![]() You could make Conjuration (Creation) its own school (it's more than large enough) if you wanted to. Making more and different schools would be difficult (need at least 2 of each level due to specialist wizards), and really finicky, while this already fixes most of the non-intuitive issues making it not really worth the cognitive effort (Evocation - Creates energy/objects from nothing, Conjuration - Moves things from place to place, Transmutation - Transmutes things, Illusion - Creates unreal things, Enchantment - Messes with heads, Necromancy - messes with life force, Divination - Gathers information from nowhere, Abjuration - Anti-magic and wards). Curses remain as potentially sticky issue as to where to put them. Glamers, Shadow, Figments, and Patterns all affect how everyone perceives things not just the target, while Patterns are mind-affecting they still are very distinctly non-enchantment. Illusion and Enchantment: I don't have a problem here in general, if you do move Phantasms to Enchantment. ![]() Make a curse subschool for necromancy and give it a bit of fluff for what makes a curse a curse and it'd have worked better, still a heavy overhaul. But other than Bestow Curse and a few other spells, and Fear Necromancy pretty much is 'life energy manipulation' and 'undead boosting' and that's pretty functional/intuitive. There is some fixing of Necromancy that might need to be done. You might want to move Bestow Curse to Transmutation? Fear spells to Enchantment (they did do this in 5e). Evocation would also work (as it includes 'Create Something from Nothing' and 'Channel pure planar energies' i.e. Necromancy is magic which manipulates life energy so this is intuitive. I shift the Healing subschool from Conjuration to Necromancy (where it was in 2e). With this change Metacreativity becomes considered equivalent of Evocation instead of Conjuration. This also helps rebalance schools in the one place it really matters Specialist Wizards. It is only in Conjuration so that Lv 1 Conjurers can be a thing (as in any Creation spell that existed in 1e was Evocation, half of them became Conjuration in 2e so it had the minimum required 2 spells per level, the other half got shifted in 3e for consistency I guess), and with Spell Compendium and PHBII it is no longer necessary for that purpose. School divisions: I make any spell that creates something from nothing (the D&D definition of the Evocation school) Evocation this means the entire Creation subschool gets shunted out of Conjuration. Schools affect: Certain feats (Spell Focus, Cloudy Conjuration, Metamagic School Focus), Specialist Wizards, and certain resistances (elves get a +2 on saves versus Enchantment, Gnomes get +1 to saves versus Illusions). ![]() So to help me with this, I have two broad questions for the Playground - what do schools actually effect, and how would you divvy up the spells into different categories? Of course, there are things magic can do that psionics can't, so it's hard to adapt it with broad strokes, and I'd like to come up with my own if possible. I rather liked the Psionic Disciplines in 3.5e, as they were smaller in number, yet intuitive and inclusive. It's kind of difficult trying to categorize them, especially when you think of some small but well-known semi-distinct grouping and you wonder, "Are they distinct or numerous enough them to make them their own school, or should I include them in another school?" #School of magic pathfinder how toI've also been long at a loss as to how to organize them into new schools, especially without knowing every spell. Unfortunately, creating an alternate system of schools is not a simple matter, as aside from Specialist Wizards I'm not quite sure what the extent of its relevance is. Necromancy is obviously a bin for just about everything the designers consider evil, and Abjuration is weird. I've long been dissatisfied with how the spells are sorted in terms of "schools." Many of them are rather problematic - Enchantment and Illusion have some overlap and ambiguities, likewise with Evocation and Conjuration. ![]()
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