Battlemages are both the most well known and most feared mages in the world. Life Mages save lives and Diviners provide a glimpse of the future, but nothing can match the destructive power of a battlemage. They hurl balls of fire and voidbolts with equal ease, reducing entire battalions to smoking piles of corpses within seconds.
More than one enemy has broken at the mere sight of a battlemage, and even those who hold their ground often take devestating losses before finally bringing the mage down.
Most military commanders are smart enough to understand what a powerful advantage battlemages provide, so they often provide them skilled protection the form of warmasters, paladins or fighters. A battlemage is almost always the first target on every battlefield, so this protection can mean the difference between life and death.
Hit Points Per Level: 6
Base Attack Bonus Per Level: .5
Class Skills: Appraise (Int), Craft (Int), Fly (Dex), Knowledge (all) (Int), Linguistics (Int) and Profession (Wis).
Skill Ranks per Level: 6 + Int modifier
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Class Features
The Battlemage class has access to the following class features.
Weapon & Armor Profieciency: Battlemages are proficient with all simple weapons. They are proficient with light armor, but may not use shields.
Focus Attribute: Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma.
Spells: A Battlemage casts arcane spells drawn from the spell lists presented under Magic & Spells. They may only choose spells from any Aspect they possess. To learn or cast a spell the Mage’s Focus Attribute must be equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a mage’s spell is 10 + the spell level + the mage’s Focus Attribute modifier.
A battlemage starts with spell points equal to their focused attribute modifier, plus 3 points for each level in the class. Their Recovery is equal to their constitution modifier, plus their battlemage level.
A mage may know any number of spells from his lists, and may cast any of them as long as he has an appropriate number of spell points available.
Bonus Feats: 1st, 3rd and 5th level the battlemage gains a bonus arcane feat.
Intensity: The battlemage adds 1 additional point of damage to each die whenever they cast a spell that does damage.
Path of Destruction: At 2nd level the Battlemage gains access to the Greater Path of Destruction.
Improved Intensity: At 3rd level the battlemage’s Intensity is increased to 2 points per die of damage.
Focused Accuracy: At 4th level a battlemage may use their Focus Attribute in place of Dexterity when rolling to hit with a ranged attack spell.
Arcane Understanding: At 4th level the battlemage subtracts 1 from the cost of any metamagic used to enhance a damage spell.
Arcane Armor: At 5th level the mage gains the Medium Armor proficiency. If they already possess it they gain the Heavy Armor proficiency.
Greater Intensity: At 6th level the battlemage now adds +3 damage for each die in a spell that does damage.
Improved Arcane Understanding: At 6th level a battlemage reduces the cost of metamagic used while casting damage spells by 2.
