Universal School

[The Infinity Sock]

So does universal school give a bonus to all spells as i have not seen universal spells only in this game?

[GrandMajora]

Hover your mouse over the school specialization and it should tell you what bonuses they grant.

I don't remember the second bonus, but the first one Universalists get is the ability to make a ranged attack with a melee weapon via the Jedi Light Saber Throw.

Basically, you use magic to send your weapon out, hit the target, and make it return to your hand!

[The Infinity Sock]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Hover your mouse over the school specialization and it should tell you what bonuses they grant.

I don't remember the second bonus, but the first one Universalists get is the ability to make a ranged attack with a melee weapon via the Jedi Light Saber Throw.

Basically, you use magic to send your weapon out, hit the target, and make it return to your hand!

That is news to me if it is true

[Sigmund Void]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Hover your mouse over the school specialization and it should tell you what bonuses they grant.

I don't remember the second bonus, but the first one Universalists get is the ability to make a ranged attack with a melee weapon via the Jedi Light Saber Throw.

Basically, you use magic to send your weapon out, hit the target, and make it return to your hand!

it doesn't tell you like most things in this game do not really tell you what they do.

[faolanthehedgehog]

No. Universal is not actually a school. It's basically a small number of spells that don't fall under any other school of magic. In fact, in the core rules of the tabletop, there are fewer Universal spells than there are levels of spells. In addition, in the tabletop, you would not be able to choose Universal as a school for purposes of Spell Focus. Even if you could, it would be useless because none of them have saving throws involved anyways (except maybe Limited Wish and Wish when they emulate another spell, but then it would just be treated as being of the school of the spell being emulated).

Universalist wizards are those that don't specialize in a school. They can cast spells from all schools, but they don't get bonus spells per day or any other benefits from specializing.

[UR|Dialetheia]

And yet, somehow, you can take Spell Focus(Universal) as a feat.

[Morgian]

Universal school: you don't get bonus spell slots, but you have no opposite schools either, so each spell costs 1 slot to memorise. The special benefit of universal mages is that they get a few levels of free metamagic each day to manipulate spells on the fly like a sorcerer can. I don't know how that was implemented.

[Morgian]

Nope. The spells that belong to the universal school in PF are:
Lvl 0: arcane mark, prestidigitation
Lvl 1: dead man's ink
Lvl 4: halt plants
Lvl 5: permanency
Lvl 7: limited wish
Lvl 9: wish

As you can see, not much of a school at all.

[Sigmund Void]

Originally posted by Morgian:

Nope. The spells that belong to the universal school in PF are:
Lvl 0: arcane mark, prestidigitation
Lvl 1: dead man's ink
Lvl 4: halt plants
Lvl 5: permanency
Lvl 7: limited wish
Lvl 9: wish

As you can see, not much of a school at all.

Ironically this is less universal as any other school

[Sigmund Void]

Originally posted by Faexin:

Originally posted by Morgian:

Nope. The spells that belong to the universal school in PF are:
Lvl 0: arcane mark, prestidigitation
Lvl 1: dead man's ink
Lvl 4: halt plants
Lvl 5: permanency
Lvl 7: limited wish
Lvl 9: wish

As you can see, not much of a school at all.

Ironically this is less universal than any other school

[The Infinity Sock]

Originally posted by UR|Dialetheia:

And yet, somehow, you can take Spell Focus(Universal) as a feat.

That's why i thought it would give us a bonus to all spells

[Mimung]

Universal gives you the aprentice hand skill (ranged attack with meele wep, to hit mod by int, number of casts mod by int - hits kinda hard earlygame, becomes useless lateron) and skills to empower, increase range or quickcast spells as you level up. you dont get any bonus cast slots.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Morgian:

Nope. The spells that belong to the universal school in PF are:
Lvl 0: arcane mark, prestidigitation
Lvl 1: dead man's ink
Lvl 4: halt plants
Lvl 5: permanency
Lvl 7: limited wish
Lvl 9: wish

As you can see, not much of a school at all.

I think they dumped all their learning plans into figuring out how to not ♥♥♥♥ up the Wish spells...