What's a good ECL race for a fighter/sorceror?

[Iku Rex]

New campaign starting, and I'd like to play either a an eldritch knight or maybe just a cleric, something with a good mixture of combat abilities and spellcasting. Everyone else in the party is playing an ecl race, so I might as well join the club. Are there any good ECLs for a caster? Something without racial hit die, as I can't afford to lose too many caster levels.

Any +1 LA planetouched (with the outsider type) will do. The trick is to play an arcane caster and take advantage of the outsider type to change into a good combat form with alter self/polymorph.

 

[UltimaGabe]

You probably want a much lower-level character, but Rakshasa make amazing Fighter/Sorcerers.

 

[Nifft]

It sounds like the UA variant Battle Sorcerer is a good class for you to run by your DM. It's got the features of a Ftr/Sor/EK/SSwd, all from level 1.

If you go the Ftr/Sor/EK route, consider a Gold Dwarf Fighter/Sorcerer, or even a Ghostwise Halfling Barbarian/Sorcerer.

-- N

 

[Oscar carramiñana]

You probably want a much lower-level character, but Rakshasa make amazing Fighter/Sorcerers.

But under savage species the Rakshasa are to weak IHMO

 

[thompgc]

Draconic template

The draconic template - it is in several spots, Draconomicon may be most recent.

+2 Str, +2 Con, +2 Chr
Also has some other minor bonus

 

[Pax]

No. There is no good ECL race for a fighter/sorceror 16

I strongly disagree, based on two qualifiers: the availability of the feat Practised Spellcaster from CD, and the Prestige Class Paragon Half-Dragon from UA.

Fighter(4)/Sorceror(10)/Paragon(3), Human/Half-Dragon - an ECL20 character. As a sorceror, while (yes) he has access only to 5th level spells, his caster level is 10(sorceror) plus 3(paragon) plus 4(practised spellcaster), for 17. Only three levels behind the SR curve, with a BAB of +12 (4 from fighter, 5 form sorceror, and 3 from paragon). Add to that the attribute boosts from being a Half-dragon and three uses of your breath-weapon per day (instead of only one) ...

Given the Draconomicon, that breath weapon can be kept more useful into later levels based on your choice of draconic parent. A Half-radiant gets a [force]-line breath weapon, but no immunity at all. A Half-topaz gets a cone of dehydration, and cold immunity. Pick radiant if you expect lots of incorporeal or ethereal foes; pick topaz otherwise (the immunity is too useful to pass up, IMO). There're still enough fighter levels to specialise if you want, and you could even catch up *entirely* in the SR/dispelling aspect, with another practised spellcaster selection.

IF you were willing to drop back to 4th level spells, you oculd swap out 4 of the sorceror levels for levels of Eldritch Knight. Drop the fighter levels back to 1, and you can pick up MORE Eldritch Knight. That'd be Fighter(1)/Sorceror(6)/Eldritch Knight(7)/Paragon(3), still at ECL20.

With the right selection of spells, that build does have potential, IMO.

 

[Osieu]

How about Sharn in Monsters of Faerun?

Sharn has 4 racial HD and EL+5, making it totally ECL9. But it has caster ability of lv7 sorceer and lv5 cleric, very high racial ability modifiers (+8 or +10 to EACH ability), spell resistence 20, regeneration 3, immune to mind-influence / poly spells, 12 attacks (9 claws and 3 bites) , can cast two spells in the same round using two different heads, and many other special abilities.

If you can give it militia feat, Sharn 4HD/ Eldritch Knight 10/ Dragonslayer 1 would give you BAB+14 (in addtion to high str mod and multi attacks from 9 arms), sor cl 17, clr cl 5.