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[Nifft]

Yay group hug time!

Okay, so which class did you pick already?!

-- N

 

[carborundum]

I like blowing stuff up but the group needs healing, and I do like cleric-ing too. I think it'll be the melee cleric over the favored soul, if only to get raise quicker We lost the monk/rogue last night to some Dire Lions, just before going into a Bad Guy Lair.

Is Close Wounds the only ranged healing spell, by the way?

Thanks everyone for giving me so many ideas

 

[Mistwell]

REACH SPELL [METAMAGIC]

Benefit: You may cast a spell that normally has a range of touch at any distance up to 30 feet. The spell effectively becomes a ray, so you must succeed at a ranged touch attack to bestow the spell upon the recipient. A reach spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell’s actual level.

 

[Nifft]

If you have access to Complete Mage, may I recommend this build?

Human Cleric of Obad-Hai (domains Fire and Air)
1/ Power Attack, Scribe Scroll
3/ Fiery Blast (Complete Mage) -- keep a Fire spell prepared at your highest spell level, might require your top Domain slot.
6/ Craft Wondrous Item
. . .
9/ Summon Elemental (Complete Mage) -- keep a summon monster spell in one of your top spell slots.
12/ Storm Bolt (Complete Mage) -- keep chain lightning in your 6th level Domain slot.
15/ Quicken Spell -- Quickened Divine Power? Yes please!
18/ Heighten Spell (mainly to put Lightning or Fire spells at your top level if you want them there)

- - -

At this point, you've got some very nice crowd-control abilities, you can rain down fire and lightning at will, you can call an elemental servitor at will, you can mix it up in melee, and oh, you're also a full Cleric.

At level 7, you can blast a couple foes for 4d6 Fire damage at will (5 ft. radius burst, range 30 ft.). You are adequate in melee -- get yourself a light shield and a morningstar and mix it up.

Variation: drop Craft Wondrous Item; choose Craft Magic Arms & Armor at level 6 instead. Make magic weapons for your party of fighters, particularly +1 Bane arrows for all the worst foes that you expect to face.

Cheers, -- N

 

[irdeggman]

I like blowing stuff up but the group needs healing, and I do like cleric-ing too. I think it'll be the melee cleric over the favored soul, if only to get raise quicker We lost the monk/rogue last night to some Dire Lions, just before going into a Bad Guy Lair.

Is Close Wounds the only ranged healing spell, by the way?

Thanks everyone for giving me so many ideas

All of the "mass" versions are "ranged" with multiple targets to boot.