Min/Max Boards

LYRICIST


   
Lyricists are spellcasters who have mastered the art of weaving spells through song.

MAKING A LYRICIST
Lyricists have the following game statistics..
Abilities: Charisma determines how powerful a spell a lyricist can cast, how many spells she can cast per day, and how hard those spells are to resist. Charisma, Dexterity, and Intelligence are important for many of the lyricist’s class skills.
Alignment: Any non-lawful.
Starting Gold: 2d4x10(50 gp)
Hit Dice: d4

Class Skills
The lyricist's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are....
Balance (Dex), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Gather Information (Cha), Hide (Dex), Jump (Str), Knowledge(Arcana) (Int), Knowledge(History) (Int), Knowledge(Local) (Int), Knowledge(Nature) (Int)Knowledge(Religion) (Int), Listen (Wis), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Speak Language, Spellcraft (Int), Spot (Wis), Tumble (Dex), Use Magic Device (Cha)
Skill Points at 1st Level: (2 + int)x4
Skill Points at Each Additional Level: 2 + int

Weapon and Armor Proficiencies: Lyricists are proficient with all simple weapons, but not with any type of armor or shield. Armor of any type interferes with a lyricist's movements, which can cause her spells with somatic components to fail.

Spells: A lyricist casts arcane spells, which are drawn from the bard spell list. A lyricist must choose and prepare her spells ahead of time. Every lyricist spell has a verbal component (singing, reciting, or music).
To learn, prepare, or cast a spell, the lyricist must have an Charisma score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a lyricist's spell is 10 + the spell level + the lyricist's Charisma modifier.
Like other spellcasters, a lyricist can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day.
Her base daily spell allotment is given in the Advancement table below. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Charisma score.
Unlike a bard or sorcerer, a lyricist may know any number of spells. She must choose and prepare her spells ahead of time by getting a good night's sleep and spending 1 hour studying her songbook. While studying, the lyricist decides which spells to prepare.

Scribe Scroll: At 1st level, a lyricist gains Scribe Scroll as a bonus feat.

Songbook: A lyricist must study her songbook each day to prepare her spells. She cannot prepare any spell not recorded in her songbook, except for read magic, which all lyricist can prepare from memory.
A lyricist begins play with a songbook containing all 0-level lyricist spells plus three 1st-level lyricist spells of your choice. For each point of Charisma bonus the lyricist has, the songbook holds one additional 1st-level lyricist spell of your choice. At each new lyricist level, she gains one new lyricist spell of any spell level that she can cast (based on her new lyricist level) for her songbook. At any time, a lyricist can also add spells found in other lyricists' songbooks to her own.
A lyricist may add any 1st through 5th-level spells from other arcane spellcasting classes, except for spells belonging to the schools of Necromancy, Conjuration, and Evocation, to her songbook as a spell one level higher than normal. Thus a lyricist who wishes to add the 3rd-level spell Power Word Deafen to her songbook would add it as a new 4th-level spell.

Bardic Music: As the standard bard ability of the same name. A character’s lyricist levels and bard levels (or levels in another class with the same ability) stack for the purpose of using bardic music.

Spontaneous Enchanting: Starting at 5th level, lyricists can “lose” a prepared arcane spell in order to cast any arcane enchantment spell that is in her songbook. This works just as a cleric’s spontaneous casting class feature, except that any spell cast in this manor has it's casting time increased by 1 step. Thus a spell with a casting time of 1 standard action will require a full round to cast spontaneously.

EX-LYRICIST
A lyricist who becomes lawful in alignment cannot progress in levels as a lyricist, though she retains all her lyricist abilities.

Level Base Attack Fort Save Ref Save Will Save Special 1st +0 +0 +0 +2 Bardic music, Scribe scroll, Countersong, Fascinate, Inspire courage +1 2nd +1 +0 +0 +3 - 3rd +1 +1 +1 +3 Inspire competence 4th +2 +1 +1 +4 - 5th +2 +1 +1 +4 Spontaneous enchanting 6th +3 +2 +2 +5 Suggestion 7th +3 +2 +2 +5 - 8th +4 +2 +2 +6 Inspire courage +2 9th +4 +3 +3 +6 Inspire greatness 10th +5 +3 +3 +7 - 11th +5 +3 +3 +7 - 12th +6/+1 +4 +4 +8 Song of freedom 13th +6/+1 +4 +4 +8 - 14th +7/+2 +4 +4 +9 Inspire courage +3 15th +7/+2 +5 +5 +9 Inspire heroics 16th +8/+3 +5 +5 +10 - 17th +8/+3 +5 +5 +10 - 18th +9/+4 +6 +6 +11 Mass suggestion 19th +9/+4 +6 +6 +11 - 20th +10/+5 +6 +6 +12 Inspire courage +4

Spells 0th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 2 0 - - - - - 3 1 - - - - - 3 2 - - - - - 3 2 0 - - - - 4 3 1 - - - - 4 3 2 0 - - - 4 3 2 1 - - - 4 4 3 2 0 - - 4 4 3 2 1 - - 4 4 3 3 2 0 - 4 4 4 3 2 1 - 4 4 4 3 3 2 0 4 4 4 4 3 2 1 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 4 4 4 4 4 3 2 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

feedback and suggestions for improvement appreciated.

