Fun finds thread V3.0

[Mithril Leaf]

In Dragon 357 there is the Aligned Spellcaster ACF (Credit to Jackinthegreen for his list) which lets you trade your familiar for making all your spells possess an alignment descriptor. Now, I know there are other benefits that slip my mind at the moment, but the big one is the soul tick symbiote from Fiend Folio, which gives free unlimited empower to all spells with the evil descriptor. Always being empowered is using a good trade for a familiar and eternal wand of lesser restoration (plus whatever the symbiote is worth).

[ksbsnowowl]

In Dragon 357 there is the Aligned Spellcaster ACF (Credit to Jackingthegreen for his list) which lets you trade your familiar for making all your spells possess an alignment descriptor. Now, I know there are other benefits that slip my mind at the moment, but the big one is the soul tick symbiote from Fiend Folio, which gives free unlimited empower to all spells with the evil descriptor. Always being empowered is using a good trade for a familiar and eternal wand of lesser restoration (plus whatever the symbiote is worth).

Would also be good with the Chaotic Spell Recall abyssal heritor feat.  Once per day recall any chaotic spell you've cast as a swift action...

[sirpercival]

And Spell Focus (Evil/Good), too...

[linklord231]

*Cough Tainted Scholar cough*

[brujon]

In Dragon 357 there is the Aligned Spellcaster ACF (Credit to Jackingthegreen for his list) which lets you trade your familiar for making all your spells possess an alignment descriptor. Now, I know there are other benefits that slip my mind at the moment, but the big one is the soul tick symbiote from Fiend Folio, which gives free unlimited empower to all spells with the evil descriptor. Always being empowered is using a good trade for a familiar and eternal wand of lesser restoration (plus whatever the symbiote is worth).

Would also be good with the Chaotic Spell Recall abyssal heritor feat.  Once per day recall any chaotic spell you've cast as a swift action...

Infinite spells when Epic, with Automatic Quicken Spell, but by that time, everything is broken already.

[ksbsnowowl]

In Dragon 357 there is the Aligned Spellcaster ACF (Credit to Jackingthegreen for his list) which lets you trade your familiar for making all your spells possess an alignment descriptor. Now, I know there are other benefits that slip my mind at the moment, but the big one is the soul tick symbiote from Fiend Folio, which gives free unlimited empower to all spells with the evil descriptor. Always being empowered is using a good trade for a familiar and eternal wand of lesser restoration (plus whatever the symbiote is worth).

Would also be good with the Chaotic Spell Recall abyssal heritor feat.  Once per day recall any chaotic spell you've cast as a swift action...

Infinite spells when Epic, with Automatic Quicken Spell, but by that time, everything is broken already.

Sorry, you're reading that wrong.  Let me rephrase.  As a swift action, once per day, you can recall any chaotic spell that you have cast.

[Mithril Leaf]

Dictum Mortuum had this to say:

Abyssal Specialist DotU: This ability enables you to specialize not in a particular school of magic, but on spells that have the chaotic, compulsion, darkness, evil or fear; since this group of spells is now considered a school of spells for you, you can also gain Focused Specialist with Abyssal Specialist, since the latter only requires you to drop just one school of magic (like a specialist diviner). Abyssal Specialist has great synergy with the 10th Planar Wizard substitution level, which gives an additional alignment descriptor (good, evil, chaotic, lawful) to your spells; you can choose [chaotic] or [evil] and essentially transform your specialist spell slots to generalist spell slots (since the descriptor is applied to all your spells). In addition you can use mechanics like Spell Focus[Evil] and Chaotic Spell Recall to great effect.

So yeah, turns out it's basically the planar wizard variant but at level 1 only costing you your familiar. Still got some good advice.

[zook1shoe]

Drow wizard specialist

[McPoyo]

In Dragon 357 there is the Aligned Spellcaster ACF (Credit to Jackingthegreen for his list) which lets you trade your familiar for making all your spells possess an alignment descriptor. Now, I know there are other benefits that slip my mind at the moment, but the big one is the soul tick symbiote from Fiend Folio, which gives free unlimited empower to all spells with the evil descriptor. Always being empowered is using a good trade for a familiar and eternal wand of lesser restoration (plus whatever the symbiote is worth).

Would also be good with the Chaotic Spell Recall abyssal heritor feat.  Once per day recall any chaotic spell you've cast as a swift action...

Infinite spells when Epic, with Automatic Quicken Spell, but by that time, everything is broken already.

Sorry, you're reading that wrong.  Let me rephrase.  As a swift action, once per day, you can recall any chaotic spell that you have cast.

Plus one additional time for every two Inheritor feats, so with near-infinite feat cheese...

[Halinn]

In Dragon 357 there is the Aligned Spellcaster ACF (Credit to Jackingthegreen for his list) which lets you trade your familiar for making all your spells possess an alignment descriptor. Now, I know there are other benefits that slip my mind at the moment, but the big one is the soul tick symbiote from Fiend Folio, which gives free unlimited empower to all spells with the evil descriptor. Always being empowered is using a good trade for a familiar and eternal wand of lesser restoration (plus whatever the symbiote is worth).

Would also be good with the Chaotic Spell Recall abyssal heritor feat.  Once per day recall any chaotic spell you've cast as a swift action...

Infinite spells when Epic, with Automatic Quicken Spell, but by that time, everything is broken already.

Sorry, you're reading that wrong.  Let me rephrase.  As a swift action, once per day, you can recall any chaotic spell that you have cast.

