Silverblade The Ench
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A loooong time ago, I played Everquest, and my absolute fave character I played nealry all the time was magician, a summoner of elementals. I had a blast with him and was well known on the Karana server as" "Redorious the mad magician", hehe.
Anyway, I ended up imagining this guy as a D&D character and writing him into an adventure or two as an NPC.
I used the new Summoner rules and the character builder ot sort him out, so hope ya like, and shows what ye can do as a summoner in 4th ed
REDORIOUS THE SUMMONER, SLAYER OF UNDEAD
Mannerismsand appearance:
6'4", 240lbs, stout-muscular build, copper-brown skin, bald, salt & pepper goatee and moustache, heavy scarring on right side of head. Many people would take him for an elderly warrior or the like from his size.
Wears a platinum and aquamarine studded jewellery item on right side of head around upper right eye and temple which hides some of the scarring (and is a magic item, Circlet of Rpaid Casting, designed ot help ease the pain as well from the scars).
PERSONALITY TRAITS:
Seemingly grim and dour, he is actually very concerned and caring, but doesn't waste his words. Absolutely no tolerance for evil necromancers, most undead, Orcus & his minions, treacherous people, fiends and fiend worshippers, or abuse of the defenceless. Very, very determined and tough.
His family are wealthy farmers, roughly the equivalent of a "knightly" family (in the old sense of the word), wealthy by standards of farmers, that is. A series of hardships forced harsh times upon them, but they survived. Redorious worked hard on the farm as a lad, hence his physique, but he was also a scholar very interested in the arcane. He was offered the chance to train with a wizard, who'd even pay his family for the privelege and so he left for his apprenticeship...
Alas, the wizard was trecherous, in league with fell forces and abused Redorious, eventually planning to use him to fuel a ceremony of lichdom! Fortunately, a group of adventurers stormed his lair, killing the necromancer and freeing Redorious. The adventurers were all orcs, half-orcs and a hobgoblin, and he spent many years there after in their company, until they were mostly butchered by a xenophobic band of bravos in the pay of an evil duke, an Orcus worshipper. Redorious, his remaining friend and new allies executed the Duke 3 years later.
Very well versed in the ways of non-Humans, he has extensive contacts with orcs, goblin and elemental peoples, and has often served as an emissary or ambassador, or helper of such.
Currently, he works on his academy, where he can assure students who pass his standards of a (relatively) safe, moral grounding in the magical arts. The local town knows well his reputation, despite his being a summoner and appreciate him. Redorious is well versed in the undead, fiends and the Planes, he likes elementals and humanoids.
He favours dark red or aquamarine clothing.
4th ed character stats
====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&DI Character Builder ======
Redorious, level 21
Human, Wizard, Bonded Summoner, Planeshaper
Build: Summoner Wizard
Arcane Implement Mastery: Tome of Binding
Second Implement: Orb of Imposition
FINAL ABILITY SCORES
Str 15, Con 20, Dex 16, Int 27, Wis 19, Cha 15.
STARTING ABILITY SCORES
Str 13, Con 16, Dex 14, Int 17, Wis 15, Cha 13.
AC: 32 Fort: 27 Reflex: 30 Will: 28
HP: 125 Surges: 13 Surge Value: 33
TRAINED SKILLS
Diplomacy +17, Arcana +24, Dungeoneering +20, Religion +23, Insight +19
UNTRAINED SKILLS
Acrobatics +13, Bluff +12, Endurance +17, Heal +14, History +18, Intimidate +12, Nature +14, Perception +14, Stealth +13, Streetwise +12, Thievery +13, Athletics +12
FEATS
Wizard: Ritual Caster
Human: Careful Summoner
Level 1: Expanded Spellbook
Level 2: Toughness
Level 4: Durable
Level 6: Linguist
Level 8: Reaper's Touch
Level 10: Dual Implement Spellcaster
Level 11: Improved Tome of Binding
Level 12: Paragon Defenses
Level 14: War Wizardry
Level 16: Inescapable Force
Level 18: Second Implement
Level 20: Spell Focus
Level 21: Vengeful Summoner
POWERS
Wizard at-will 1: Magic Missile
Wizard at-will 1: Storm Pillar
