Creating a Wizard - A few bugs

[Captain Mayhem]

I have encountered a few bugs (I think!) creating a Wizard:

Linguistics and Fly need to be Class Skills for the Wizard

Skill Ranks are calculated as 2+INT mod for the Wizard, the software is off here

Cantrips from prohibited schools should not be in the spellbook

Should select 3+INT mod level 1 Spells to spellbook. Software doesnt say x of y to indicate # spells left to add. Not sure if this is a bug, but it would sure be nice to have...

Thx!

 

[Mathias]

Linguistics and Fly need to be Class Skills for the Wizard

Fixed in the next update - thanks. I appear to have missed the entire process of updating the wizard's class skills from the SRD to Pathfinder.

Skill Ranks are calculated as 2+INT mod for the Wizard, the software is off here

Please give me more information about what's happening - I can't duplicate your error. I tried creating a 1st level wizard, and he gets 3 skill points - 2 for wizard, 1 for his first level class (wizard) being a favored class.

Cantrips from prohibited schools should not be in the spellbook

Re-read the wizard section - this is a change from the SRD to Pathfinder - opposition spells can be memorized at the cost of 2 spell slots.

Should select 3+INT mod level 1 Spells to spellbook. Software doesnt say x of y to indicate # spells left to add. Not sure if this is a bug, but it would sure be nice to have...

Not something we can enforce - The number of spells in a Wizard's spellbook will vary greatly from campaign to campaign and wizard to wizard. There are just too many possibilities availalble to enforce anything.

 

[Captain Mayhem]

Hi! Forget about the skill rank calculation... my bad!

As for the prohibited schools. I wasnt referring to spell memorization (which you got right btw)

I was referring to the spells in the spellbook. cf. p. 79 of the book

A wizard begins play with a spellbook containing all
0-level wizard spells (except those from his prohibited
schools, if any; see Arcane Schools)

Thanks!

nb. For example, say I create a Wizard with Abjuration as the specialty and Conjuration & Illusion as the opposite/prohibited schools, a beginning Wizard will not have any Cantrips L0 spells from either of those prohibited schools in their starting spellbook.

Again, I'm just pointing out. May be a feature instead of an actual bug. For such a complicated ruleset, you did a very good job.

 

[Mathias]

grumble, grumble, grumble - it's always the little exceptions that take only a line to write in an RPG that take the longest to code in HL.

I hadn't noticed that little rule about not getting any opposed cantrips. I'll figure out if we can apply it (for example, what if a player is halfway through creating their character when they decide to make a specialist wizard - what happens if they've already memorized opposed spells?). Thanks for pointing it out, now I'll see if we can deal with what the game designers have given us.

 

[JimGroves]

That is a subtle one. I never caught it either.

 

[Captain Mayhem]

LOL. Sorry for ruining your party... Mind you, it's not a big bug... I will houserule that they don't pick the opposed school cantrips for now.

I think getting the NPC classes would probably be a higher priority... (hint, hint)

 

[thundershot]

So.... it's been a while... Any progress on getting the opposed schools bug fixed? We just ran into this making our party wizard. Not a huge one, but it's still there.