Figmentist

Requirements

Spells: Must have the ability to cast 3rd level glamour spells

Skills: Knowledge (arcana)(8 ranks)

Feats: Illusion Focus (figment)

Summary

Figmentists are illusion focused spellcasters focused on the figment subschool of illusions. A figment spell creates a false sensation. Those who perceive the figment perceive the same thing, not their own slightly different versions of the figment. (It is not a personalized mental impression.) Figments cannot make something seem to be something else. A figment that includes audible effects cannot duplicate intelligible speech unless the spell description specifically says it can. If intelligible speech is possible, it must be in a language you can speak. If you try to duplicate a language you cannot speak, the image produces gibberish. Likewise, you cannot make a visual copy of something unless you know what it looks like.

Because figments and glamers (see below) are unreal, they cannot produce real effects the way that other types of illusions can. They cannot cause damage to objects or creatures, support weight, provide nutrition, or provide protection from the elements. Consequently, these spells are useful for confounding or delaying foes, but useless for attacking them directly. So these illusionists are masters of misdirection and are going to obscure the pit trap before leading someone to fall into it.

Role: Spell Utility

Characteristics: Illusion focused casters, that misdirect the senses to confound foes.

Source: Encyclopedia Arcane: Illusionism

Game Rule Information

The Figmentist has the following game statistics.

Abilities: Whatever your casting stat had been to augment the dc to disbelieve your illusions, and Dexterity and Constitution to augment your AC and boost HP to be a little bit less squishy/

Alignment: Any

Hit Die: d4

Starting Gold: N/A

Class Skills

The Figmentist's class skills are Alchemy (Int), Bluff (Cha), Concentration (Con), Craft (any) (Int), Knowledge (arcana)(Int), Listen (Wis), Profession (Wis), Scry (Int), Search (Int), Spellcraft (Int), and Spot (Wis)

Skill Points at 1st Level: (2 + Int modifier) × 4

Skill Points at Each Additional Level: 2 + Int modifier

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Figmentist.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: A Figmentist is proficient with whatever they were already proficient with prior to taking levels in this class.

Spells: When a figmentist gains a level the character gains new spells per day as if he had also gained a level in a spellcasting class he belonged to before he added the prestige class. He does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (improved chance of controlling or rebuking undead, metamagic or item creation feats and so on.) This essentially means that he adds the level of figmentist to the level of any other arcane spellcasting class the character has, then determines spells per day, spells known, and caster level accordingly.

Bonus Feat: At 1st level the figmentist gains a bonus feat. In addition, the figmentist gains an additional bonus feat at 5th and 10th levels. These bonus feats must be drawn from the following list: Augment Illusion, Enlarge Spell, Extend Spell, Heighten Spell, Illusion Focus, Illusory Insight, Imbue Illusion, Quicken Spell, Silent Spell, Skill Focus (Concentration), Split Concentration, Spell Mimicry, Still Spell, and Tactile Illusion. Some of the bonus feats cannot be acquired until the figmentist has gained one or more prerequisite feats.

Inherent Spell Sp: The figmentist automatically knows a single figment spell for each level of spells he has access to. This does not count against a caster's known spells.

Spontaneous Casting Sp: A figmentist can choose to lose a prepared spell in order to cast a figment spell in order to cast a figment that he knows of the same or lower level. If linking metamagic feats to this spell it takes a full round to cast.

Hasten Figment Su: At 3rd level the figmentist gains the ability to cast a figment as a move equivalent action once per day. The hastened figment must have a normal casting time of 1 action. The figmentist gains the ability to hasten two figments per day at 6th level and three figments at 9th level. Hastened figments suffer a -1 to the DCs on their Will saves to disbelieve the illusion.

Table 1-1: Figmentist Progression

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Spells per Day
1st	+0	+0	+0	+2	Bonus feat, inherent spell, spontaneous casting	+1 level of existing class
2nd	+1	+0	+0	+3	—	+1 level of existing class
3rd	+1	+1	+1	+3	Hasten figment 1/day	+1 level of existing class
4th	+2	+1	+1	+4	—	+1 level of existing class
5th	+2	+1	+1	+4	Bonus feat	+1 level of existing class
6th	+3	+2	+2	+5	Hasten figment 2/day	+1 level of existing class
7th	+3	+2	+2	+5	—	+1 level of existing class
8th	+4	+2	+2	+6	—	+1 level of existing class
9th	+4	+3	+3	+6	Hasten figment 3/day	+1 level of existing class
10th	+5	+3	+3	+7	Bonus feat	+1 level of existing class