Hi everyone!
We reset an ongoing planescape campaign and since I had my hands on the tome of magic, I wanted to try those binders. I already had a look at jameswilliamogle's work and his influence to that build is clearly visible. I think I found some nice tricksto make this binder efficient. However, I'm not sure about the feat selection, so I'd be glad about any C&C i can get, be it featwise or about the general build. We had no restrictions bookwise, common sense made me not consider bovd/boed because most of the feats in there are quite cheesy.
We were presented with a 28 point buy, so that's what I made of it:
str: 14, dex: 14, con: 14, int: 12, wis: 8, cha: 14Since cha is the binder's attribute I applied the draconic creature template to a aasimar savage progression for a total LA +1 (the savage progression itself is +0 if you take just one lvl of it)
which brought me to this new stats:
str: 16, dex: 14, con: 16, int: 12, wis: 8, cha: 18I totally skipped the lesser aasimar in the pgtf and I will ask my GM if i can change the race to that since I would gain another +2 WIS for again no LA.
With this selection of templates and races I'm pretty sure that any binder would do kind of good, so let's see what else we can do:
I followed the melee build by jwo to come up with this lvling sequence: 8 binder/5 knight of the sacred seal/2 binder/3 scion of dantalion. This build gives 4 attacks at lvl 20 and saves of
F:14 R:6 W:13The problem with this race/lvl combo is: You can't take any other base class except for palladin. Which is not an option for this char since I'm going for a vile feat. Palladins just wouldn't do that
So you are stuck with binder prc except you can live with xp penalty, which I don't recommend.
Feats: I have 9 feats to select. 2 of those are restricted being binder bonus feats on lvl 4&16. I started off with
improved binding since you want that to bind lvl 3 vestiges right from the start. Also on either lvl 3 or 6 I have to pick up a
wepon focus to qualify for KotSS. I chose to take
power attackat lv 3 and
expell vestige at lvl 4 for more flexibility, so I can bind a vestige better suited to my (probably unexpected) situation or just whack whatever is showing up with paimon and weapon finesse.
The next feat gets its own explanation:
Insane defiance from EE! This is the vile feat I was talking of earlier. There is a minmax thread of a fey around in this forum which made me implement this: You get 1 pt wis dmg to redirect a mind affecting spell. also the new target gets a -4 penalty on his will save for a spell redirected this way. Since Dahlver-Nar is not an option, because you have to be able to take wis dmg in order to use this feat, naberius will do to regain that wis the next round. NEVER MAKE A WILL SAVE AGAIN! also, if used offensively with your buddy enchanter wizard you can make it harder to save aganst his spells by him targetting you and you targetting the actual target. In combination with focalors&chupoclops's auras this penalty will increase to -8!
Seriously: No GM in his right mind will allow this feat as it is. Right now I'm working on it so I can use it since even my GM isn't hapy with this. Maybe still rolling the save and when you make it, to relay it further is an option.
Back to feat selection: 3 feats left to choose: Since I take the KotSS prc I wanted some feats that aid me in fighting. I'm still in doubt if I should pick naberius as my patron vestige or go for paimon. In combination with some +4 DEX gloves, that would be an impressive 22 dex with paimon. If I could squeeze in a feat to get my dex to dmg, that would add to my dmg output wondefully but I don't know where to find this/how to do it. There is a feat like this in ToB but I can't squeze in a lvl of swordsage (kind of prereq) for this feat. Otherwise just go with
dodge/mobility/combat reflexes to move around in combat. Also improved binding will be retrained at lvl 17 since it's useless then. The bonus feat at lvl 16 will be
rapid pact making to make changing vestiges even faster
So, is there a good feat around that this binder would need? Or maybe I completely missed a point on what to get with a binder, so that's why I'm asking here in this forum.
C&C? Pretty please =)
PS: this text was written on a crappy keyboard which refused to give out some of the buttons I pressed, so, sorry for spelling errors
the char in a pdf if desired:
Thern