Pseudodragon Sorcerer as a PC?

[TriggerNightfall]

I'm trying to figure out a bulid for this and need help. There's a generic template for the lil guy with no character levels in the MM but no explainations of say racial ability score bonus' and such! I'm also not clear on the minimum exp I would need to have the lil' guy to have one character level in sorcerer to start out with.

 

[Bigwilly]

Level is easy, progression isn't

Pseudodragon has 2 racial HD, +3 level adjustment and 1 level of sorcerer which makes for a 6th level PC.

With so many abilities, working out a 5-level progression for the little fella is not going to be easy but here are some suggestions:

HD: 2 - 1 at first, 1 at third
Ability bonuses: -4 str, +4 dex, +2 con, +2 wis - start with -4 str, +4 Dex, add +2 con at 2nd and +2 wis at 5th
Special attacks: Poison at 1st-3rd level, +2 racial bonus to DC at 4th-5th
Special qualities: Blindsense 60 ft., darkvision 60 ft., immunity to sleep and paralysis, low-light vision, spell resistance 19, telepathy 60 ft - sheesh, start blindsense at 20ft and add 10 ft per level, start with full darkvision and low-light, give immunity to sleep at 1st-3rd and immunity to paralysis at 4th-5th, spell resistance 5 at 2nd, 10 at 3rd, 15 at 4th, 19 at 5th. Telepathy at 5th.
Also need to think about racial bonuses to hide (+4/+8) and fly speed (start at 30' and increase to 60' by level 5
Saves: All good; +2 at first, +3 at 3rd
AC: +4 natural - start with 0, add one at each level

Put all the above into a table and massage for balance.

Bigwilly

 

[TriggerNightfall]

Thanks much for the help! You didn't mention the base attack bonus, I assume it would get +4 by the end of the progression since it's technically following a dragon template, right?

 

[Klaus]

Base Attack Bonus follows Hit Dice:

1st pseudodragon level = 1 HD = +1 BAB; Saves +2/+2/+2, gets 1 feat for 1st level)
2nd pseudodragon level = 1 HD = +1 BAB; Saves +2/+2/+2
3rd pseudodragon level = 2 HD = +2 BAB; Saves +3/+3/+3
4th pseudodragon level = 2 HD = +2 BAB; Saves +3/+3/+3
5th pseudodragon level = 2HD = +2 BAB; Saves +3/+3/+3

When he adds 1 level of sorceror, it'll have 3 HD (2 from dragon and 1 from sorceror) so he gets its 3rd level feat.

 

[Thanee]

Not to be a spoilsport or anything, but Pseudodragons cannot speak, that's a pretty huge hindrance in spellcasting... I don't think the rules for spellcasting creatures apply here.

And BAB would be +2 from the two Pseudodragon HD (as dragon) plus any BAB from the sorcerer levels. At 6th level (2 HD, +3 LA, 1 class level), the BAB would be +2 still.

The above progression just allows to start play from 1st level onwards (similar to what Savage Species does), it doesn't change the result at 5th, where the full HD/LA are reached and the Pseudodragon could start to branch out into a class.

Bye
Thanee