Min/Max Boards

Do you have a summary of the setting? I'd like to see what I could make a character based around.

The Ordained Champion PrC from Complete Champion and the Spellsword PrC from Complete Warrior both have a "Channel Spell" ability that lets you do the following:

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Channel Spell (Sp): At 3rd level, you can channel any spell available to you that has one creature or more as its target into your melee weapon. Doing so requires a move action and uses up a spell slot or a prepared spell of casting time no greater than one standard action. The channeled spell affects the next target you successfully attack with that weapon, though saving throws and spell resistance still apply normally. Even if the spell normally affects an area or is a ray, it still affects only the target in this case. On a successful hit, the spell is discharged from the weapon, which can then hold another spell. You can channel your spells into only one weapon at a time. A spell channeled into a weapon is lost if not used within 8 hours.

The Spellsword ability does nto have the limitation regarding one or more creatures as a target.  But otherwise it is the same.

Ordained Champion is divine, and Spellsword is very limited in its uses. Spell-storing weapons are similarily impractical.

The Hierophant prestige class (I hope it is the same work in English - it should) can provide a cleric healing touch spells as ranged.

That is the exact type of ability I am not looking for, unfortunately X(

I forgot about Enlightened Fist, but I would hope for a way that is more inclusive and/or doesn't require as much commitment than 7 levels in a theruge PrC.

Nite, this is the LA+0 handbook. Svirfnelbin and such all have level adjustments, and therefore wouldn't be listed in this handbook. Also holy crap do Arcane Gnomes make good wizards...

Calm. The. Hell. Down.

I don't give a care in the world for whatever cute build you happened to post. I made a statement that in general, I think that the staff familiar caster definitely has the potential to play as a duskblade, and as a more impressive one in general. Get over yourself.


Also, it is spelled invalid.

I figure the ACF just makes a better duskblade than the duskblade, especially if you combine it with Battle Sorcerer or gestalt or something. I mean, if you can advance your staff familiar all the way you get a +3 defending/+3 defending quarterstaff for free with a ton of other bonuses in addition to the spell channeling.

If that really is the case with touch spells, are there ways of making other (offensive) spells melee touch spells? I know Spellwarp Sniper can make other spells into rays (ranged touch) but that doesn't seem to cut it.

For me, if I were to simplify how I see the alignments, at their cores the good-evil axis is a measure of your empathy, and the law-chaos axis is a measure of the value you put in others. A LG character values other people and their opinions. A CE values themself above all. A CG is benevolent but doesn't care for the opinions of others, and a LE character is in it for him/herself while working within the context of others and respecting that context.

In my Aventyr campaign setting, the focus is more on the Law/Chaos axis rather than the Good/Evil axis. Lawful and Chaotic people have always seemed to get along fine if they shared Good or Evil. I want to see Good and Evil people get along as long as they share Law or Chaos.

I keep a few dictionaries of foreign languages on hand, and there is a lot more of the internet. I tend to draw from Nordic languages where they don't intersect with English, as I just like how they sound. You can really go to any language your players don't know, then switch around sounds to that they're changed a bit from the original and a bit more friendly to the English tongue. You can look for the word equivelant of what you're naming in a different language, or just roam around until something cool sounding pops up. I never really have a problem

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If you have to rely on the argument you can't do "whatever" in real life, well, D&D (3.5) is not designed well-enough to make that argument feasible.

Sorry, but I think D&D in general try very, very hard to be as close to reality than possible without cutting down on the fun factor and succeed very well at it. We're not discussing magic or any intangible force here, we're discussing being able to layer different kind of armors in the hope to add up on the defense factor.

I remember reading some very good papers about realism in D&D. I remember one in particular which suggested that the max level someone in the real world could be in comparison to D&D around level 5. So take about any best of the best person or worker or whatever in the real life, in D&D they would be about level 5. Great stuff to read and it really help to imagine realism in relation to real world in this game.

Comparing what people can do in real life version D&D is counting on skills though. Stats are another different thing altogether. I have PCs with a strength score of 18 in my games and I would not say that even them would be able to lift a real anvil above their head and throw it efficiently. Not a human or a dwarf anyways. A monstrous entity maybe...

That or we don't have the same definition of an anvil, I guess. Maybe you have very, very small anvils in your world.

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I'd like to point out that while LARPing is awesome its not D&D and the thought you just expressed specifically leads to "melee" can't have nice things.

Thank you for the LARP compliment but that really wasn't the point I was trying to make. Also, I really don't understand how preventing melee chars to layer armor simply to stack bonuses lead to melee can't have nice things.

Let's not forget that the main point of this thread is "I think I found out an interesting way to get armor enhancements +10 more cheaply than before", which in itself is not a way to get "nice things" but rather some try to break and abuse the system in place. There is rules and this suggestion is clearly trying to circumvent them. I am not surprised to see people stepping and answering just plain no...

A cat will kill a 1st-level human commoner in combat more than the other way around. Your realism argument doesn't hold water.

An Immoth from MM2 has 85hp(10HD) for a CR9 creature, and it's an elemental. It casts spells as a 12th-level sorcerer. AND(!) it can prepare any of its spells ahead of time to quicken them for free. No increasing the level, no cost, no limit. On top of that it has 3 natural weapons, a poison, and the stats to go with them, so it could easily do melee if it felt like it. Spell Resistance and DR5/Magic top it off. It's the most ridiculous thing I've seen printed in a WotC book.