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=== Abjurers ===
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==== Abjurers ====
 
Specialists in negating magic and using magic to negate other effects, abjurers are hindered from using subtle magics that divine or change qualities of reality.
 
Specialists in negating magic and using magic to negate other effects, abjurers are hindered from using subtle magics that divine or change qualities of reality.
  
=== Conjurers ===
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==== Conjurers ====
 
Callers of creatures and relatively advanced phenomena from other planes, they are unable to evoke raw energies or to either change or divine what is already present.
 
Callers of creatures and relatively advanced phenomena from other planes, they are unable to evoke raw energies or to either change or divine what is already present.
  
=== Diviners ===
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==== Diviners ====
 
Masters of the truth, diviners are repelled by the falsehood of illusions, enchantments, and the anti-life of necromancy.
 
Masters of the truth, diviners are repelled by the falsehood of illusions, enchantments, and the anti-life of necromancy.
  
=== Enchanters ===
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==== Enchanters ====
 
Masters of the mysteries of the mind and how to deceive it, enchanters are limited in their ability to work the straight-line effect of evocation, the truth-finding of divination, or the rigidity of the undead.
 
Masters of the mysteries of the mind and how to deceive it, enchanters are limited in their ability to work the straight-line effect of evocation, the truth-finding of divination, or the rigidity of the undead.
  
=== Evokers===
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==== Evokers====
 
Maskers of the direct application of energy, evokers have trouble with subtlety and fine control. Things the call from other planes are raw and unformed.
 
Maskers of the direct application of energy, evokers have trouble with subtlety and fine control. Things the call from other planes are raw and unformed.
  
=== Illusionists ===  
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==== Illusionists ====  
 
Masters of the ephemeral, illusionists have trouble with the straightforward effects of evocation and abjuration and like enchanters are baffled by undeath.
 
Masters of the ephemeral, illusionists have trouble with the straightforward effects of evocation and abjuration and like enchanters are baffled by undeath.
  
=== Necromancers ===
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==== Necromancers ====
 
Masters of the barrier between life and death, necromancers are the ultimate realists and won't meddle in the deceptive abilities of transmutation, illusion, and enchantment.
 
Masters of the barrier between life and death, necromancers are the ultimate realists and won't meddle in the deceptive abilities of transmutation, illusion, and enchantment.
  
=== Transmuters ===
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==== Transmuters ====
 
Masters of form, their control is disrupted by the forces of undeath and cannot tolerate, abjuration. They can call raw energies, but their control of planar forms is too lacking for conjuration.
 
Masters of form, their control is disrupted by the forces of undeath and cannot tolerate, abjuration. They can call raw energies, but their control of planar forms is too lacking for conjuration.
  
 
=== Tassilonian Schools of Specialization ===
 
=== Tassilonian Schools of Specialization ===
 
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||Abjuration||| The art of suppressing and trapping magic. |||evocation, necromancy.  
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||Envy|||Abjuration||| The art of suppressing and trapping magic. |||evocation, necromancy.  
 
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||Conjuration||| Calling agents and minions, or creating what you need. |||evocation, illusion.  
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||Sloth|||Conjuration||| Calling agents and minions, or creating what you need. |||evocation, illusion.  
 
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||Divination||| Gaining information.|||conjuration, evocation.
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||Lust|||Enchantment||| Magically controlling other creatures, manipulating others' minds, emotions, and wills. |||necromancy, transmutation.  
 
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||Enchantment||| Magically controlling other creatures, manipulating others' minds, emotions, and wills. |||necromancy, transmutation.  
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||Wrath|||Evocation||| Channeling forces, mainly for destruction. |||abjuration, conjuration.
 
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||Evocation||| Channeling forces, mainly for destruction. |||abjuration, conjuration.
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||Pride|||Illusion||| Deceiving the senses. |||conjuration, transmutation.  
 
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||Illusion||| Deceiving the senses. |||conjuration, transmutation.  
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||Gluttony|||Necromancy||| Magic of death. |||abjuration, enchantment.  
 
