Specialist Mage

Up to: Classes

A specialist mage is one who has focused in a specific area of magic (eg. abjuration, summoning) these have increased chances to learn the spell of their school and have special abilities for the spells cast of that school, but they recieve a penalty (up to the DM) on trying to learn a spell for another school.

Specialisations available: Summoning, Fire, Healing, Life, Darkness, Death...

Role: depends on specialty

Not only can mages specialise in a particular focus, some can divide their knowledge up into a few different ones, to create devestating combinations at the cost of true power over one domain.
 * Necromancers specialise in death, particularly death/summoning.

Prestige classes for specialist mages:
 * Blood Mages are a powerful prestige class, who use their own life force to cast or enhance spells.