09-30-2015, 12:01 AM
I wouldn't have categorized it as an argument either, it's just a case of the class being unclear and the intentions contradicting the words. It might have been a case of an issue being pointed out and the update never being made cause Vil was having his own health issues to deal with, either way the class is an outlier...
It does some interesting things but the mechanics for a lot of it were built from scratch and possibly not properly tested before being put out- I proofread the thing but I never ran numbers on a lot of it, so I can't rightly say how it works in practice.
I think a more crafty Engineer Archetype might be the better way to go for this, as a Hybrid class it's a little strange anyways since it lists Black Mage as a parent class but aside from being able to craft and make use of magical items like Staves or Wands, it doesn't really have anything to do with the Black Mage, and those aspects can be linked to all magic-using base classes.
There's a 3rd party crafting class, the Artificer, for Pathfinder... while it too is very wonky and weird in a lot of ways as a lot of 3rd party material is, it might serve as a better base on how to handle the 'random inventing class' that isn't already covered by Engineer or Chemist.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-part.../artificer
It does some interesting things but the mechanics for a lot of it were built from scratch and possibly not properly tested before being put out- I proofread the thing but I never ran numbers on a lot of it, so I can't rightly say how it works in practice.
I think a more crafty Engineer Archetype might be the better way to go for this, as a Hybrid class it's a little strange anyways since it lists Black Mage as a parent class but aside from being able to craft and make use of magical items like Staves or Wands, it doesn't really have anything to do with the Black Mage, and those aspects can be linked to all magic-using base classes.
There's a 3rd party crafting class, the Artificer, for Pathfinder... while it too is very wonky and weird in a lot of ways as a lot of 3rd party material is, it might serve as a better base on how to handle the 'random inventing class' that isn't already covered by Engineer or Chemist.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-part.../artificer