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I need a small clarification for an Ordained Champion of Hextor that will fight the PCs soon in my campaign.

The combo "delay death" from Spell Compendium and Diehard Feat allow a character to act as disabled until the spell ends, right? Of course, if at the end of the spell the NPC has -10 hp or less, it's instant death.

IIrc the disabled state allows for the "partial charge", right? I'm talking about "If you are able to take only a standard action or a move action on your turn, you can still charge, but you are only allowed to move up to your speed (instead of up to double your speed). You can’t use this option unless you are restricted to taking only a standard action or move action on your turn."

The character also has Faith Unswerving feat. Looking at the wording of the tactical option "one last strike" (you must be the subject of an attack, spell, or ability that reduces you to 0 or fewer hit points) it means that each round the NPC is at negative hps but disabled thanks to Diehard, if he's attacked it "triggers" the immediate action attack?

Ty in advance

Can the archmage take the high arcana "spell power" more than once to pump his CL?

And if he's a sorcerer/wizard/ultimate magus, can he at least take "spell power" once for every arcane caster class he possesses?

Thanks in advance.

Hi

Actually I dunno if it was already done, but I'd like to do a nice game.

Build a 13th level character that's able to kill the Tarrasque. You get 36 point-buy for ability scores and 110 k gp wealth.

All 3.5 official manuals and dungeon/dragon magazines are allowed. You can get a partially charged item (like a wand of invisibility with only 25 charges, paying it 2,250 gp). You can't use flaws, infinite loops, planar binding for free wishes, cohorts and followers, or dominate/charm other creatures (but animal companions, summon monsters and the like are allowed). Hour/level buffs or persistent spells are allowed.

You also have 1 minute of preparation time before the big T comes in melee range.

Reading about the "holy trinity" Mystic Ranger (Class variant from DR#336 p.105), Shooting Star (Substitution levels from CoV p.50) and Sword of The Arcane Order (Feat from CoV p.34) in this topic

http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=1543.0

I thought on this build. Maybe it's not the best gish ever, but I hope that it can be interesting

Race: Elf (maybe snow elf from Frostburn, -2 Cha instead of -2 Con is nice)

Classes:
Mystic Ranger 4
Wizard 1
Wildrunner (RotW) 1 (a necessary evil to get "trackless step as a class feature" to qualify for Arcane Hierophant)
Abjurant Champion (CM) 4
Arcane Hierophant (RotW) 10

This build gives
BaB: +16
Base Saves: Fort: +10, Ref: +10, Will +14
Spellcasting: As a 14th Mystic Ranger (up to 5th level spells), can prepare wiz/sor spells on ranger slots and as a 15th level Wizard (8th level spells)

The class features give us a nice caster level, without any need of Practiced Spellcaster:

Wizard caster level, tanks to Sword of the Arcane Order ("If you also have levels in wizard, your wizard caster level is treated as the sum of your wizard, paladin, and ranger class levels.") is
1 (Wizard) + 4 (Mystic Ranger) + 4 (Abjurant Champion) + 10 (Arcane Hierophant) = 19th (orange ioun stone or ring of arcane might can boost it to 20th)

Ranger caster level, thanks to Shooting Star ("If you also have arcane spellcasting ability from another class, you can add your CL from that class to this value to determine CL."), assuming that Mystic Ranger CL = 1/2 class level is
2 (1/2 Mystic Ranger) + 5 (1/2 Arcane Hierophant) +2 (Shooting Star Improved Spellcasting class feature) + 19 (wizard CL) = 28th (we han have nice things like 9d6 SA with Hunter's Eye).

Dunno if with only 4 Mystic Ranger levels we can take Wild Shape Ranger variant. If yes, that's a nice ACF, since Arcane Hierophant progress WS.

With Arcane Hierophant we can ignore ASF from light or medium nonmetallic armor. Using Greater Mighty Wallop (RoTD) and Greater Magic Weapon, with a morning star (Mystic Ranger is proficient only with simple melee weapons) we can deal 6d6+5 damage with each hit, not counting STR bonus, Power Attack and the like.

Both Elf Ranged and Elf Wizard racial subs (both from RotW) are interesting for the build, and with Trap Expert from Dungeonscape (replace Track with rogue's trapfinding, and add Disable Device as a class skill) it can be an adeguate scout.

I'd like to see suggestion with feats (besides prerequisites, I think that Power Attack and Arcane Strike are given), gear, spells and other ACF that would be useful to this build.