Lets Talk Archivist!

[Seeten]

This game is a Stargate SG-1 game, set in fantasy with teleport portals, basically, so I'm making the Daniel Jackson character. Its a pretty cool setup, really.

 

[Jubilee]

I play a gnome archivist with the trivial knowledge feat - which lets me roll 2d20 for any knowledge check and get the highest (and dark knowledge counts as a knowledge check! woo!!).

I also talked my GM into collegiate archivist (cloned the wizard feat, so I got to scribe 4 spells per level).

Check out a the A-something spell shard from the eberron core book. It's essentially half a boccob's blessed book - much more affordable. If your GM will allow Eberron items.

this thread is a compilation of the lowest level divine spells you can get as an archivist, and is pretty handy. I also use this website alot to find the perfect spell..

have fun

 

[Pazu]

I play a gnome archivist with the trivial knowledge feat - which lets me roll 2d20 for any knowledge check and get the highest (and dark knowledge counts as a knowledge check! woo!!).

Nice one! I've also been wondering if the Collector of Stories skill trick from Complete Scoundrel could be applied to Dark Knowledge checks.

this thread is a compilation of the lowest level divine spells you can get as an archivist, and is pretty handy. I also use this website alot to find the perfect spell..

Great resources! I'll have to bookmark those.

 

[boolean]

Stoneskin without the material component (off some domain, and since it isn't arcane...)

Are you sure about that? Merely being divine doesn't eliminate costly components. I know this rule applies to some spells:

Divine Focus (DF)

A divine focus component is an item of spiritual significance. The divine focus for a cleric or a paladin is a holy symbol appropriate to the character’s faith.

If the Components line includes F/DF or M/DF, the arcane version of the spell has a focus component or a material component (the abbreviation before the slash) and the divine version has a divine focus component (the abbreviation after the slash).

There's nothing about stoneskin indicating that this rule would apply. The druid version, for example, would still require the 250 gp of diamond dust.

Stoneskin
Abjuration
Level: Drd 5, Earth 6, Sor/Wiz 4, Strength 6
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Creature touched
Duration: 10 min./level or until discharged
Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

The warded creature gains resistance to blows, cuts, stabs, and slashes. The subject gains damage reduction 10/adamantine. (It ignores the first 10 points of damage each time it takes damage from a weapon, though an adamantine weapon bypasses the reduction.) Once the spell has prevented a total of 10 points of damage per caster level (maximum 150 points), it is discharged.
Material Component
Granite and 250 gp worth of diamond dust sprinkled on the target’s skin.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Are you sure about that? Merely being divine doesn't eliminate costly components. I know this rule applies to some spells:

There's nothing about stoneskin indicating that this rule would apply. The druid version, for example, would still require the 250 gp of diamond dust.

Curses--I thought it said "Arcane Material Component" rather than "Material Component", much like with Identify. This trick does work with Identify though--no pearl shake for Archivists!

 

[jasin]

I play a gnome archivist with the trivial knowledge feat - which lets me roll 2d20 for any knowledge check and get the highest (and dark knowledge counts as a knowledge check! woo!!).

Is that feat limited to gnomes?

 

[Rystil Arden]

Is that feat limited to gnomes?

Sadly yes. I don't really like playing gnomes, so I never get to take that feat with my Archivists.

 

[Seeten]

Those are great lists. Great. Mirror Image? Scorching Ray? Beautiful.

 

[Jubilee]

Sadly yes. I don't really like playing gnomes, so I never get to take that feat with my Archivists.

If you haven't already, you should take a look at the whisper gnome in races of stone. You still get 30 ft movement, and you get dark vision. I wouldn't play a gnome unless it were a whisper gnome..

/ali

 

[Rystil Arden]

If you haven't already, you should take a look at the whisper gnome in races of stone. You still get 30 ft movement, and you get dark vision. I wouldn't play a gnome unless it were a whisper gnome..

/ali

I don't mean I think gnomes are weak...I just don't like playing gnomes. As for Whisper Gnomes, they are massively unfair, particularly to halflings. The preponderence of crazy things they get is far too much for LA +0--they need to be given LA +1 (they'd be a weak LA +1, but they'd fit the bill). And if you want to tell me that they fit in LA +0 because they are weaker than Warforged or something like that...we should take it to another thread