Come up with a good or interesting enough story and you can ignore the mechanical requirements. Much like they do with the Runelords.
Deals and bargains, exposure to unique extraterrestrial or extraplanar substances, the list goes on.
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The easiest way is to become mythic. Longevity only requires one mythic Tier.
Other than that, there’s a few artifacts that give you immortality, but that’s about it. You can buy the sun orchard elixir when it comes up for auction, but that only resets your age; you immediately start aging again.
Cyclic reincarnation is the way that would require the least amount of “personalization” for your specific circumstances. Just take Leadership and have a druid cohort. For bonus points, leave the cohort somewhere safe and use some form of contingency / teleport combination to get your body to the druid immediately upon death. For bonus bonus points, take the Magaambyan Arcanist prestige class so you can learn the spell yourself return the favor for your druid friend.
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I would also let you use the Wish spell to make yourself younger. I just haven't given much thought as to how much you can do with a single wish and living forever.
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Which reminds me that in 1st Edition AD&D (and I presume 2nd Edition), casting Limited Wish or Wish aged you (as did some other critical spells, notably Restoration and Resurrection, as well as the Illusionist Wish substitute Alter Reality). But this problem seems to have gone away as of D&D 3.0 (although in 3.0 and 3.5 you had to pay with XP, but at least you could slowly get that back through continued death vagrancy).
Slight spoiler below.
More detailed spoiler.
I realized that the Arcane Discovery Immortality is Wizard only, so that's out, and the best I've found is as follows: a demiplane that stops aging, clone spell, and magic jar -so his real body stays in the plane while clones keep going out into the world.
Any demi-plane + Astral Projection.
Astral Projection places your real body into suspended animation. You're new body has copies of all your gear.
Infinite money always makes this either (permanant timeless demiplanes, sun orchid elixer, staves of reincarnate, and wish to reset your race)
The process is relatively simple, easily accomplished by a level 9 wizard, or level 10 arcanist/sorcerer
(If you know of a level 18 wizard, you can always buy a scroll of simulacrum, and make a level 9 wizard, just don't forget the cost of the Ruby dust)
First, cast summon monster level 4 (you can use higher, but this is easiest at level 9 and 10, with great return)
You summon a bison, (it has the highest strength) augmented summoning, and bulls strength can net more returns
You then cast anthropomorphic animal on the bison, you then cast possession on said bison
You now have a lot of strength, cast blood money, then fabricate gold coins
Fabricate allows you to craft something instantly, as long as you have the materiel, the material component, is the raw material
Blood money allows you to sacrifice strength (as strength damage) to produce the material components of a spell, which last until the spell is cast, 1 point if strength damage for 500gp of material.
You create gold with blood money, and turn it into coins with fabricate, after which they are no longer material components, and will not fade.
With your 30+ strength bison, leaving 1 strength so you can stay conscious
1 cycle nets over 10000gp
This takes a lot of your spells, so it is highly recommended to make simulacrum of a higher level wizard, or of yourself (once your level is high enough)
Put them in a double time demiplanes, and watch the dividends flow :D
Infinite money always makes this either (permanant timeless demiplanes, sun orchid elixer, staves of reincarnate, and wish to reset your race)
The process is relatively simple, easily accomplished by a level 9 wizard, or level 10 arcanist/sorcerer
(If you know of a level 18 wizard, you can always buy a scroll of simulacrum, and make a level 9 wizard, just don't forget the cost of the Ruby dust)
First, cast summon monster level 4 (you can use higher, but this is easiest at level 9 and 10, with great return)
You summon a bison, (it has the highest strength) augmented summoning, and bulls strength can net more returns
You then cast anthropomorphic animal on the bison, you then cast possession on said bison
You now have a lot of strength, cast blood money, then fabricate gold coins
Fabricate allows you to craft something instantly, as long as you have the materiel, the material component, is the raw material
Blood money allows you to sacrifice strength (as strength damage) to produce the material components of a spell, which last until the spell is cast, 1 point if strength damage for 500gp of material.
You create gold with blood money, and turn it into coins with fabricate, after which they are no longer material components, and will not fade.
With your 30+ strength bison, leaving 1 strength so you can stay conscious
1 cycle nets over 10000gp
This takes a lot of your spells, so it is highly recommended to make simulacrum of a higher level wizard, or of yourself (once your level is high enough)
Put them in a double time demiplanes, and watch the dividends flow :D
All you have to do is take down a certain Runelord to get access to Blood Money.
Make an intelligent magic item with a clone of your personality; not quite 'you' but it could be close.