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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #60 on: September 18, 2009, 12:35:36 PM »
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Lvl 7 Domain Wizard/Lvl 10 Loremaster/Lvl 3 Archmage

First wizard I ever played.  Don't feel like stating out the whole thing right now, but will give some things.

Had a heavy focus on enchantment and evocation spells (i know i know...)

Lore secrets:  +2 to all saves and bonus spells

Archmage secrets:  Reach for touch spells, mastery of elements, mastery of shaping



Story: Alastar was the famous apprentice of Neron Stratus, Archwizard of Beorn Quickbeam,  the Tyrant of Chondath.  When Beorn started to lose his mind in an attempt to gather even more power, Neron decided to separate himself from the mad tyrant and start teaching more.  That is where he met alastar.

The youth was highly intelligent but lacked refinement, he was loud, dirty mouthed, and kept speaking in slang.  Several years later, he had become a very powerful wizard under his master's tutelage.  He then had an encounter with a very mean vampire who drained him of all his levels before letting him go free (it was decided those levels could not be restored, because that is when I started playing the character, and we were level 1, the rest of the story were other characters, and Alastar was originally an NPC)

A very bitter Alastar then met up with Deltis, son of Ajantis, the paladin of Torm who was first a friend of Beorn, and then became his worst ennemy.  The two along with Deltis's bodyguard, the protector, than set up on various adventures, eventually being knighted by Setarmon, king of Chessenta, and entering the nobility. In these times, the protector was unfortunately killed.  When the crusades of the Triad were called to take back Tantras from the hands of the devouts of Baine, Alastar Deltis and their companions, a sorcerer and a knight of Bahamut who came from Cormyr, and Karshak, a shady character who was the illegitimate son of Beorn, from one of his many mistresses (this time a high priestess of Shar).  The crusades were a success due in large part to Alastar's, now an archmage, potent magic and devastating military strategies.

After a slight with Karshak turned into a blood feud, the two retreated, Alastar in a fortress of his own build, Karshak in his underground lair in Zentil Keep.  Ever since, the two have built layers upon layers of defenses, both magical and mechanical, in case the other comes for them.  They have lived in relative safety ever since.


Annnd now you know.  The character was loads of fun to play.

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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #61 on: September 18, 2009, 01:16:56 PM »
Hmm, this is a tough one. There are different ways to interpret it. Either something that is also something else, or a combination of roles which overlap to create an amalgamous whole; Alternatively, anything technical could work. However, the one thing that seems to fit most appropriately would be:

Factotum 20


There are other more fun builds to represent the concept of a venn diagram, but I'm at the airport right now and more than a little AFB.

Chameleon comes to mind too.
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #62 on: September 18, 2009, 02:30:37 PM »
Nanshork, that's easy!

Nanshork Caltrop, my 2nd Edition Athasian Halfling Rogue/ Wizard.  I can dig out my character sheet and post if here if you guys want, I'm sure he's around somewhere.   :p
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #63 on: September 18, 2009, 02:40:57 PM »
I don't think I can participate in this thread since, as far as I can remember, intelligent items don't have levels (Kuroimaken literally means Black Demonic Sword). If I'm wrong, it's probably something with a bazillion ego...
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #64 on: September 18, 2009, 02:45:30 PM »
I don't think I can participate in this thread since, as far as I can remember, intelligent items don't have levels (Kuroimaken literally means Black Demonic Sword). If I'm wrong, it's probably something with a bazillion ego...
Sandwitch Psion?
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #65 on: September 18, 2009, 03:13:12 PM »
Factotum 8/Warblade 12.

That's me, on a personal level. If I actually bothered getting off my lazy ass, I could live up to the claim.

For my actual handle, probably either Warlock 9/Binder 1/Hellfire Warlock 3/Legacy Champion4/Uncanny Trickster 3 or a Desert Wind-focused Swordsage, odd as the latter one would be.


