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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #40 on: March 04, 2011, 05:46:21 PM »
Here's how I check if it's "Innate".

Does every member of that race have it?  If the answer is "yes", then it's innate.  Otherwise, no.
That's a bit problematic for a definition, since a lot of races have a set of different abilities that you can select from - for example, dragonborn or fey'ri. 

So the ability to get an ability is inherent, but the abilities individually are not.  Seems fine. =P
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« Reply #41 on: March 04, 2011, 05:59:53 PM »
Yeah, you're right that it's not the best definition.  I guess you can say that the spellcasting ability is inherent, but not the spells.  That's the best I can think of.
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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #42 on: March 04, 2011, 10:19:26 PM »
It seems to me that a creature with innate spellcasting doesn't have each spell be innate, as they chose which ones they want to know (one assumes, unless for some reason a specific creature can't).  So I'd say a creature with innate Wizard casting who happens to know Plane Shift could use it when you summon him, but one that has Plane Shift (Sp) could not.

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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #43 on: March 06, 2011, 02:43:50 AM »
Sorry I haven't edited/added extra, I've been super busy lately.  I haven't forgotten this.
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Quote from: Negative Zero on November 04, 2009, 02:16:14 AM
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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #44 on: March 14, 2011, 03:34:14 PM »
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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #45 on: March 15, 2011, 12:26:05 PM »
Binder are usally cha based - for those who would rather make an int based binder (wizard going into anima mage) - the quorbred template from SoS (+1 LE) should be mentioned. Makes cha based  DC into int based - it would hurt your binding checks - it can still have it's uses.
A wizard/binder/anima mage binding lower level vestiges (such those giving him sneak and sudden strike ) would be be able to make good pacts, gaining the abilities of the anima mage and suffer less from MAD.
I wouldn't use it with buy off though..

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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #46 on: March 15, 2011, 03:05:53 PM »
Binder are usally cha based - for those who would rather make an int based binder (wizard going into anima mage) - the quorbred template from SoS (+1 LE) should be mentioned. Makes cha based  DC into int based - it would hurt your binding checks - it can still have it's uses.
A wizard/binder/anima mage binding lower level vestiges (such those giving him sneak and sudden strike ) would be be able to make good pacts, gaining the abilities of the anima mage and suffer less from MAD.
I wouldn't use it with buy off though..

I don't see any LA entry for the Quorbred template, which would make it default to LA: --, I believe. Note that the CR adjustment is not equivalent to LA.
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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #47 on: March 16, 2011, 09:51:57 AM »

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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #48 on: March 16, 2011, 11:38:15 AM »
Not quite. if no LA is given, then the LA defaults to "none given", which translates to "PCs can't have it, nyah".

To b fair, though, it doesn't seem like a gamebreaking thing to allow on a PC.
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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #49 on: March 16, 2011, 12:44:06 PM »
Gamebreaking by no means.

But then I have always considered Binders to be less than an optimal choise. But the whole making a pact with a powerfull being that refused to die is just nice. If only i could change vestiges more often - as often as i would like - out off combat (to be balanced) they would rock! I can't recall how many times i have thought - I could totally do something about this and that if i had bound the right vestige... Tomorrow then.. But we never wait untill tomorrow. The bad guys are here now - and the party moves on! So to bad the binder could have cold immunity tomorrow - let's fight those cold-something-something to day.

So I end up with the same vestiges that i know works. Dehlvar-Nar at low levels, then Focolar, then Asaroth (the fallen angel) and now Malphas and Andromalius . I have tried others but by then end of the day they just sucked and so did my char that day. (other vestiges might work for other builds - I'm playing a binder/sorc/anima mage). So every time i gain a the ability to bind new vestiges i'm faced with the dilemma - do they work? If not I'll have an offday...
(Just made a Vestige psylactory - it's nice, BUT I sure would like to change every time we go from the Ogre strong hold into the undead lair...)
Sorry for the rant...


