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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 3334475" data-attributes="member: 3051">The best part is that I intentionally took the Aristocrat level, even though I could have taken a PC class instead.I mean really.  It's a class with full armor and weapons, some nice class skills (including Speak Language, which was important since in our world there was no Common tongue), and 4+INT skill points.  It's actually not a bad choice for a 1st-level character, although it obviously doesn't scale up nearly as well beyond that.  And since my character was a nomadic Sorcerer from a family of wealthy merchants/craftsmen, it actually fit really well.Of course, I later replaced the Sorcerer levels with Psion(Shaper) levels, at which point the spell failure thing went away.Generally, no.  We usually start at ~3rd level (much better for multiclassers), and usually end as we get close to 20th.But I was oversimplifying.  It's not very difficult for a PC craftsman to hit 35 DC well before 20th; my 3.5E Shaper (with a high INT, an Artiste psicrystal and a luck ring that gave +1 to all skill checks) wouldn't have a problem at 15th level or earlier.  Generally speaking, though, the DC modifiers match pretty well to what level the material is made for (+10 DC materials are balanced for ~10th level, etc.)Only a very few do.  The mithrals and their alloys (orichalcum, for instance), the dragonhides, and a couple specific crystals; maybe 8 out of 50ish in total.  It's just that those materials happen to be the ones we've been discussing.</blockquote>

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