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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8325129" data-attributes="member: 57383">I was expecting to do the Skills & Feats, but AC is fine if you'd rather start there.Yes, the most logical gear is the standard Hanim Warrior stuff.Besides, it'd probably be a nonmetal breastplate - Maelost has very little iron remember - and there aren't any suitable special materials in the SRD.  I'll just transfer over the Hanim gear for now and substitute a masterwork quarterstaffI'd think the Worm Lord would forgo armour in a fighter host since it'd impair his spellcasting. How about we have dual stats, with both fighter gear and thaumaturge gear?Hmm, I suppose he'd have armour if they switched bodies in a hurry and he didn't have time to remove the armour.Yes, that's what I'd go for.However, remember what the original character had:Special equipment: wand of negation (21 charges), folding boat, wings of flying (damaged and no longer functional).We can ignore the wings (since they're ruined), which leaves a wand of negation, which becomes a rod of negation in 3E (37,000 gp) plus a folding boat (7,200 gp).However, that adds up to 44,200 gp or practically all our 45,000 gp budget.We could substitute the considerably cheaper but one-use rod of cancellation (11,000 gp) but that seems wasteful.I'd rather substitute a wand of dispel magic (2,250 gp per CL) with an advanced CL?  If it's CL 9th like the Worm Lord's own spell's it'd be 20,250 gp which is still a bit costly.Hmm, standard AD&D wands perform at caster level 6 so we could use that instead - that'd be 13,500 gp for a fully charged wand of dispel magic (6th).How much do part-expended wands sell for anyhow?  The original wand of negation has 21 charges instead of the full 50 of a new wand (actually AD&D wands fill up to 100 charges, but that's not particularly relevant).There should be some official 3E guidelines on the market value of partially charged wands considering how many of them there are in published adventures…So a 21 charge wand would it be worth 42% as much as a fully charged one, as in 8,505 gp for wand of dispel magic (9th).  That doesn't feel right, since it's four CLs higher than the basic CL 5th version but 2,755 gp cheaper.  It may has a fraction of the uses, but those uses are pretty valuable!However, let's use that figure for the sake of argument.Now bracers of armor are way expensive for what you get out of them.  How about a ring of force shield instead for 8,500 gp? Or maybe the ring and a low-bonus bracer?We could give him gloves of dexterity to increase AC by boosting his Dex modifier. A periapt of wisdom and maybe a headband of intellect to improve his spellcasting DCs would be desirable too.wand of dispel magic (9th, 21 charges) - 8,505 gpfolding boat - 7,200 gpgloves of dexterity (+2) - 4,000 gpperiapt of wisdom (+2) - 4,000 gpheadband of intellect (+2) - 4,000 gpring of force shield - 8,500 gpmasterwork quarterstaff - 600 gpThat's 37,405 gp, leaving 8,195 gp.Hmm, how about throwing on the following:wand of cure light wounds - 750 gprestorative ointment - 4,000 gphandy haversack - 2,000 gpThat leaves 1,445 gp, which I'd spend on a couple of scroll spells. Likely:One 5th-level spell (CL 9th)[1,125 hp] and one 2nd-level spell (CL 6th)[300 gp] -1,425 gpOR two 4th-level spells (CL 7th)[700 gp] - 1,400 gpThe 20 gp or 45 gp change leftover can be spent on a spell component pouch (5 gp) and maybe a another wizard's spellbook (15gp) plus miscellaneous oddments.He can prepare 44 pages-worth of wizard spells so can fit a full casting complement of spells in one spellbook and have 56 left of the 100 spell pages so might not need multiple books if he has a smallish spell collection, but will likely want a spare spellbook hidden somewhere as a backup.  That wouldn't be listed under equipment though, since he won't be carrying it around with him.  For that matter, he can leave his spellbook with a far away Hanim ally and just bodyswitch with them to memorize new wizard's spells.Nevermind, forget about the second spellbook!</blockquote>

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