Cheese!

[WarlockLord]

Ok. I was bored, so I was wondering about a True Necromancer Build. (Yeah, yeah, it sucks. Or maybe not. Read on.) So, In my head, I started with Dread Necro. It requires the ability to cast summon undead II as a divine spell. "Well," I thought "Southern Magician!" Then, I realized, because I was casting it as a divine spell from my arcane casting class, that when I realized that I got +1 level of arcane/+1 level of divine, I got TWO caster levels, as My DN base casts both arcane and divine! Works with MT too! Cheese worthy of Pun-Pun!

 

[griff_goodbeard]

Hmm, what FR book is Southern Magician from?

I'd need to know the specifics of this feat before I could comment further.

 

[WarlockLord]

Southern Magician (from Races of Faerun): Once per day per two caster levels, you can cast a divine spell as an arcane spell, or an arcane spell as a divine spell. This enables you to bypass arcane spell failure due to armor, or gain additional benefit from a spell that functions differently for a divine caster than it would for an arcane caster. A spellcaster who doesn't have this feat takes a -4 penalty on attempts to counterspell or dispel your spells changed with this feat, and they must succeed on a caster check (DC 11 + spell level) to detect the spell with detect magic. The actual source of the spell's power doesn't change, and neither does its means of preparation. You are merely weaving the strands of magic together in an unconventional way that makes the spell behave somewhat differently. (Abalajar can cast four arcane spells per day as divine spells.)

 

[pawsplay]

That doesn't make DN a divine spellcasting class.

 

[WarlockLord]

Come on! It casts divine spells! What more is needed?

 

[Mistwell]

Cheese worthy of Pun-Pun!

Exaggeration worthy of Pun-Pun!

Pun-Pun was a work of genius. Yah got a long way to go to get to those levels!

 

[Notmousse]

Divine Caster levels.

 

[WarlockLord]

Well, one could argue, your arcane caster levels count as divine levels for your divine spells, so...

 

[Sejs]

Come on! It casts divine spells! What more is needed?

That's an extremely loose interpretation.

The class doesn't cast divine spells. It casts arcane spells, but you can fiddle with it via a feat.

Doesn't matter much though, because you'd still need access to the Death domain, which basically means at least one cleric level.

Even if you did find a way to bypass the entry requirements and got in with just Dread Necromancer levels, you'd end up losing out on half of the benefits of TN.

"...(as if she had also gained a level in...) a divine spellcasting class she belonged to before adding the prestige class."

No divine spellcasting class to add to means you'd lose out on that part of your advancement.

 

[boolean]

Would anybody allow a Wizard 2/Cleric 1 (or Wiz1/Clr2, or Wiz1/Clr1/Something else 1) with Precocious Apprentice and Southern Magician to take levels in Mystic Theurge?