Another idea occurred to me for making Rage Mage more fun/powerful. This would probably require more work than swapping out the spell list, but might help give the Rage Mage some more flavor: lean into their low blow count.
Basically, make Rage Mages "magical" Maulers. Give them a low blow count, and bonuses for wielding heavy weapons. The bonuses could either be tied to their spells or be direct bonuses like Maulers, though I haven't played Maulers yet, so I'm not sure exactly what bonuses they get. Basically, make them Maulers who aren't quite as good at mauling, but who make up for it by having tools for dealing with mages.
There's already a little bit of precedent for this, in that both classes share Awesome Blow.
Sounded like your Rage-Mage winner already played quite a lot like this; Mauler is about the only other class where wielding Winblows would make any sense. Revert that character from 4.5 blows back to 3 and there's your magical mauler
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Sounded like your Rage-Mage winner already played quite a lot like this; Mauler is about the only other class where wielding Winblows would make any sense. Revert that character from 4.5 blows back to 3 and there's your magical mauler
True, though I'm not sure the spells I gave Rage Mage are powerful enough to make up for losing 1.5 blows. The Rage Mage might want a few of the other Mauler Blow abilities beyond just Awesome Blow.
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