Long time Pathfinder and d20 player wants to play in a pathfinder or pathfinder/3.5 home brew campaign as a Magus with a special alteration. Below are the abilities listed for exposition. Arcane Pool (Su)/Spell Recall (Su)/Diminished Spellcasting The change reverses spell recall (by flavor of the kensai archetypes Diminished spell-casting) into giving the magus bonus arcane points permanently at the cost of all future spell-casting beyond cantrips. This will give me a greater spell pool to use on simpler blade abilities that the magus already poses with its magus arcanas making it a Blademaster (self declared name, no references.), rather than a magus. The rate the Blademaster gains arcane points is Magus Level+Int Mod+Spell Recall Reverse. At 6th level, a blade master would have 23 arcane points with an into mod of 18, and no spellcasting beyond cantrips. (rather than the normal 7 he would possess with spellcasting) Flamboyant Arcana (Ex) The second alteration needed (mostly as an output to the increased Arcane Pool, and to suit the blademasters protective abillity to allies) is to turn the second abillity Opportune Parry and Riposte (Ex) : granted by the arcana into one that can be used to deflect attacks against himself AS WELL AS ANYONE ELSE IN HIS THREAT RANGE although only melee attacks can be riposted still, and the target must also be within threat range. In order to make the loss of spellscating worth the transition to a man with a sword who knows some tricks. In clarification, the only two changes being made are Spell-casting beyond cantrips becomes bonus arcane points Opportune Parry and Riposte can target attacks within threat range, not just agaist self.. References <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/magus" rel="nofollow">http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/magus</a> <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/magus/magus-arcana" rel="nofollow">http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/magus/magus-arcana</a> <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/magus" rel="nofollow">http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/magus</a>... <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/magus" rel="nofollow">http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/magus</a>... <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/spell-lists-and-doma" rel="nofollow">http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/spell-lists-and-doma</a>...