy damage spell (like Call Lightning as opposed to that flaming scimitar one).
So a first-level spell will be Entangle. Later on, you get mist and cloud spells, and stuff like Freedom of Movement and Find the Path.
But I won't be much more help than that, seeing as how I don't know the Druid/Ranger spells very well and I'm not in a mental condition to trawl through them and look for them.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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CatharzGodfoot
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A ranger that does damage with archery and battlefield control with spells would be pretty neat. That's a 'gish' I'd like to see.
1st: entangle, faerie fire, obscuring mist.
2nd: fog cloud, gust of wind, summon swarm.
3rd: sleet storm, spike growth, wind wall.
4th: air walk, control water, spike stones.
5th: control winds, transmute rock to mud and back to rock again, wall of thorns.
1st: entangle, faerie fire, obscuring mist.
2nd: fog cloud, gust of wind, summon swarm.
3rd: sleet storm, spike growth, wind wall.
4th: air walk, control water, spike stones.
5th: control winds, transmute rock to mud and back to rock again, wall of thorns.
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Drive in reverse
Win Game.
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That's honestly what I was thinking. Rangers, if they had to have spells, show up in my head using those spells in conjunction with other things, like bows.CatharzGodfoot wrote:A ranger that does damage with archery and battlefield control with spells would be pretty neat. That's a 'gish' I'd like to see.
1st: entangle, faerie fire, obscuring mist.
2nd: fog cloud, gust of wind, summon swarm.
3rd: sleet storm, spike growth, wind wall.
4th: air walk, control water, spike stones.
5th: control winds, transmute rock to mud and back to rock again, wall of thorns.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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That's what I was thinking you were thinking. 
You'd probably want it to go up to at least 6th level (bard casting).
6th: control weather, guards and wards, ...and earthquake?
Ideally it would be more plant and animal based (I could totally imagine the list being entirely plant, animal, and weather spells), but there isn't enough good battlefield control in the core.
You'd probably want it to go up to at least 6th level (bard casting).
6th: control weather, guards and wards, ...and earthquake?
Ideally it would be more plant and animal based (I could totally imagine the list being entirely plant, animal, and weather spells), but there isn't enough good battlefield control in the core.
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-Anatole France
Mount Flamethrower on rear
Drive in reverse
Win Game.
-Josh Kablack
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Drive in reverse
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Here are some Spell Compendium spells (listed at official level, not necessarily where we'd put them):
2nd: blinding winds, briar web.
3rd: nature's rampart, vine mine.
4th: eye of the hurricane, poison vines
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Here's the list without earth magic:
Utility
0th: dancing lights, know direction, message
1st: speak with animals
2nd: animal messenger
3rd: speak with plants
4th: air walk
5th: commune with nature
Control
1st: binding winds, entangle, obscuring mist
2nd:briar web, fog cloud, gust of wind
3rd: sleet storm, vine mine, wind wall
4th: control water, eye of the hurricane, poison vines
5th: control weather, control winds, wall of thorns
Because that's 19 spells plus three cantrips, you could even string them out at 1/level. I'm not sure if that's desirable.
2nd: blinding winds, briar web.
3rd: nature's rampart, vine mine.
4th: eye of the hurricane, poison vines
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Here's the list without earth magic:
Utility
0th: dancing lights, know direction, message
1st: speak with animals
2nd: animal messenger
3rd: speak with plants
4th: air walk
5th: commune with nature
Control
1st: binding winds, entangle, obscuring mist
2nd:briar web, fog cloud, gust of wind
3rd: sleet storm, vine mine, wind wall
4th: control water, eye of the hurricane, poison vines
5th: control weather, control winds, wall of thorns
Because that's 19 spells plus three cantrips, you could even string them out at 1/level. I'm not sure if that's desirable.
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The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor from stealing bread, begging and sleeping under bridges.
-Anatole France
Mount Flamethrower on rear
Drive in reverse
Win Game.
-Josh Kablack
-Anatole France
Mount Flamethrower on rear
Drive in reverse
Win Game.
-Josh Kablack
It's what he said.CatharzGodfoot wrote:That's what I was thinking you were thinking.
You'd probably want it to go up to at least 6th level (bard casting).
6th: control weather, guards and wards, ...and earthquake?
Ideally it would be more plant and animal based (I could totally imagine the list being entirely plant, animal, and weather spells), but there isn't enough good battlefield control in the core.
Bard casting, a la Kantian Paladin.
I might base it on Wisdom, though. It's not like a Ranger won't ever find a use on that.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
It might be possible to make a ranger with small modifications to the assassin class. Swap spell lists, do a few alternate class features to introduce a wilderness theme. I'm also not sold on a ranger as a twenty level class. Wilderness guy with a bow isn't an archetype I see lasting into a endgame environment.
I was thinking of much the same--particularly that Trapmaking ability.Akula wrote:It might be possible to make a ranger with small modifications to the assassin class. Swap spell lists, do a few alternate class features to introduce a wilderness theme. I'm also not sold on a ranger as a twenty level class. Wilderness guy with a bow isn't an archetype I see lasting into a endgame environment.
So...
Full BAB and armor and shields and martial weapons, Kantian Paladin Casting but Wis based, and..maybe a progression of Scaling bonus feats which can be used on skill or combat feats?
A few neato class features, including Hide in Plain Sight, trapmaking, and some sort of animal companion or spirit guide...
That sounds workable.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Count Geiger
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You could borrow class features from the arcane archer, or make a ranger friendly version of the class. Honestly though what kind of class makes spell casting a prerequisite but doesn't advance spellcasting?Maxus wrote:That's honestly what I was thinking. Rangers, if they had to have spells, show up in my head using those spells in conjunction with other things, like bows.
Also what do you think there are any decent ranger spells in the complete adventurer?
Something even I know. Which is why I'm all for pillaging the Druid list.ubernoob wrote:Aside from Arrowmind and Find the Gap, there aren't really any good ranger spells. Like, at all.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!