So after being turned into an ice statue... twice... I've decided I need to boost my low Fort & Reflex Saves... I've currently got the following helping to boost my saves:

Prayer +1 Luck
Heroism +2 Moral
Cloak of Resistance +5
Skin of the Hero +3 Luck
Pale Green Ioun Stone +1 Competence
Ruin Delver's Fortune +Charisma(8) Luck

I've already got a +6 Enhancement to all relevant stats as well so at this point... I'm looking for any other options that might be available to me... (Note: Ruin Delver's Fortune was added after the last encounter... so it might possibly be all I need but I would like to know what other options I have available still if needed)

The encounter involved multiple Fort save DC 45 or be turned to ice... I had a +25 Fort Save... so naturally I was going to fail the save every time I encountered it... boosting my save by 8 should help to survive further DC 45 Fort Saves... but since we're about to face off against an epic level wizard it can't hurt to be prepaired

I have an interesting question concerning the Shadow Conjuration/Evocation abilities and their interactions with Energy Resistance/Immunity...

Since a Shadow Conjuration Orb of Acid is 80% illusion and only 20% real does the spell actually deal acid damage? or is it merely the illusion casting a belief into the mind of the target that they are being dissolved in acid, while in reality the damage is untyped?

If the damage is indeed untyped, how would this interact with a creature who possesses immunity to said energy? Presumably if the acid damage is an effect of the illusion then a creature who is immune would have no reason to believe that the spell will hurt them,so should they only be affected by the 20% that is real even if they fail their save against the illusion?


The description of the Shadow Conjuration/Evocation spells state that the "Mimic" Conjuration/Evocation spells, and no where in the description does it say that they adopt the mimic'd spells damage type nor imply that they even can. The spell is composed of material from the Plane of Shadows, there is no Fire, Acid, or any other energy type comprising any element of the spell, the only connection to the Conjuration or Evocation spell being mimic'd is illusory. A creature targeted by the spell only believes it will affect them in a certain way because they are convinced it is the real spell not an imitation.

This seems to be further backed by the fact that effects that don't deal lethal hitpoint damage are only 20% likely to affect a target who succeeded on their save, and that spell resistance applies regardless of if the imitated spell does not allow for it.

So... I ask... does a Shadow Conjuration/Evocation spell actually deal energy damage or is it untyped?

Honestly I'm inclined to believe it's untyped at this point...

Ok, so I've been working on reworking my build for an ongoing campaign looking at dropping several of the classes I was initially planning to pick up...Arcane Trickster being one of them...

What I'm looking at now is building more towards a traditional spell caster even though my character will still play as a spellthief...

So her build atm looks like this:

Spellthief:2/Illusionist:3/Archivist:3/Mystic Theurge:6/Mystic Demiurge:1/Sacred Exorcist:1/???:1 We just leveled at the end of our last game and our next game is comming up real soon... we're playing well into epic levels (around level 40) so I've still got quite a ways to go with my build...

I'm looking at Master Specialist for it's bonuses it will give me to illusions... everything I can get to boost my Save DCs is welcomed... I really want illusions to be viable again for me to use...

Incantatrix is also being taken to boost my Illusion spell saves, I only plan to go to 3rd level Incantatrix, Metamagic Effect Irresistible Spell onto my illusions before anyone gets a chance to save...

I've got 12 Turn attempts per day for Divine Metamagic, all of which will be fueling my Daily Persisted spells... (Divine Power & Hunter's Eye)

so I'm looking at bumping my Illusion Spell saves up +16 over my base spell saves within the next 6 levels... That should make my illusions viable again... at least for a couple levels... but by then I'll finally qualify for Epic Spellcasting and be trying to convince my DM to approve my epic illusions...

Anyway... I think I'm rambling now... so onto my delima...

I've already selected Necromancy & Enchantment as my prohibited schools as an Illusionist... and Incantatrix requires me to select a 3rd prohibited school... Since Incantatrix explicitly forbids selecting Abjuration as a prohibited school and Divination can't be prohibited period that just leaves me with Evocation, Conjuration, and Transmutation... I honestly don't know which one to give up... Additionally I need to know some information regarding this extra prohibited school.

1) What happens to spells I already know that belong to this school?
2) Prohibiting a school via Incantatrix won't impact my spells available as an Archivist as well will it? I've already been told that my original 2 prohibited schools apply only to spells learned as a Wizard, and I would like to believe that the extra one will only apply to Wizard as well.
3) I've recently learned about the Arcane Transfiguration feat and it's prerequisites and I would like to know before going further if it would be worth it to take these feats to reclaim one prohibited school? Just a heads up, the one I reclaim will NOT be necromancy.

