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Ultimate Undead Crafter, am I missing anything?
« on: June 23, 2013, 12:41:52 AM »
So, I've got (so far):

Human Wizard 1 (Necromancy Specialist) / Dread Necromancer 8

Wizard variant from UA: Enhanced Undead: +4 Enhancement to STR/DEX, +2 HP/HD
Dread Necromancer 8: +4 Enhancement to STR/DEX, +2 HP/HD

Human Feat: Corpsecrafter (Undead have +4 Enhancement STR, +2 HP/HD)
Flaw 1: Bolster Resistance (Undead have +4 Turn Resistance)
Flaw 2: Hardened Flesh (Undead have +2 Natural Armor)
1: Nimble Bones (Undead have +4 Initiative, +10 feet move speed)
3: Necromantic Presence (aura of giving undead +4 Turn Resistance)
6: Necromantic Might (enhances necromantic presence aura for +2 enhancement to ATK/saves)
9: Deadly Chill (+1d6 cold damage on natural attacks)

Desecrated Altar in the area for creation: Undead have +2 HP/HD

So I've got a total of (while in Necromantic Presence Aura), for all of the undead I create...
+4 STR / DEX
+8 HP/HD
+2 Natural Armor
+4 Initiative
+8 Turn Resistance
+2 Attack
+2 Saves
+1d6 Cold damage on natural attacks

Am I missing anything to make the undead I create even stronger?

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Re: Ultimate Undead Crafter, am I missing anything?
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2013, 10:51:03 AM »
Royal Animator from Dark Sun is a 5/10 casting class with various bonuses you can apply to created undead.

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Re: Ultimate Undead Crafter, am I missing anything?
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2013, 11:58:59 AM »
Are your bonuses to str and dex correct? 

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Re: Ultimate Undead Crafter, am I missing anything?
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2013, 01:59:35 PM »
Are your bonuses to str and dex correct?
Yes, as the two sources are both enhancement bonuses, and so don't stack.
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Re: Ultimate Undead Crafter, am I missing anything?
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2013, 10:57:25 PM »
Royal Animator from Dark Sun is a 5/10 casting class with various bonuses you can apply to created undead.
Hadn't thought to check through Dark Sun. Thanks.

Anything anyone can think of from Dragon / Dungeon, or even in Pathfinder? (I'll admit to not seeing anything in Pathfinder, though I may have missed something, while I don't have the Dragon / Dungeon magazines to look through)

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Re: Ultimate Undead Crafter, am I missing anything?
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2013, 06:02:02 AM »
Graft Flesh and select undead grafts? Combined with the Fleshgrafter PrC maybe? It's very Frankenstein.

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Re: Ultimate Undead Crafter, am I missing anything?
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2013, 06:23:44 AM »
Kasz that won't work.  Graft Flesh can only be applied to living creatures.

unless that PrC says otherwise.  what book is that in?

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Re: Ultimate Undead Crafter, am I missing anything?
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2013, 05:55:49 AM »
It's called fleshwarper and it doesn't do what I thought it did.

I thought it removed requirements from grafts... but it actually just removes them for self grafting I think.

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Graft Mastery (Ex): You learn how to create and apply grafts normally not available to your race by studying forbidden tomes and consulting ancient nameless sources. When you first gain the Graft Flesh feat, you choose a specific type of graft to associate with the feat (most likely silthilar grafts, or beholder or undead grafts from the Fiend Folio or Libris Mortis). At 3rd level, you can select a new type of graft to add to the list. If you choose a graft type that normally requires the creator to be a member of that race (such as aboleth and illithid grafts, or fiendish or yuan-ti grafts from the Fiend Folio), you ignore that restriction completely. You can select a new graft type every time you gain an odd-numbered fleshwarper level higher than 3rd.

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Re: Ultimate Undead Crafter, am I missing anything?
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2013, 11:58:01 PM »
Necrotheurge from Holy Orders of the Stars is really awesome
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Re: Ultimate Undead Crafter, am I missing anything?
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2013, 12:16:20 AM »
Necrotheurge from Holy Orders of the Stars is really awesome
Er... third party? Or am I just missing something?

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Re: Ultimate Undead Crafter, am I missing anything?
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2013, 12:59:37 AM »
2nd party, licensed by WotC for Sovereign Press

all the Dragonlance books are like this, except the Campaign Setting is 1st party
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