Limited Wizard Spellcasting

A number of specialty priest classes in the Demihuman Deities are allowed to cast some wizard spells. In addition to priest spells, such specialty priests can cast wizard spells from the wizard school or school that is indicated in their bullet point list of special abilities. These spells are cast as if the specialty priest were a mage of the same level. For example, a 3rd-level specialty priest casts wizard spells as a 3rd level mage. Specialty priests with this special ability pray for their wizard spells instead of studying to memorize them, and chosen wizard spells replace priest spells potentially available for use that day. (In other words, the wizard spell occupies a priest spell slot.) specialty priests gain access to 8th-level wizard spells at 16th level and 9th-level wizard spells at 18th level. A specialty priest with this special ability must have a Wisdom of 18 or higher and an Intelligence of 16 or higher to gain access to the 8th-level spells, and a Widom of 18 or higher and an Intelligence of 18 to gain acces to the 9th-level spells. If a specialty priest with this special ability is able to gain high-level wizard spells, every 8th•level spell prayed for occupies a 6th-level priest spell slot and every 9th-level spell prayed for occupies a 7th-level priest spell slot. Such specialty priests are always able to read spells of the school designated in their special ability on or in wizard as if they knew Read Magic, but studying spells from a spellbook is useless to them. No more than three-quarters of the total number of spells available (round down) to a specialty priest with this special ability can taken as wizard spells.

[Demihuman Deities]