He's dead, Jim!

[Inconsequenti-AL]

Sorry but your team needs a cleric or druid, instead to be a buffed melee type, would be an archer, or a spellcaster based, a summoner, etc you have a lot of cle variants.
Maybe you can play with a Psionic PC "Psion, PW,wilder"

Good luck, the next time you see a Red Dragon run away, cast all spells you need and go back

Normally we'd prep up to the eyeballs before going anywhere near it.

Partly I'd just totally metagamed that we'd spend a session or two fighting the Dragons Stone Giant servitors before finding the beast.

I was also distracted after a cool roleplaying 1/2 session... trying to make a deal with a bunch of isolationist elves and their insane king.

Either that, or I'd been eating Pure Stupid (tm) for breakfast.

And it did manage to catch us by suprise.

 

[Thanee]

Spirit Shaman/Sorcerer/Mystic Theurge... heh.

Unfortunately the even further removed spell level access is not good. The Mystic Theurge is bad enough without such additional hindrances.

What makes you think Druids aren't good at fighting single, powerful foes?

Even more so, what makes you think they are actually good/better at fighting bunches of less powerful ones!?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Darmanicus]

Alas poor Jack, I knew 'im well.

I suppose if you're not comin' back mate then I'm gonna have to lend you Complete Divine and BoED, (this has the Gwynharwhyf PrC in it). Pop round sometime if you want 'em.

Sorry to see you go Jack but don't worry mate, I'll give that dragon a good kickin', (and I'll make sure ya get a decent, corpse lootin' free burial)!

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

Spirit Shaman/Sorcerer/Mystic Theurge... heh.

Unfortunately the even further removed spell level access is not good. The Mystic Theurge is bad enough without such additional hindrances.

It's a shame! I'd love to try it sometime, but I think it'd be best done at a higher level... where -4 caster level doesn't hurt too badly. Say around 25th

Particularly not a good idea when I'm going to be trailing the rest of the party in levels anyway.

What makes you think Druids aren't good at fighting single, powerful foes?

Even more so, what makes you think they are actually good/better at fighting bunches of less powerful ones!?

Bye
Thanee

I've not played a 3.5 druid, or had a great deal of exposure to them... but... my initial take was that the spell list had a large number of battlefield control spells and great summons. To me, these seem to be at their best against fairly large groups. I'll go back and have another peek.

Though the shapeshifting is good for anything! Need to refresh my mind about the shifter prc.

 

[Nail]

It's a shame! I'd love to try it sometime, but I think it'd be best done at a higher level... where -4 caster level doesn't hurt too badly. Say around 25th.

You might want to look at the Complete Divine book, then. There's a feat in there (I forget the name) that allows you to add 4 to your caster level, up to you current HD. Very useful.

 

[blargney the second]

If your party needs someone to do buffs and heals, but you don't want to play a cleric/druid/etc, just grab 1 level so you can use wands to help them out! Then you can play whatever else you want...

Option B would be a rogue with tons of use magic device, or even a bard.

Then there's always the cohort option - let the NPC do the stuff you don't want your main PC to deal with.

-blarg

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

If your party needs someone to do buffs and heals, but you don't want to play a cleric/druid/etc, just grab 1 level so you can use wands to help them out! Then you can play whatever else you want...

Option B would be a rogue with tons of use magic device, or even a bard.

Then there's always the cohort option - let the NPC do the stuff you don't want your main PC to deal with.

-blarg

Hi, Boss!

We've got a paladin and ranger - use a lot of Clw wands for between fight healing.

Rogue would be good - but we might fall down with UMD as some of the protections are quite steep as scrolls/wands... Freedom movement, Death ward are starting to become issues, for example.

I'm quite tempted with the cohort cleric - very much a buffing/healer type if I do...

 

[blargney the second]

Hi, Boss!

*lol*

I'm quite tempted with the cohort cleric - very much a buffing/healer type if I do...

Yay! It's the happy middle ground of helping the party and getting to play whatever character you feel like!

-blarg

 

[Zimri]

Vow of peace/nonviolence... I supose I could always try out poverty?

Okay I took the thread the wrong way I focused on the "not wanting to play a melee" cleric.

Peace and non violence give you some decent and fun to RP abilities. I suppose you could add VoPoverty to it as it would fit RP wise, heck could even go for the saint template, or bring jack back as a risen martyr.

 

[Gregor]

Fighter 4 / Rogue 3 / Duelist 3

Swashing buckles is fun to do!