Min/Max Boards

If you find a way to bundle your wands, using Chain Spell (or the metamagic rod) with awaken from afar can allow you to trigger up to 21 wands with a single casting.

Arveiaturace, "The White Wyrm"

Well, there aren't many effects that not magical and allow for a partial will save. I just suggested it that way so that Mettle would feel more like something placed upon the paladin from another source, and not necessarily an expression of high base saves.

Well, for the tanking role... I think this particular paladin would make the task of improving the barbarian or fighter to compete rather difficult. Unless you mean to just use martial adepts instead of the barbarian or fighter.

A paladin can can use battle blessing to heal, recover or give himself temporary hit points without slowing down his attack routine.

As is... the barbarian's extra health from raging doesn't work like temporary hit points.

This is why I think the paladin shouldn't need a d12 Hit Dice.

Improving his Will save because his wisdom is no longer a primary stat... what does that mean for other non-wisdom classes that currently have low base will saves?

Alter Self is a pretty accessible spell, with a number of handy options, both utility and combat oriented.

Here's some abilities that I've dabbled with that can scale and grow with class level, if they something you want to adopt along side or in place of some things you already have.

Lighter Landing (Ex): A monk gains a bonus on Tumble checks equal to five times his class level to reduce the damage taken from a fall.

Measured Breath (Ex): A monk adds his class level to the number of rounds he can hold his breath before saving against the threat of drowning or suffocation. He also adds an equal bonus on saves against altitude sickness.

Purity of Body (Ex): Starting at 2nd level, a monk gains a bonus equal to half his class level (rounded down), on saves against disease and poison.

Energy Tolerance (Ex): A monk of at least 4th level gains a resistance value of 1 against a chosen energy type (acid, cold, electricity, fire and sonic). For every 4 additional class levels gained (up to 20 total class levels), a monk gains a resistance value of 1 against an additional energy type, while their resistance values against all previously chosen energy types increase by 1. These values stack with other extraordinary forms of energy resistance the monk might already have.

Spiritual Resilience (Su): A lawful monk of at least 8th level can gains damage reduction 1/chaotic while a chaotic monk of the same level gains damage reduction 1/lawful. For every 3 additional class levels gained, this damage reduction increases by 1.



And for empty body, here's an ability based on the Permeable Form spell. (sor/wiz 3)

Empty Body (Su): As a free or immediate action, a monk of at least (?) level can become incorporeal for 1 round, assuming all the benefits and drawbacks of such a state. If the monk becomes corporeal within a solid material object, he is shunted to the nearest open space, suffering 1d6 damage for every 5 feet so traveled. A monk must wait 2d4 rounds after using this ability, before it can be used again. This ability can be used once per day per class level.

The Shield and Pike Style feat, allows someone to wield a light shield along with a piercing polearm at no penalty.  One could make it a spiked shield, and use Improved Shield Bash to get at foes that are too close for the polearm.

Okay, I added a spell slot cost for using the ability gained at 3rd level, and a corruption cost for using the ability gained at 4th level.

Looking for input regarding the material I've created, meant to simulate the theme of a WoW warlock, especially for the new monsters meant to mimic the warlock minions, or at least their roles.

Fel Minion Spell
Substitution Levels
More Fel Spells

The classes listed here are easy to enter, even if the combo itself costs more feats than you'd like.

If you don't mind changing some of your choices to include the Spell Focus [illusion], Earth Sense, Heighten Spell and Earth Spell feats...

Three levels of Shadowcraft Mage (with the cabal adaptation to alter the racial entry requirement) and two levels of Wyrm Wizard can net you "Shadow Miracles" if the second level of Wyrm Wizard (which doesn't advance your spellcasting) is taken after you're capable of casting 9th level arcane spells.

Arcane Disciple wouldn't work for you, given that there aren't any LN deities with the luck, hope or zeal domain that I know of offhand.

Paragnostic Apostle is a nice filler for looking to improve the CL of spells that appear on selected domains with the Divine Understanding feature (i.e. selecting the illusion and/or gnome domain to boost the CL of Silent Image) or to improve spell penetration and dispelling checks via the Penetrating Insight feature.  Plus, membership in the Paragnostic Assembly is a good way to boost spellcraft checks and fuel Knowledge Devotion with Skill Mastery of all Knowledge skills.

I would also suggest a Cloistered Cleric dip (worshiping ideals and not a diety) to obtain Extend Spell again (planning domain) and Knowledge Devotion again (trade away knowledge domain).... so you can ask your DM to let you get other feats instead.  For this level, I would also suggest taking the cleric class flaw Divine Gestures to gain an extra feat. That flaw makes it so your divine spells incur spell failure as if they were arcane.

In your opinion...

Aside from the lost level of spellcasting progression, would adding Miracle to your wizard spell class list using the Spell Research feature of a 2nd level Wyrm Wizard (from Dragon Magic) be just as effective as using the Arcane Disciple feat [luck, hope or zeal domain]... for the purpose of duplicating Miracle via Heightened Silent Image + Earth Spell + the Shadow Illusion feature of a 3rd level Shadowcraft Mage?

Unless I missed it... I feel it should be added to the SCM handbook as an option for those wizards who are not beholden to a deity offering any of those domains, or for those who simply don't share the alignment of such a deity.