Originally Posted by
Darrin
I really, really, really did look at embrace the dark chaos/shun the dark chaos several times. However, each time I checked it, I completely missed that they were 8th level spells, not 6th. Somehow I had it in my head that they were 6th, and it didn't occur to me to check the spell level. However, by the time I realized this, Helio had already posted the builds, so I wasn't able to fix it. I did have a fix, though... I was going to rework some of the skill points to put some ranks in Knowledge: Religion, and use the Sacrifice rules from BoVD to snag an efreet to use the wishes for DCFS. I could also use the Artaaglith's cleric casting to snag guidance of the avatar for +20 on the roll, which would at least have involved the Secret Ingredient. Yes, it would have added more cheese to a build already overloaded with fromagery, but that's why I named the build "Queso Grande" (Big Cheese in Spanish).
That was not the only thing I missed, though... I forgot to check the prereqs on Practiced Manifester as well as the Charisma requirement. Psionics is one of my weak areas. So, yeah... this was not going to be a good round for me.
Even so, I did learn quite a bit more about Factotums. As expected, the other chefs came up with some wonderfully unique and creative ideas. I'm a big fan of muckdwellers, and a muckdweller truenamer took the gold! (Although I am mystified why he isn't named D'Artagnan.) Congratulations to Zaq, Darkcouch, daremetoidareyo, Thurbane, and all the others!