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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9375143" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Now if you want all the spells, another way to go is Gnome Illusionist/Priest.  Incoming rules to allow this:[ATTACH=full]367403[/ATTACH](I've been told that expanding this text to allow Priests of a Specific Mythos from other books is a leap, but the Planeswalker's Companion multiclasses also use "Priest" instead of "Cleric", so I believe this is the intent. YMMV).Gnomes do take a penalty to Wisdom, but it only takes a 14 to get 2 bonus 1st level Cleric spells, on top of your 2 Wizard spells for being a specialist, netting you 5 first level spells in total.  Now this can be done with Illusionist/Cleric, but we can cheese this out to a whole other level as a multiclassed Mythos Priest.If allowed, your best choice is probably something from the Forgotten Realms books (Faiths and Avatars or Powers and Pantheons), but I'll be looking at Monstrous Mythology and Legends and Lore for now.Monstrous Mythology gives us some Gnome deities, including one that specifically allows Illusionist/Priests in the form of Baravar Cloakshadow.  The important benefit with Baravar is that at 1st level, you can memorize Wizard Illusion/Phantasm spells with your Priest slots, giving you up to 5 illusion spells at 1st level!Another option is Baervan Wildwanderer, who gives us the use of pass without trace twice per day at level 1!There's also Urdlen, who grants stinking cloud 1/day...at first level!There's some spicy options in Legends and Lore as well.  We'll start with Lei Kung, who gives his priests all the abilities of a 3rd-level Thief...at first level!There's also Osiris, who lets you use Wizard Necromancy spells as priest spells, Siva who grants immunity to fire damage, and Tyr who lets you cast hold person for free 1/day!But wait, there's more!  Both the Complete Priests and Complete Wizard's handbooks allow multi-classed characters to take Kits from those books (but only one Kit, not one for each class)!  Spicy Options here are the Savage Wizard, who has three 1/week abilities, the Witch (who starts with magic items, though the DM has to set prices for them, so you might not get a lot, lol.), and the Pacifist Priest (who gets +2 Charisma!).There's also the Fighting Monk for when the spells run out- even without a Strength bonus, +3 to hit and +1 to damage with 2 attacks and a potential KO chance isn't the worst thing ever, but you're going to have the Hit Points of a Thief and no armor, so...probably a choice of desperation only.</blockquote>

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