Some Classes and Mechanics of the Jade Stage

[Lmns Crn]

As is, a cruel longsword does everything +1 longsword does (except allow you to further enchant it with Fieryness or something), at roughly 25% of the price.

Thus, my logic in suggesting a price increase.

Silly of me, not to have seen it before. Prices are now duly adjusted, and hopefully justice has been served.

Any other comments on this morass of mechanics? If anyone were to attempt to tackle the magic system (or even part of it), I'd be highly appreciative for the feedback.

[Lmns Crn]

Oh, I almost forgot:
[spoiler=New Spells]new spells:

Ignite
Ragecraft 0 [Fire]
V, S
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: 1 creature or object
Duration: Instantaneous
Saves: Reflex Negates
SR: Yes

The target catches fire.

Shocking Spark
Ragecraft 0 [Electricity]
V, S
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: 1 creature or object
Duration: Instantaneous
Saves: None
SR: Yes

You make a ranged touch attack to strike your target with a coin-sized orb of electricity. With a successful attack roll, the target takes 1d3 points of electricital damage.

Erode Resolve
Ragecraft 0 [Fear, Mind-Affecting]
S
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: 1 creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Saves: Will Negates
SR: Yes

The target becomes shaken for 1 round.

Quick Change
Cloakweaving 0 [Glamer]
V, S
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 10 minutes/level (D)
Saves: Will Negates (see text)
SR: Yes

This spell changes the appearance of your clothing. It functions like Disguise Self, except that it only affects clothing and equipment, not the caster himself. If used to create a disguise (such as a hooded cloak or mask), it provides a +2 bonus to Disguise checks.

Pigments
Cloakweaving 0 [Glamer]
V, S, M
Range: Touch
Target: 1 creature or object
Duration: 1 day/level
Saves: No
SR: No

This spell changes the colors of one object or one part of a willing creature. It can change eye color, hair color, or skin tone of an individual, but it takes multiple castings of pigments to affect multiple variables. Individuals changed to a color within the normal range for their species appear natural, although individuals given outlandish colors (a human with blue hair or red eyes, for example) will naturally attract suspicion. Objects colored by this spell appear as if painted or enamled.

Material component: a drop of ink, paint, or similar pigment.

Etching
Runecraft 0
V, S, F
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 min/level (D)

For the duration of the spell, you can engrave lines on stone, metal, or similar materials by tracing them with a finger. You can write or draw with the same precision as writing with pen and paper. The etching does not harm or weaken the surface you engrave upon. A spellcaster with this spell is considered to have the tools necessary to make Craft checks related to etching or engraving and does not take the usual -2 bonus for using Craft skills without tools, although most applications of the Craft skill will take significantly longer to complete than the spell's duration.

Focus: a knife, pin, or other implement with a sharp point.

Dictation
Runecraft 0
V, S, F
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: one blank book, parchment, or stack of papers
Duration: 10 min/level (D)

For the duration of the spell, words appear in the targeted book or paper, as if written by an invisible hand. The writing records everything you say until the spell expires or is dismissed. The spell does not record verbal spell components or any kind of magical writing, substituting nonsense syllables for such speech; it cannot be used to scribe scrolls, create a glyph of warding, or manipulate magical forces in any way. The writing force supplies its own ink, and turns pages as necessary.

Focus: a pen or quill.

Unseen Scribe
Runecraft 1
V, S, F
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Targets: you, one creature/level, and one blank book, parchment, or stack of papers
Duration: 1 hour/level (D)
Saving throw: Will partial (see text)
Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell functions like dictation, but the writing force records the speech of all targeted creatures, so that the resulting text serves as a record of the conversation. For each individual target, a successful Will save or Spell Resistance will prevent that creature's words from being recorded by the spell. The writing force uses different colors of ink and different handwriting to distinguish the various speakers from one another, although it does not label each color and style of writing with a speaker's identity unless the speakers name themselves aloud.

Focus: a pen or quill.

Sower's Charm
Wildcraft 1
V, S, M
Range: 0 ft
Target: One field
Casting Time: One hour
Duration: 1 month/level, or until the harvest

This enriching enchantment increases the bounty of a field of crops. Crops produced by a field under this spell are slightly larger, more flavorful, and more numerous than they otherwise would be.

