>>13659440
>D&D Classes
>Intellect
And people say D&D and WoW are different.

I could see someone who relies on mystic symbols casting with dexterity. DANCE MAGIC!

>>13659457
I meant Intelligence.

Dex based spells might be ninjutsu or something to that effect.
Con based spells would probably be blood rituals or rites of pain.

>>13659465
I just imagined some magicky fucker rolling out a DDR mat painted onto some parchment.
What have your careless words wrought?

Casting spells using specific hand gestures which is based in dexterity... Nevermind, that is too close to queer Naruto shit.

Flex sorcery

For Strength, see Dragonball, life energy, etc.
For Dexterity, art seems to get lumped in. Such as that one guy who uses paper with lines all over it that, when folded, creates runes. Or alchemy circles in FullMetal. Or dance/stance flow abilities.
Con is blood magic, rituals of pain, etc.. Alternatively, pure defensive magic in which the user reinforces his body and uses it as a shield, weapon, etc.

Man-casting. Minimum pectoral girth required to gain access to higher level spells makes perfect sense.

Incarnum classes, Dragonfire Adepts, and Warlocks use CON as one of their main stats, which basically amounted to "can I channel this energy without killing myself?" Fluffwise I always liked that.

A fun custom class my DM created was based on the Corsair from FFXI; you used dice rolls to buff (or debuff, if you fail) your party members. Of course this was essentially just based in player luck, but it was actually a lof of fun to play, and I suppose if you had a system with a luck stat, you could modify your rolls with that.

>>13659502
>flex sorcery

sweet christ

>>13659527
Dex-based casting sounds kinda like Avatar-style elemental bending.

>>13659465
Dance magic dance!

Well, this kinda limits things. After all, there are only three stats that aren't used. If we use other character attributes, like skills, or alternative mechanics, though, we might have something to go on. For instance, Leadership score (which admittedly is Charisma + level in practice) for a spirit summoner who has a vast entourage of spirits following him.

>>13659543
This, and OP's picture, made me rofl, for reals.

>>13659502
Oh, Arnie. You've charmed MY person.

Magic is based on the subatomic vibrations of tiny little particles. Strength-based spellcasters know how to flex and set the right particles jiggling, or where to *push* against the fabric of reality to carry out their bidding.

Muscle Mystery

Also there's a feat for Genasi in 4th Edition that allows them to use strength for damage with wizard spells, along with whatever else they get.

>>13659440

Battle Magic, man. Their "spells" could be called meditations because they must reflect on the battle ahead in order to summon them into their retinue. They could be composed of two (or more) "Forces" or schools to branch into.

Strength: Stone (strength of the body); Steel (adeptitude of the weapon)

Constitution: Bone (sturdiness of the physical); Blood (hardiness of the soul)

Dexterity: Shadow (slyness of movement); Flight (quickness of reflex)

At lower levels, they basically apply bonuses to the ability score under certain conditions (like a fighter using a proficient or non-proficient weapon would be under Steel). At higher levels, you're basically performing crazy battlefield stunts. And they're not even really spells, just melee classes getting an edge on a scale that's far less specific and spell-like than 4e's powers.

The Illumian race had the ability to switch their spellcasting stat to work off of any other stat.

Totally broken race.

>>13659606
>>13659711

THIS METHOD OF SPELLCASTING HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN MY FAMILY LINE FOR GENERATIONS!!

bump.

Finally, a good reason to exclude women from studying magic.

>>13659980
Oh really?

STR or CON based: uses Ki or some other form of body energy. Mostly concerned with self-buffs and single attacks (HADOUKEN!) but could also branch out to healing (not just self) and debuffs.

DEX based: draws of mystic runes or symbols to work magic. Obviously, better runes mean a better spell.

>>13660016
All I see is -4 str.

>>13659980
Isn't the hard work and social isolation enough to scare them away?

>>13659606
Citation?

>>13660095
ya mum

>>13659606
This is why using mental effort to induce magical effects is so hard - it's basically telekinesis, and we all know how difficult that is to manage.

For constitution, see Name of the Wind.

Magic cast from the heat energy of your blood.

Dexterity, i have no clue.

Dexterity is easy.

Music-based magic. Dance a pattern, play a series of notes on a flute, sing an aria, and if you do it right the universe itself responds to your performance.

>>13659711

This man is on to something. Find out what it is and steal it.

Stage magic uses dexterity. Do something like that, only instead of picking cards, you blow fuckers up.

>>13659465
>DANCE MAGIC!

Wouldn't constitution based casting be Dragon Ball (or DBZ once you get to epic levels)?

Dag nabbit I envisioned a group of Dex casters the kind of holligans that would throw down some cardboard and pull off some sick moves for AoE spells.

That and the idea of a break dancing wizard is just silly.

>>13660228
DANCE MAGIC
DANCE MAGIC
JUMP MAGIC
JUMP MAGIC
PUT THAT BABY SPELL ON ME

>>13660228
you mean like the sartan?

>>13660197

You know what I'm onto? Dice pools. This fucking robed douchebag over here can shoot lightning from his ass and spray fireballs from his cock multiple times a day and all I get is a slightly better sword and the ability to potentially kill maybe two guys in a row? Fuck that! I want to slice this fucker's head off, do a leaping rebound off his falling corpse, shishkabob these to asshats standing too close to each other, amputate the right torso off some jerk-off who tried to attack me from behind by pulling my blade from the flesh of those previous fucktards, and finish it off by backflipping over THAT guy and come down on the head of the last little shit left like the hammer of motherfucking god, quickly cleaving him completely into. I finish my taking my extra turn to piss on thier corpses.

And how do I accomplish this? Fucking dice pools.

No one has mentioned 3.0 psionics?

>>13660228
mfw the archons are doing the magic part.

>>13660365
that's not magic
that's psionics
mindflayers are not magicians

Incarnum is Con.

STR/DEX helps some Maneuvers from Tome of Battle
>(eg. Disrupting Blow DC = 15 + STR mod) etc.

>>13660228

>>13660509
The Necromancy Jackson rule:

In any setting involving the undead, someone will inevitably make a Thriller reference.

Look at how well-defined and large his muscles are... he most be an amazingly powerful spellcaster!

Actually when Psionics came out in 3rd edition(before Complete Psionics) you chose a stat and that corresponded with one of the "schools" of psychic powers, and that was just for the psion class. So you could be high con and be a Metabolism psion. It was actually kind of cool.

>>13660155
>Based on the heat of your blood.
>Heat of blood.
>Hot blooded.