Nontraditional Mystic Theurge combo...

[Halivar]

I'm trying to create a flav-o-rific NPC for an upcoming campaign, and I can't resist the lure of the mystic theurge. I'd like to try a non-traditional class combo, so I was thinking a wizard/druid or even a bard/druid.

Is there anything that would keep you from rolling up a character like this? What are some weaknesses you can think of? I've never played nor rolled a mystic theurge before, so I don't know quite how to strategize them.

 

[Darklone]

Bard ranger casting in light armour.... hehehe

The weirdest combo I have is a cleric/spellsinger NPC... fullplate, baby.

Any druid combo loses the druids biggest advantage: Wildshape. While only gaining the nice offensive druid spells.

 

[Scion]

Druid 5/Sorc4/Monk1/theurge 10

Cast spells while wildshapped into some random dog with nystuls magical aura on you to make you appear nonmagical (might not work on creatures, if not make a new spell). You might need 2 levels of monk, I dont have 3.5 but heard something about their abilities being changed.

But still, it is a really fun non-standard build for higher levels, and since you were asking about the theurge you must be going to high levels (NPC's level too easy! lol)

 

[Nifft]

One atypical but good combo would be a Sorc/Cleric Mystic Theurge. Clerics get little from having a high Int, but their Charisma is useful for all sorts of Turning-conversion goodness (if your DM allows some of the Feats from DotF).

Also, if you take Still Spell, you can spontaneously cast most of your Sorcerer spells in heavy armor -- you'll get fewer spells per day at each level, but spells per day is the Sorcerer's main strength.

-- N

 

[Darklone]

Sorcerer/OA shaman is great. Both cast with Charisma

 

[Halivar]

I've refined the character concept a bit. It's going to be a feytouched (dryad) NPC, so a definite woodsy-nature-y type. If I go with cleric, I'll do Plant and Good (or possibly Beauty) domains, but I just can't get over how cool those druid spells are. It's the arcane side that's throwing me off. I can't seem to find a good fit.

Since it's going to be a feytouched, I can see her having buku ranks in perform, so a bard might be good, too.. Thoughts?

 

[Nifft]

I just can't get over how cool those druid spells are.

Druid spells are cool. Druid class abilities are cool. Druids are already sort-of Divine/Arcane combos, since they have great offensive spells and decent healing/buffing.

I say just play a Druid and be happy. No MT sillyness.

-- N

 

[NCSUCodeMonkey]

Well, it's not a mystic theurge, but Geomancer from MotW works quite well too. I think the class was probably meant to be a wizard/druid build, but a Cleric 3 (with the nature domain)/Sor 4 can easily qualify for the class. I've got just such a character in a long running campaign (he's 12th level now), and the combo is incredibly fun. I get loads of healing, no spell-failure, great skill points, and all the kooky Geomancer abilities to boot.

 

[Tilla the Hun (work)]

I've refined the character concept a bit. It's going to be a feytouched (dryad) NPC, so a definite woodsy-nature-y type. If I go with cleric, I'll do Plant and Good (or possibly Beauty) domains, but I just can't get over how cool those druid spells are. It's the arcane side that's throwing me off. I can't seem to find a good fit.

Since it's going to be a feytouched, I can see her having buku ranks in perform, so a bard might be good, too.. Thoughts?

Dryad or Pixie? Pixie's get quite a few stat bumps and make for nice spellcasters Plus they are not tied to a tree/region like a dryad.

Also consider the psuedodragon as a possibility. You'd have to 'exception' natural spell to the first level druid, but it makes for an extremely interesting druid. I can see that once it started shapeshifting, it'd be interested in humanoid forms and arcane magic... Bard or Sorc would fit it's nature extremely well.

For a totally unusual MT character (if you don't mind losing a few levels to ECL) try a Centaur.

 

[ConcreteBuddha]

Sorcerer/OA shaman is great. Both cast with Charisma

Hate to nitpick, but it's the shugenja that casts with Charisma. The Shaman still uses Wisdom. But your point is still valid with the sorcerer/shugenja multiclass (especially water focused shugenja.)