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||Necromancy||| Magic of death. |||abjuration, enchantment.
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||Greed|||Transmutation||| Transforming creatures, objects. and forces. |||enchantment, illusion.  
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||Transmutation||| Transforming creatures, objects. and forces. |||enchantment, illusion.  
 
 
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Revision as of 13:25, 16 June 2013

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A specialist wizard has more focus on his magic that normally afforded by arcane schools, giving up some areas of magic completely to focus on the school in question.

Class Abilities

The specialist has all the standard wizard's class abilities except as noted below.

School Specialization

The specialist wizard specializes in one school of magic and gains great advantage in this field. In return, they give up several other schools of magic completely.

Spells of the school the specialist is focused on are prepared in a spell slot one level lower than normal. This means that an illusionist casts illusion spells as if they were all one spell level lower. Shadow conjuration is a 4th level wizard spell, but is only a 3rd level spell to a specialist wizard of the illusionist school. What is ordinarily first level spells of the chosen school now becomes cantrips and can be cast any number of times in a day.

A school specialist does not get to customize his choice for opposition schools, his opposition schools are determined for him when he chooses his specialization. These restrictions are more significant than those most wizards follow, and are known as prohibited schools. A school specialist can never prepare a spell that is in one of his prohibited schools-he treats these spells as if they were not on the wizard spell list. If using a spell trigger or spell completion item to cast a spell from one of his prohibited schools, he must use the Use Magic Device skill to do so.

This replaces the arcane school ability. Specialist wizards do not receive school slots or school powers.

Classic Schools of Specialization

School Name Description Prohibited Schools
Abjuration The art of suppressing and trapping magic. Divination, transmutation, illusion.
Conjuration Calling agents and minions, or creating what you need. Transmutation, divination, evocation.
Divination Gaining information. Enchantment, conjuration, abjuration.
Enchantment Controlling minds. Divination, evocation, necromancy.
Evocation Channeling forces, mainly for destruction. Illusion, enchantment, conjuration.
Illusion Deceiving the senses. Evocation, necromancy, abjuration.
Necromancy Magic of death. Transmutation, illusion, enchantment.
Transmutation Transforming creatures, objects. and forces. Necromancy, abjuration, conjuration.

Abjurers

Specialists in negating magic and using magic to negate other effects, abjurers are hindered from using subtle magics that divine or change qualities of reality.

Conjurers

Callers of creatures and relatively advanced phenomena from other planes, they are unable to evoke raw energies or to either change or divine what is already present.

Diviners

Masters of the truth, diviners are repelled by the falsehood of illusions, enchantments, and the anti-life of necromancy.

Enchanters

Masters of the mysteries of the mind and how to deceive it, enchanters are limited in their ability to work the straight-line effect of evocation, the truth-finding of divination, or the rigidity of the undead.

Evokers

Maskers of the direct application of energy, evokers have trouble with subtlety and fine control. Things the call from other planes are raw and unformed.

Illusionists

Masters of the ephemeral, illusionists have trouble with the straightforward effects of evocation and abjuration and like enchanters are baffled by undeath.

Necromancers

Masters of the barrier between life and death, necromancers are the ultimate realists and won't meddle in the deceptive abilities of transmutation, illusion, and enchantment.

Transmuters

Masters of form, their control is disrupted by the forces of undeath and cannot tolerate, abjuration. They can call raw energies, but their control of planar forms is too lacking for conjuration.

Tassilonian Schools of Specialization

School Name Magic Type Description Prohibited Schools
Envy Abjuration The art of suppressing and trapping magic. evocation, necromancy.
Sloth Conjuration Calling agents and minions, or creating what you need. evocation, illusion.
Lust Enchantment Magically controlling other creatures, manipulating others' minds, emotions, and wills. necromancy, transmutation.
Wrath Evocation Channeling forces, mainly for destruction. abjuration, conjuration.
Pride Illusion Deceiving the senses. conjuration, transmutation.
Gluttony Necromancy Magic of death. abjuration, enchantment.
Greed Transmutation Transforming creatures, objects. and forces. enchantment, illusion.

Summary of Changed Class Abilities

These abilities of the original class are lost or modified in this archetype:

  • Arcane School