Human: Thunderwave
Wizard encounter 1: Orbmaster's Incendiary Detonation
Wizard daily 1: Summon Fire Warrior
Wizard daily 1 Spellbook: Grease
Wizard daily 1 Spellbook: Flaming Sphere
Wizard utility 2: Summon Shadow Serpent
Wizard utility 2 Spellbook: Guardian Blades
Wizard encounter 3: Color Spray
Wizard daily 5: Summon Abyssal Maw
Wizard daily 5 Spellbook: Glitterdust
Wizard daily 5 Spellbook: Acid Mire
Wizard utility 6: Dispel Magic
Wizard utility 6 Spellbook: Dimension Door
Wizard encounter 7: Tomebound Ooze
Wizard daily 9: Wall of Fire
Wizard daily 9 Spellbook: Mordenkainen's Sword
Wizard daily 9 Spellbook: Taunting Phantoms
Wizard utility 10: Mass Resistance
Wizard utility 10 Spellbook: True Seeing
Wizard encounter 13: Prismatic Burst (replaces Color Spray)
Wizard daily 15: Summon Chainbearer (replaces Summon Fire Warrior)
Wizard daily 15 Spellbook: Bigby's Grasping Hands
Wizard daily 15 Spellbook: Otiluke's Resilient Sphere
Wizard utility 16: Fly
Wizard utility 16 Spellbook: Stoneskin
Wizard encounter 17: Crushing Titan's Fist (replaces Orbmaster's Incendiary Detonation)
Wizard daily 19: Summon Black Devourer (replaces Summon Abyssal Maw)
Wizard daily 19 Spellbook: Disintegrate
Wizard daily 19 Spellbook: Cloudkill
ITEMS
Spellbook, Adventurer's Kit, Summoner's Tome +4, Orb of Judicious Conjuration +3, Bracers of Defense (heroic tier), Winged Boots (paragon tier), Circlet of Rapid Casting (paragon tier), Cloth Armor of 10 Necrotic Resistance +4, Keoghtom's Ointment (paragon tier) (3), Sextant of the Planes (paragon tier), Ring of Invigoration (paragon tier), Belt of Vigor (paragon tier), Bone Ring of Better Fortune (paragon tier)
RITUALS
Magic Mouth, Comprehend Language, Brew Potion, Knock, Consult Mystic Sages, Water Breathing, Astral Sojourn, Eye of Warning, True Sending, Planar Portal, Safeguard, Far Sending, Farsight, Consult Oracle, Create Teleportation Circle, View Location, Planar Sending, Ritual of Retrieval, Sentinel Eye, Astral Guide, Visage of Life, Shadow Walk, Rope Trick, Reverse Portal, Passwall, Elemental Transference, Drawmij's Instant Summons, Arcane Barrier, History Revealed, Scribe, Detect Object, Conceal Object, Chameleon's Cloak, Detect Treasure, Wizard's Sight, Status, Signal of Pursuit, Shadow Passage, Shadow Bridge, Seal Portal, Remove Affliction, Raise Dead, Linked Portal, Aura Mask, Analyze Portal, Wyvern Watch, Wizard's Escape, Tiny Lanterns, Speak with Dead, Sending, Preserve Flame, Phantom Steed, Mordenkainen's Joining, Mordenkainen's Ascent, Leomund's Secret Chest, Excavation, Earthen Ramparts, Disenchant Magic Item, Discern Lies, Deathly Shroud, Cure Disease, Bolster Object, Object Reading, Magic Circle, Travelers' Feast, Transfer Enchantment, Enchant Magic Item, Dark Light, Arcane Lock, Undead Ward, Detect Secret Doors, Affect Normal Fire, Seek Rumor, Animal Messenger, Arcane Mark, Banish Vermin, Amanuensis, Create Campsite, Secret Page, Purify Water, Make Whole, Gentle Repose, Fastidiousness, Silence, Simbul's Conversion, Unseen Servant, Corpse Light, Delver's Fire, Endure Elements, Eye of Alarm, Last Sight Vision, Lower Water, Preservation, Pyrotechnics
====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&DI Character Builder ======
a) I always roll for stats, I HATE point builds
b) He's designed to be very physically tough, lots of surges so he can summon many critters, and have good defences, which also helps his summoned beasties.
So he has Toughness, Durable, Paragon Defences feats.
belt of VIgor adds +2hp to healing surge value (which affects how many hit points his summons have).
Summmners tome +4 can boost summons opportunity attack damage.
Circlet of Rapid Casting can let him (Daily) use a minor action arcane utility as a free action, such as Enduring Summons to heal a summoned critter.
Venegeful Summoner means that when one of his summons are killed, adjacent enemies automatically take 2d10+5 damage
this is the stats for his highest level summons:
c) He hates and fights undead, so he has Bone RIng of Better Fortune (1/2 necrotic damage, and daily ignore an effect or take no damage form necrotic attack) and his cloth amrour has 10 necrotic resistance.
