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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #860 on: November 17, 2010, 09:42:23 PM »
Q 267 Anyone know where I can find a Savage Species progression for a nymph?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #861 on: November 17, 2010, 11:43:12 PM »
Q 268: what are some good templates to add to a daelkyr half blood psion? Right now I have ten LA to work with.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #862 on: November 17, 2010, 11:46:55 PM »
Q 268: what are some good templates to add to a daelkyr half blood psion? Right now I have ten LA to work with.
Some number of levels of ghost.  Depending upon what you want to do, anywhere from 1 to 4.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #863 on: November 17, 2010, 11:51:25 PM »
Ghost would be nice, but won't work for the character as the character has to be physical, (egotist with heavy melee focus, build isn't just psion, but based on it)
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #864 on: November 18, 2010, 12:10:00 AM »
Q 269: What base classes are there that have a good Fort save and Full BAB?

Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, Crusader, Warblade, Swashbuckler, and Samurai.  Any others?

 
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #865 on: November 18, 2010, 12:12:31 AM »
Q 269: What base classes are there that have a good Fort save and Full BAB?

Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, Crusader, Warblade, Swashbuckler, and Samurai.  Any others?
Hexblade, and Duskblade.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #866 on: November 18, 2010, 01:22:41 AM »
Q270: Are Sha'ir Arcane Casters, Divine Casters or neither? Example: Contemplative spell advancement
Q271: Do Sha'ir "Prepare" Spells?  Example: Alacritous Cognition
Q272: Are spells on the wizard/sorcerer list considered on the Sha'ir's list?  Example: Wand activation
Q273: Do Sha'ir need to sleep to cast spells?  (I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no.)
Q274: What are some good reserve feats?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #867 on: November 18, 2010, 02:58:30 AM »
Q 275 Anyone know where I can read up on the warlock's errata written by Richard Baker? It was on WotC, but like most threads, it was removed when it was "updated". :eh
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #868 on: November 18, 2010, 03:10:12 AM »
Q276:What is the easiest way for recahrging power points?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #869 on: November 18, 2010, 03:34:19 AM »
Q276:What is the easiest way for recahrging power points?
A276: Psycarnum Infusion + Azure Talent + Bestow Power + Cognizance Crystals, although it's of debatable legality.

I believe there's also a method using Earth Power that reduces the cost of Bestow Power to 1, and then you gain back 2 pp, but I don't know that one off-hand.

Regardless of how you do it, it's going to be a slow, time consuming process.  It's actually a *lot* easier to just go Ardent/Metamind w/ Practiced Manifester and spam the Temporal Reiteration power every round for infinite PP.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #870 on: November 18, 2010, 03:36:09 AM »
Q276:What is the easiest way for recahrging power points?
A276: Psycarnum Infusion + Azure Talent + Bestow Power + Cognizance Crystals, although it's of debatable legality.

I believe there's also a method using Earth Power that reduces the cost of Bestow Power to 1, and then you gain back 2 pp, but I don't know that one off-hand.

Regardless of how you do it, it's going to be a slow, time consuming process.  It's actually a *lot* easier to just go Ardent/Metamind w/ Practiced Manifester and spam the Temporal Reiteration power every round for infinite PP.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #871 on: November 18, 2010, 03:41:34 AM »
Q277: Is there a way to pick up a Lesser Dragonfire Adept Invocation as a Warlock without taking levels in Dragonfire Adept?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #872 on: November 18, 2010, 04:03:58 AM »
Q277: Is there a way to pick up a Lesser Dragonfire Adept Invocation as a Warlock without taking levels in Dragonfire Adept?

infernal adept feat.

Q278 Is there any ruleset for a Eberron hafling paladin picking up a Dinosaur as his mount?  It really seems like there should be.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #873 on: November 18, 2010, 04:23:43 AM »
Q 275 Anyone know where I can read up on the warlock's errata written by Richard Baker? It was on WotC, but like most threads, it was removed when it was "updated". :eh
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #874 on: November 18, 2010, 05:54:05 AM »
Q276:What is the easiest way for recahrging power points?
A276: Psycarnum Infusion + Azure Talent + Bestow Power + Cognizance Crystals, although it's of debatable legality.

I believe there's also a method using Earth Power that reduces the cost of Bestow Power to 1, and then you gain back 2 pp, but I don't know that one off-hand.

Regardless of how you do it, it's going to be a slow, time consuming process.  It's actually a *lot* easier to just go Ardent/Metamind w/ Practiced Manifester and spam the Temporal Reiteration power every round for infinite PP.

Psycarnum Infusion + Midnight Augmentation allows you to manifest bestow power with a base augment cost of 1 power point. Assuming Overchannel, a bestow power so augmented to ML 23 would grant 42 power points to the target. If you have Leadership (or are a Thrallherd), your cohort/thrall can take the same setup and you can recharge each other ad infinitum.

A spell-to-power erudite can do this if he learns simulacrum. Create a simulacrum of yourself and use it as your recharge battery.

The best option, however, is to perform the fusion dance with your psicrystal, granting it control and having it manifest astral seed so that you can destroy it and have it reform as a psion 1 level lower than you. It's still your psicrystal, which allows you to share powers with it. Now you can recharge at will with no downtime: share an augmented temporal acceleration with your psicrystal and begin the recharge loop, pausing to re-manifest temporal acceleration whenever it would drop.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #875 on: November 18, 2010, 01:03:11 PM »
Easiest recharge is Torc of Power Preservation + Earth Power.  Spend 1 power point, get 2.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #876 on: November 18, 2010, 01:03:44 PM »
Q270: Are Sha'ir Arcane Casters, Divine Casters or neither? Example: Contemplative spell advancement
Q271: Do Sha'ir "Prepare" Spells?  Example: Alacritous Cognition
Q272: Are spells on the wizard/sorcerer list considered on the Sha'ir's list?  Example: Wand activation
Q273: Do Sha'ir need to sleep to cast spells?  (I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no.)
Q274: What are some good reserve feats?

