A Prestige Class for Conjurers/Summon Monster specialists?

[jcfiala]

So, I'm playing a character who specializes in Conjuration and Summon Monster spells - are there any official D&D 3.5 good Prestige classes that enhance/support that sort of wizard? Are there any d20 3.5 PCs I could look for?

 

[the Jester]

So, I'm playing a character who specializes in Conjuration and Summon Monster spells - are there any official D&D 3.5 good Prestige classes that enhance/support that sort of wizard? Are there any d20 3.5 PCs I could look for?

Alienist.

 

[Vorput]

Yeah, Alienist is one (complete arcane)... the DMG has one as well, Thermauturgist (only spelled better).

Vorp

 

[shilsen]

I'd also suggest checking out the specialist wizard variant from UA. The conjurer gets to trade off the familiar in order to be able to cast summon spells as a standard action, which makes a huge difference to their effectiveness. There's a player in my campaign who's running an alienist with that variant, and it's made him substantially more effective without being overly so.

 

[jcfiala]

I'd also suggest checking out the specialist wizard variant from UA. The conjurer gets to trade off the familiar in order to be able to cast summon spells as a standard action, which makes a huge difference to their effectiveness. There's a player in my campaign who's running an alienist with that variant, and it's made him substantially more effective without being overly so.

Oh, I quite agree - I took that, and I'm very happy with the results. The character also already has Augmented Summoning, so I'm quite happy with that as well.

So far, Alienist looks good, if disturbing. Thaumaturgist could be nice, except it requires a Clr 4 spell to cast which I can't use at all. I could take it if there's a feat that would allow me to make Lesser Planar Binding into a Wizard spell...

 

[the Jester]

So far, Alienist looks good, if disturbing. Thaumaturgist could be nice, except it requires a Clr 4 spell to cast which I can't use at all. I could take it if there's a feat that would allow me to make Lesser Planar Binding into a Wizard spell...

Think of all the beautiful unique spells you could research!!

 

[mr_outsidevoice]

Oh, I quite agree - I took that, and I'm very happy with the results. The character also already has Augmented Summoning, so I'm quite happy with that as well.

So far, Alienist looks good, if disturbing. Thaumaturgist could be nice, except it requires a Clr 4 spell to cast which I can't use at all. I could take it if there's a feat that would allow me to make Lesser Planar Binding into a Wizard spell...

Planar Binding is a wizard spell.

Planar ally is divine

 

[jcfiala]

Planar Binding is a wizard spell.

Planar ally is divine

I mistyped, then. If I had some way of casting 'Lesser Planar Ally' as a wizard, I'd take Thaumaturgist.

 

[Jubilee]

There's a summoner in Sword & Sorcery's Relics & Rituals. It advances spellcasting and every other level you go back and forth between a feat & an extra summoning spell per day, one level higher than the highest level one you can cast. I don't know if it's considered 3.0 or 3.5.

/ali

 

[jcfiala]

There's a summoner in Sword & Sorcery's Relics & Rituals. It advances spellcasting and every other level you go back and forth between a feat & an extra summoning spell per day, one level higher than the highest level one you can cast. I don't know if it's considered 3.0 or 3.5.

/ali

I'd forgotten that - thanks. Looking at it, though, I think it's both 3.0 (R&R was one of the really early d20 books), and horribly broken. I mean, Metamagic feats, which can be applied to your summoning spells, but which don't increase the spell level, and you get five of them?

But yeah, that's pretty much the 'idea' I had - something with 10/10 to 8/10 increases of your spellcasting, with special abilities that allow you to summon better, and reasonable to achieve.

Now that I"ve been looking through the DMG prestige classes, I'm starting to look at Loremaster and Archmage. They're not really focused on summoning, but they kinda fit the character and at least give some bonuses along with high-level wizardring.