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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 1670731" data-attributes="member: 6875">The only problem here is, you're pretty much required to be an evil S.O.B. if you go with Shadow Adept - using the Shadow Weave is not a nice thing to do.  Shadowcrafter, OTOH,is a very cool class to take.  Oh, yes.  definitely.  Outside of Arena games (and even sometimes there), I almost always try and allow for Spell Thematics in my listof feats-to-get for spellcasters.  Required to either lose 2 wisdom (forever), or worship Shar (the evilFR deity of darkness and secrets).  Caveat Emptor.  What I would suggest, for this sort of concept, is to aim forShadowcratfer - and convince your GM to permit use of the Variant Specialist rules in Unearthed Arcana.  Specifically, you want the Shadow Shaper variant ability (youlose the bonus feats for being a Wizard in return - scribe scroll at 1st, and the spell mastery or metamagic at 5th, 10th, etc).  Shadow Shaper gives you:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> At 1st level, hide becomes a class skill.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> At 5th level, you may add your Intelligence modifier to Hide checks, in additionto your Dexterity modifier.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> *** At 10th level, allof your Illusions become infused with matter from the Plane of Shadow, increasing the save DC of those spells by +1 - which stacks with spell focus (etc) ***</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> at 15th level, you gain Hide in Plain Sight</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> at 20th level, you can blend intothe shadows, gaining total concealment (effective invisibility) in any conditions of illumination that woudl give you any concealment whatsoever (i.e., in the confines of a Darkness spell)</li> </ul>Now, the trick is ... you only want Illusionist (10), and then launch into Shadowcrafter.  This is because the Shadowcrafter gets benefits with any spell with a Shadow component ... and for a Shadow Shaper illusionist, that's any spell in the schoolof Illusion!And, if you want to bite the (comparatively high) Level Adjustment, the Shade template (originally from FRCS) would be extremely thematically apt.Regardless, though - picture the Illusionist(10)/Shadowcrafter(10) with Spell Thematics ("Black shadowy tendrils or flames") throwing Shadow Evocations/Conjurations around ... at which point, between both classes and Greater Spell Focus, their DCs are boosted by +3, spell penetration is boosted by +4 (without any feats at all), and (e.g.) his shadow evocations are 40% (normal) or 80% (grater) real, even if the target is resistant to illusions!^_^</blockquote>

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