Epic D&D 3.5: The Eye of Profane Truth [full]

[Rkhet]

I must have missed something myself -- are we able to make our own weapons/armor (not that it matters for one of the concepts I've currently got put together, but the drow bladesinger I'm about to start working on may well need that)? I thought we were just limited to what was pre-made and listed in the books? That interpretation thing is coming back to bite me. *grins*

weapons and armor are exceptions. you can customize them.

you cannot, however, craft them using craft feats.

 

[Bloodweaver1]

source?

Complete Arcane.

Understood about everything else.
Thanks for the help.

-Blood

 

[Azaar]

The drow bladesinger idea has fallen through -- too much I want as opposed to what I have to have, especially feat-wise. I have an alternative, though.

My question now is the Ascetic Mage feat from Complete Adventurer. Technically a warmage can qualify for it, but it keeps specifically mentioning sorcerer. Would a warmage be able to take this feat and his warmage levels stack with monk levels like it says it does with sorcerer, or would you have to be a sorcerer?

 

[Shayuri]

Hee hee!

That'd make two of us with a level of monk mixed into an otherwise pure caster.

Come, join me! Together WE WILL RULE THE...STUFF!

 

[Azaar]

Heh. My primary concept, I'm still typing up the crunch on. The concept:

Human Warlock 20 / Hexblade 3 / Ninja 2 / Blackguard 5

I'm pushing AC 50 with him, with saves versus spells/spell-like effects at a minimum of +40. I still have to stat up his lesser nightmare fiendish servant/mount, though, but that'll be child's play compared to what I'm doing right now.

The other concept I'm looking at and piddling around with:

Drow (LA +2) Warmage 23 / Hexblade 3 / Blackguard 2 (although that might change, depending on the call on the Ascetic Mage feat and if it would apply equally to warmage as it does sorcerer -- between Practiced Spellcaster and the orange ioun stone, I can maintain caster level 28 for the warmage, while getting the hellacious boost to saves with my Hexblade/Blackguard level combination).

 

[Shayuri]

Nice nice!

I too looked at Pally/Blackguard for the save boost...but sadly I'm not going good OR evil, so I'd lose the bennies. I was happy to see that an ex-monk retains all benefits of monkhood so I could at least be chaotic.

My saves are deeeeecent at least. Just managed to break +30 on all saves with minimal buffage. That and SR 41 oughtta buy me time to toss a few maximized meteor swarms.

 

[Kafkonia]

Well, this is my first attempt at an epic character, so Bas probably isn't optimized as well as he could be. But one thing that might make people unhappy is his tendency to cast Death Throes on himself first thing every morning.

His persistent emanation of Magic Convalescence will be quite nice with all these casters hanging around though.

 

[Rkhet]

The drow bladesinger idea has fallen through -- too much I want as opposed to what I have to have, especially feat-wise. I have an alternative, though.

My question now is the Ascetic Mage feat from Complete Adventurer. Technically a warmage can qualify for it, but it keeps specifically mentioning sorcerer. Would a warmage be able to take this feat and his warmage levels stack with monk levels like it says it does with sorcerer, or would you have to be a sorcerer?

You meet the requirements for the feat, so you can take it. However, the feat description mentions three distinct benefits: bonus to unarmed strike, stacking sorc/monk levels for AC, and free multiclassing between sorc/monk. You will get the first bonus, the other two are not applicable to you.

If you're only spending one feat on this, I recommend Arcane Strike instead. Exactly the same thing, except +1d4 damage per spell level. Of course, these two stack, so taking both is pretty good too.

 

[Rkhet]

I too looked at Pally/Blackguard for the save boost...but sadly I'm not going good OR evil, so I'd lose the bennies. I was happy to see that an ex-monk retains all benefits of monkhood so I could at least be chaotic.

Technically true, but being barely hours old means you can't switch alignments.

If you're keeping the alignment, a monk's belt gets you most of the monk bennies.

 

[Rkhet]

But one thing that might make people unhappy is his tendency to cast Death Throes on himself first thing every morning.

Where's this spell from?