Greetings all,
I'm making a Cleric/Wiz/MT NPC for my melee-heavy 10-person Rise of the Rune Lords campaign. I'm houseruling to compensate for some of the more terrible bits of MT, but I'm hung up on what feats to choose.
I'm leaving out the full build but here's a little background:
*It's for sure going to be Cleric/Wizard/MT; not Sorcerer, Oracle, or Witch
*Healing/support is what they need, so that's what I'm focusing on.
*They are already facerolling alot of encounters because of their action economy, so I'm not interested in a blasting or summoning focused build...the last thing I need is more bodies to contend with. I've banned Leadership for the same reason.
*The NPC will be a Foresight Wizard with the Luck and Healing Domains.
-Acting first is key, so I'm stacking initiative bonuses.
*I'm the DM so I'll allow 3.5 feats in a pinch, but I'd rather not since I don't really want the players using them, either.
*I'll be using Eclectic Training and Magical Knack to make up the lost caster levels.
*I am not allowing the Wizard bonus feats beyond Scribe Scroll.
This is sort of a mishmash of healing and divination focused builds I've seen floating around:
1 Improved Initiative
3 Reach Spell
4 Scribe Scroll (Bonus as first Wiz level)
5 Selective Channeling
7 Spell Penetration
9 Craft Rod
11 Empower Spell
13 Quicken Spell
15 True Name (It's a summons...but Planetar Pet FTW)
17 Greater Spell Penetration
19 Spell Perfection (If 3 metamagic feats)
Ultimately I guess I'm trying to optimize something that is innately non-optimal...so I'll take all the help I can get, thanks!
Amen to that.
And with Esoteric Training and Magical Knack it seems to me you really don't give up too much even without much houseruling.
I've been trying to play one for ages, and now I finally can. Well, "can".
Now I have to restrain myself from making them mythic ;).
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The name of the feat on d20pfsrd.com is "Eldritch Eye". The PAGE NAME in terms of how it is linked, WAS "eye-of-the-arclord" only because that's what the name of the FEAT originally was before we converted from CUP to PCL. We've been going back and updating page names as we find them. This one is now updated to be "eldritch-eye" but that only matters in terms of if you are linking to the page. That is, where previously the page was found at http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/eye-of-the-arclord it is now at http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/eldritch-eye.
Also, if someone sees stuff like this and takes a second to let us know we can fix pretty quick. Thanks all!
The name of the feat on d20pfsrd.com is "Eldritch Eye". The PAGE NAME in terms of how it is linked, WAS "eye-of-the-arclord" only because that's what the name of the FEAT originally was before we converted from CUP to PCL. We've been going back and updating page names as we find them. This one is now updated to be "eldritch-eye" but that only matters in terms of if you are linking to the page. That is, where previously the page was found at http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/eye-of-the-arclord it is now at http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/eldritch-eye.
Also, if someone sees stuff like this and takes a second to let us know we can fix pretty quick. Thanks all!
The Cleric prestige class Gray Warden still has the URL Gray Gardner, it's old name. That's the only one I've noticed.
Amen to that.
And with Esoteric Training and Magical Knack it seems to me you really don't give up too much even without much houseruling.
Unless your house ruling Esoteric Training as a feat, he/she will have to put some resources into gaining the Fame to acquire that right. From what I remember the education checks are not the easiest thing to make.
It's not TOO terribly hard to gain fame IMHO:
About Semesters
Every school functions on what are known as “semesters.” You can make one Education check (using a skill chosen from your school’s Education check options) per semester. A semester’s actual in-game duration varies from school to school, and you shouldn’t hesitate to further adjust a school’s semester length to match the speed at which time passes in your campaign. As a general rule, a student should be able to attempt 4 to 6 Education checks per character level, so if in your game characters gain levels at a much accelerated or much slowed rate, you should adjust the length of a semester accordingly. One relatively simple way to hand-wave semesters is to simply treat each game session, no matter how much time passes during that session, as a “semester,” and allow characters in schools an Education check at the end of each game session. You can also simply tie these checks to character level, and allow characters to make 5 Education checks all at once every time they level up
That's 35-42 checks by level 7, not to mention the glory gained from their heroic exploits, which dovetails nicely with the fact that the characters become increasingly more famous during Rise of the Rune Lords.
Does anyone think the eldritch heritage feat line is worthwhile for this build, and of so: What bloodline?