So the campaign's coming to a close, and I have to honestly think about what I'm going to be. Considering my options, I've got nothing. The DM's suggested that I copy what one of the players did with his red dragon, and take a gold dragon. Just I'd have illithid blood instead of merolith blood, and would have tentacles instead of extra arms. I'd rather try and stay original. At least as original as possible. He's also heavily suggested that I take a psionic. I don't know that that will be happening. I'd rather a spellcaster with a magic pool.
I've asked the DM to forward me what I've got for options next campaign.
Base races can be: gold dragon, spellscale, water elemental, ice mephling, elf, aquatic elf, human, medusa, half-elf, fire half-elf, fire elf, and illithid.
Base race templates are dragonborn, fire, water, and aquatic. After the character is born, half-celestial will be added to him.
LA templates that the character will have, unless a particular race is taken in exchange (ie taking the illithid base race from Savage Species instead of the half-illithid template) are half-dragon, half-illithid, half-medusa, half-water elemental, half-celestial, and
(the son was cursed and a mystery template was added).
I'm not allowed any classes out of the main books (believe me I tried really hard), there are no buy-offs, and no I can't start from scratch. And we're not 100% sure, but we might be doing the 32 pt buy again for stats. I also don't have to take any of the LAs if I don't want to, unless I die. Then the blood will force the character to live again, and one of the templates will randomly show itself. At the same time, whatever you're killed by, you gain a template of as well (ie if you're killed by a demon you gain a level of half-fiend).
My original plan this time around, before all the LAs, was to go human wizard/sorcerer/ultimate magus since it's been quite a long time since I played an arcane user. I was considering going with it anyways, but the fire elf looks like a decent plan too. The only problem being that they lose CHA so being a sorcerer wouldn't do them much good.
I was also thinking of Lurker or Psychic Rogue since they'd probably fit this character's personality pretty well. At the same time, I was thinking a fighter type with full BAB which could come in handy since I'd be likely to not get too many class levels. In the end, the red dragon only got +6 BAB after 20 levels because of his +0 classes and LAs. I can see why the DM said I should do that.
I'm honestly stuck. And if I die, or take the levels, the templates don't even really add anything useful to the stats. Of course more INT and CHA never heard a wizard/sorcerer. Also, I'm sure a lot people would be against it, but I'd take the variant that makes it so the wizard loses his familiar and Scribe Scroll. To be honest, it's pretty much the only way you'd survive the DM's game. That spellbook and familiar are always the first target. That's why anything but a wizard survive his campaigns (unless he's playing them himself).
And inb4 "leave", "kill the DM", "get a new group", "take over the group", etc, etc, etc.
EDIT: Just got an e-mail from the DM with an answer to my question about the phrenic creature.
His answer: Being part illithid qualifies him for Half-farspawn [Lords of Madness], Half-illithid [Fiend Folio], Illithid [Savage Species], Phrenic creature [XPH], and Pseudonatural [Manual of the Planes and 3.5 Update Booklet].