so you want an arcane half caster concept? one of the concepts that people endlessly bat about is the arcane half caster. a long wanted but never created class however we do have classes which were made to fill this gap. they all have a problem of thematics. mechanically they mostly work not quite as well as 5e's paladin does but when it comes to the 5e ruleset few things work as well. (pathfinders magus works mechanically but I have problems with it.) do not get me started with the bunch of 3e/3.5e ones how they have the thematics of a brick. so here is what I am going to hurl into the ring for you lot to rip apart. first, why would an arcane half caster appear in-universe? fairly simply the most likely set of people to generate the need for this kind of class is a magocracy as they would need some less squishy enforcers of their will that can not just be dispelled by other magic. eventually, they would want something with more power than a fighter but less of the restrictions of...
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