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Offline Elric VIII

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Preternatural awareness (i.e. spider-sense)
« on: March 04, 2014, 08:32:00 PM »
I'm putting together a character that will have supernatural senses, and I would like some ideas for additional feats/classes to realize this concept.

I am starting with a lesser Tiefling to represent a partial demonic possession that grants me this awareness as a means to keep itself alive. He will be a Wizard 5/Mindbender 1/Divine Oracle 10... I plan to take Mindsight at 6th.

Is there anything I can add to this?

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Re: Preternatural awareness (i.e. spider-sense)
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2014, 11:14:35 PM »
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Re: Preternatural awareness (i.e. spider-sense)
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2014, 11:44:26 PM »
Two more spells: Alter Fortune (PHB 2) and Eyes of the Oracle (Dragon Magic).  Benediction (Complete Champion) is also good, but is not on the Wizard list.

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Re: Preternatural awareness (i.e. spider-sense)
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2014, 12:11:53 AM »
Chianmail Glove of Taarnahm the Vigilant "senses any creature within 120 feet who intends harm to the possessor, mentally alerting him or her of the danger from an unfriendly creature", which is pretty nice for alerting you to enemies.

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Re: Preternatural awareness (i.e. spider-sense)
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2014, 12:42:18 AM »
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/timeRegression.htm

Refluff it such that you see the events transpire and then try to change them, rather than time actually regressing.  It's also a 1/day item in MIC if you're not a psion, though it costs 40,000 gp.

I actually made a whole subsystem on precognitive abilities for a PC in my game, based heavily off of the videogame Xenoblade Chronicles.  Since even I, the almighty DM, don't know what the immediate future holds for dice rolls, I implemented it similar to my above refluff suggestion.  He basically can retcon something bad that just happened to actually have been a "vision" of what is about to happen, and then he uses his immediate action to change it (he has some different options, such as shifting the victim a short distance away, or forcing a reroll).  He's only had the ability for two sessions thus far and is still getting the hang of it, but it's been promising...
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Re: Preternatural awareness (i.e. spider-sense)
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2014, 12:08:30 PM »
If you can get a non-psionic version of Detect Hostile Intent, that might be useful.

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Re: Preternatural awareness (i.e. spider-sense)
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2014, 12:17:58 PM »
It might be a bit of a stretch, but the Uncanny Forethought feat might fit the bill, and it is arguably one of the strongest feats for any wizard.
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Re: Preternatural awareness (i.e. spider-sense)
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2014, 05:16:40 PM »
The spell suggestions are good. Some I had planned to use already. I'm not sure my DM would let me add/refluff psionics to arcane spells, but it is a decent idea.

The Chainmail Glove of Taarnahm the Vigilant would be a very powerful accompaniment to Mindisght. Thanks.

I had considered Uncanny Forethought, but dismissed it as a bit too high-powered for this campaign. Sadly, that's the same reason I dismissed Abrupt Jaunt (i.e. - Look, danger! Run away!) and decided on a diviner. But it does fit the bill rather well. Although I suppose if I make my spell list tame enough, the feat couldn't hurt.

Thanks for the suggestions. Now, what I would really like is a class that can fir the bill. Divine Oracle is nice, but aside from the Divination Enhancement and Immune to Surprise abilities, it's a bit bland.