Ultimate Magus

[Torquar]

Hi Folks, I've been trying to manually add the Ultimate Magus class from the Complete Mage 3.5 book.

I've managed to enter the basic class abilities, hit dice, extra spell levels, class skills etc but I havent a clue how to add their special abilities.

The get an increase in casting level at levels 1, 4, 7 and 10.
They get an ability to add a spell from their prepared caster spellbook to their spontaneous spells known at level 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10.

There is a version of this class already made for the d20 set, I've tried copying those abilities as closely as possible, but the editor sets for pathfimder and d20 seem to have a fair number of differences.

Any ideas? Or has anybody already converted this class?

 

[Aaron]

I'm a little foggy on the increase in CL you mentioned. If it is an increase for all spells, then you could easily have a class ability calculate the bonus, and then do a foreach through all spells (except item spells, but including staff spells) and add to the sCL field for them.

The second bit would be a bit of work, but certainly possible:
The other ability will have to make a selector that chooses the recipient class, and a 2nd selector for spellbook spells on this hero, then when chosen by #2 it will apply the ClsAllowSp tag for that spell to the class chosen by #1. It will then also need to add +1 spells known at that level, and throw an error to remind the hero that they need to add the spell to that class.

 

[Torquar]

I'm a little foggy on the increase in CL you mentioned. If it is an increase for all spells, then you could easily have a class ability calculate the bonus, and then do a foreach through all spells (except item spells, but including staff spells) and add to the sCL field for them.

Thanks for answering .

The CL increase is an increase in caster levels for both your prepared and spontaneous classes. It should work like the Magical Knack trait, except it comes in four levels and it can exceed class level.

Unfortunately I'm pretty new at this kind of thing, I was hoping it could all be done with tickboxes and menu selections, I guess it's a bit more complicated than that though.

 

[Aaron]

Afraid that for complex things like this, checkmarks and menu selections just won't cut it. You want to take a crack at it, or you need some further examples to get you started?

 

[Torquar]

Well, I've managed to get the spell level increases working at levels 1,4,7 and 10 by copying the details across from the 3.5 version.

I've managed to get an inelegant version of the Expanded Spell Knowledge ability working by copying the Expanded Arcana feat and cutting out the option to take 2 lower level spells. It's only really for personal use so I can trust myself to only add spells that are in my spellbook .

Just need to add Augmented Casting now which should be fairly easy as it doesn't really need any crunchy mechanisms. One thing though, how do I add 3+1/2 class lvl per day to uses?

 

[Aaron]

field[trkMax].value += round(field[xAllLev].value/2,0,-1)
field[trkMax].value += 3

 

[Torquar]

Thanks Aaron .

Theres a couple of rough spots but the class works well enough for me now. Managed to get the Practised Spellcaster feat working properly too so all is good.

 

[cantroy]

I sure wish you had uploaded your UM prestige class. I fear i may have to begin reproducing it myself, and I admit I have like no idea where to start. Same for that practised spellcaster feat /sigh