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Spell lists for deity of knowledge
« on: January 08, 2018, 01:43:40 PM »
I'm looking for suggestions for spell lists for followers of a goddess of knowledge. I'll take suggestions from any edition of RM, unofficial sources included.

Knowledge Mastery in the Mentalism Companion looks like a good one, despite the realm, and B.Hanson's spell list for Valris, also my Arcane Library list in the Guild Companion. What else?

This is for a PC who is a paladin, so the intent is to use some of the paladin lists and then swap in a couple knowledge-based lists.
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Re: Spell lists for deity of knowledge
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2018, 01:55:19 PM »
Some of the old Sage lists from RM2 - if adapted - might suit your purpose, although I suspect the Knowledge Mastery list you mentioned is a consolidation of some of these. There are also some Priest base lists from the Guild Companion June 2004 (Educating Ways and Discernment Mastery, I think they're called) that might be of some use.
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Re: Spell lists for deity of knowledge
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2018, 10:00:44 AM »
There's definitely overlap between these lists but sometimes one is a better fit than another. Thanks, I definitely would not have found the one in the GC.
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Re: Spell lists for deity of knowledge
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2018, 11:00:13 AM »
My first thought was the Bard Item Lore list. What I've done in the past when there were several lists that were close but not quite what I wanted was to line up all of them by level, cull the duplicates and those that are inappropriate for the new list, then shift up and down according to how well I think the survivors fit the new class's nature.

Another tack might be to look at the Knowledge skills in Pathfinder. Maybe those can serve as a starting point for dividing out specific lists your goddess of knowledge would offer. Each list could have similar spells to the other lists, but keyed to topic X.
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Re: Spell lists for deity of knowledge
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2018, 08:20:24 PM »
You might try the Teaching Lore list from the Heartstrings article in Other Hands issue 31/32. There is also the Item Analysis alchemist list from the treasure companion, and the Divinations list from the geomancer in the alchemy companion or the past visions seer list. Another possibility is the Path of Thought list from the august 2000 guild companion.
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Re: Spell lists for deity of knowledge
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2018, 06:27:25 AM »
Would spell lists from the Sleuth profession be helpful.  RMC-III I believe.
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Re: Spell lists for deity of knowledge
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2018, 11:18:59 PM »
Do you have access to the old Channeling Companion?
Starting on page 120 is list of "spheres of influence" for the priest profession. You could take the sphe of Ancestors, Arts, Crafts, Culture, Magic or Wisdom as base, depending what is more fitting. And then replace up to 3 of the base lists with each one base list from 3 spheres.
For example: Wisdom as base, but replace "Holy Wrath" with "Ceromonies" from Culture.

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Re: Spell lists for deity of knowledge
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2018, 10:02:56 AM »
Thanks for the suggestions. We'll see what the player likes.

I think the wisdom and oracle spheres are too much about divine insight and not enough about scholarly study, for this particular character. If it was a cleric there might be room for a little of both, but since she also has some paladin lists there is less room for variety on the knowledge side.
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Re: Spell lists for deity of knowledge
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2018, 07:01:12 PM »
I don't think anyone has mentioned Guildcraft Mastery from Essence Companion, which is definitely suitable for a bookish scholar, although probably a bit on the weak side for a base list.

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Re: Spell lists for deity of knowledge
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2018, 10:33:02 PM »
Did anyone mention Library Mastery (Prosaic) from RM2 Spell Users Companion?

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Re: Spell lists for deity of knowledge
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2018, 02:58:36 AM »
some of the Magus Lists from RMC3
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