Thread: Adept base class

OK, I'll respond to the questions in order. Milo, 1. The cost for channeling is 1 point of Focus per spell level. Cantrips cost nothing, and can be cast as many times as the Adept wants to. 2. Adepts only recover Focus when they do NOT cast a spell that round, they can't spend actions to recover, then spend a standard action to cast. This means that they have to fight normally for multiple rounds to recover, and each round they do...

I might have missed something in reading, but I don't see a cost for channeling. My guess is 1 point of focus = 1 spell level, not sure though. They have max of 10 focus points at 20th level. Not many spells off of base focus points, but as long as you don't want to do any moving and cast a spell that takes a standard action you can get 2 points back every round. You can also absorb spells cast at you for more focus points that can...

Wow. A base class submission that is not wildly unbalanced and actually seems broad enough to be a base class. Color me impressed. There is some definate Mearlsian design going on here; have you read the Iron Hero's rules? It's a pretty interesting variant spellcaster. It's got the flexibility thing going on that as psion has, but its not outright broken like the psionic classes. I foresee four problems, two minor, on moderate,...