LYRICIST Lyricists are spellcasters who have mastered the art of weaving spells through song.
MAKING A LYRICIST Lyricists have the following game statistics..
Abilities: Charisma determines how powerful a spell a lyricist can cast, how many spells she can cast per day, and how hard those spells are to resist. Charisma, Dexterity, and Intelligence are important for many of the lyricist’s class skills.
Alignment: Any non-lawful.
Starting Gold: 2d4x10(50 gp)
Hit Dice: d4
Class SkillsThe lyricist's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are....
Balance (Dex), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Gather Information (Cha), Hide (Dex), Jump (Str), Knowledge(Arcana) (Int), Knowledge(History) (Int), Knowledge(Local) (Int), Knowledge(Nature) (Int)Knowledge(Religion) (Int), Listen (Wis), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Speak Language, Spellcraft (Int), Spot (Wis), Tumble (Dex), Use Magic Device (Cha)
Skill Points at 1st Level: (2 + int)x4
Skill Points at Each Additional Level: 2 + int
Weapon and Armor Proficiencies: Lyricists are proficient with all simple weapons, but not with any type of armor or shield. Armor of any type interferes with a lyricist's movements, which can cause her spells with somatic components to fail.
Spells: A lyricist casts arcane spells, which are drawn from the bard spell list. A lyricist must choose and prepare her spells ahead of time. Every lyricist spell has a verbal component (singing, reciting, or music).
To learn, prepare, or cast a spell, the lyricist must have an Charisma score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a lyricist's spell is 10 + the spell level + the lyricist's Charisma modifier.
Like other spellcasters, a lyricist can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day.
Her base daily spell allotment is given in the Advancement table below. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Charisma score.
Unlike a bard or sorcerer, a lyricist may know any number of spells. She must choose and prepare her spells ahead of time by getting a good night's sleep and spending 1 hour studying her songbook. While studying, the lyricist decides which spells to prepare.
Scribe Scroll: At 1st level, a lyricist gains Scribe Scroll as a bonus feat.
Songbook: A lyricist must study her songbook each day to prepare her spells. She cannot prepare any spell not recorded in her songbook, except for read magic, which all lyricist can prepare from memory.
A lyricist begins play with a songbook containing all 0-level lyricist spells plus three 1st-level lyricist spells of your choice. For each point of Charisma bonus the lyricist has, the songbook holds one additional 1st-level lyricist spell of your choice. At each new lyricist level, she gains one new lyricist spell of any spell level that she can cast (based on her new lyricist level) for her songbook. At any time, a lyricist can also add spells found in other lyricists' songbooks to her own.
A lyricist may add any 1st through 5th-level spells from other arcane spellcasting classes, except for spells belonging to the schools of Necromancy, Conjuration, and Evocation, to her songbook as a spell one level higher than normal. Thus a lyricist who wishes to add the 3rd-level spell Power Word Deafen to her songbook would add it as a new 4th-level spell.
Bardic Music: As the standard bard ability of the same name. A character’s lyricist levels and bard levels (or levels in another class with the same ability) stack for the purpose of using bardic music.
Spontaneous Enchanting: Starting at 5th level, lyricists can “lose” a prepared arcane spell in order to cast any arcane enchantment spell that is in her songbook. This works just as a cleric’s spontaneous casting class feature, except that any spell cast in this manor has it's casting time increased by 1 step. Thus a spell with a casting time of 1 standard action will require a full round to cast spontaneously.
EX-LYRICIST A lyricist who becomes lawful in alignment cannot progress in levels as a lyricist, though she retains all her lyricist abilities.
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Level | Base Attack | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | 1st | +0 | +0 | +0 | +2 | Bardic music, Scribe scroll, Countersong, Fascinate, Inspire courage +1 | 2nd | +1 | +0 | +0 | +3 | - | 3rd | +1 | +1 | +1 | +3 | Inspire competence | 4th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | - | 5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Spontaneous enchanting | 6th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | Suggestion | 7th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | - | 8th | +4 | +2 | +2 | +6 | Inspire courage +2 | 9th | +4 | +3 | +3 | +6 | Inspire greatness | 10th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | - | 11th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | - | 12th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | Song of freedom | 13th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | - | 14th | +7/+2 | +4 | +4 | +9 | Inspire courage +3 | 15th | +7/+2 | +5 | +5 | +9 | Inspire heroics | 16th | +8/+3 | +5 | +5 | +10 | - | 17th | +8/+3 | +5 | +5 | +10 | - | 18th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +11 | Mass suggestion | 19th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +11 | - | 20th | +10/+5 | +6 | +6 | +12 | Inspire courage +4 |
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