A bit off-topic as of now, but I looked over my Notes on playing a Dragon and a few Questions popped up.
The following 2 Options I got from the CO-Board:
[spoiler=Steel Dragon (Minimum ECL 6, uses Advancement Table for Brass Dragon from Draconomicon):]
4 Dragon HD
2 LA
- You need 6 Classlevels before you can dump 11.000 XP into reducing your LA by 1
- You need to take 1 additional Dragon HD after 2 years in Gametime, another 1 year later
- Your LA goes up by +1 after 5 years(or 2 years after your second Dragon HD)
- Your next Dragon HD brings you up one Age Category, you must take it within 1 year of uping your LA(but you want to take it ASAP anyway^^)
- You need at least 24.000 XP AND 9 Classlevels to get completly rid off your LA +2
- 2 Dragon HD, 1 LA and 3 Classlevels AFTER the LA was applied are needed, then dump 18.000 XP to buy it off
assuming optimal Stacking, by ECL 19 you need 42.000 XP to take your 7th Dragon HD, advance to Age Category Young and hit ECL 20 with:
7 Dragon HD
0 LA
13 Classlevels
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[spoiler=Dragonwrought Kobold(Minimum ECL 1):]
0 racial HD
0 LA
Like any other Charakter: Just take the Feat and play it as you like, till you hit 20th Level.
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And here's what I came up with myself:
[spoiler=Halfdragon]
any Race without LA or Racial HD, using Draconic Racial Class Varaint(Minimum ECL 1):
0 racial HD
0 LA
- After your 1st Classlevel, you must take 2nd Level as LA +1, gaining the Draconic Template
- 3 Classlevels later, you can dump 4.000 XP to buy it off
- Now you take 2 additional Levels of LA, to get yourself the Half Dragon Template
- 6 Classlevels later, you burn 11.000 XP, to reduce your LA by 1
- 3 Classlevels thereafter you can drop the last LA by paying 13.000 XP
by ECL 19 you should need 18.000 XP, to get your 20th Classlevel and hit ECL 20 with:
0 racial HD
0 LA
20 Classlevels
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Now my Questions:
[spoiler=About the Half Dragon Variant:]
- Would you qualify to take one of the Sovereign Archetypes from Dragons of Eberron and
could you apply it to your Sorcerercasting gained from Classlevels?
- Your first Level would have to be either Standardclass, Paragon or Sublevel of your Base Race?
- You could take the Racial Sublevels and Feats for Draconic Creatures, only AFTER gaining the Template,
so I can't gain Feats, that are "1st Level only"?
- Half Dragon Paragon, Classes or Feats for (Half-)Dragons only after ECL 6?
Of course, I thought about using Half Dragon from the Start.
But that would force my to play with LA +3 until ECL 12(9 Classlevels)
AND
spend 45.000 XP to get rid of the last LA when I hit ECL 19(18 Classlevels).
Related Ideas, I came up with:
- Can the Half Dragon Template, or the Racial Class Variant be added to a Kobold and how do they interact with Dragonwrought?
- Would a Half Dragon Goliath Barbarian(Racial Sublevel) gain Wings, while raging?
- If I apply any Half (Fire)Dragon Variant to a Frostfolk(Frostburn) Charakter, he would keep all the Benefits of being a Frostfolk,
gain the Benefits of being a Half Dragon and also get rid of his Vulnarability to Fire?
Long Post so far, but if you're still reading: Is any of my Half Dragon Ideas optimizable and if so: What's it good for?
My Thoughts:
The Goliath(or any other "Low to No LA"-Race) would make for a nice Gish and make sure you slap on some BFC via (Meta)Breath-Feats.
For the Frostfolk, I lean more to Melee(Probably Warblade?), with a dash
of Skillmonkey(7x6+Int from Racial HD alone + Int-Boost from Halfdragon).
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