While under the effects of a sower's charm, a field counts as a magically enhanced farming tool, providing an equipment bonus to Profession: Farming checks equal to 2 + caster level.

Medic's Eye
Restoration 0
S
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 hour

You attune your senses to detect issues of biology and health with preternatural accuracy. This added awareness aids you in the diagnosis and treatment of wounds, disease, poison, and other maladies, granting a +5 competence bonus to your Heal checks.

Sense Watchers
Sightcraft 0
S, F
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 min/level (D)

For the duration of the spell, you can sense whether you're being watched. As soon as anyone begins actively watching, studying, or otherwise visually examining you with any more than casual interest, you are alerted with a faint tingling sensation in the back of your head. The tingling stops and restarts as the attention stops and restarts, until the spell expires or is dismissed. The spell does not indicate who is watching you. It also does not alert you if someone is scrutinizing you by means other than visual, such as hearing or scent. Likewise, this spell does not alert you to magical surveillance such as scrying, even when such surveillance includes a visual element.

Focus: a small mirror.

Discern Name
Sightcraft 1
S
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: one creature
Casting time: one swift action
Saving throw: Will negates (see text)
Spell resistance: Yes

You know the target's name. An image of the written name appears in your mind, and you hear it spoken in your head. You learn the target's full and correct name, including any honorifics and special titles, but not nicknames.

An individual traveling in disguise, using a false identity, or making other deliberate efforts to conceal his identity or to remain anonymous gets a +4 bonus on his save against this spell. Against a target using magic to conceal his identity (such as disguise self), this bonus increases to +8.

If this spell fails for any reason, you must make a Wisdom check (DC 5). Failure means that you learn an random incorrect name instead of the target's actual name. The DM should roll this check in secret.

Narrative
Runecraft 4
V, S, F
Target: One creature
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) or Any
Duration: 10 min/level (D)
Saving throw: Will negates
Spell resistance: Yes

This spell's energies write in a blank book or set of papers, as per the dictation spell. If the target creature fails the saving throw, the text that appears records all the target's actions until the spell expires. The spell quickly and accurately records speech, movement, and other observable actions. The spell does not record thought, intention, purely mental commands, or other actions not noticeable by mundane observation. The narrative spell is considered to automatically succeed at Spellcraft checks to discern what the target does during the spell's duration. For example, it cannot track an invisible target's movements, but it will correctly note that the target cast invisibility, and will resume recording the target's actions when the invisibility spell ends.

Normally, narrative must be cast on a creature within Close range, although it will continue recording the actions of a target who leaves that range, as long as the target stays on the same plane as the caster. If the caster uses the target's own handwritten signature as a focus for spellcasting, the target receives a -5 penalty on the saving throw, and does not need to be within Close range of the caster at the time of casting.

Focus: a pen or quill, and optionally, the written signature of the target (see above.)

Transcribe Text
Runecraft 1

Gossip Sense, Lesser
Sightcraft 1
V, S
Target: You
Effect: spherical emanation, with a radius of 400 ft. + 40 ft/level
Duration: 10 minutes/level

A sixth sense alerts you whenever your name is spoken aloud within the spell's range. You hear it spoken in your head in the speaker's voice, giving you the chance to recognize the speaker if it is someone familiar to you. With a successful caster level check against a DC of 11 + the speaker's HD, you gain an accurate sense of the speaker's direction and distance away, relative to your current location.

Gossip Sense
Sightcraft 3
Effect: spherical emanation, with a radius of 1 mile/level
Duration: 1 hour/level

This spell functions like lesser gossip sense, except as noted above. In addition, each time gossip sense alerts you that someone is speaking your name, you also hear the five words the speaker says immediately before and after your name is spoken, giving you some idea of the context in which your are being mentioned. For example, if one of a group of nobles within range of Serafila's gossip sense spell notes, "I am suspicious of that foreign mage, Serafila. If you ask me, she's been poking her nose where it doesn't belong," the spell allows Serafila to hear the following: "suspicious of that foreign mage, Serafila. If you ask me, she's".

