Warforged Arcane Caster Woes

[Ahrimon]

It was also reprinted in PHB II. It's a small sidebar in the duskblade section.

 

[Cedric]

Book of Exalted Deeds.

It's been reprinted in PHB II - Page 21, bottom of the page.

 

[Sithobi1]

PHB2.

Edit: I guess I shouldn't keep the window open...

 

[Neorealist]

the 'Battle Sorcerer' sorcerer substitution class from Unearthed arcana would work for you.

You'd have to be a sorcerer, but you'd have (among other things) a cleric HD and BAB, and the ability to ignore spell failure from light armor. (hint: invest in the mithril body feat)
You lose a spell per day, which isn't so bad for a sorcerer who has tons of them. you also get one less spell known per spell level, which is rather terrible but can be worked around.

 

[Glyfair]

It's also been reprinted, in Complete Adventurer IIRC.

And, in the Explorer's Handbook (to give an Eberron source).

 

[Shellman]

Depending on what kind of arcane caster your looking for. Warmage would probably be your best option. You won't have access to any utilitarian spells, but if its just a one time dungeon crawl then who cares.

Option: I think Complete Arcane has something where you can substitute the Arcane learning ability with Ecclectic Learning. It basically allows you to learn a new spell normally not available to the Warmage. The spell still has to be on the sorcerer/ wizard spell list but it does not have to be an Evocation spell. There is more info you should know, but you can read through the ability.

 

[brehobit]

Not to argue with the OP, I know he doesn't want to take Unarmored Body, but I'm just not sure why. You're only giving up a +2 Armor Bonus that wouldn't have stacked with Mage Armor anyway.

Wu-jen don't get mage armor. Turns out to be a pretty big omission at lower levels... This made the Wu-jen in the game I'm running very unhappy :-(

Mark

 

[pawsplay]

Spellsword (CW) is a good way to go. Apart from that, you can memorize lots of true strikes, and carry around wands. I don't have the warforged writeup handy, but you should be able to take Mithril Body, one level of Fighter, a few levels of Wizard, then one level of Spellsword to cancel out your ASF.