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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #66 on: September 18, 2009, 04:22:35 PM »
I would have guessed PlzBreakMyCampaign would be a level 1 loredrake dragonwrought kobald :?[/quote]I'm surprised no one cared when I mentioned the most broken build non-ascending (or close) build I had ever created (or seen) :(

But no, I made a MAXED +1sorc casting build and it was not that far ahead of fast casters :)
I'll post the build here. Also I only bother with the idea upon getting the Bestiary of Kyrnn (which says that it is an official WotC book):
[spoiler]Venerable Desert Kobold [small, -4Str +2Dex +1Wis +3int +3cha, Fav Rogue, +4fort for heat, +2Surv,craft(trap),&search, auto drac, bon com&und] with the Variant Kobold Racial Traits for the slight (tiny) build
    He starts with the Dragonspawn(white) acquired template giving +1sorcerer casting, +7nat, +2con, +2dex, 60'fly average, a bite, 2 claws, a 2d6 cone of cold breath weapon, and a temporary monstrous humanoid type (this is below dragon on the type pyramid).
   at level 1 he the takes Sorcerer 1, the Dragonwrought feat (RotD 100) giving the dragon type from monstrous humanoid, lowlight vision, and 60'darkvision, and then the Loredrake Sovereign Archetype which lowers his non-existent racial HD to d10s and he loses his non-existent cleric casting in exchange for +2sorcerer casting, 1d6cold death throes
   Don't forget the cost of his familiar (100gp), the Draconic Rite of Passage (RotD 43) (100gp), and the greater Draconic Rite of Passage (1000) and the total of 4 hp the rituals subtract
   at level 3 he takes the Draconic Reservoir feat and uses the LA Buyoff to have a normal ECL
   sometime after that but before 6 he will take the acquired Abomination Dragonspawn template for 1 LA, giving (since the kobold base creature is not listed it gains an additional table roll in lieu of the Race Specific Mutation) +0 to +6sorcerer casting. The three rolls could all land 96-100 which then double into 6 rolls that could all manage an 86-90. Yes I understand that the upper limit is a 1/3600 chance.
   at level 6 he completes the Greater Draconic Rite of Passage for +1sorcerer casting and if another LA1 template is taken before this level the Abomination dragonspawn LA can be bought off now.

This means that at ECL8 after the buyoff but before getting all the way to level 9 we could have 8 regular levels of sorcerer + up to 10 effective increases for any 9th level sorcerer spell casting.

This build could be interesting in the ECL8 variant of E6 if you had a DM who was forgiving on the LA buyoff[/spoiler]

Of course that illithid savant build could that the above and more, just later
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #67 on: September 18, 2009, 04:28:27 PM »
Hmmm... This one is going to be a hard one for me since I have almost no experience with bards and none at all with bard tanks. Anyone got any suggestions for a bard tank with leadership (note all followers/cohort need to be focused on music)?

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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #68 on: September 18, 2009, 05:29:04 PM »
Hmmm... This one is going to be a hard one for me since I have almost no experience with bards and none at all with bard tanks. Anyone got any suggestions for a bard tank with leadership (note all followers/cohort need to be focused on music)?
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #69 on: September 18, 2009, 05:37:34 PM »
Hmmm... This one is going to be a hard one for me since I have almost no experience with bards and none at all with bard tanks. Anyone got any suggestions for a bard tank with leadership (note all followers/cohort need to be focused on music)?
Factotum 1/Bard 9/Warrior Skaald 10?  Snowflake Wardance and Ice Harmonics from Frostburn keep the Skaald flavor.
Thanks man. If you're wondering why I wanted that, Bastian is bastion misspelled and it is also short for Sebastian as in Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #70 on: September 18, 2009, 06:58:06 PM »
I would have guessed PlzBreakMyCampaign would be a level 1 loredrake dragonwrought kobald :?
Yes and you forgot Dragonspawn Abomination
What about adding undead and gaining the Evolved template then buying it off at each level as many times as you can?

I hear the ghost savage progression template is pretty good too...
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #71 on: September 18, 2009, 07:35:46 PM »
Hmm... Well, I am named after a beer (7/8 the beer, 1/8 Optimus Prime). 

I guess I'll go with Warforged Bard 9 / Seeker of the Song 2 / Bard +9.  Go for Words of Creation and all the other song boosters (Song of the Heart, Badge of Valor, Inspirational Boost) and learn lots of buff spells.  Proceed to optimate the party.

