Fantasy World Engine Mage Knight

Mage Knights are also called Arcane Fighters, Spell Swords and Eldritch Knights. A mage knight is a wizard who has dedicated a substantial amount of time to martial training. As a result, he cannot gain access to the highest-level arcane spells.

The fighting ability of the mage knight is flawless. In addition, he can really turn the tide of battles by casting powerful spells which are drawn directly from the spell list of the Wizard.

Hit Dice, Proficiencies, Alignment

D8 Hit Die. Proficient with light armour and light shields. Starts with simple-weapons proficiency plus three selectable weapon-group proficiencies. Mage Knights can have any alignment.

Special Abilities

Spells: The Mage Knight draws his spells from the spell list of the Wizard and he can use his spells to counterspell. The leading ability for Mage Knight spells is Intelligence. A Mage Knight can activate Arcane Spell Scrolls of any spell in the lists of the Rogue and Wizard. A Mage Knight can cast arcane spells without spell failure chance while wearing light armour or holding a light shield. He can cast somatic spells while holding a weapon and a light shield, but not a heavy shield or tower shield. Mage Knights can also cast somatic spells while wielding a two-handed weapon or several weapons at the same time, because switching a weapon from one hand to the other is a free action. Spell picks at level 1: 3 + Intelligence modifier. Spell picks at all other levels: 2. A character cannot have more than one summoned creature at a time.

Mage Knight Feats

Phase Spells: You can aim circle spells and single-target spells at creatures and squares located behind walls and large pillars.

Improved Drinker Weapon: The effect of the Drinker weapon enchantment increases from 1d6 to 1d8. Requires level 5.

Greater Drinker Weapon: The effect of the Drinker weapon enchantment increases from 1d8 to 1d10. Requires level 11, Improved Drinker Weapon.

Improved Vorpal Weapon: The effect of the Vorpal weapon enchantment increases by 10 points. Requires level 11.

Improved Energy Resistance Armour: The effect of Energy Resistance Armour and Shield enchantments increases by 10 points. Requires level 5.

Time Control: You can cast the level-7 Wizard spell Time Control as a level-6 spell.

Vortex Of Doom: You can cast the level-7 Wizard spell Vortex of Doom as a level-6 spell.

Mass Mirror Image: You can cast the level-7 Wizard spell Mass Mirror Image as a level-6 spell.

Greater Stoneskin: You can cast the level-7 Wizard spell Greater Stoneskin as a level-6 spell and the casting time is reduced from a Standard Action to a Move Action.

Improved Interposing Hand: You can cast the level-6 Wizard spell Interposing Hand as a level-5 spell and the casting time is reduced from a Standard Action to a Move Action.

Greater Chaos: You can cast the level-6 Wizard spell Chaos as a level-5 spell, and affected creatures always receive the Berserk condition rather than the Confusion condition.

Improved Freezing Sphere: You can cast the level-6 Wizard spell Freezing Sphere as a level-5 spell, and the radius increases from 10' to 15'.

Improved Blast Of Force: You can cast the level-5 Wizard spell Blast of Force as a level-4 spell, and the range increases from medium to long.

Improved Shocking Grasp: The damage per level of your Shocking Grasp and Greater Shocking Grasp spells increases from 1d6 to 1d8 and you can cast the level-5 Wizard spell Greater Shocking Grasp as a level-4 spell.

Improved Globe Of Invulnerability: You can cast the level-4 Wizard spell Globe of Invulnerability as a level-3 spell and the casting time is reduced from a Standard Action to a Move Action.

Improved Stoneskin Personal: You can cast the level-4 Wizard spell Stoneskin Personal (Wizard) as a level-3 spell.

Improved Suppress Sword: You cast the level-3 Wizard spell Suppress Sword as a level-2 spell and the casting time is reduced from a Standard Action to a Move Action.

Improved Haste: You can cast the level-3 Wizard spell Haste as a level-2 spell.

Improved Flame Arrow: You can cast the level-3 Wizard spell Flame Arrow as a level-2 spell.

Widened Colour Spray: The radius of your Colour Spray spells increases from 15' to 25'.

Improved Elemental Weapon: When fighting with a Flaming, Frost, Shocking or Acidic weapon (or a Burst version of these enchantments), the elemental damage increases by 1d6. Requires: Mage Knight level 5. Note that weapons cannot be enchanted with more than one energy type. For example, there are flaming longswords and frost longswords, but not flaming frost longswords.

Greater Elemental Weapon: When fighting with a Flaming, Frost, Shocking or Acidic weapon (or a Burst version of these enchantments), the elemental damage increases by another 1d6. Requires: Mage Knight level 11, Improved Elemental Weapon.

Unlimited Spells: Your spells Burning Hands, Shocking Grasp, Scorch, Ice Blast, Fireball, Electric Sphere, Lightning Bolt, Vampiric Ray, Flame Arrow, Cone of Cold, Greater Shocking Grasp and Freezing Sphere deal two additional points of damage and their limit on the number of damage dice is removed.

Improved Enhance Ability: The enhancement bonus from your spells Enhance Ability and Mass Enhance Ability increases by +2. Requires: Mage Knight level 1.

Fast Enhance Ability: You can cast Enhance Ability and Mass Enhance Ability as move-action spells, rather than standard-action spells. Requires: Mage Knight level 1.

Armoured Casting: You avoid the spell failure chance when casting spells with a somatic component while wearing Medium Armour or Heavy Armour, if you have the appropriate Armour Proficiency.

Spell Focus: Select a magic school: Conjuration, Evocation, Necromancy, Enchantment or Alteration. You gain a +1 bonus to the difficulty class of all spells in the chosen magic school.

Greater Spell Focus: Select a magic school: Conjuration, Evocation, Necromancy, Enchantment or Alteration. You gain another +1 bonus to the difficulty class of all spells in the chosen magic school. Requires: Spell Focus in the chosen school.

Perfect Combat Casting: You do not trigger Attacks of Opportunity from nearby enemies when casting spells. In addition, you gain another +4 bonus on all concentration checks. Concentration checks (1d20 + Caster level + Constitution modifier) are needed whenever the character is casting a spell in difficult conditions. Requires: Superior Concentration.

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