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Galin
05-14-04, 12:19 PM what is MotAO? and where is it from?
Mith
05-14-04, 12:27 PM Mage of the Arcane Order

It's from the Tome and Blood splatbook.

Its most important ability is "calling" spells. Basically, you can call (caster level/2) levels of spells each day. You take a full round action to call the spell, and it appears in your mind next turn for you to cast. This can be any arcane spell, so it could be a niche spell that you'd never learn that is just really handy in .5% of situations. There are several limitations to this:

1. You only have a certain level of access to what spells you can cast - a level 1 MotAO can call spells of level 1-3, level 4 MotAO can do 1-6, and level 7 MotAO can do 1-9.

2. You have to have an "open slot" to call the spell into. for wizards this means that they have to not prepare all of their spells per day - they can only call spells into a non-prepared slot. For sorcerers it just means they need a spell-per day of the appropriate level or higher.

Hope that helps.
Fwib
05-14-04, 12:46 PM There is also the Guild Wizard of Waterdeep in the Forgotten Realms setting, which is very similar, except that many people consider it rather inferior.
Galin
05-14-04, 02:06 PM oops I just saw that I have hit the new thread button instead of post reply.

sorry

this belongs to "how to live to fight another day"

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Galin 05-14-04, 12:19 PM	what is MotAO? and where is it from?
Mith 05-14-04, 12:27 PM	Mage of the Arcane Order It's from the Tome and Blood splatbook. Its most important ability is "calling" spells. Basically, you can call (caster level/2) levels of spells each day. You take a full round action to call the spell, and it appears in your mind next turn for you to cast. This can be any arcane spell, so it could be a niche spell that you'd never learn that is just really handy in .5% of situations. There are several limitations to this: 1. You only have a certain level of access to what spells you can cast - a level 1 MotAO can call spells of level 1-3, level 4 MotAO can do 1-6, and level 7 MotAO can do 1-9. 2. You have to have an "open slot" to call the spell into. for wizards this means that they have to not prepare all of their spells per day - they can only call spells into a non-prepared slot. For sorcerers it just means they need a spell-per day of the appropriate level or higher. Hope that helps.
Fwib 05-14-04, 12:46 PM	There is also the Guild Wizard of Waterdeep in the Forgotten Realms setting, which is very similar, except that many people consider it rather inferior.
Galin 05-14-04, 02:06 PM	oops I just saw that I have hit the new thread button instead of post reply. sorry this belongs to "how to live to fight another day"