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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #50 on: March 16, 2011, 01:28:37 PM »
Try getting with the casters in your party and determine what spells they prepared before picking your vestiges for the day.  I've found that helps significantly.
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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #51 on: March 16, 2011, 01:55:16 PM »
Well I'm a Sorc and the other caster is a Beguiler - so I have a pretty good idea about what spells we can cast :-)

But if the Binder class ever should be "fixed" - not that it need it - this is just me that want more. A few "rebind vestige"/day abilities would go a long way. Everytime you do some reseach about what comes ahead (knowledge checks, investigation, garher information, divination, rolleplaying with NPC's you name it) the binder would shine if he could adapt to the situation.
Sure you might still make a bad call (as the time i make a pact with Dehlve-Nar, to help me against what ever was driving the local pesants mad,0 - it turned out, they were shocked by undeads killing their childeren, not by some insanity spell) - but at, least the binder would have the choise!

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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #52 on: March 16, 2011, 02:01:28 PM »
Gamebreaking by no means.

But then I have always considered Binders to be less than an optimal choise. But the whole making a pact with a powerfull being that refused to die is just nice. If only i could change vestiges more often - as often as i would like - out off combat (to be balanced) they would rock! I can't recall how many times i have thought - I could totally do something about this and that if i had bound the right vestige... Tomorrow then.. But we never wait untill tomorrow. The bad guys are here now - and the party moves on! So to bad the binder could have cold immunity tomorrow - let's fight those cold-something-something to day.

So I end up with the same vestiges that i know works. Dehlvar-Nar at low levels, then Focolar, then Asaroth (the fallen angel) and now Malphas and Andromalius . I have tried others but by then end of the day they just sucked and so did my char that day. (other vestiges might work for other builds - I'm playing a binder/sorc/anima mage). So every time i gain a the ability to bind new vestiges i'm faced with the dilemma - do they work? If not I'll have an offday...
(Just made a Vestige psylactory - it's nice, BUT I sure would like to change every time we go from the Ogre strong hold into the undead lair...)
Sorry for the rant...

Like with the Expel Vestige feat? Only 1/day but... still.

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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #53 on: March 17, 2011, 04:56:18 PM »
I PM'd this to Sobolev but haven't heard back from him. I'll leave the link active for a few days if anyone is interested in it.

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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #54 on: March 19, 2011, 07:47:00 PM »
Binder are usally cha based - for those who would rather make an int based binder (wizard going into anima mage) - the quorbred template from SoS (+1 LE) should be mentioned. Makes cha based  DC into int based - it would hurt your binding checks - it can still have it's uses.
A wizard/binder/anima mage binding lower level vestiges (such those giving him sneak and sudden strike ) would be be able to make good pacts, gaining the abilities of the anima mage and suffer less from MAD.
I wouldn't use it with buy off though..

I don't see any LA entry for the Quorbred template, which would make it default to LA: --, I believe. Note that the CR adjustment is not equivalent to LA.
Look under Advanced Quorbred, it lists the template as +2 LA(I think)

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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #55 on: March 19, 2011, 07:58:39 PM »
Binder are usally cha based - for those who would rather make an int based binder (wizard going into anima mage) - the quorbred template from SoS (+1 LE) should be mentioned. Makes cha based  DC into int based - it would hurt your binding checks - it can still have it's uses.
A wizard/binder/anima mage binding lower level vestiges (such those giving him sneak and sudden strike ) would be be able to make good pacts, gaining the abilities of the anima mage and suffer less from MAD.
I wouldn't use it with buy off though..

I don't see any LA entry for the Quorbred template, which would make it default to LA: --, I believe. Note that the CR adjustment is not equivalent to LA.
Look under Advanced Quorbred, it lists the template as +2 LA(I think)
So it does. Disregard what I said.
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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #56 on: March 20, 2011, 09:24:01 AM »
Ah Yes the hid it at the very end. - Well then only use with buy-off then..

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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #57 on: March 20, 2011, 04:38:41 PM »
For anything that's INT based, that's quite a handy template, if you get buyoff or free LA.
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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #58 on: March 21, 2011, 01:50:45 AM »
Mmm...

Quorbred Incarnate Construct Warforged.

LA +0.

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Re: [WIP] Binder's Guide: Trade Your Soul for Awesome
« Reply #59 on: April 18, 2011, 11:27:53 PM »
I PM'd this to Sobolev but haven't heard back from him. I'll leave the link active for a few days if anyone is interested in it.

I finished my Useful Materials for the Djinn Summon to create file if you'd like a copy. It's currently in open office format but I can provide it in doc or PDF if you'd prefer. I unfortunately don't have anywhere I can post it to to provide a link beyond a public Drop Box one.

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