Whirtlestaffs Wizards Academy-Recruiting Now Complete, 7:06am 05/07/08

[Ryfte]

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I'd be interested to find out if we could use both the class variants and skill variants here. These variants are by Sean Reynolds and I've used them in the past and prefer them to existing rulings. *shrug*

The biggie, for Mikkanna at least, would be that trapfinding becomes more viable for anyone. I'm also looking for ways to add disable device and search as permanent class skills for her She isn't the mechanical creator that someone else is making but her divination focus along with those and the variant skill system would make her a great disarmer.

Scott: The domain wizard variant also eliminates the ability to specialize as well as losing the familiar... which might not be such a great tradeoff. If Leif allowed the feat/source then I'd recommend the Arcane Disciple feat from Complete Arcane. Basically it allows you to select a cleric domain of the god/pantheon/belief your character follows. You add those spells to your normal spell list and can prepare them as normal spells with the standard cleric domain spell limitation; one of each level. It requires Know (religion) 4, Know (spellcraft) 4 and being an arcane spellcaster as well as having an alignment which matches your deities. You can take it multiple times to gain additional domains but limited to the choices of your chosen diety. The advantage here is that you don't lose your ability to specialize or your familiar... and you still get almost an identical effect. Oh, and you use Wisdom for it, not Intelligence.

 

[Leif]

Spellsword is in Complete Warrior.

Is the PHB2 available for spells? I don't think there's too much in there that Turroth would take except the Celerity line, but there's a bunch of cool spells in there.

That's affirmative!

 

[Leif]

I was thinking more that other elves looked down on him for attending here, rather than his own distain for the school. He isn't wise and might say something foolish at some point though. I think you are correct that the Mountain Elves are sorcerers rather than Wizards. A gray elf could be fun though. Actually, I did put a 17 on Con, but lost 2 points for racial mod. Any chance we could talk you into allowing a re-roll of 1's on hit points after first level?

Oh, ok, that changes things a bit, doesn't it? Well, Gray Elves and High Elves probably wouldn't look down on him for that. Mountain Elves, however, surely would, and Wood Elves probably would, too. Unless you're thinking that there is some other reason why they look down on you for attending The Academy? Maybe a family reason of some sort?


Yeah, I'll allow ONE re-roll of 1's on hp for 2nd level. Not sure about after that, though.

 

[Leif]

I am not sure where I want to go with a prestige class at this time. I may change this completely as Combat related classes is not going to work well for me. My 2nd level hp says it all. *shakes head*

I am thinking for going for a Elemental or Summoning path and then Arch Mage. I will have to take a look at the books in next few days.

This is pretty rough at this time.

Ok why did you add 5 to your hp roll? Your con says just +4
It's not nice to confuse the DM!!

 

[FreeXenon]

Yeah, I'll allow ONE re-roll of 1's on hp for 2nd level. Not sure about after that, though.

Yea!.....

Nevermind... That's 2 1's in a row. I guess it's in the cards for me.

Roll 2: HP 2nd Level (1d4+4)

 

[FreeXenon]

Ok why did you add 5 to your hp roll? Your con says just +4
It's not nice to confuse the DM!!

Hmmm.... I'm confused too...
Are we 2nd level, or did I misunderstand?

L1 : 4 + 4 = 8
L2 : 1 + 4 = 5
5 + 8 =13 HP

Level 2 HP Rolls

Edit: I think I see what you were referring to. In my previous post (now correct) I put the total in the link.

 

[Leif]

Okay, Grey Elf will require a little changing around. How about Delunamanth Tylarapelotheenia
'First glint of moonlight on the ice of a midwinter's lake'. Just Tylara or 'ice' to her friends?
Str. 15 (17-2 race) Con. 13 (15-2 race) Dex. 15 (13+2 Race) Int. 19 (17+2 Race) Wis. 11 Cha 11
She is a statuesque grey-elven maiden with long legs and a painfully thin figure. Her medium length straight hair is silver and her amber eyes seem to smolder, an effect enhanced by dark eye-makeup touched with copper. Her skin is almost translucently pale with just a hint an icy blue tint. Her cheek bones are high and her features chiseled with thin cruel lips of a dusky rose color and a pointed cleft chin. Her ears are long, sharply pointed and rake back on a line with her chin. She wears knee high black boots with heels that add to her height making her well over 6' tall. Daggers are poised for easy drawing in both boot tops. Silver hose the color of her hair topped by a short black suede leather skirt and a matching silver shirt with an red paisley over amber vest laced in front. Starting with a circle around her middle fingers as otherwise fingerless gloves moving on over her hands, her wrists and most of her forearms are bracers black of leather overlaid with runes and arcane symbols in brightly polished copper. A quiver holding arrows and a bow almost as long as she is tall hands rising over one shoulder while the hilt of a long thin sword (longsword unless you'll let me use an Elven Thinblade from Races of the wild?) rises over the other. A wide belt lined with pockets for spell components and clasped with a coppery buckle in a dragon motif circles her waist.
Any chance I can just use Tylara rather than her full name for invisible castle as long as I promise to be consistent?
Still have a lot of mechanical details to work out, but this is a start anyway.

Yeah, by all means just use Tylara on inviso castle. Sheesh.
No elven thinblade. She's a wizard, isn't she? Is she really going to spend that many feats on longsword and the bow? Those are martial weapons and that means that they require one feat apiece for proficiency. You'd do a lot better to pick out a couple off the Simple Weapons list, because one feat gets you all of those.

 

[Leif]

So the feat I'd use Precocious Apprentice to qualify for would be Winter's Blast (from Complete Mage), which is a reserve feat that gives +1 CL on cold descriptor spells and lets me do a 15' cone of cold damage for 1d6*highest level of cold spell I have prepared. It requires the ability to cast 2nd level spells, which is why I'd need Precocious to get it at 2nd.

Yeah, I've had to re-think that. Precocious Apprentice won't qualify you for that feat, you'll need more understanding of 2nd level spells than the smidgen you get from that feat. As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure that I will be using Precocious Apprentice, but I think that it will probably be disallowed. I'm for sure gonna have to read it first, and I just can't seem to locate it. Sorry.

 

[Leif]

I am back rom my service call...
from post #17 quoted from...ME!:

Eldrich knight is found in the dmg pp187-188
spell sword in in complete warrior, pp79 - 80

also, may i be a domain wizard from Unearthed Arcana (Evocation domain) pages 57-58? i would lose familiar, but gain some spells from a specific list of spells.

UNEARTHED ARCANA is DISALLOWED FOR THIS GAME! Not absolutely sure about Complete Warrior yet, either.

 

[Leif]

are you familiar with conviction points and death flag varient rules?

Goodness no! I don't really like the sound of them, though.