Dromus Prep Thread

[TrevWar]

Ok, I'm here, I live...

And I claim page 2 for... ...Zzzz...

I've been busy... ... ...with nothing really, so that'sd just not much of an excuse, oh well, I'll do better one of these days... ...maybe.

Any way, Errol and I have been looking at making a Soul Knife for me to play, we've been tossing some ideas around and I believe there are few things that are set in stone with him. We're still figuring out a few things. :\

 

[DemonWolfZero]

Speaking of, hey MK. If I find a decent setup for "Levels in this Prestige Class count as Soulknife levels for purposes of *insert SK ability here*", can Trev and I come up with SK PrCs? Or how about feats/weapon substitutions? Trev mentioned something about mind-daggers or shuriken.

Maybe I can find something sane on the forums...

 

[Mad Hatter]

Hey Kell, I was wondering if I could play Juda. his new world of yours sound cool and interesting. I realize that I said that I'd be playing Feiran, however, since we haven't played we can still toy with ideas right?

For those of you who don't know, Juda is the weather cleric I made. I'm still trying to get a solid build for her. Either the Stormchild build or the Storm Rider.

 

[Kelleris]

@ DemonWolfZero - I'll look at whatever you've got, but be warned that I'm going to be less willing to go along with new stuff than usual. I'm introducing a pile of new house rules and the like, and I'd rather not have to pay attention to potentially unbalancing PrCs too. I've already got the whole XPH to worry about, you know?

@ Mad Hatter - I assume you mean Wintercealde/Caeldwyste/Morgencaeld? (Which reminds me, can I get some feedback on the names there?) I don't have a problem with you playing Juda beyond some minor continuity problems. I would prefer the Storm Rider version, for the same reasons I cited for DemonWolfZero.

 

[Tux the Penguin]

Kelsey, what about the feats that I created? As bad as it sounds, my playing an Alienist is dependant on the Winds of Magic feat tree (I like the randomness).

The Faux Spells is mainly for backstory reasons, but also for in game when I need a little magical umph and there's too many people around.

 

[Mad Hatter]

Kell, I like Caeldwyste.

 

[Thunderbird459]

Never fear, Lord Kelleris; I am here as promised. I'm kicking around a couple ideas, though I think I will wait to craft my perfect generalist wizard until I get my hands on Complete Arcane.

I'm tempted build a wizard entirely around crafting items and asking Zeltrachaon to go in with me on a joint business venture called Crazy Z's Magic Shop and Tavern. The name is negotiable, of course.

I'm also considering a mystic theurge or a straight up cleric since we don't have a healing bag. I'll need to get my hands on a Complete Divine to do it effectively, though.

Edit: I said Complete Divine, I meant Defenders of the Faith

 

[DemonWolfZero]

Hey Matt, whenever you check these forums, please check out this link.

http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=296800

I'm not sure since I haven't checked with Trev yet, but I think he might like something along those lines...only without the "Evil" restriction, of course.

 

[Tux the Penguin]

Eroll, in my opinion its pretty good, although I think the mind blade advancement is a little quick. But talk to Kelsey.


Richard: if you're looking for a crafting PrC, there is a dwarven one, although I don't think its wizardly (check Races of Stone).

Also, you mentioned the MT... in the XPH there is a wizard/psion MT-like class. Take a look. It would fit very well with your crafter, because then you could make both magic and psionic items. Matt might actually let you use Wondrous Items to make Universal items, since they are the same, technically.

 

[Kelleris]

@ Tux - I don't think I'm going to allow those feats you made, Matt. I want to try the class out with just the modifications I made, without worrying about balancing some pretty hard-to-balance random roll charts on top of all the other things to worry about. I'm also pretty lukewarm on the Alienist as a PC class anyway, so I'm not as willing to deal with the extra hassle as I otherwise would be. Also, please use screen names when posting. It's just proper netiquette.

@ T-Bird - That sounds good, actually. I'm vetoing the Cerebremancer, though (the PrC that Tux mentioned). It's clearly better than the Mystic Theurge (Psionic spells are better than Clerical spells) and I'm not terribly keen on the balance of psionics as a whole. See this post and this thread for some idea as to why. Or just ask Errol.

In any case, for a crafter type, you're better off with Mystic Theurge. The list of psionic items is pretty piddly, and a good number of them are repeats of one magical item or another. The cleric mixed with wizard via Mystic Theurge actually gives you entirely new categories of spells and item access (healing, divining the future, planar allies, and so forth), while a Psion's schtick is largely redundant with the wizard's.

Actually, I'd probably be willing to make a class that combines any two of the seven traditions, but they wouldn't all get full advancement in both. For item creation, you'd be best off with either Divine/Arcana or Tech/Arcana. Obviously, if you're worried about the cleric role, the Divine/Arcana version is best. Technologists get more healing ability than wizards, but not by much.

@ DemonWolfZero (and presumably TrevWar) - So you're saying that you want to play a soulknife that's as little like the XPH one and as much like the old one as possible? Don't know if I like the Psychic Assassin, but I will let Trev swap out class skills on a 1-for-1 basis if he really wants a rogue-y Soulknife.

EDIT: As for the knives/shuriken thing, the class already has the mechanics for that. It doesn't matter to me how they're described. Is there any special ability of the shuriken or dagger that he wants?

EDIT: Well, I'm finally through the nastiness of this last week (taught a seminar, edited a pile of papers, a quiz and a test in German, came down with a cold), so look for the basic setting information later on tonight. If you have any opinion at all about the names I mentioned earlier, post soon or Mad Hatter's gonna get to pick it.