Shadowcraft Mage at VERY low levels.

[Nytemare3701]

Using The Mad Linguist's cheesy kobold substitution levels, I've made a Shadowcraft mage at level 2. While many of these rules are on VERY thin ice, I'm not here to debate them. At our table the character sheets are just rules support for a character you want to play. (The planar shepherd isn't broken for us for example, because we have mature players who suffer self-imposed "cinematic exhaustion" when using powerful abilities.)

Racial requirements are being ignored.
Halruaan Elder Item creation feat is being ignored, since the DM doesn't want to deal with crafting.

Assume DragonWrought Kobold, Loredrake, LA Buyoff for White Dragonspawn, and Greater Draconic Rite for a +4 to sorcerer levels.

Level 1: Sorc7+3.
Levels 2-5 SCM
Incantatrix 6
MSS 7-9
Halruan Elder 10-14
Incantatrix 15-20

What I am asking from you: Feats. I know the SCM handbook has plenty of feats, but I'm going to be screwing around a lot, and not going for maximum power.

Build Goals:
Arcane Thesis+Easy+MSS+Adroit for +0 Irresistable Spell. (I just don't want to deal with the % reality, and neither does the DM)
Fun bags of tricks.
The occasional "darkness consumes you all" type effect.
A Magic specialist, who is adept at seeing the components that make up spells. (Item familiar to stack spellcraft.)

Edit: We start play at level 4, all books and magazines are allowed, and I'm Lawful Neutral.
Edit2: Killing myself for Ghost1, and we are using pathfinder feat progression. So...more feats, +2 from taint.

Current Feats:
F:DWrought
F:Draconic Reservoir
1:Spell Focus (illusion)
3:Heighten Spell
T:Earth Sense
T:Earth Spell
5: Arcane Thesis (Silent Image)
Inc1:Envelope the Wall
7:Spell Thematics
MSS2:Maximize Spell
9:Halruaan Adept
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Feats to order:
Miser with Magic
easy metamagic (irresistible spell)
residual metamagic
Irresistible Spell
Metanode Magic
Node Spellcasting
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Open feat slots:
11
DCFS from HE2
13
DCFS from HE5
15
Inc4
17
19
Inc7

[jameswilliamogle]

I like Invisible Spell.

[altpersona]

fell

[Nytemare3701]

So invisible spell and Fell Animate Metamagic feats?

[Lycanthromancer]

Chosen of Tem Et Nu.

Everything's better as a Chosen of Tem Et Nu.

EVERYTHING.

[Nytemare3701]

I'm assuming this is some inside joke?

Blessing of Tem Et Nu let's me rebuke Hippos. What the hell.

[Benly]

I'm assuming this is some inside joke?

Blessing of Tem Et Nu let's me rebuke Hippos. What the hell.

Hippos are pretty hardcore, man.

[X-Codes]

I'm assuming this is some inside joke?

Blessing of Tem Et Nu let's me rebuke Hippos. What the hell.

Hippos are pretty hardcore, man.

I've seen a Hippo eat a Dragon.

[BeholderSlayer]

Hippos are like Pun Pun, but way stronger.

[lianightdemon]

I've played a hippo psion (3.0 psionics)

[McPoyo]

Rebuke them, AND they won't attack you. There's two parts to that feat.

[Nytemare3701]

 

Seriously though. Our current DM isn't planning on introducing Hippos, and I'd like to focus on metamagic/shadow casting.

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

As long your aware that the greater passage can't be taken until 6, I 2nd invisible spell

[Nytemare3701]

I'm aware. I'm only listed as level 4 at the start. 2 for lore, 1 for WDS.

Clarified via edit.

[The_Mad_Linguist]

So what order are you applying your templates?

Because you have to end up as a type:dragon to get the best benefits.  That loses you some undead bonuses, but since you can't be turned to death I consider it an advantage.


Note that, given that the cheesesub levels require an extremely strict adherence to RAW, your first level (seventh level substition) is only giving you first level sorcerer spellcasting.  I think that's how you're playing it right now, but want to clarify it.

[jameswilliamogle]

Oh!  Signature Spell: Hippo-themes.  FTW.

[Nytemare3701]

So what order are you applying your templates?

Because you have to end up as a type:dragon to get the best benefits.  That loses you some undead bonuses, but since you can't be turned to death I consider it an advantage.


Note that, given that the cheesesub levels require an extremely strict adherence to RAW, your first level (seventh level substition) is only giving you first level sorcerer spellcasting.  I think that's how you're playing it right now, but want to clarify it.

I don't need to keep the dragonblood stuff past level 1. I plan on "dying" at level 3.  I don't want dragon polymorphs, and I don't want to further the kobold cheese past getting into SCM early and having the bonus sorcerer levels/stats.

Tossing in Unseelie Fey (Ignoring evil) and Magic-Blooded.

What would be the correct order to stack the templates?

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Thing is, you lose your type:dragon and you lose all the benefits, including your early entries and racial sub cheese.

Just set it up so you apply dragonwrought last... come to think of it, there might be difficulties with unseelie's fey type change...

[RelentlessImp]

So what order are you applying your templates?

Because you have to end up as a type:dragon to get the best benefits.  That loses you some undead bonuses, but since you can't be turned to death I consider it an advantage.


Note that, given that the cheesesub levels require an extremely strict adherence to RAW, your first level (seventh level substition) is only giving you first level sorcerer spellcasting.  I think that's how you're playing it right now, but want to clarify it.

I don't need to keep the dragonblood stuff past level 1. I plan on "dying" at level 3.  I don't want dragon polymorphs, and I don't want to further the kobold cheese past getting into SCM early and having the bonus sorcerer levels/stats.

Tossing in Unseelie Fey (Ignoring evil) and Magic-Blooded.

What would be the correct order to stack the templates?

Magic-Blooded White Dragonspawn Unseelie Fey Dragonwrought Loredrake Kobold Ghost, I believe.

[Nytemare3701]

Thing is, you lose your type:dragon and you lose all the benefits, including your early entries and racial sub cheese.

Just set it up so you apply dragonwrought last... come to think of it, there might be difficulties with unseelie's fey type change...

Racial sub cheese will no longer be needed, as by the time I'm dead I'll have the prerequisite spellcasting.