Also... is it really worth the extra prohibited school to get Incantatrix for free metamagic Int+3 times per day?

One more thing... does anyone know of any way to use a spellthief's Steal Spell ability to fuel metamagic feats? Personally I would think Ultimate Magus's Augmented Casting ability might qualify for this... If so, then I might just have to bring Spellthief up to 4th level and take a couple levels of Ultimate Magus to convert stolen spells into metamagic.

Some time ago I was asking about options for giving my Pseudodragon familiar class levels, and the option of making my familiar into a cohort was suggested. My DM of course approved this provided that I appropriately take the Dragon Cohort feat given that my familiar was a Pseudodragon and thus considered a Dragon. This of course due to the wording of the feat negates the +3LA on the Pseudodragon from factoring into it's level as a cohort. We took a break from the campaign shortly after that. We just returned to the campaign today and I am now faced with the challenge of figuring out just what class/classes I should level my familiar/cohort in.

Initially I had considered Fighter/PsyWarrior to provide it with some reasonable martial ability and self-buff abilities, providing me with a familiar that can survive close range combat for the delivery of touch spells. However I'm not really to sure on this now.

I also considered Dragonfire Adept, I quite liked this idea but I'm not really sure how to proceed with it since there aren't any prCs that build off DFA nor many classes that share a synergy with it.

We just reached Level 19 at the end of the game, due to my LA I'm now Level 18, so my Pseudodragon is level 16, meaning I have 14 class levels to work with for it. I'm playing a Spellthief/Illusionist/Archivist, if that helps anyone with figuring out something that might be useful.

A few things I should mention: ToB is banned. I may not give my familiar levels in Wizard, Archivist, or any other spellcasting class that uses a spellbook of any kind. I would prefer not to manage a 3rd spell list, however I'm ok with caster classes that use limited spell lists, so lets just say no full caster classes. If the class gets a familiar I must replace it with an ACF, my familiar may not have a familiar.

Are there any tricks that can be used to stack DFA and Warlock levels for increasing Eldritch Blast or Breath Weapon damage?

Looking over the Psychic Warrior's Soulbound Weapon ACF, it appears that there aren't any actual limitations to the weapon selected for it... unlike the Call Weaponry power itself... it seems to me that with your Soulbound Weapon you may be able to define the material it's made of and even possibly a specific magic/psionic weapon as your Soulbound Weapon, of course the weapon would not be able to change these properties once defined, and a reasonable DM would charge you for the weapon to be bound in this way...

The ability is likely meant to function as an upgrade to Call Weaponry following the standard rules of the power though, but allowing for a single improved weapon to be called to act as a primary weapon.

So all of that said... my question is: What limits actually exist to the Soulbound Weapon ACF?

Like, are you limited to only defining a weapon type and nothing more for the weapon, or could you define materials or possibly even a specific weapon?

So, I'm preparing for my first campaign that a DM is actually allowing the Tome of Battle and I wanted to make sure I understand the rules about obtaining Maneuvers and Stances properly... from what I've gathered by reading through the Tome of Battle the number of Stances & Maneuvers I can know is tied directly to the martial discipline class I choose to level, however I can use my martial class level + 1/2 all other class levels to determine the highest level maneuver I can learn... when it comes to stances though the rules seem pretty muddy... does the martial class level +1/2 other class levels apply to stances as well or is my highest level of stance tied to my martial class levels alone?

To me it seems like it might be the latter... since the rules state a few times "A stance is not a maneuver"...

Are there any classes, feats, items, or powers that grants an ability like the Duskblade's Arcane Channeling, but for Psionic Touch Powers?

So after last saturday's game we advanced from all the way to level 24... and I've gone about doing a slight restructure of my build...

Battle Dancer:1/Fighter:2/Warock:1/Binder:2/(Incarnate or Totemist):2/Dragonfire Adept:1/Hellfire Warlock:3/Soulcaster:10/Anima Mage:2

I've got my Invocations all picked out now... but now I need some help with Soulmelds and Vestiges... Currently I have Strongheart Vest and Naberius

Since i'm playing a Clawlock I'm most effective in melee range, so any Soulmelds or Vestiges that will benefit me most in that area would be most appreciated... Additionally I have 2~3 feats available and not sure what else to take at this point...

OK, so this is my first time using Incarnum classes and the Binder class... so I'm not really sure what to take when it comes to Soulmelds and what Vestiges I should look at for my build... Now since I'm taking them as an addition to the Warlock class and have the Hellfire Warlock prC I have already selected Strongheart Vest and bound Naberius... currently I can only bind one vestige, but I might continue with Anima Mage all the way to 10 which I believe would grant me a second or third vestige bound, if I do this what vestiges should I look at binding, and why do you recommend them?

As for Soulmelds, I'm still trying to make sense of most of the incarnum stuff honestly... so if I could get some suggestions as to what soulmelds I should look at using then that will greatly help... also suggestions on what chakra's I should bind each to...

Additionally any feats or items you'd recommend to pick up would also be appreciated.