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<blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 4795962" data-attributes="member: 72317"><p>Your stats seem a little erroneous. It should have 140hp from its con (28HD*5), mature adult white has innate sorc3 casting, which would stack with 7 lvs of sorc for a final effective spellcasting lv of 10.</p><p></p><p>That said, your spells don't really do much to improve the combat capabilities of a dragon, since they don't seem much better than a full attack. 7 lvs of sorc give just +3bab, roughly equivalent to 3racial HD, or the next age category (cr15). Your stats also seem a little low, you should be able to use the elite stat array, but only your cha is higher.</p><p></p><p>So I think its cr is around 15. You can bump that cr up to 16 if you decide to optimize its spell selection to better complement its combat capabilities (more emphasis on pre-combat buffs and swift-casting time spells). </p><p></p><p>You are also missing a feat for its 27th HD. I recommend practiced spellcaster. Swap out great cleave for multiattack (and squeeze in improved multiattack if possible). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>On a side note, I am surprised there are still people bothering with sorc lvs. I though abjurant champion was the standard these days...<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" /></p><p></p><p>Not really. Being a metamagic spell, the OP has the benefit of deciding whether to cast a fireball as a fire spell, or spend a full round changing it to deal cold damage (it is the elemental savant prc which automatically converts all your elemental damage spells to the chosen element). But you are right in that cold seems a poor choice, given that the PCs are likely to have some means of protection against it. It makes more sense to choose cold damage spells, then have energy sub: fire (since creatures resistant/immune to cold are usually not resistant/immune to fire).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Runestar, post: 4795962, member: 72317"] Your stats seem a little erroneous. It should have 140hp from its con (28HD*5), mature adult white has innate sorc3 casting, which would stack with 7 lvs of sorc for a final effective spellcasting lv of 10. That said, your spells don't really do much to improve the combat capabilities of a dragon, since they don't seem much better than a full attack. 7 lvs of sorc give just +3bab, roughly equivalent to 3racial HD, or the next age category (cr15). Your stats also seem a little low, you should be able to use the elite stat array, but only your cha is higher. So I think its cr is around 15. You can bump that cr up to 16 if you decide to optimize its spell selection to better complement its combat capabilities (more emphasis on pre-combat buffs and swift-casting time spells). You are also missing a feat for its 27th HD. I recommend practiced spellcaster. Swap out great cleave for multiattack (and squeeze in improved multiattack if possible). ;) On a side note, I am surprised there are still people bothering with sorc lvs. I though abjurant champion was the standard these days...:angel: Not really. Being a metamagic spell, the OP has the benefit of deciding whether to cast a fireball as a fire spell, or spend a full round changing it to deal cold damage (it is the elemental savant prc which automatically converts all your elemental damage spells to the chosen element). But you are right in that cold seems a poor choice, given that the PCs are likely to have some means of protection against it. It makes more sense to choose cold damage spells, then have energy sub: fire (since creatures resistant/immune to cold are usually not resistant/immune to fire). [/QUOTE]
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