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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garnfellow" data-source="post: 2838560" data-attributes="member: 1223">A Tro of ExamplesOnce upon a time, a good friend of mine ran an amazing dungeon, one that we still think of fondly many years later. There were three players, and each of us played a high level specialist wizard. There was an invoker, an illusionist, and a necromancer. I played the illusionist, whom I imagined as a flamboyant, rock-star like figure who loved using spectacular illusions to awe the masses. I remember being a little frustrated in that I wanted this wizard to also be really good at enchantment magics, but I was limited by the old specialist wizard rules. I recently thought of that old character as I was reading a description of the new beguiler class from the Player's Handbook II (which, incidentally, though I seem to be picking on it, really sounds worth looking at). My first thought was that the beguiler might be a nice way to model my old illusionist in 3e. But then I remembered the eldritch weaver class, which I had always wanted to try out but hadn't.So I recreated that old character as an eldritch weaver, building him at 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th level. Behold, <a href="http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/yarl.htm" target="_blank">Rolthir Yarl, the Wizard of Many Colours</a>. And you know what? The eldritch weaver class completed nailed the vision I had always had of this character. This looked like a really fun guy to run.Intrigued, I tried converting the invoker as an eldritch weaver. This wizard was a typical blaster mage: unsubtle and lethal. The result? <a href="http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/flambert.htm" target="_blank">Flambert the Fire Mage</a>. And again, I was impressed by how closely I was able to get to the concept in my head by using the eldritch weaver class.Encouraged, I then converted the necromancer. Now, there are about 666 ways to model a necromancer in 3e, and I've probably tried them all at one time or another. A necromancer specialist wizard. Cleric with the death domain. Cleric/wizard multiclass with one of the countless necromancy-themed prestige classes. Some of the 20-level necromancer base classes. The death master class. And so on.  Most worked pretty well, but after looking at my conversion of <a href="http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/ethan.htm" target="_blank">Ethan the Silent</a>, I decided that eldritch weaver can model a necromancer quite nicely, thank you very much.</blockquote>

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