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I'm sorry, gacha games, but no amount of overwrought lore will induce me to experience genuine pathos for a character named Trombone.
A girl, adrift in ice, lost all her own memories once she was unearthed and now travels the stars with a camera in hand, making up for all the memories she lost while exploring with her friends
......named March 7th. Like the date. Because that's the day she was found.
Flexible Spellcaster (Pathfinder 2nd Edition Archetype)
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It’s been a bit since we did anything with Second Edition, and this one gives me mixed feelings due to my “favorite” hangup about 2E, the transitional friction between First and Second Edition.
As I’m sure you all remember, almost all spellcasting in 1E followed two styles, being prepared and spontaneous casting. The former typically had a wider variety of spells the owner to have, but they had to prepare individual slots, while spontaneous casters have a more limited pool of spells, but more spell slots. You know, classic Vancian Magic.
The one exception to this was the arcanist hybrid class, which had a spellbook, but prepared their spells as a list of “spells known” which they could cast spontaneously throughout the day using their slots. It was a fun little experiment and proved a nice way to combine the day to day flexibility of having a large list of spells known with the instance to instance flexibility of not having to save a spell slot for the right moment because it was your one casting of a specific spell.
And apparently it was popular enough that this style of casting returned in the form of today’s archetype, the flexible spellcaster!
Applicable only to classes with prepared casting, such as wizards, clerics, druids, and witches (and any other prepared casters they introduce at a later date), this archetype is one of those caster-only options that you technically take at first level before you take the dedication feat at second (understandable, but a noticeable seam in the way that 2E handles archetypes), and modifies your spellcasting progression slightly, limiting your normal amount of spells per day but giving you a broad pool of “collection” spaces that you fill with spells from you repertoire each day.
Note that this does not effect bonus spell slots from your specialization such as a cleric’s domain or a wizard’s school specialization. Additionally, the archetype comes with a caveat on certain class feats that are no longer applicable with this archetype.
All of this leads to what it is that gives me mixed feelings about the archetype. Because, on the one hand it puts the ability to flexibly cast spells in the hands of every spellcasting tradition. On the other, it means that the arcanist class itself is likely never going to come back, the whole concepts of bending and breaking conventions of magic through experimentation and exploits becoming something describing the flavor of your caster character, rather than something mechanical. But then, I suppose one could argue that as the pathfinder setting evolves, perhaps those innovators of the first edition spread their innovations over that 10 year period, changing casting significantly, making these dangerous innovators simply another part of traditional wizardry.
That being said, I probably shouldn’t be too upset, since Pathfinder as a setting is set to change again this year with their new core books and changes to the setting. Anyway, back to the archetype!
The dedication feat, such as it is, simply grants the spellcaster more cantrips they can prepare each day, which given how cantrips level up with you in second edition, is a nice bonus alongside the flexibility of their spellcasting in exchange for the number of spell slots.
Easily one of the simplest archetypes, having only one feat, this archetype sells itself on making a prepared caster into a more flexible spontaneous caster. While they lack the spell slots of most spontaneous casters, they retain the ability to prepare their spells at any available level, not having to learn new versions of the same spell just to cast a fireball that deals more damage or summon a better monster. This benefit can make them very attractive to some players, should they dislike the way both prepared and spontaneous casters normally play. Keep in mind, however, that certain classes might have abilities that interact with prepared spells or spell slots that may not mesh perfectly with this archetype, either becoming useless, or at GM discretion, replaced by some other ability.
While we’re already familiar with what flexible casters are supposed to represent from an arcane tradition, but what about other mystical disciplines? What makes a cleric ask their deity for flexible spellcasting? Are their druidic circles that reflect on the specialization of life by electing to cast a few spells several times? Do witches sometimes have patrons that seek to teach them to use spells in a flexible manner?
Discarded by his fleshcrafting creators as a failure, Maxix discovered that he had a talent for magic, though his self-taught style makes his spellcasting seem sloppy to the classically trained. Now, he has set himself up as an authority figure in the Drain, the polluted undercity of his home.
The ways of druidcraft are ancient and long-standing, but nature is ever-evolving, and occasionally primal magic evolves too. Such was the case when Eila discovered how to cast her magic in a more flexible way after watching the innate magics of a gang of jinkin gremlins.
The spirit known as Grasping Hand, as it’s name suggests, it not eager to share it’s power, but some witches find value in such an otherworldly patron, convincing it to give out a measure of power and using flexible preparation techniques to squeeze the most out of it. If the spirit is upset by this loophole, it does not share it’s frustration.
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Naw, he really is just that stupid
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