I’d think it kind of depends, land druid is probably the closest flavor wise (but you might need to tweak the spell list/ wild shape to focus more on geology), but I could also see something like a warlock working if the stones are a source of arcane power.
Actually, yeah! The High Geologist would probably make for a way better warlock patron NPC. Since patrons don’t necessarily have to be divine cosmic entities HG could totally be a crazy strong wizard/ druid. Bonus points for stupid easy plot hooks (go fetch me the heart of a mountain, dragonfire obsidian, etc) quest rewards (just imbue high level spells into rocks/ crystals (ie fireball in a fire quartz, stinking cloud in sulphur, etc.) as a surprise tool to help us later for the party), and conflicts (how do other wizardly geologist feel about warlocks?).
A warlock dwarf trying to channel the arcane power of the earth sounds like a super compelling springboard for a character.
I would argue some wizard variant. A wizard is someone who studies magic knowledge. A student is a person who studies regular human knowledge. A geologist is a particular kind of student who studies rocks, so as a class I’d say it’s a wizard who focused his magical studies on earth manipulating magic.
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I’d think it kind of depends, land druid is probably the closest flavor wise (but you might need to tweak the spell list/ wild shape to focus more on geology), but I could also see something like a warlock working if the stones are a source of arcane power.
some kind of dwarven warlock or druid/cleric seems like a fit… surprised this isn’t already a thing tbh
Actually, yeah! The High Geologist would probably make for a way better warlock patron NPC. Since patrons don’t necessarily have to be divine cosmic entities HG could totally be a crazy strong wizard/ druid. Bonus points for stupid easy plot hooks (go fetch me the heart of a mountain, dragonfire obsidian, etc) quest rewards (just imbue high level spells into rocks/ crystals (ie fireball in a fire quartz, stinking cloud in sulphur, etc.) as a surprise tool to help us later for the party), and conflicts (how do other wizardly geologist feel about warlocks?).
A warlock dwarf trying to channel the arcane power of the earth sounds like a super compelling springboard for a character.
yeah this should be a class of it’s own, geomancer or something
Ha no, this is something you gotta make in Pathfinder
Oh hell yeah. PF all the way for this sort of shenanigans.
I would argue some wizard variant. A wizard is someone who studies magic knowledge. A student is a person who studies regular human knowledge. A geologist is a particular kind of student who studies rocks, so as a class I’d say it’s a wizard who focused his magical studies on earth manipulating magic.