[Information] House Rules

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In addition to the usual things such as Spells known due to the limited supply of magical knowledge characters will also have a list of "Spells known of" which details the spells you are aware of.

At any time, when you wish to find out if your character knows about a spell, you may make a Knowledge (Arcane castersArcana, Divine Casters (Sans Druid and Ranger)Religion or Druid or RangerNature) check with a DC of 20 + the spells level. Failure requires that you wait until you gain a new spell level to re-attempt the check. You cannot take 10 for this check.

You automatically know of any spell that you can cast.

You can only identify a spell being cast with a spellcraft check if you know of it, however...
You can also add a spell to your list of spells you know of by making such a spellcraft check, even if you failed the knowledge check to know that spell already.

Finally you can add a spell known of by having it explained by somebody who already knows of This means having obtained it one of the above ways. Simply having a villager explain that he swears you can shoot fire from your hands with magic doesn't countsuch a spell, even if you would not be able to actually learn the spell from them.

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Scrolls are next to impossible to find in a minimal magic campaign, because you can't buy a scroll and are unlikely to find one lying around.

For this reason, and so that prepared spell casters are not significantly penalised. This game will also include Rituals.

A person with the scribe scroll feat can, in addition to being able to scribe scrolls of their own spells known as normal will be able to enact a ritual to replicate the effect of a "spell known of."

This has a few rules to it:
You cannot enact a ritual of a spell that is not a "spell known of," or does not reside on your class spell list.
If a spell is on your class spell list, and is of a level you are capable of casting then the ritual costs the same time and gp as scribing a scroll of the same spell and caster level. You can reduce the effective caster level the same way you may do so to craft a scroll. Upon completion the spell may be used as if you had used a the scroll.

If you only knew of the spell, but did not know it and you capable of learning spells from a scroll you may instead learn it from this ritual, in this case the spell is not actually cast, but as a scroll it dissipates in the recording of the spell. This process takes the same time as learning the spell from a scroll and still requires the inking materials at the same cost.

If you know of a spell, and it is on your class spell list but it is of a higher level than you can cast, you may still invoke the ritual however the time and money costs of casting this treble for every spell levels difference there is between the spells level, and your own highest spell level. In addition you require additional aid. Each additional participant must use the same knowledge type (arcana, religion or nature) as yourself, each contributes an amount of magical power equal to their highest spell level, and you require a total number of spell levels contributed equal to two to the power of the difference between your own highest spell level and the level of the spell to be cast. A ritual cannot be used to teach yourself a spell of higher level than you have a spell slot for.

A ritual, in any form, may be used to cast a spell for the purposes of creating a magical item. In these cases the ritual absorbs the act of creating or enchanting the item, and takes time equal to the longer of the two processes, plus half the shorter and must be performed as one long process.

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Wasp familiar No swarm traits -> as much as I like the idea of a "One-bee army" no. Use your character level to determine HD Melee attack does no damage, but a success counts as an injury for the purpose of delivering poison Wasp is diminutive and takes up space and receives modifiers appropriate to it's size In place of it's racial skill modifier it receives: +4 Perception, +4 stealth, +4 Fly It gains the feat: Weapons Finesse As a stinging insect familiar it grants it's master +4 to initiative checks

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Swarm Hex Vermin appear to pour from the witch, swarming towards their intended target The witch may choose from where the vermin pour, many choose to expel the creatures from their hands, ala burning hands, from their mouth in some sort of terrible breath attack or from the base of their robes, insidious spiders creeping along the ground At the first level a witch with this Hex may summon a small swarm for a single round, this swarm has one HD, and adjusts it's damage scores appropriately. The swarm is also takes up a 2.5' space, but retains it's original AC. This swarm does not harm the witch that summoned it, but is summoned in the witches square then moves to attack a designated target within it's movement range. Summoning and directing the swarm is a full round action, the swarm remains until the beginning of the witches next turn. This hex may be used 1 + INT modifier times per day. Upon reaching the third level this swarm grows to occupy a 5' space and has three HD. The swarm still requires a full round action to summon, but acts independently for two subsequent rounds. The swarm damages any living creature within it's area with the exception of the summoning witch. The witch has no control over the swarm other than designating the original target, if the swarm does not contain a living target it will seek the nearest living creature. Upon reaching level five this swarm grows again to occupy a 10' square and has 5 HD. The swarm may now be dismissed deliberately as an immediate action, swarms do not fade a certain amount of time after summoning, but may only be used for a number of rounds equal to three times your intelligence bonus. Swarms chosen are subject to veto.

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Sorcerous Witch Rules The witch no longer receives spells per day as Table:The Witch, and no longer adds 2 spells of any level available as a spell per day to her familiar upon gaining a level. The witch does not receive 3 + INT bonus 1st level spells at the first level The witch receives spells known as a sorcerer, shown on table:Sorcerer Spells Known and may cast a number of spells per day as a sorcerer of equal level based on Table:The Sorcerer. A spontaneous Witch does not need to prepare her spells beforehand, but must still commune with her familiar for one hour after resting 8 hours to recover her spells for that day. She may do this no more frequently than once every 24 hours. A spontaneous Witch stores no spells in her familiar, drawing only power directly from her patron, she instead knows how to shape the raw power into spells. Because this means that a familiar must no longer be taught to grant a spell, Intelligence is much less important than force of personality. A spontaneous Witch uses her Charisma, not her Intelligence to cast spells and wield Hexes.