Gossip Sense, Greater
Sightcraft 5
Effect: spherical emanation, with a radius of 10 miles/level
Duration: 2 hours/level

This spell functions as gossip sense, except as noted above. In addition, greater gossip sense allows the caster to hear ten words both before and after your name is spoken, instead of five. Also, you have a 5% per caster level chance of being able to target any speaker you detect with this spell with any appropriate Sightcraft spell of 3rd level or lower, regardless of range or line of effect.

Read Emotion
Sightcraft 0
S
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: one creature
Casting time: one swift action
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving throw: Will negates
Spell resistance: Yes

This spell gives you information about the target's current mood and emotional state. The spell provides the caster with a single adjective that best describes the target's current emotions, so targets experiencing particularly complex emotional turmoil when the spell is cast may return oversimplified results. The intimate knowledge of the target's emotions provides the caster with valuable insight when dealing with that person. After successfully casting read emotion, the caster gains a +2 Insight bonus on the next Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, or Sense Motive check he makes against the spell's target. Since emotions can change rapidly, this bonus is lost if no appropriate check is made within 5 minutes of the spell's casting.

Touch of Pain
Ragecraft 0
V, S
Range: Touch
Target: one creature
Duration: one round
Saving throw: Fort negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

The caster touches the target with a melee touch attack, sending ripples of pain through the target's body from the point of contact. For the duration of the spell, the target takes a -2 penalty to the modified level check to resist Intimidation by the caster and his allies, and must succeed at a Concentration check against touch of agony's saving throw DC to cast spells or concentrate on an existing spell.

Grip of Pain
Ragecraft 1
V, S
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: one creature
Duration: 1 round or 1d4 rounds, see text
Saving throw: Fort partial
Spell Resistance: Yes

The target is wracked with spasms of pain, clouding his mind an inhibiting his actions. For the duration of the spell, the target takes a -2 penalty to the modified level check to resist Intimidation by the caster and his allies, and takes a -1 penalty to attack rolls. The target must also make a Concentration check against grip of pain's saving throw DC to cast spells or concentrate on an existing spell. A successful saving throw reduces the spell's duration from 1d4 rounds to 1 round.

Doors of Pain
Ragecraft 2
V, S
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: one creature
Duration: 1 round or 2d4 rounds, see text
Saving throw: Fort partial
Spell Resistance: Yes

The target is washed in overwhelming pain. For the duration of the spell, the target takes a -2 penalty to the modified level check to resist Intimidation by the caster in his allies, and takes a -2 penalty on attack rolls, AC, and all Strength-based and Dexterity-based checks. Each round while the spell is in effect, the target takes 1d8 points of nonlethal damage. The target must also make a Concentration check against doors of pain's saving throw DC to cast spells or concentrate on an existing spell. A successful saving throw reduces the spell's duration from 2d4 rounds to 1 round.

Flood of Agony
Ragecraft 4
V, S
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: one creature per two caster levels
Duration: 1 round or 2d6 rounds, see text
Saving throw: Fort partial
Spell Resistance: Yes

The targets of this spell are consumed with searing pain. For the duration of the spell, each target takes a -2 penalty to the modified level check to resist Intimidation by the caster in his allies, and takes a -2 penalty on attack rolls, AC, and all Strength-based and Dexterity-based checks. Each round while the spell is in effect, each target takes 2d6 points of nonlethal damage. Each target must also make a Concentration check against flood of agony's saving throw DC to cast spells or concentrate on existing spells. Each target of the spell who succeeds at a saving throw is released from the effects of the flood of agony after only one round, rather than the usual 2d6 rounds.

Secretward
Wordcraft 3 [Compulsion, Mind-affecting]
V, S, M
Range: Touch
Target: one creature
Casting time: 1 hour
Duration: one month per level
Saving throw: Will partial
Spell Resistance: Yes

By casting secretward, the caster renders the target unable to speak about a particular subject of the caster's choice. Example compulsions include: "You will not disclose the details of your meeting with Councilor Thavius," "you will tell no one of the murder you have witnessed," "you will not tell anyone, including the Formerian ambassador, that you are serving as his bodyguard," and similar instructions. Secretward has no power to affect any other aspect of the target's behavior, but a creature under the effects of this spell cannot communicate about the restricted subject by any means. The subject restricted by this spell must be specific and clearly defined by the caster. A mage could use this spell to prevent the target from discussing a single act of violence, a single dwarven individual, or a particular stash of hidden gold, but no secretward could prevent the target from discussing all the violence he's ever witnessed, the entire dwarven race, or the idea of currency in general.

