God Complex

Familiars

Spell path for familiar enhancements shouldn't apply to those created by Improved Familiar feat?  Or should they since the mage in question paid the admission price of the feat?

Path Magic Tattoos

Should path tattoos be recognized by another saher be a Spellcraft or a Knowledge (Arcana) or a Knowledge (Heraldry) roll? Probably Knowledge (Arcana) since Spellcraft is for recognizing tupes of magic and spells and not knowledge of magical history. The Knowledge (Heraldry) probably is too specialized. The use of Knowledge (Arcana) in this capacity would have to be limited to saher (unless the non-saher character attempting it overcomes a serious penalty.)

Sorcerous Sahers

How do I handle sorcerers and path magic, as far as spell path mastery? I can still leave the number of spell paths known based on INT. The number of spells per level known by a sorcerous saher would not have to change, forcing the saher to choose wisely so there are no gaps in his spell level progression, or use feats to raise spells the requisite number of levels to fill the gaps, or change the rules and allow upper level spell slots to be used by the casting of lower level spells.

Spell Mastery and Path Magic

Should I permit a saher to take the Spell Mastery feat for a mastered path on which he already has the Spell Focus and Improved Spell Focus feats? Could be extremely unbalancing since could have 5 paths under the Spell Mastery feat which could give him the ability to learn over 40 spells without the use of a spellbook.

Probably shouldn't permit this.

Generalists Only

The path magic system is too complex to arrange paths to allow for specialist mages (i.e., necromancer, transmuter, etc.). Plus, paths themselves are their own form of specialization.

More, drastically, the Spell Focus feat for schools of spells will not be available since such a thing is irrelevant to path magic. This is also part of the balancing process by decreasing the attractiveness of being a Saher.

When a saher masters a particular path by learning every spell on it, the saher receives the Spell Focus (Path) feat. However, if the saher had already taken the Spell Focus (Path) feat for that path, he instead receives the Improved Spell Focus feat for that path. (Another option may be to force the saher to decide between either the Spell Focus feat or having the path drop from the maximum number of paths known. It could get utterly ridiculous if every mage had the focus feat on every spell he cast.... This is something to think about.)

Saher

Saher is the name for path mages, as opposed to the Sha'ir.

Spell School Tatoos

Mages use tatoos on their face to show which paths they are on. A complete tatoo is a symbol within a circle. A partial tatoo is the symbol only. A wizard can wear a complete spell line tatoo only when he or she as mastered the line, i.e., when the entire spell line has been learned.

Spell Line Mastery

If a spell is on more than one spell line, mastering the line is like doubling a threat range of a weapon.

What's the Name of this Road?

Find out Arabic word for "path" or "road" to name spell path schools.

UPDATE: Potential words are "samt", "sayr", "sharia", "tariqa", "sunna", and "sebilj". "Sharia" and "sunna" are out entirely; these words have distinct, religious meanings, and I don't want to get into that.

"Samt" is actually a path or route overhead, which may make sense in the context of magic, but it is too hard for Anglophones to say.

"Sayr" is the easiest of the others to say and the easiest to adapt. Even though (I think) that it is the root of "Sharia", it may be far enough away to use. (I am no Arabic linguist, however.)