The Quintessential Chaos Mage

The Quintessential Chaos Mage front cover

Author	Patrick Younts
Series	Quintessential Series
Publisher	Mongoose Publishing
Publish date	2003
Pages	128
ISBN	1-904577-54-7
OGL Section 15	qcmg

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Chaotic Specialist

Wielding the raw power of chaos is an exhilarating experience and the flexibility provided by this power is envied by static mages the world over. But there are those who feel they do not need to access all facets of chaotic power, but instead prefer to focus their efforts on a particular type of chaos magic.

Hit die: 1d4

Requirements

In order to become a chaotic specialist, the character must fulfil all the following requirements:

Feats: Alertness, Casting Focus, Combat Casting
Skills: Concentration 10 ranks
Spellcasting: The ability to cast chaos magic

Class Skills
The chaotic specialist’s class skills, and the key ability for each skill, are: Concentration (Con), Craft (alchemy) (Int), Knowledge (arcana) (Int), Profession (Wis), Search (Int), Speak Language (None), Spellcraft (Int) and Spot (Wis).

Skill Points Per Level: 2 + Intelligence modifier

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the chaotic specialist prestige class.

Weapon and Armour Proficiency: Chaotic specialists gain no proficiency in any weapon or armour upon taking a level of this prestige class.

Spellcasting: The character continues to improve in spellcasting, gaining a new chaos caster level at 1rd level and then every other level. These level increases are not taken into account for the purposes of determining access to Chaos Countermagic, increases to the number of Multiple Effects or increasing the ability scores of familiars.

Attuned: The chaos mage must select his speciality effect (from Direct Damage, Domination, Materialisation, Movement or Transformation), as soon as he takes his first level of the chaotic specialist prestige class. Only one attuned effect may ever be chosen. The mage is now always able to cast a spell with this effect included, in addition to the usual number of multiple effects a chaos mage is allowed. Thus a 9th level chaos mage can cast a weave containing two spell effects, but a 9th level chaos mage/1rd level chaotic specialist may create weaves with three effects, as long as one effect is his specialist subject.

Increased Affinity: Whenever the specialist gains a level of chaos mage spellcasting ability (either from chaos mage levels or levels of this prestige class) he also gains a +1 insight bonus to any casting checks he makes when constructing a spell weave containing his attuned effect.

Purge: When this ability is gained, the chaotic specialist may immediately purge himself of one step on his current Path of Chaos. He can only do this once.

Reduced Casting Damage: When this ability is cast, the specialist suffers one hit point less of nonlethal or lethal damage when casting spells containing his specialised effect. However, the final casting DCs of all spells that do not contain this effect element are now increased by 5.

Chaotic Burst: When this ability is used, the specialist may reduce the final casting DC of any single spell containing his specialised effect by 5. The caster immediately suffers one point of temporary damage to one of his physical abilities upon casting one of these spells. The ability score damage is applied randomly to the physical attributes every time a spell is cast. This damage may not be healed magically.

Chaotic Core: By suffering successful casting damage as real hit points of damage rather than as nonlethal damage, the chaos mage is able to reduce the DC of any spell he casts that contain his specialised effect element by 5. This reduction stacks with that gained from Chaotic Burst, but if it is used in this way the damage from Chaotic Burst doubles. The DC modifiers of all effects that are not his specialisation are increased by +1 DC, on top of any penalties accrued by previous chaotic specialist class features.

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Spell Casting
1	+0	+0	+0	+2	Attuned	+1 caster level
2	+1	+1	+1	+3	Increased Affinity
3	+1	+1	+1	+3		+1 caster level
4	+2	+1	+1	+4	Purge
5	+2	+2	+2	+4		+1 caster level
6	+3	+2	+2	+5	Reduced Casting Damage
7	+3	+2	+2	+5		+1 caster level
8	+4	+3	+3	+6	Chaotic Burst
9	+4	+3	+3	+6		+1 caster level
10	+5	+3	+3	+7	Chaotic Core