A creature under the effects of a secretward spell cannot bypass this restriction by writing things down, offering hints of any kind, answering questions about the subject, or any other methods. In fact, a creature who is asked questions about a subject he is magically prohibited from discussing can only respond with, "I cannot answer that question," or a similar response. Spellcasters using detect thoughts or other means to examine the target without requiring his active communication may discover information on the restricted subject if they succeed at a Will save against the secretward spell; failure indicates all thoughts related to the restricted subject are black, murky, and unreadable.

No matter whether the saving throw succeeds or fails, the target is unable to discuss the forbidden subject. If the saving throw fails, the target is similarly prevented from discussing the secretward spell that affects him, or actively seeking a spellcaster to cast dispel magic on him. A target who succeeds on the saving throw is capable of informing others that about the spell, which may lead to the spell's being dispelled or otherwise negated, leaving the target able to talk freely once again. Even though a target who saves successfully against secretward can discuss the spell that affects him, he is still prevented from discussing the forbidden subject until the secretward is dispelled or its duration expires. This prevents a character from circumventing the spell's restrictions by saying something like, "I am under a spell that prevents me from telling anyone that I am the ambassador's bodyguard."

Note that the spell's long casting time and the requirement that the caster touch the target to cast the spell make secretward difficult to cast, since the caster must find some way to make the target stay still for an hour. Secretward can easily be cast upon a target that is willing or tied up, and some casters have been known to risk casting secretward upon sleeping targets (although the spell fails if they awaken and break the touch contact.)

Material component: a powder made from crushed opal and butterfly wings, worth at least 50 gp, to be sprinkled on the target during casting.

Call Animal
Animism 0
V, S, M
Range: Personal
Target: You
Casting time: 1 standard action
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving throw: Will negates (see text)
Spell Resistance: Yes

By casting this spell, you compel the nearest animal to come to your location, using its normal means of travel to the best of its abilities. This spell cannot cause an animal to attempt transportation unnatural to its species, such as causing a fish to leave water or a horse to climb a tree. Wild animals receive no saving throw, but domesticated or trained animals can make a Will save to resist the effect. Creatures with Intelligence of 3 or greater are immune to this effect. This spell has no effect on the animal's behavior besides causing it to come to your location; creatures summoned this way might be hostile toward the caster. This spell only affects animals within Medium range (100 ft. + 10 ft./level); if no appropriate animal is within range of the spell, the spell has no effect.

Material component: a drop of honey.[/spoiler]
I'm not too worried about checking these for balance, as they've already been combed through fairly thoroughly on the WotC boards (though you're always welcome to comb through them again, of course.) They're important for understanding the magic classes that use them, though.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

I hope this is not a stupidly obvious question, but what combat styles do you use/allow for the Hunter?

[Lmns Crn]

I hope this is not a stupidly obvious question, but what combat styles do you use/allow for the Hunter?

If it is on that list, it is both usable and allowed.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Errg... I know I'm somehow being dense, but I can't find the list... :(  :'(

[Lmns Crn]

Now that I consider it, it is a very poorly labeled list. Here it is:

If the hunter selects archery speed, he receives Rapid Shot at second level and Manyshot at sixth level.

If the hunter selects archery precision, he receives Point Blank Shot at second level and Precise Shot at sixth level.

If the hunter selects two-weapon combat, he receives Two Weapon Fighting at second level and Improved Two Weapon Fighting at sixth level.

If the hunter selects melee speed, he receives Mobility at second level and Spring Attack at sixth level.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Ahhh, okay, thanks.  I was looking for something with a little bit more flowery language, like the "Desert Rose" style, and such.  

[Lmns Crn]

Ahhh, okay, thanks.  I was looking for something with a little bit more flowery language, like the "Desert Rose" style, and such.

I figured those would be the sort of labels that individual hunters (or communities, or huntery schools of thought, etc.) would apply on their own. While it would make plenty of sense for a desert-dwelling liriss to call a form of "desert rose style", for example, it makes less sense for a Damiran dwarf or a seafaring goblin to use the same name.

Summary: feel free to name them other things if you want to.