Talk:Elixir Mage (3.5e Class)

I like the class, but I have a issue on my mind...

The cost of Elixir bugs me. 5 gp for something made of common materials obtainable anywhere is strangely expensive, considering a pound of silver is worth 5 gp. I mean, 5 silver could be explained just fine. Even 20 silver. But 5 GP is really pricey. Plus, it's insanely expensive. At level 5, needing at most three doses a day(one every 9 hours), that's about 15 GP a day. I mean, a level 1 character has to spend like 20 GP a day to get enough elixir to get through one day without suffering from withdrawal. Aside from maybe the rules presented for grave robbing presented in Secret College of Necromancy(as in a profession skill which nets you your result in GP for a week of work), there is no way to obtain enough money for even a level 10 character(which is basically 5 GP a day) to have a habit and have downtime. In theory one could just raid dungeons for a living, or constantly take on people with large bounties on their head, but in practice, this isn't really feasible. Contracts run out, dungeons aren't everywhere, and even graveyards run out of usable bodies eventually.--YX33A (talk) 23:44, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Very true, thanks for the critique. Fixed.Spanambula (talk) 03:07, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Have you thought...

First, I would like to point out that I find the concept of this class to be very interesting. It presents plenty of opportunity for role playing, even in games with little to no role play. The thing that bothers me is when looking at the option to "branch out" your abilities, the character will continue to suffer from a poor attack bonus if they choose to go with anything other than the Casting Addict. Granted there are only a couple of extra themed abilities granted, but say for example the rogue addict was selected. There really wouldn't be any sneak attacks due to the poor Base Attack Bonus. The only thing I can think up is to give attack bonuses for those who do select something other than Casting Addict (personally I would pick the Casting Addict anyways but then again I prefer spell casting classes).