Muscle Wizard level 1-
Great Muscle- Permanent gain of +1 to strength, constitution, and charisma
Muscle Casting- Muscle Wizards now use the Strength score in place of Intelligence for all arcane spellcasting.
Mighty Flex 1 (Transmutation)- May be stored at spell levels 1-3. Grants (Spell level/2 round up) morale bonus to all rolls for 1d4 rounds. Heals entire party for (Spell level)d2 hp.

Level 2-
Flex Casting- Muscle Wizards may cast arcane spells by flexing at any time they choose. This has the effect of a Silent Spell with no spell level requirements. However, this may not stack with any other metamagic feat and requires full mobility.

Level 3-
Excellent Muscles- Gain permanent +1 to Strength, Constitution, and Charisma.

Level 4-
Nothing

Level 5-
Incredible Muscles- Gain +1 permanent Strength, Constitution, and Charisma
Mighty Flex 2- Same as Mighty Flex 1 except now Mighty Flex may be stored up to level 6 spells.

Level 6-
Solid Muscle- The Muscle Wizard now has +1 natural AC and 1/- damage resistance.

Level 7-
Awesome Muscle- Gain +1 permanent Strength, Constitution, and Charisma

Level 8-
Musical Muscle- the Muscle Wizard may use Perform (Barbershop Quartet) at 1/2 his caster level or at his highest Perform check once per day.

Level 9-
Perfect Muscle- Gain +1 permanent to Strength.
Fist Casting- The Muscle Wizard may choose to imbue his fist with a spell. During his next attack, he must make a successful touch attack. Any spell cast this way bypasses reflex saves. Spell resistance DC is increased by one point for every three points above touch AC rolled by the Muscle Wizard.

Level 10-
Fist (Universal)- (Caster level)d10 bludgeoning damage to all beings and objects within line of sight radius. Living and nonliving creatures will be treated as not blocking line of sight, immobile structures and terrain may block line of sight. All creatures and immobile structures regardless of friend or foe will receive damage. The Muscle Wizard may cast Fist once per day as an epic spell.

Doesn't "Bastards and Bloodlines" have a feat that lets you swap your spellcasting attribute for *any other attribute*? Switch INT for STR/CON and there's your muscle wizard.

So, yeah. I'm still trying to decide whether this is viable (Growth will be from low level, so it would require a rather suboptimal character dedicated to the path) or overpowered due to the bonuses.

Also didn't mention that bardic/sorcerer arcane spellcasting would also swap to strength usage instead of charisma. The charisma bonuses and requirements are simply there because Muscle Wizard is charismatic.

Any thoughts?

Eh, nothing? I suppose it's a bit convoluted, but I wanted something with more character than simply changing cast from int to str.

- prestige classes don't have strict stat requirements, so "power attack" would be a good substitute for str (since it requires str 13+)

label your abilities ex, su, or sp

>>16113718

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Awesome.

>>16113805
you are now tempted to play a female muscle wizard

>>16113940
Nobody said it was a male-only class, right?

Didn't we decide that Muscle Wizard was either an Illumian Aeshkrau Cleric/Archivist who uses Divine Metamagic + Persistent Spell + Greater Consumptive Field.

>>16113940
>>16114365

It's not the female part that's a problem, but the female+bald+mustache.

>>16113940
>>16114365

BTW, femuscle wizards have already been done.

Actually I've played around with a idea like this for a while. Instead of wizards, have clerics and have a god of competition and sports. Have them pray daily through wrestling and what not, have a daily ability that would allow them to double their STR bonus for a round.

>>16114503

Muscle sorcerers, too

>>16114547
>sorceror
>Even the image itself spells it fine
>Have not noticed it until now

My autism just went into overdrive. My internet-shame will never end

This sounds rather retarded. Not only do you have to have your high intelligence as a Wizard, but now you also need 3 other decent stats, thus forcing you to switch your speciality. Furthermore, having only a 1d6 hit die (which is a Wizard's normal hit die if you go by pathfinder) and 3/4 BAB, but also being limited by needing two slots per spell only makes it bad at all roles. It would be much better to just multiclass into fighter as a Wizard, rather than to use this crippling prestige class.

Rather, Muscle wizards use STR bonus to replace INT for normal wizards.

Muscle Wizards may never wear any armor that covers their torso or arms (excluding hands) or incur a 30% spell failure chance.

A muscle wizard's hit die are d12, but they may NEVER use any weapon or ranged weapon other than their own body, fists, legs, head ect.

Muscle wizard may only have access to the Enchantment, Evocation and universal spells.

That's just my input for a start. I could go on.

Hm. Good points all around.

Perhaps moving hitdie up to 1d8 and BAB to full would make it a bit more appealing, along with cutting the requirements down to 3rd level arcane spellcasting and only 5 ranks in discipline and intimidate. I know the strength, constitution, and charisma requirements are a bit unusual, but they do seem to fit the theme quite well and suit the class to a sorcerer/monk or bard/fighter combo. It's absolutely more flavor than raw power.

If that's not enough, perhaps instead of crippling spell slots that badly, simply enforce the first spell slot each day to be filled with Mighty Flex, then leave the rest normal. Considering that's still giving wizard pace spell growth and +4 total to spellcasting stat, I'm pretty sure that's not a horrible restraint.

As mentioned, no armor and gloves/gauntlets largely for the purpose of being able to punch oozes and the like. Although it wouldn't be much of a stretch at this point to say the Muscle Wizard can punch whatever he wants with no ill effects because muscles.