The Definite d20/D&D Conversion thread

[Jürgen Hubert]

Originally Posted by Kenneth Latrans

That all looks good to me. Also makes me want to play a sorcerer/wizard/bard.

Just one question: will an exception to the "no arcane healing spells" be made for Bards, whose learnable spell lists -do- include Cure Light Wounds and the like?

To be honest, I'd rather not - I rather like the idea of making arcane magic more unified and blurring the boundaries between arcane magic-using classes. Making a special exception for bards would make it difficult to explain why sorcerers and wizards couldn't learn them

Are Bards, as jacks of all trades, expected to buy minor levels or Power Investiture to gods with the Healing domain to get such spells?

That might be the best idea, and it echoes the AD&D 1E bard - who could cast druid spells.

Or maybe we could do something on the lines of the "New Realm" Power-Up for clerics from GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 11 - only in this case, people with Magical Aptitude could buy Power Investiture itself as a "Power-Up" for their Magical Aptitude. This could also represent the Theurgist prestige class...