"Inescapable Force" feat helps when fighting spectral/ghost type undead.
d) He's definately a a "controller"
what ya think?
Anyway, I ended up imagining this guy as a D&D character and writing him into an adventure or two as an NPC.
I used the new Summoner rules and the character builder ot sort him out, so hope ya like, and shows what ye can do as a summoner in 4th ed
REDORIOUS THE SUMMONER, SLAYER OF UNDEAD
Mannerismsand appearance:
6'4", 240lbs, stout-muscular build, copper-brown skin, bald, salt & pepper goatee and moustache, heavy scarring on right side of head. Many people would take him for an elderly warrior or the like from his size.
Wears a platinum and aquamarine studded jewellery item on right side of head around upper right eye and temple which hides some of the scarring (and is a magic item, Circlet of Rpaid Casting, designed ot help ease the pain as well from the scars).
PERSONALITY TRAITS:
Seemingly grim and dour, he is actually very concerned and caring, but doesn't waste his words. Absolutely no tolerance for evil necromancers, most undead, Orcus & his minions, treacherous people, fiends and fiend worshippers, or abuse of the defenceless. Very, very determined and tough.
His family are wealthy farmers, roughly the equivalent of a "knightly" family (in the old sense of the word), wealthy by standards of farmers, that is. A series of hardships forced harsh times upon them, but they survived. Redorious worked hard on the farm as a lad, hence his physique, but he was also a scholar very interested in the arcane. He was offered the chance to train with a wizard, who'd even pay his family for the privelege and so he left for his apprenticeship...
Alas, the wizard was trecherous, in league with fell forces and abused Redorious, eventually planning to use him to fuel a ceremony of lichdom! Fortunately, a group of adventurers stormed his lair, killing the necromancer and freeing Redorious. The adventurers were all orcs, half-orcs and a hobgoblin, and he spent many years there after in their company, until they were mostly butchered by a xenophobic band of bravos in the pay of an evil duke, an Orcus worshipper. Redorious, his remaining friend and new allies executed the Duke 3 years later.
Very well versed in the ways of non-Humans, he has extensive contacts with orcs, goblin and elemental peoples, and has often served as an emissary or ambassador, or helper of such.
Currently, he works on his academy, where he can assure students who pass his standards of a (relatively) safe, moral grounding in the magical arts. The local town knows well his reputation, despite his being a summoner and appreciate him. Redorious is well versed in the undead, fiends and the Planes, he likes elementals and humanoids.
He favours dark red or aquamarine clothing.
4th ed character stats
====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&DI Character Builder ======
Redorious, level 21
Human, Wizard, Bonded Summoner, Planeshaper
Build: Summoner Wizard
Arcane Implement Mastery: Tome of Binding
Second Implement: Orb of Imposition
FINAL ABILITY SCORES
Str 15, Con 20, Dex 16, Int 27, Wis 19, Cha 15.
STARTING ABILITY SCORES
Str 13, Con 16, Dex 14, Int 17, Wis 15, Cha 13.
AC: 32 Fort: 27 Reflex: 30 Will: 28
HP: 125 Surges: 13 Surge Value: 33
TRAINED SKILLS
Diplomacy +17, Arcana +24, Dungeoneering +20, Religion +23, Insight +19
UNTRAINED SKILLS
Acrobatics +13, Bluff +12, Endurance +17, Heal +14, History +18, Intimidate +12, Nature +14, Perception +14, Stealth +13, Streetwise +12, Thievery +13, Athletics +12
FEATS
Wizard: Ritual Caster
Human: Careful Summoner
Level 1: Expanded Spellbook
Level 2: Toughness
Level 4: Durable
Level 6: Linguist
Level 8: Reaper's Touch
Level 10: Dual Implement Spellcaster
Level 11: Improved Tome of Binding
Level 12: Paragon Defenses
Level 14: War Wizardry
Level 16: Inescapable Force
Level 18: Second Implement
Level 20: Spell Focus
Level 21: Vengeful Summoner
POWERS
Wizard at-will 1: Magic Missile
Wizard at-will 1: Storm Pillar
Human: Thunderwave
Wizard encounter 1: Orbmaster's Incendiary Detonation
Wizard daily 1: Summon Fire Warrior
Wizard daily 1 Spellbook: Grease
Wizard daily 1 Spellbook: Flaming Sphere
