Binky's a lot better now! ;) (Epic character more buff!)

[BOZ]

heh

 

[Eremite]

well, some of my fellow current and former compatriots are called Casper, Drupalong, Foghorn, Spooky, and Strongbad...

Hmmm, that sounds like a first combat TPK to me... and possibly of the players as well as their characters....

 

[Storminator]

I hope this gives you a few good ideas plus the Elf
book has some good things in it. If you want to
exchange any unused feats you have for feats from
there feel free.

See if you can talk him into using Heroes of High Favor: Elves so you can get the Improved Weapon Finesse feat. Adds Dex mod to damage (only available to elves, so yer good!). Then get a +5 manual for DEX. With a 27 Dex your bonus damage per hit will go to +8 instead of +2. Not to mention all the other good Dex things.

PS

 

[BOZ]

is that a different book? i don't think we have it, but you never know, we could get it.

PS, i have a question. if i am going to be better a dire bear companion, what spells and magic items should i outfit him with? magic fang and awaken are probable spells to use, but i'm sure there are magic items for companion creatures out there. Savage Species for one...

 

[BOZ]

Hmmm, that sounds like a first combat TPK to me... and possibly of the players as well as their characters....

heh, maybe he should have...

now, we're so powerful that all but one of us survived an encounter with an avatar of lolth!

 

[Storminator]

is that a different book? i don't think we have it, but you never know, we could get it.

Yeah. It's from Bad Axe Games. Got some neat stuff in it, but most of its for wizards. Some neat Elf feats tho.

PS

 

[Timeboxer]

If you're using 3.5 DR, you might be interested in the Sense Weakness feat, which has done well for my (admittedly non-epic) dwarven Dervish -- it's in the Draconomicon, and essentially allows you to ignore 5 points' worth of all sorts of DR or hardness. It does require Weapon Focus, though...

Considering that one of your favored enemies is dragons and it seems like you like flavor, you might look into the Dragonstalker prestige class, from the same book, if your GM does dragons relatively often. A lot of its stuff applies to dragons, but some of the other stuff might apply equally well to, oh, say, lycanthropes -- especially the "Ignore Natural Armor" and "Hide Scent" class abilities.

You might try to arrange it so that your character's specialty is less battle itself than it is the ability to choose and set up the battle to the party's advantage -- you are a skill-using character, after all. And if you can get yourself some ranks of Use Magic Device with those rogue levels, you can get a Wand of Silent Image and start doing interesting things like creating an illusion of a wall through which your opponents can't see you, but your party has line of sight toward them because you've told them ahead of time that it's an illusion...

 

[BOZ]

now that might be some of the most useful suggestions i've gotten so far. and i DO have weapon focus. and we have fought many lycnathropes, and a few dragons too, so that all should come in handy.

and, in fact, as a fellow player reminded me yesterday, we do have enough XP to go up in level, so while we are in town now i can add some skill points in UMD (the same player has advised me to do so anyway).

anyone have suggestions for powering up a dire bear?

 

[BOZ]

Yeah. It's from Bad Axe Games. Got some neat stuff in it, but most of its for wizards. Some neat Elf feats tho.

thanks. i'll see if i can locate a copy and donate it to the party (mostly myself though).

 

[BOZ]

anyone at all have any ideas for my bear?