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<blockquote data-quote="Psychotic Jim" data-source="post: 5463697" data-attributes="member: 547"><p><strong>The Dinner Party Specialist,</strong> or, "When is a wizard not a wizard?"</p><p></p><p>Build basics: Wizard 8 (Enchanter)</p><p>Ability scores: Besides the usual wizard's high int, high Cha is needed too.</p><p>Skills: Maxed out Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, Perception, and Sense Motive. Other Important skills include Disguise, Knowledge (local and nobility), Perform (oratory), and Sleight of Hand. Knowledge (arcana) and Spellcraft are of secondary concerns- only in spotting the actions of rival dinner party specialists.</p><p>Required feats: Eschew Materials, Still Spell, Silent Spell. Other important feats include Extend Spell, Persuasive, Skill focus, Spell Focus (Enchantment, Illusion, and Divination) and Spell Mastery (if you have to go w/o a spellbook for extended periods of time).</p><p>Suggested Oppositional schools: Evocation and Necromancy</p><p>Spells: Focus on Enchantment, Illusion, and Divination that can subtly be used to manipulate those around you. Detect/Seek Thoughts, Scrying and the like to get the dirt about them for blackmail, bribery, etc. Major Image, misdirection and magic aura for deception. Charm Person, Suggestion, etc. for more direct influence. Avoid obvious debuff spells like confusion or dominate as these are more useful on the battlefield than in social interactions. </p><p>Gear: Circlet of Persuasion</p><p></p><p>Okay, so the dinner party specialist is a wizard who doesn't act much like one. He gets out and has a good time at all those social parties. Of course, he's all about mind games with his friends and enemies. This guy's place is in the social arena, not the battlefield. Played well enough- and you might never know he's a wizard. Use silent spell, still spell, and eschew material components to cast spells on the sly (although they will take up correspondingly higher level slots).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Psychotic Jim, post: 5463697, member: 547"] [B]The Dinner Party Specialist,[/B] or, "When is a wizard not a wizard?" Build basics: Wizard 8 (Enchanter) Ability scores: Besides the usual wizard's high int, high Cha is needed too. Skills: Maxed out Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, Perception, and Sense Motive. Other Important skills include Disguise, Knowledge (local and nobility), Perform (oratory), and Sleight of Hand. Knowledge (arcana) and Spellcraft are of secondary concerns- only in spotting the actions of rival dinner party specialists. Required feats: Eschew Materials, Still Spell, Silent Spell. Other important feats include Extend Spell, Persuasive, Skill focus, Spell Focus (Enchantment, Illusion, and Divination) and Spell Mastery (if you have to go w/o a spellbook for extended periods of time). Suggested Oppositional schools: Evocation and Necromancy Spells: Focus on Enchantment, Illusion, and Divination that can subtly be used to manipulate those around you. Detect/Seek Thoughts, Scrying and the like to get the dirt about them for blackmail, bribery, etc. Major Image, misdirection and magic aura for deception. Charm Person, Suggestion, etc. for more direct influence. Avoid obvious debuff spells like confusion or dominate as these are more useful on the battlefield than in social interactions. Gear: Circlet of Persuasion Okay, so the dinner party specialist is a wizard who doesn't act much like one. He gets out and has a good time at all those social parties. Of course, he's all about mind games with his friends and enemies. This guy's place is in the social arena, not the battlefield. Played well enough- and you might never know he's a wizard. Use silent spell, still spell, and eschew material components to cast spells on the sly (although they will take up correspondingly higher level slots). [/QUOTE]
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