Hello all.
Long time lurker, first time poster here.
Party is as follows:
Maliph: Human Duskblade 6 (DM applied a semi-custom half-undead template after second death of pc, now has very Str 21-22, Cha 6 and last session lost his larynx to some Worgs, in other words: no more casting for our arcane glass canon :-( ) (player is no optimizer)
Grimwald: Half-Giant Psychic Warrior 5 (player knows his rules and how to apply them)
Forge: (me) Warforged Crusader 4/Cloistered Cleric 1/ Warblade 1, going for RKV. Can't use Chuck-tactics since DM only allows for 3 books/player. Did get one extra feat as 1st level for background reasons
Grace: Human pacifist VoP Cleric 6; player not always present and will most likely quit the campaign or join once every 3-4 sessions (player is definitely no optimizer)
DM is a slight control freak, likes to have control over his player's builds, sometimes adjusts the working of feats on the fly, sometimes adjusts monsters after they have been (nearly) one-shotted and seems to have some trouble understanding what players consider as fun.
Duskblade player is his best friend (at the table), but seems to undergo the most crap of everyone.
Right now, he's walking around with no larynx after a solo encounter with 4 Worgs.
(It basically happened like this: "You're tripped, Worg #2 attacks, hits, tears of your larynx and runs off".
)
So, I basically want to ask about the following things:
1) Besides Silent Spell feat, is there any way for the Duskblade to get the use of his spells back? (Any way to ignore Verbal components / get his voice back/ ... ? )
2) Right now I'm having a blast with my Warforged Crusader. I like the class, the racial immunities and how well this makes my character perform in the current setting. We've all been asked though to have a backup concept ready, just in case.
Until previous session teamwork was pretty good with me tanking it up, but rarely hitting anything, while the two other melee pc's wailed on the badguys. Now, I'm not so sure that will continue to work.
So my 2nd question is: what makes for a fun build to play in Exp. to Castle Ravenloft?
(Any 3 WoTC books + Core, 6-7th level, nothing that's obviously broken. Preferably Tier 3, to keep in line with the other players.)