[Epic 20] Diablos Ex Machina

[Apocalypse_Child]

Ethandrew, I was planning on going generalist. If Incantatrix is allowed in the game, then I will have to give up a school anyway, and three (or at the least two if i went diviner as well) prohibited schools are icky to me . If you do want to go straight wizard, I could try making something else, I hadn't seen your post when I posted, sorry

Essentially I was hoping to buff the crap out of our fighters and occasionally break out some serious necromantic smackdown, but if you're going MT you'll probably have the buffing covered better than I would, so I'll probably put more utility spells in my repetoire.


Sidenote: Is Incantatrix allowed? If it is, I'd like to try that. If not, is the Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil allowed? I'm slightly confused about the skill rule as well. I know my skillpoints are wrong but I didn't have time to fix them at the time of this post, sorry

Assuming this is okay, I'm planning on going like this, though it's only a partial build right now; I will add more details later:

Wizard 5/Incantatrix 10/Archmage 3/Master Specialist 2

Feats:
1 Iron Will
2 Spell Focus: Necromancy
3 Improved Spell Focus: Necromancy
4 Chain Spell
5 Extend Spell
6 Persistent Spell
7 Maximize Spell
8 Empower Spell
9 Twin Spell
10 Quicken Spell
11 Spell Focus: Enchantment
12 Craft Wondrous Item
13 Leadership
14 Skill Focus: Spellcraft
15 Scribe Scroll


Skills:
Concentration (4)
Spellcraft (4)
Supernatural Lore (4)
Common Knowledge (4)
Diplomacy (2?)

VP 161
WP 20
AC 10+5(Natural)+5(Deflection)+8(Armor)+5(Dexterity)=33
Fort:5(Base)+5(Ability)+5(Cloak)=15
Reflex:5(Base)+5(Ability)+5(Cloak)=15
Will:13(Base)+1(Ability)+5(Cloak)=19
Melee:9-1=8
Ranged:9+5=14
Initiative:+5


STR 08
DEX 14 +6=20
VIT 14+6=20
INT 18 +4 (Human racial)+5(Level)+5(Inherent)+6(Headband)=38
WIS 12
CHA 08

Equipment: (All Bought)

Tome Of Understanding +5 137500

Headband Of Intellect +6 36000

Gloves of Dex +6 36000

Boots Of Con +6 36000

Amulet of Natural Armor +5 (50000)

Bracers of Armor +8 (64000)

Pearl of Power 9 (81000)

Bag Of Holding IV (10000)

Cloak Of Resistance +5 (2500)

Ring Of Protection +5 (50000)

Ring Of Spell Storing, greater (200000)

Normal Quicken Rod (75500)

2 Blessed Books (25000)

Wand Of Knock (4750)

Wand Of Greater Invisibility (12000)

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

I'm going to laugh when all you casters who got Strength 8 and were too cheap to buy enhancements for it get hit by a single empowered Ray of Enfeeblement and get paralyzed.

 

[OnlytheStrong]

And then my Ogre chops that caster of RoE in half. Such good memories........... NMF I have 32,950gp left. How do I make something like bracers of constitution? I have my neck, head, shoulders, feet, and waist slots filled. (as well as rings)

 

[Douane]

According to the Magic Item Compendium, body slots for CON are Throat, Torso and Waist.

So about about a nice "Vest of Endurance" (or similar) for CON +4 ? (16,000 GP)

 

[farmboymdp]

Farmboy...a few possible problems leap out at me.

One - You have a whole mess of base classes, and hence would be saddled with a pretty big exp penalty.

Two - You have 20 class levels, and are therefore above ECL 20 when you factor in the Thri Kreen ECL and racial hit dice.

Three - Your item pricing is off...most noteably on your Mind Blank thingy. An item of Mind Blank (and since it lasts a day per casting, the 1/day thing doesn't really reduce it's cost ) costs 120,000gp according to DMG2 and SRD. You also neglected to include the body slot surcharge on the 'bracers of mighty fists' and 'neckerchief of disguise.'

Four - Using an animated shield will still bonk out your Swordsage Wis bonus to armor. From the SRD: Animated: Upon command, an animated shield floats within 2 feet of the wielder, protecting her as if she were using it herself but freeing up both her hands. Only one shield can protect a character at a time. A character with an animated shield still takes any penalties associated with shield use, such as armor check penalty, arcane spell failure chance, and nonproficiency. (boldface added for emphasis)

Five - The Max Dex of padded armor is +8. So if you wear it, you can't get your full Dex bonus to AC.

I have explanations for these, but some aren't mistakes.

One - All my base classes are within one level of each other (2, 1, and 2 respectively), and thus don't suffer the XP penalties.

Two - I have 18 class levels, coupled with 2 Thri-Kreen HD add up to 20, Eidalac has said earlier not to worry about LA up to +5.

Three - The price on that item is not mine, it was drawn from another source. I'll double check to be sure and adjust the figures accordingly. I was unaware of the "surcharges" you're talking about, so I'll move some things around. (I'm surprised you didn't bring this up in Deuce's game, Morty has the same neckerchief of disguise)

Four - You're right about that one, my B. I didn't see that Swordsages couldn't use shields with that ability.

Five - I felt something was up about that one, somehow in my head I made it mithril armor during creation. I'll probably just switch to bracers of armor, I was thinking about it anyways.


Thank you for the comments, though, they were very helpful!

 

[farmboymdp]

I fixed the things that Shayuri brought up, and added in the standard ability increases from level (which I had somehow forgot to do before). As far as I can tell, the price on the mind blank item is 120,000 gp (spell level 8 x caster level 15 x 2,000 gp for continuous effect x 0.5 for 24-hour duration or longer; p. 285 of the DMG).

 

[OnlytheStrong]

According to the Magic Item Compendium, body slots for CON are Throat, Torso and Waist.

So about about a nice "Vest of Endurance" (or similar) for CON +4 ? (16,000 GP)

Why thank you good sir!

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

You still need to fix your attack routine. You can't make more than 4 claw attacks in a round (before haste or anything like that) and one bite.

 

[farmboymdp]

You still need to fix your attack routine. You can't make more than 4 claw attacks in a round (before haste or anything like that) and one bite.

I mentioned in the post that I'm not sure how it is supposed to work. So are his natural attacks totally separate from his BAB in terms of attacks per round?

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Yes. You get one attack with each natural weapon, all secondary attacks (attacks beyond the first) are at -5, unless you have multiattack (or improved multiattack in my case) which lowers the penalty to -2.