seebs |
So, I'm aware of things like Practiced Spellcaster (admittedly a 3.5 thing), or the traits that increase caster level.
The situation: Planning to create a private demiplane. The size of the created space is 3/10/20 10' cubes per caster level. Because this isn't a burst, emanation, or spread, we can't use Widen Spell on it. So the only way to increase the amount of space per casting (and thus per permanency, which is the expensive part) is to increase caster level.
What I've found so far:
Orange prism Ioun stone: +1, or +1d4-2+1 (= +1d4-1) if in a Wayfinder, maybe.
Traits (only we're LONG past character creation.)
and... That's it for stuff I can find. Lots of things give bonuses on caster level checks, but I want the spell's area increased, and that's not a CL check, just raw caster level. Lots of obscure stuff in 3.x books I don't have, probably, only I can't find the actual descriptions of them to verify whether they'd apply.
Consumables are fine, since the entire point of this is to try to increase the effect of spells I'm only going to cast a couple of times. And the ioun stone isn't a great deal with only +1CL, because I'd have to be making >20 castings of greater create demiplane before the extra space would allow me to drop at least one casting and thus one 22,500gp permanency, and... yeah, not planning on that many. Was thinking of two, maybe one if I could get my CL up enough higher.
seebs |
Create demiplane's not necromancy, and I'm not a divine caster, so I don't think I can do the prayer beads. It doesn't otherwise restrict to divine casters, but "This item appears to be nothing more than a string of prayer beads until the owner casts a divine spell while the beads are carried. Once that occurs, the owner instantly knows the powers of the prayer beads and understands how to activate the strand's special magical beads."
But I can't cast div... heyyyy. I have Use Magic Device. Not very much. But enough to cast a CL1 scroll, perhaps.
Hogeyhead |
There is aether a drug that gives you a flat +1 caster level for one hour, but you have to make caster level checks to cast your spells (15+spell level) addictive and deals con damage, though the con damage can be healed if someone can cast lesser restoration on you once a day. If you are high level though it may be worth it as the chance to fail your spells lessens as you level, and low level spells automatically succeed. remember to count the +1 caster lvl the drug grants and any other boosts to caster level you have.
There is a chance that you may be able to synthesize a cleaner version of the drug with gm approval...