Wizard utility 2: Summon Shadow Serpent
Wizard utility 2 Spellbook: Guardian Blades
Wizard encounter 3: Color Spray
Wizard daily 5: Summon Abyssal Maw
Wizard daily 5 Spellbook: Glitterdust
Wizard daily 5 Spellbook: Acid Mire
Wizard utility 6: Dispel Magic
Wizard utility 6 Spellbook: Dimension Door
Wizard encounter 7: Tomebound Ooze
Wizard daily 9: Wall of Fire
Wizard daily 9 Spellbook: Mordenkainen's Sword
Wizard daily 9 Spellbook: Taunting Phantoms
Wizard utility 10: Mass Resistance
Wizard utility 10 Spellbook: True Seeing
Wizard encounter 13: Prismatic Burst (replaces Color Spray)
Wizard daily 15: Summon Chainbearer (replaces Summon Fire Warrior)
Wizard daily 15 Spellbook: Bigby's Grasping Hands
Wizard daily 15 Spellbook: Otiluke's Resilient Sphere
Wizard utility 16: Fly
Wizard utility 16 Spellbook: Stoneskin
Wizard encounter 17: Crushing Titan's Fist (replaces Orbmaster's Incendiary Detonation)
Wizard daily 19: Summon Black Devourer (replaces Summon Abyssal Maw)
Wizard daily 19 Spellbook: Disintegrate
Wizard daily 19 Spellbook: Cloudkill
ITEMS
Spellbook, Adventurer's Kit, Summoner's Tome +4, Orb of Judicious Conjuration +3, Bracers of Defense (heroic tier), Winged Boots (paragon tier), Circlet of Rapid Casting (paragon tier), Cloth Armor of 10 Necrotic Resistance +4, Keoghtom's Ointment (paragon tier) (3), Sextant of the Planes (paragon tier), Ring of Invigoration (paragon tier), Belt of Vigor (paragon tier), Bone Ring of Better Fortune (paragon tier)
RITUALS
Magic Mouth, Comprehend Language, Brew Potion, Knock, Consult Mystic Sages, Water Breathing, Astral Sojourn, Eye of Warning, True Sending, Planar Portal, Safeguard, Far Sending, Farsight, Consult Oracle, Create Teleportation Circle, View Location, Planar Sending, Ritual of Retrieval, Sentinel Eye, Astral Guide, Visage of Life, Shadow Walk, Rope Trick, Reverse Portal, Passwall, Elemental Transference, Drawmij's Instant Summons, Arcane Barrier, History Revealed, Scribe, Detect Object, Conceal Object, Chameleon's Cloak, Detect Treasure, Wizard's Sight, Status, Signal of Pursuit, Shadow Passage, Shadow Bridge, Seal Portal, Remove Affliction, Raise Dead, Linked Portal, Aura Mask, Analyze Portal, Wyvern Watch, Wizard's Escape, Tiny Lanterns, Speak with Dead, Sending, Preserve Flame, Phantom Steed, Mordenkainen's Joining, Mordenkainen's Ascent, Leomund's Secret Chest, Excavation, Earthen Ramparts, Disenchant Magic Item, Discern Lies, Deathly Shroud, Cure Disease, Bolster Object, Object Reading, Magic Circle, Travelers' Feast, Transfer Enchantment, Enchant Magic Item, Dark Light, Arcane Lock, Undead Ward, Detect Secret Doors, Affect Normal Fire, Seek Rumor, Animal Messenger, Arcane Mark, Banish Vermin, Amanuensis, Create Campsite, Secret Page, Purify Water, Make Whole, Gentle Repose, Fastidiousness, Silence, Simbul's Conversion, Unseen Servant, Corpse Light, Delver's Fire, Endure Elements, Eye of Alarm, Last Sight Vision, Lower Water, Preservation, Pyrotechnics
====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&DI Character Builder ======
a) I always roll for stats, I HATE point builds
b) He's designed to be very physically tough, lots of surges so he can summon many critters, and have good defences, which also helps his summoned beasties.
So he has Toughness, Durable, Paragon Defences feats.
belt of VIgor adds +2hp to healing surge value (which affects how many hit points his summons have).
Summmners tome +4 can boost summons opportunity attack damage.
Circlet of Rapid Casting can let him (Daily) use a minor action arcane utility as a free action, such as Enduring Summons to heal a summoned critter.
Venegeful Summoner means that when one of his summons are killed, adjacent enemies automatically take 2d10+5 damage
this is the stats for his highest level summons:
c) He hates and fights undead, so he has Bone RIng of Better Fortune (1/2 necrotic damage, and daily ignore an effect or take no damage form necrotic attack) and his cloth amrour has 10 necrotic resistance.
"Inescapable Force" feat helps when fighting spectral/ghost type undead.
d) He's definately a a "controller"
what ya think?
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