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{{3.5e Alternate Class Feature
 
{{3.5e Alternate Class Feature
 
|name=Dark Magician
 
|name=Dark Magician
|summary=A dark magician is a practitioner of black magic, which focuses on offensive spells. The focus on offensive magic comes at the cost of spell versatility, as the training required make them shun more helpful spells. Most dark magicians wear concealing robes, dark attires and many are fronds of large conical hats.
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|summary=A dark magician is a practitioner of black magic, and are often associated with large conical hats. The art of black magic is overly focused on powerful offensive spells, with regards to damage over helpful or crippling effects. Dark magician can also raise powerful personal wards, protecting them on the battlefield. Particularly experienced dark magician can cast multiple spells at once.
 
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|class=Sorcerer
 
|class=Sorcerer
|level=1st, 3rd, 9th, 20th
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|level=1st, 3rd, 9th
|replaces=Bloodline Arcana, Bloodline Power (3rd, 9th, 20th)
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|replaces=Bloodline Arcana, Bloodline Power (3rd, 9th)
 
|benefit=A dark magician gain access to the following class features:
 
|benefit=A dark magician gain access to the following class features:
  
 
'''Limited Bloodline:''' A dark magician can only choose one of the following bloodlines: abyssal, arcane, daemon, fey, infernal, oni, starsoul, and undead. A GM may allow additional bloodline to be allowable at her discretion.
 
'''Limited Bloodline:''' A dark magician can only choose one of the following bloodlines: abyssal, arcane, daemon, fey, infernal, oni, starsoul, and undead. A GM may allow additional bloodline to be allowable at her discretion.
  
'''Black Magic Arcana:''' A dark magician is focused on black magic, which is inherently offensive in nature. Whenever she casts a spell or uses a bloodline power that deals damage, it deals +1 point of damage per die rolled. Additionally a dark magician adds +1 to the DC of any spells she casts which causes instant death or petrification.
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'''Black Magic Arcana:''' Whenever a dark magician she casts a spell that deals damage, it deals +1 point of damage per die rolled.  
 
 
However a dark magician cannot learn spells with the [good] descriptor or of the [healing] subschool. If the dark magician learns a spell with multiple alignment descriptors, she cannot cast it with the [good] descriptor.
 
  
 
This ability replaces the sorcerer’s bloodline arcana.
 
This ability replaces the sorcerer’s bloodline arcana.
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This ability replaces the bloodline power gained at 3rd level.
 
This ability replaces the bloodline power gained at 3rd level.
  
'''Doublecast {{Ex}}:''' A 9th level dark magician is able to cast two spells at once. Once per day, she may take a full-round action to cast two spells with a casting time of a standard action. The chosen spells must be at least one level below the highest spell level the dark magician can cast. At 18th level she may use this ability a second time per day.
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'''Double Cast {{Su}}:''' Once per day, a 9th level dark magician may casts two spells as a full-round action. Both spells must be of at least two level below the highest spell level she can cast. At 18th level, she may use this ability twice per day.
 
 
This ability replaces the sorcerer’s 9th level bloodline power.
 
 
 
'''Black Magic Master {{Su}}:''' A 20th level dark magician is a potent user of black magic. She treats other creatures as if their energy resistance and spell resistance were 10 lower. She treats immunity to magic as if it was SR of 20 + the creature’s HD (which is not reduced by this ability) and energy immunity halves her damage rather than negating it.
 
  
This ability replaces the bloodline power gained at 20th level.}}
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This ability replaces the sorcerer’s 9th level bloodline power.}}
  
 
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Dark Magician

A dark magician is a practitioner of black magic, and are often associated with large conical hats. The art of black magic is overly focused on powerful offensive spells, with regards to damage over helpful or crippling effects. Dark magician can also raise powerful personal wards, protecting them on the battlefield. Particularly experienced dark magician can cast multiple spells at once.

Class: Sorcerer

Level: 1st, 3rd, 9th

Replaces: Bloodline Arcana, Bloodline Power (3rd, 9th)

Benefit: A dark magician gain access to the following class features:

Limited Bloodline: A dark magician can only choose one of the following bloodlines: abyssal, arcane, daemon, fey, infernal, oni, starsoul, and undead. A GM may allow additional bloodline to be allowable at her discretion.

Black Magic Arcana: Whenever a dark magician she casts a spell that deals damage, it deals +1 point of damage per die rolled.

This ability replaces the sorcerer’s bloodline arcana.

Dark Shield (Su): A 3rd level dark magician is able to raise a barrier of protective magic around herself, deflecting incoming attacks. As a swift action, the dark magician may grant herself a +2 deflection bonus to AC and Damage Reduction 1/Magic. This bonus lasts indefinitely, or until the dark magician is struck by a melee or ranged attack. At 7th level and each 4 levels thereafter she increases her deflection bonus to AC and damage reduction by 1.

This ability replaces the bloodline power gained at 3rd level.

Double Cast (Su): Once per day, a 9th level dark magician may casts two spells as a full-round action. Both spells must be of at least two level below the highest spell level she can cast. At 18th level, she may use this ability twice per day.

This ability replaces the sorcerer’s 9th level bloodline power.



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SummaryA dark magician is a practitioner of black
A dark magician is a practitioner of black magic, and are often associated with large conical hats. The art of black magic is overly focused on powerful offensive spells, with regards to damage over helpful or crippling effects. Dark magician can also raise powerful personal wards, protecting them on the battlefield. Particularly experienced dark magician can cast multiple spells at once.
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TitleDark Magician +