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Anyone used the Magic Rating variant?
« on: October 28, 2010, 06:23:41 PM »
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/magic/magicRating.htm

Basically, you add all your caster levels together to determine CL for all classes, +1 per four levels in a non-casting class. Levels in stuff like mystic theurge only count once.
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Re: Anyone used the Magic Rating variant?
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2010, 09:37:23 PM »
Basically, you add all your caster levels together to determine CL for all classes, +1 per four levels in a non-casting class. Levels in stuff like mystic theurge only count once.
So kind of like IL for casters? Except different?

Presumably it can't go past your Hit Dice, although I haven't taken a really close look at it yet. I'm sure there's some way to squeeze a higher CL out of this.

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Re: Anyone used the Magic Rating variant?
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2010, 09:55:12 PM »
It looks like Master Spellthief for all classes, but without a feat investment and 1-level dip. I imagine it would play the same.
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Re: Anyone used the Magic Rating variant?
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2010, 11:41:33 PM »
Basically, you add all your caster levels together to determine CL for all classes, +1 per four levels in a non-casting class. Levels in stuff like mystic theurge only count once.
So kind of like IL for casters? Except different?

Presumably it can't go past your Hit Dice, although I haven't taken a really close look at it yet. I'm sure there's some way to squeeze a higher CL out of this.
It's basically "magic BAB", so I don't think there would be many outside the normal methods.
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[spoiler]Tier 6: A cartographer.
Tier 5: An expert cartographer or a decent marksman.
Tier 4: An expert marksman.
Tier 3: An expert marksman, cartographer and chef who can tie strong knots and is trained in hostage negotiation or a marksman so good he can shoot down every bullet fired by a minigun while armed with a rusted single-shot pistol that veers to the left.
Tier 2: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything, or the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.
Tier 1: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything and the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.[/spoiler]

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Re: Anyone used the Magic Rating variant?
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2010, 12:23:48 PM »
Bah, it doesn't advance spells known or spell slots, so it doesn't even matter 99% of the time. It's like a free Practiced Spellcaster for multiclassed casters. Who really cares, other than a few outliers like maybe Nar Demonbinders, Sublime Chords, Ur-Priests, etc?

I think it would probably be better if you actually let it advance spells known and spell slots, and counted all classes outside of your casting class as +1/2 CL (just exactly like how initiator levels work). This would be a big help to people who want a few spells, but don't want to be a full caster.
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