That or something like Monk 1 / Unarmed Swordsage 4 / then alternate Drunken Master and Swordsage levels.

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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #72 on: September 18, 2009, 07:38:17 PM »
I don't think I can participate in this thread since, as far as I can remember, intelligent items don't have levels (Kuroimaken literally means Black Demonic Sword). If I'm wrong, it's probably something with a bazillion ego...
Sandwitch Psion?

I'm so lazy with Psionics... Can you help me out on that one?
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #73 on: September 18, 2009, 07:44:39 PM »
I don't think I can participate in this thread since, as far as I can remember, intelligent items don't have levels (Kuroimaken literally means Black Demonic Sword). If I'm wrong, it's probably something with a bazillion ego...
Sandwitch Psion?

I'm so lazy with Psionics... Can you help me out on that one?
It is an amusing way to use mindswitch, basically you turn an inanimate object animate with polymorph any object and then mindswitch into it and then switch back, making you effectively an intelligent item. Similar results can be obtained with haunt shift as well.

For me I would probably be a psion/anarchic initiate.

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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #74 on: September 18, 2009, 07:57:32 PM »

For me I would probably be a psion/anarchic initiate.

I would have guessed Havoc Mage.
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #75 on: September 18, 2009, 08:23:35 PM »
I don't think I can participate in this thread since, as far as I can remember, intelligent items don't have levels (Kuroimaken literally means Black Demonic Sword). If I'm wrong, it's probably something with a bazillion ego...
Sandwitch Psion?

I'm so lazy with Psionics... Can you help me out on that one?
It is an amusing way to use mindswitch, basically you turn an inanimate object animate with polymorph any object and then mindswitch into it and then switch back, making you effectively an intelligent item. Similar results can be obtained with haunt shift as well.

For me I would probably be a psion/anarchic initiate.


I know what the trick entails, actually. I'm just lazy at building Psionics. Less bookkeeping than Wizards or Clerics, I know, but the psionics rules really annoy me.
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #76 on: September 20, 2009, 12:54:35 AM »
I don't think I can participate in this thread since, as far as I can remember, intelligent items don't have levels (Kuroimaken literally means Black Demonic Sword). If I'm wrong, it's probably something with a bazillion ego...
Fiends of Possession can possess objects and make them move of their own accord...

Snow owl.... Probably a cold-themed Druid 20 or some-such.

Or a spirit shaman heading into moonspeaker guardian or something else that grants wildshape.
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #77 on: September 22, 2009, 12:31:13 AM »
My handle was the first name I ever came up with back on irc. At the time, I had joined an ffrp (free form role play) channel and my character was a 400 year old mage slowly suffering from memory loss. I fell into the trope of writing every part of his background as a terrible tragedy (for all our sakes I'm not going to link to tvtrops), but he was still a pretty well developed character. After nearly a year of playing the character and his degrading mental state, some of the players actually asked me to retire him because he reminded them too much of their own family members suffering from Alzheimer's.

As for myself, I'm a shortish nerdy looking guy working on his PhD in mechanical engineering, with performance level piano and dance background, and I'm a math teacher. I think my closest approximation would probably be a gnomish bard/artificer progressed with a houseruled Ultimate Magus.
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #78 on: September 22, 2009, 03:14:06 PM »
I don't think I can participate in this thread since, as far as I can remember, intelligent items don't have levels (Kuroimaken literally means Black Demonic Sword). If I'm wrong, it's probably something with a bazillion ego...
So post a Legacy sword that becomes intelligent.
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4: Partial casters. Adapt, Hexblade, Paladin, Ranger, Spelltheif.
3: Focused casters. Bard, Beguiler, Dread Necromancer, Martial Adapts, Warmage.
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Re: Build your namesake
« Reply #79 on: September 22, 2009, 03:59:47 PM »
Fighter / Sorcerer / Spellsword

With the biggest 2 handed weapon you could find. I like magic and platemail so Spellsword. Not optimized but this would be what I'd most likely be.

Name was used for a Soul Caliber char I made using the Iron Sword. Basically killed anything in 2 hits and regen'd all his life. To beat me was to avoid the soul edge until I bled out.