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<blockquote data-quote="Wraith-Hunter" data-source="post: 3307546" data-attributes="member: 48298">Eldritch knight will cost you 2 caster levels, 1 level of fighter to qualify and 1st level of Ek has no spell casting. I'm not familiar with some of those, nor what books they are from. EK is the staple of gish (fighter/wizard) builds and is not bad at all if that is the way you want to go. You would be 3 spell levels below a wizard of equal level though.You should ask your DM if you can and any complete mage/arcana books in there. If it is a matter of buying a book buy the DM a copy.The biggest thing with playing a straight caster Sorc is you want a PrC that gives +1 spell casting every level, and hoepfully does not require lots of useless feats or cross class skills. If you have no PrC's that grant full casting or require really high prerec's to get in then staying with Sorc is not -bad-. It is just better if you can find a PrC that fits. Archmage is a good PrC but can't remember off hand what lvl you can pick it up on. Usually later levels. Dragon Disciple is useless unless you want to be a 1/2 dragon. It gives you spells but no caster level increase.Looks like you get the core + some other reasource but I'm not sure which. If it is a fighter heavy book like it looks then you really don't have many choices. If that is the case the warrior types are getting more options than a caster type is. Find out what obsticles are in the way for allowing other books in there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wraith-Hunter, post: 3307546, member: 48298"] Eldritch knight will cost you 2 caster levels, 1 level of fighter to qualify and 1st level of Ek has no spell casting. I'm not familiar with some of those, nor what books they are from. EK is the staple of gish (fighter/wizard) builds and is not bad at all if that is the way you want to go. You would be 3 spell levels below a wizard of equal level though. You should ask your DM if you can and any complete mage/arcana books in there. If it is a matter of buying a book buy the DM a copy. The biggest thing with playing a straight caster Sorc is you want a PrC that gives +1 spell casting every level, and hoepfully does not require lots of useless feats or cross class skills. If you have no PrC's that grant full casting or require really high prerec's to get in then staying with Sorc is not -bad-. It is just better if you can find a PrC that fits. Archmage is a good PrC but can't remember off hand what lvl you can pick it up on. Usually later levels. Dragon Disciple is useless unless you want to be a 1/2 dragon. It gives you spells but no caster level increase. Looks like you get the core + some other reasource but I'm not sure which. If it is a fighter heavy book like it looks then you really don't have many choices. If that is the case the warrior types are getting more options than a caster type is. Find out what obsticles are in the way for allowing other books in there. [/QUOTE]

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