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[phaedrusxy]

both of these homebrew classes by amechra look awesome and fitting:
http://forum.faxcelestis.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=515

Edit: Mysteries

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=243695

and this by sirp
http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=8089.0

and this... i don't even...
http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=5716

[JohnnyMayHymn]

Planar Shepherd of the Plane of Shadow

[ksbsnowowl]

Planar Shepherd of the Plane of Shadow

Oooo.... Druid 5/Planar Shepherd 10/Talontar Blightlord 5

Full Druid casting, animal companion of a 15th level druid, wildshape of a 15th level druid, Blightbringer prestige domain, and your animal companion has the Blightspawned template, giving its natural weapons a disease attack, making them stronger and tougher, and immune to crits (type becomes plant).  You are also immune to all diseases.  Add all the additional goodies from planar shepherd on top of that....  Oh, and you can wear metal armor.

Not bad.

[phaedrusxy]

OK, I'm really digging that Eldermagus class I linked above. I found an online source that has all of the warlock invocations. Are these all "legit", or is this a homebrewed expansion? I didn't recognize some of htem.

[JohnnyMayHymn]

Planar Shepherd of the Plane of Shadow

Oooo.... Druid 5/Planar Shepherd 10/Talontar Blightlord 5

Full Druid casting, animal companion of a 15th level druid, wildshape of a 15th level druid, Blightbringer prestige domain, and your animal companion has the Blightspawned template, giving its natural weapons a disease attack, making them stronger and tougher, and immune to crits (type becomes plant).  You are also immune to all diseases.  Add all the additional goodies from planar shepherd on top of that....  Oh, and you can wear metal armor.

Not bad.

Plus the shadow creature template turns any corporeal creature into a magical beast.  Those two items that increase WS HD can get you back up to at least 20HD.  IIRC one is +4(an amulet?) and the other is from Dragon Mag

[SorO_Lost]

Plus the shadow creature template turns any corporeal creature into a magical beast.  Those two items that increase WS HD can get you back up to at least 20HD.  IIRC one is +4(an amulet?) and the other is from Dragon Mag

Source of the WotC official would be greatly appreciated for my Resource

[JohnnyMayHymn]

Plus the shadow creature template turns any corporeal creature into a magical beast.  Those two items that increase WS HD can get you back up to at least 20HD.  IIRC one is +4(an amulet?) and the other is from Dragon Mag

Source of the WotC official would be greatly appreciated for my Resource

Let me see here... 

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Skin of Kaletor
Dragon Magazine 324 pg 75
12,000 GP
Bearskin cloak with the bear’s head forming
a hood. Weighs 10 pounds.
Smells bad, resulting in the wearer having a
–6 penalty on Charisma-based skill checks
and Wild Empathy checks.
Wearer can Wild Shape as if his/her Druid
level was at +4 (if no Druid levels, use Wild
Shape as a 4th level Druid).

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Wild Shape Amulet
Magic of Faerun pg 167
40,000 GP
Allows a 'Druid' to Wild Shape as if four levels higher, but not past 20th level Druid.
If the Druid doesn't have Wild Shape yet, Wild Shape as a 5th level Druid.

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Wilding Clasp
Magic Item Compendium pg 190
4000 gp
Attach it to a worn item and when you wild shape, continue wearing the item in the new form.

[Jackinthegreen]

OK, I'm really digging that Eldermagus class I linked above. I found an online source that has all of the warlock invocations. Are these all "legit", or is this a homebrewed expansion? I didn't recognize some of them.

Yes, those are all official warlock invocations.  It's missing some of them though such as Eldritch Glaive.  Chances are the list is simply Complete Arcane + Mage and doesn't include the ones from Cityscape, Dragon Magic, or Drow of the Underdark.  I wouldn't be surprised if a few other books had new invocations.

[Cyclone Joker]

No way is that a Warlock or Dread Necromancer. That's totally a Death Master.

[Agita]

OK, I'm really digging that Eldermagus class I linked above. I found an online source that has all of the warlock invocations. Are these all "legit", or is this a homebrewed expansion? I didn't recognize some of htem.

Looks legit to me. The invocation descriptions seem to cite sources, so you can always doublecheck them in addition.

[SorO_Lost]

Let me see here... 

Added the None-Dragon stuff. Thanks.

[phaedrusxy]

No way is that a Warlock or Dread Necromancer. That's totally a Death Master.

That's the necromancy specialist base class from Dragon magazine, right?

[Cyclone Joker]

No way is that a Warlock or Dread Necromancer. That's totally a Death Master.

That's the necromancy specialist base class from Dragon magazine, right?

Yep. It doesn't, however, suffer from the DN's overspecialization of. It has a very, very nice list, including gems like Dominate, Blasphemy, and Shapechange,

[phaedrusxy]

No way is that a Warlock or Dread Necromancer. That's totally a Death Master.

That's the necromancy specialist base class from Dragon magazine, right?

Yep. It doesn't, however, suffer from the DN's overspecialization of. It has a very, very nice list, including gems like Dominate, Blasphemy, and Shapechange,

I just don't have access to that... I actually think the Bemäntelter Schatten by Amechra fits what I imagine best, of all that I've considered. I am not familiar with the Mysteries of Shadowcasters at all, though, nor whether his implementation of them as psionic powers for that class will save it from the fail I've heard the Shadowcaster is made of.

If we went with that, what would some good mysteries to choose be? The class does not have to take all the previous mysteries in a chain to take more advanced ones.

[littha]

I am not familiar with the Mysteries of Shadowcasters at all, though, nor whether his implementation of them as psionic powers for that class will save it from the fail I've heard the Shadowcaster is made of.

Shadowcaster mysteries are not particually bad. The class itself isn't great and suffers from a low number of uses/day but its probably still tier 3 or so...

[Prime32]

The class itself isn't great and suffers from a low number of uses/day

Its designer provided an unofficial fix.

[sirpercival]

The class itself isn't great and suffers from a low number of uses/day

Its designer provided an unofficial fix.

So did I. 

[ariasderros]

OK, I'm really digging that Eldermagus class I linked above. I found an online source that has all of the warlock invocations. Are these all "legit", or is this a homebrewed expansion? I didn't recognize some of htem.

WotC has their own index of them all.

[phaedrusxy]

OK, I'm really digging that Eldermagus class I linked above. I found an online source that has all of the warlock invocations. Are these all "legit", or is this a homebrewed expansion? I didn't recognize some of htem.

WotC has their own index of them all.

Nice! Thanks!

[phaedrusxy]

This

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=5716

plus Baptism of the Eyes Beyond The World = awesome