This past weekend the DM wasn't there for the higher level game where I play an Incantatrix, so I joined up a level 1 game (now level 2), and I must say...I usually go Generalist, and Elven Generalist sub at that, but I'm not missing the three dropped schools from FocConj at all to speak of.
Grease combined with abrupt jaunt and cloudy conjuration have made my little halfling all but untouchable, and the party tank (well, the dwarven fighter...the orc barb would be unstable) even volunteered to have me ride on his back in a howdah (Ride will be shortly added to my list of class skills, either that or I'll invest in it and get enough of a bonus to make the roll to negate damage). Now here's the first conundrum : which schools do I ban? I've only ever shot off conj. and trans. spells, which I had okay-ed from the DM, since I had all of 0 advance warning to build a character, so I have 3 schools to forbid. I was thinking Evocation and Enchantment right away, and possibly Necromancy as the third. No go is obviously Divination and Conjuration, and Transmutation is too good to lose. Abjuration has absolute essentials, and I'd rather lose
enervation than
shades from dropping Illusion. Any ideas or feedback there would be massively appreciated.
The planned character layout from 1-20 is Wizard 5/MotAO 7/MastSpec 3/Archmage 3/XXX 2, and my second 1st level feat is open (tenatively set for either Sculpt Spell or Extend Spell), and the entire thing roughly follows TMlvl20's iconic FS Conjurer (race and all). Thoughts or comments there welcome for the XXX 2
Lastly, we began with a random magical item (minor of course, but starting with a 20 int and 18 con is smexy), and also it was determined that since I'm the BC expert, I should have the Ring of the Ram we found. Between that and the ability (DM allowed) to do fine manipulation with
mage hand, we shouldn't be hurting for cash, ever. We ended up being an evil party, mostly due to the other wizard and my halfling not trusting anyone and then getting greedy (so I wanted a ship with a pet dwarf captain...call me crazy but it seemed cool).
All for now, and reading back, this seems like a giant ramble, but if it spawns something productive for aspiring GODS, it will have served it's purpose.