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Min/Max 3.x / Undead Leadership and ECL
« on: January 07, 2018, 12:17:09 AM »
I am joining a high level campaign (ECL 19) playing a succubus 10/ Fiend of possession 6/ Uncanny trickster 3 (advancing succubus monster levels).  Not the most optimized character, especially since the house rule allows you to jump out of monster class progressions before completed, but the DM is stoked about the idea of a full succubus FoP and I am looking to play support.  The plan is to keep the other players and PC's in the dark as long as possible about my existence.  To this end, I need an NPC to carry me around.  Psionics are out which is why I did not go the thrallherd.  I took the leadership feat and improved cohort.  I tried to mitigate my LA as much as possible with uncanny trickster advancing through the last 2 levels of Succubus which are pure LA (Weapons of Legacy is not an allowed book, which would have allowed full LA mitigation with Legacy champion and the house rule, eventually).

Unfortunately even with my tricks, my character level is 15 and I can only recruit a level 14 cohort.  Then I saw the Undead Leadership feat and got really excited for a moment.  Cohort based on ECL instead of character level would be great, but am I reading that correctly?  And is it only for undead cohorts, not living cohorts obtained through undead leadership?  I did not see any threads covering this specifically.  Any suggestions on ways to further boost my cohort's level? Thematically an actual undead cohort is not going to work in the campaign very well.

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Min/Max 3.x / Dragon Gestalt build help
« on: June 26, 2013, 01:18:24 AM »
Starting a new campaign this week with some unexpected rules.
1)  Everyone has to play a True Dragon.  All LA is dropped from the dragon and you advance by dragon HD.
2) Semi-Gestalt, everyone gets class levels in addition to the dragon HD.  All BAB, Saves, and Skill points are determined by dragon HD unless you play a rogue which has more skill points.
3)  Starting level 6
4)  All books and Dragon magazine are available (including Unearthed Arcania).  Other third party official books are (Dragon Lance, Kingdoms of Kalamar, etc.) are generally excluded.
5)  This is a side game and will be more hack and slash focused, so my usual social skill route not too useful.
6)  Templates are allowed and will take the place of class levels, no effect on dragon HD though.  These could be useful, especially for early levels that are open.
The other party member is playing a Shadow Dragon Cleric Walker in the Waste with some custom spell-fire feats that allow for quickened absorption and spending spell fire to restore spell slots (scary in combination with unlimited warlock self drain).

My current build idea's is to play a Steel dragon from Dragons of Faerun or the Tome Dragon from Dragon Magazine #343.  Both have lots of racial spell casting that can be augmented with concurrent Sorcerer or Spell casting PrC class levels to keep the caster level equal to HD.  The Steel dragon gets 11 caster levels by level 19 and has full access to the cleric list in addition to the sorc list.  The tome dragon has 13 caster levels by 18, and some racial metamagic reduction feats.  Probably go the way of Alternative Sourced spell, divine Metamagic Persistent especially since the DM does not like to use dispel or disjunction on characters.  The question is what other classes to mix in?  I have not played in awhile and cannot come up with a decent half-progression spelling casting PrC that would not suffer the usual dread caster level loss.  One option would be to go Eldrich Master from Dragon 280 for more spells known and additional spell lists, mixed with Heirophant levels for bonus metamagic:

Steel Dragon
Cleric 1/Sorc 4/ Eldrich Master 8/ Heirophant 2/5 Spell Casting PrC (Not in this order).

Tome Dragon
Cleric 1/Dread Necromancer 1/Sorc 1/XX 2/ Eldrich Master 8/ Heirophant 2/5 Spell Casting PrC (Not in this order).

Cleric is for Turn undead and DN for Rebuke undead.  There is a spell-hoarding dragon template that changes the spell casting to Wizard based spell preparation which is also available. 

The only other idea I have is to leave everything to chance and play the Brainstealer Dragon from Dragon Mag # 337 and go Illithaid Savant with some Thrallherd for targeted things to eat.  Factotum is always a nice mix with Int builds, but are there any other thoughts?  I don’t want to miss the chance to play something weird since many of the caster levels are covered by some of these dragons.

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Introduce Yourself / Howdy
« on: November 12, 2011, 09:44:12 AM »
Nice to see the boards are back up.

Long time gamer.  I pretty much play every game due to an insane DM that buys books for 50+ different RPG.  I probably know 3.5 D&D the best and love to post about weird non-straight forward classes.

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