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Q279: Attempting to take advantage of the fact that Sha'ir don't need to retrieve a spell they can actually cast.  Any advantage to just fetching a 9th level spell at level 1 (assuming you can make the check)?  For those not familiar with the class, it would make me memorize a level 9 spell as a wizard but I would be unable to cast it (I don't have a slot for it)

Q280: How do I meet the Wild Shape requirement of Planar Shepard without taking a bunch of levels of druid?
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Quote from: Negative Zero on November 04, 2009, 02:16:14 AM
In my humble opinion, CO is haberdashery. Some say we're mad, but we can all agree we're hatters. Yes, we have potential to make very sophisticated hats, very fancy hats, be they dark or light. But the truth is that the color of the hat does not come from the group of us - our community doesn't directly produce hats. We simply give average head circumferences, list current fashion trends, and point out some shiny, obscure baubles to add to the latest hat line.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #877 on: November 18, 2010, 01:18:01 PM »
Q270: Are Sha'ir Arcane Casters, Divine Casters or neither? Example: Contemplative spell advancement
Q271: Do Sha'ir "Prepare" Spells?  Example: Alacritous Cognition
Q272: Are spells on the wizard/sorcerer list considered on the Sha'ir's list?  Example: Wand activation
Q273: Do Sha'ir need to sleep to cast spells?  (I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no.)
Q274: What are some good reserve feats?

Bump.  Plus More

Q279: Attempting to take advantage of the fact that Sha'ir don't need to retrieve a spell they can actually cast.  Any advantage to just fetching a 9th level spell at level 1 (assuming you can make the check)?  For those not familiar with the class, it would make me memorize a level 9 spell as a wizard but I would be unable to cast it (I don't have a slot for it)

Q280: How do I meet the Wild Shape requirement of Planar Shepard without taking a bunch of levels of druid?
Can't help with the others. But can help with the last one.

A280: The Divine Minion template gets Wild Shape as an 11th level druid at will into deity-specific forms.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #878 on: November 18, 2010, 01:25:33 PM »
Q270: Are Sha'ir Arcane Casters, Divine Casters or neither? Example: Contemplative spell advancement
Q271: Do Sha'ir "Prepare" Spells?  Example: Alacritous Cognition
Q272: Are spells on the wizard/sorcerer list considered on the Sha'ir's list?  Example: Wand activation
Q273: Do Sha'ir need to sleep to cast spells?  (I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no.)
Q274: What are some good reserve feats?

Bump.  Plus More

Q279: Attempting to take advantage of the fact that Sha'ir don't need to retrieve a spell they can actually cast.  Any advantage to just fetching a 9th level spell at level 1 (assuming you can make the check)?  For those not familiar with the class, it would make me memorize a level 9 spell as a wizard but I would be unable to cast it (I don't have a slot for it)

Q280: How do I meet the Wild Shape requirement of Planar Shepard without taking a bunch of levels of druid?
A270 -- it appears to be both  :twitch :shrug
A271 -- basically.
A272 -- yes.
A273 -- sleep is a function of race/creature type.  regardless, you still need 8 hours of rest each day (see Magic chapter of PHB)
A274 -- take your pick (I'm not all that familiar with the efficacy of reserve feats)
A279 -- you still can't do anything with spells above what you can cast.  it does you no good.  (but I guess if you can contrive a crazy enough semantics argument, you could do what ever you want to with it  :eh).  yes, the writing/verbiage/editing for that class is sub-par.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition
« Reply #879 on: November 18, 2010, 01:56:07 PM »
Q270: Are Sha'ir Arcane Casters, Divine Casters or neither? Example: Contemplative spell advancement
Q271: Do Sha'ir "Prepare" Spells?  Example: Alacritous Cognition
Q272: Are spells on the wizard/sorcerer list considered on the Sha'ir's list?  Example: Wand activation
Q273: Do Sha'ir need to sleep to cast spells?  (I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no.)
Q274: What are some good reserve feats?

Bump.  Plus More

Q279: Attempting to take advantage of the fact that Sha'ir don't need to retrieve a spell they can actually cast.  Any advantage to just fetching a 9th level spell at level 1 (assuming you can make the check)?  For those not familiar with the class, it would make me memorize a level 9 spell as a wizard but I would be unable to cast it (I don't have a slot for it)

Q280: How do I meet the Wild Shape requirement of Planar Shepard without taking a bunch of levels of druid?
A270 -- it appears to be both  :twitch :shrug
A271 -- basically.
A272 -- yes.
A273 -- sleep is a function of race/creature type.  regardless, you still need 8 hours of rest each day (see Magic chapter of PHB)
A274 -- take your pick (I'm not all that familiar with the efficacy of reserve feats)
A279 -- you still can't do anything with spells above what you can cast.  it does you no good.  (but I guess if you can contrive a crazy enough semantics argument, you could do what ever you want to with it  :eh).  yes, the writing/verbiage/editing for that class is sub-par.

Thanks.  The only thing I hoped to do with 279 was maybe qualify for a prestige class early.  Thanks for the answers, I got basically what I wanted/expected. =D
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Quote from: Negative Zero on November 04, 2009, 02:16:14 AM
In my humble opinion, CO is haberdashery. Some say we're mad, but we can all agree we're hatters. Yes, we have potential to make very sophisticated hats, very fancy hats, be they dark or light. But the truth is that the color of the hat does not come from the group of us - our community doesn't directly produce hats. We simply give average head circumferences, list current fashion trends, and point out some shiny, obscure baubles to add to the latest hat line.