Plus one additional time for every two Inheritor feats, so with near-infinite feat cheese...

And unless you've extra swift actions, you'll only need to cover 14400 rounds

[ksbsnowowl]

Plus one additional time for every two Inheritor feats, so with near-infinite feat cheese...

right, but there's only what? Ten abyssal heritor feats?

[SorO_Lost]

Well heck, within the current subject I've got one heck of a "fun find" for you.

A Minmax Handbook that already brings this up, with official 3.5 material support.

[Mithril Leaf]

You can also use barbs of hextor if you aren't chaotic for a 350 gp +1 to caster level for all your spells.

[Halinn]

Something interesting from Pathfinder, an intelligent item found in Ultimate Equipment.
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateEquipment/artifactsAndOthers/intelligentItems.html

Shield of the Mage

Price 14,500 gp; Aura moderate divination; CL 11th; Weight 5 lbs.
Alignment neutral; Senses 30 ft.
Intelligence 16; Wisdom 10; Charisma 10; Ego 6
Language: telepathy (Common and six other languages)

This caster's shield always has one arcane scroll and knows the same arcane spells as the wielder. When the spell on the scroll is cast, another scroll of a spell the wielder knows randomly manifests to replace it. The shield has no arcane spell failure. The shield can also read magic. It will often debate with its wielder for the most devastating course of action, but does what the wielder commands.

Infinite spells, as long as you don't mind them being randomly selected from your known ones.

[phaedrusxy]

Something interesting from Pathfinder, an intelligent item found in Ultimate Equipment.
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateEquipment/artifactsAndOthers/intelligentItems.html

Shield of the Mage

Price 14,500 gp; Aura moderate divination; CL 11th; Weight 5 lbs.
Alignment neutral; Senses 30 ft.
Intelligence 16; Wisdom 10; Charisma 10; Ego 6
Language: telepathy (Common and six other languages)

This caster's shield always has one arcane scroll and knows the same arcane spells as the wielder. When the spell on the scroll is cast, another scroll of a spell the wielder knows randomly manifests to replace it. The shield has no arcane spell failure. The shield can also read magic. It will often debate with its wielder for the most devastating course of action, but does what the wielder commands.

Infinite spells, as long as you don't mind them being randomly selected from your known ones.

What the hell is wrong with those people? Who thought this was balanced, or a good idea?

[Agita]

Something interesting from Pathfinder, an intelligent item found in Ultimate Equipment.
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateEquipment/artifactsAndOthers/intelligentItems.html

Shield of the Mage

Price 14,500 gp; Aura moderate divination; CL 11th; Weight 5 lbs.
Alignment neutral; Senses 30 ft.
Intelligence 16; Wisdom 10; Charisma 10; Ego 6
Language: telepathy (Common and six other languages)

This caster's shield always has one arcane scroll and knows the same arcane spells as the wielder. When the spell on the scroll is cast, another scroll of a spell the wielder knows randomly manifests to replace it. The shield has no arcane spell failure. The shield can also read magic. It will often debate with its wielder for the most devastating course of action, but does what the wielder commands.

Infinite spells, as long as you don't mind them being randomly selected from your known ones.

What the hell is wrong with those people? Who thought this was balanced, or a good idea?

Smart money says Reynolds.

[ksbsnowowl]

Something interesting from Pathfinder, an intelligent item found in Ultimate Equipment.
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateEquipment/artifactsAndOthers/intelligentItems.html

Shield of the Mage

Price 14,500 gp; Aura moderate divination; CL 11th; Weight 5 lbs.
Alignment neutral; Senses 30 ft.
Intelligence 16; Wisdom 10; Charisma 10; Ego 6
Language: telepathy (Common and six other languages)

This caster's shield always has one arcane scroll and knows the same arcane spells as the wielder. When the spell on the scroll is cast, another scroll of a spell the wielder knows randomly manifests to replace it. The shield has no arcane spell failure. The shield can also read magic. It will often debate with its wielder for the most devastating course of action, but does what the wielder commands.

Infinite spells, as long as you don't mind them being randomly selected from your known ones.

What the hell is wrong with those people? Who thought this was balanced, or a good idea?

Smart money says Reynolds.

Hmmm... I think I ought to have an extra disintegrate ready for the mission today.  Well, I'll fire off this here fireball...  (boom)
Nope, mirror image isn't it... (4 casters now casting from their shields)
Nope, I'll just dimension door to the other side of the room (bamph)
Err... hey familiar kitty, I need to turn you into a doggie for a while... (Roll out!)
...

[linklord231]

Hmmm... I think I ought to have an extra disintegrate ready for the mission today.  Well, I'll fire off this here fireball...  (boom)
Nope, mirror image isn't it... (4 casters now casting from their shields)
Nope, I'll just dimension door to the other side of the room (bamph)
Err... hey familiar kitty, I need to turn you into a doggie for a while... (Roll out!)
...

That was my first idea too.
Never bother preparing a utility spell again!

[zook1shoe]

And its not like you can't have more than one shield. Even more with animated shields, dastanas, and graft arms 

I cast detect magic from the scroll... Oh I get fireball, Prismatic sphere, and wall of fire back, nice.

Edit: naw doesn't work exactly that way... But you CAN still have several shields to give you more options, especially if you get stuck with a long casting time spell

[Halinn]

It's also a nice way to let the sorcerer or UMD user have an extra spell for the battle. Wizard cycles through the shield until something nice comes up, hands the shield to the party member.