Very interesting. This would be relevant to my D2A2 Scholastic Oblate. As written he'd be able to gain XP from divine magic research, but not arcane (after level 2).
Another parallel that occurs to me, which supports your house rule idea, is that >100% caster progressions like D3/D4 don't get a faster research rate (of course, this is because they don't get a higher caster level). Overall this seems like a pretty clean and simple house rule that I'll strongly consider using.
It also puts such a class in an unusual place where its magic research rate is massively different for different types of research, which raises questions about how it would work if it were crafting an item that involves both magic types (say, a Staff of Cure Light Wounds and Fireballs, which can only be crafted by an arcane-divine dual caster). Whether it would use a different magic research throw for arcane/divine research is an interesting further question; I can see good arguments either way, but the existence of composite research projects implies to me that it needs to have a single throw to use in such cases.
For designing partial caster classes without introducing houserules, it seems like a go-to option would be building in one or more of the class powers/proficiencies that give a caster level boost to certain types of magic.
That is certainly helpful for their spellcasting, but is still only a 10% increase in their research rate (which it needs to be, in order for it to not be OP when taken by a full caster who could then research as if he were a higher level character and earn massive amounts of XP). And 10% isn't actually enough to make a difference, given how research rate tends to increase by 50-100% each level. It's a tricky problem!
Never considered this (no arcane on dorf), but very true. Seems sensible in general.
Very interesting. This would be relevant to my D2A2 Scholastic Oblate. As written he'd be able to gain XP from divine magic research, but not arcane (after level 2).
Another parallel that occurs to me, which supports your house rule idea, is that >100% caster progressions like D3/D4 don't get a faster research rate (of course, this is because they don't get a higher caster level). Overall this seems like a pretty clean and simple house rule that I'll strongly consider using.
It also puts such a class in an unusual place where its magic research rate is massively different for different types of research, which raises questions about how it would work if it were crafting an item that involves both magic types (say, a Staff of Cure Light Wounds and Fireballs, which can only be crafted by an arcane-divine dual caster). Whether it would use a different magic research throw for arcane/divine research is an interesting further question; I can see good arguments either way, but the existence of composite research projects implies to me that it needs to have a single throw to use in such cases.
For designing partial caster classes without introducing houserules, it seems like a go-to option would be building in one or more of the class powers/proficiencies that give a caster level boost to certain types of magic.
That is certainly helpful for their spellcasting, but is still only a 10% increase in their research rate (which it needs to be, in order for it to not be OP when taken by a full caster who could then research as if he were a higher level character and earn massive amounts of XP). And 10% isn't actually enough to make a difference, given how research rate tends to increase by 50-100% each level. It's a tricky problem!
This works very nicely. For lack of a better word, the "pace" of campaigns increases at higher levels, in terms of money in a money out.