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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 2655245" data-attributes="member: 29252">Villian in a campaign I'm running; I hand-wave a handful of things (e.g., I didn't write any Knoweledge (The Planes) into his skill set) but he is quite doable by the book.  The earliest he can actually Call an outsider (rather than Summon one) is 10th; and at that point, he is missing Dismissal; at 11th, he can have the full minimal list.  At 12th, he can pick up the standard Planar Binding, and at 16th can have Planar Binding, Greater (the best Core Calling short of Gate).Be careful, though; such a Sorceror has more prep-work than a Wizard, as he has to make a NEW deal with every individual Called creature, make several rolls, and sit in place for an absolute minimum of at least 20 minutes + 2 rounds + DM fiat to do it with a reasonably high safety margin (10 minutes for Calling Diagram, 1 round for Magic Circle Against [alignment], 1 round for Dimensional Anchor, 10 minutes for Planar Binding, DM fiat time for first proposal).  If the Sorceror can't make the first deal, he must wait a full 24 hours to propose another (or the same) and make another opposed Charisma check.  Also, it's strongly reccomended that you pay your Called creatures something (but not required) and take care of them (also not required), as it's possible they could be angry with you after.... and have allies... and Plane Shift capabilities....Also, it's more bookkeeping - you need to keep track of the stats for each Binding you succeed with (what, you expect the DM to do all the work?).Some reccomended feats: Spell Penetration & Greater Spell Penetration (Dismissal permits SR), (Greater) Spell Focus (Conjouration) (Planar Binding has a Will Negates to keep the creature from falling into the trap), and perhaps Heighten Spell later on (which is often useful for a Sorceror anyway, as it permits those lower-level spells that get neglected due purely to low save DC's to be useful again) for the same reason as the Spell Focus line.Even at 10th, though, the Sorceror will still have enough Spells Known at lower levels to be of use without the prep-work (e.g., Fireball at 3rd, Rope Trick and Scorching Ray at 2nd...) although won't be quite as strong of a blaster as would a blaster-centric Sorceror at that level (Empowered Fireball or Lightning Boly - yummy 15d6...).</blockquote>

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