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Engineer/Mechanic: Take max ranks in Disable Device, Open Lock, and a bunch of Craft skills. Use the variant from UA (pg.58) that replaces Sneak Attack with Fighter bonus feats, and concentrate on tool-like weapons. (A level of Fighter would help with armor and Martial Weapon proficiency.)...

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I agree that it looks more like a typo than an intentional hurdle. It should probably be 4 ranks, as Pazu suggests. But as already pointed out, the Education feat overcomes the problem, staying within the RAW. This works for the already mentioned spontaneous casters, as well as the Dread...

How about Archivist 3/Specialist Wizard 3/Master Specialist 4/Mystic Theurge 10? The Archivist spells can offset the schools prohibited by specialization, and both the divine and arcane spells will be Intelligence-based. The Archivist and Master Specialist abilities make up a bit for the...

It may be suboptimal mechanically as compared to other feat choices for your character, but combining your Dagger with grappling fits with my understanding of the way that daggers were used historically. Rather than held overhand and thrust upwards, illustrated medieval manuals show the dagger...

The Prestige Class is called Earth Dreamer (RoS, pg.110.) It definitely does seem like the best fit, thematically, and works well mechanically with full spellcasting and earth-related special abilities. Any chance of leveraging the retraining rules in PHB2 to qualify? (Or would your DM be...

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I concede all of these points, and accept that the rules work just fine mechanically as written. On the other hand, the motivation to use some variant of Defense and Armor as DR is probably to downplay the reliance on magical items to boost AC, tie defensive ability to combat prowess in the...

As I see it, the main problem with UA Defense with respect to multiclassing is that it is too "front-loaded". (To a greater or lesser extent, depending on the class, this is a problem with multiclassing in general-- cherry-picking abilities from the first few levels of another class.) My...

The summary by the OP just says "Wizard". ;)

I vote more skills and more combat power, particularly at higher levels. For skills, I prefer a suggestion I saw on these boards some time ago, which was to give the Fighter a "noncombat specialty". I don't remember the details of the original work-up, just the concept, which I thought was...

Have you considered the Kensai PrC from CW? If I recall correctly, it would allow you to add enhancements to your natural attacks as if they were magical weapons. With some of the new magical weapon properties detailed in non-core WOTC sources, I believe that over 10 levels you could get a +5...

Old_Skool--- The following text caught my attention: He come on moonlight rays as elemental dust I think you could read this either way. It could be taken either as a poetic description, or as indicative that the ability to assume the form of "elemental dust" only in the presence of...

Dracula is described as transforming himself into a motes of dust which can be seen sparkling by moonlight. He also summons fog to cover his movements. These two abilities are generally confused/simplified/conflated into the power to take the form of a cloud of mist or vapor. (His "brides"...

It would also be really neat to do additional/alternative vampyric powers as Warlock-style invocations. (Yes, shameless bump for a thread dealing with subject matter I find interesting!)

Pawsplay--- I was thinking that the character would have all of his original abilities, including racial abilities, plus the Elan racial abilities. Upon consideration, I suppose the correct abjudication would be to eliminate the original racial traits (the extra feat, skill points, and...

The ritual that transforms a character into an Elan wipes out any class levels. Only the character's memories and basic personality survive the process. But couldn't a potential Elan use a Thought Bottle to circumvent this? If this were allowed, then would an LA be appropriate to balance the...

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Can a character with 5 levels of Dragon Devotee, which adds the Draconic template, then advance in the Dragon Disciple PrC, which grants the abilities of half-dragon? While I haven't found anything that explicitly forbids it, it does seem like the character would be doubling up on stat bonuses...

Hi victorysaber. The closest thing that I've seen in a WOTC source is the Dragon Ascendant PrC from Draconomicon. The requirements are +30 BAB, be a true dragon, 6 feats, and consume your entire hoard. Immortality is acheived only after 12 levels of the class. Other god-like benefits include...