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Soul Eater PrC + Locate City Bomb = Instant wright army?
While totally not possible in a non-gestalt game, in a gestalt game if you had a character who was a wizard(Or archivist, if it can get locate city)///some martial class(es)/soul eater by RAW it seems that all the wrights you make with locate city bomb immediately fall under your command as the soul slave ability, as written, says that whenever you level drain somebody down to 0 they raise as a wright under your command. It, however, dose NOT specify that this level-draining must come from your soul eater class features. Thus, by RAW, wrights you make with other level-draining powers, such as locate city bomb, would also be under your command. This essentially means that you could assemble a massive wright army totally loyal to you via locate city wrightbombing city after city....but I am not sure this works. Is this possible or did an errata kill this idea?
Sadly, as far as I know, this only works in gestalt, as I don't know of any caster classes that get good enough BAB AND Locate City, except for maybe the Battle Sorc....but if anybody knows a non-gestalt build that could pull this off, please, share.Last edited by Maho-Tsukai; 2011-07-16 at 11:26 PM.
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2011-07-16, 11:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Book of Vile Darkness. It's specifically a non-caster PrC and requires you to be non-humanoid. It's a painful class to get into, and as a result I could only see this being done in gestalt...or perhaps on a Phariem in non-gestalt if the starting level is high enough.
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2011-07-16, 11:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Soul Eater PrC + Locate City Bomb = Instant wright army?
...Level 20. Warforged Sorc. 11/Soul Eater 9. Versatile Spellcaster.
Suddenly, undead minions.
To clarify...
You need a BAB of +5 to get into Soul Eater. A level 10 Sorc has BAB of +5. Gather the metamagic feats you need, take the feat (you get Alertness from your familiar, so Weapon Focus for your slam is all you need) you need to qualify, and lol.Last edited by The-Mage-King; 2011-07-16 at 11:48 PM.
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Undead minions EVERYWHERE.
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2011-07-17, 06:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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True, but by RAW it allows you to cast 9ths without having the slots for them, and gives you spells with better DCs to boot...which would be a major plus in this build and absolutely necessary in a game going into epic where epic spellcasting is not banned.(As all it requires is the ability to cast 9th level arcane(for a sorc) spells, not actually having 9th level slots...thus spell drain allows you to qualify without 9th level slots because it still allows you to cast 9ths...which is all you need for epic spellcasting.) This build is already looking more and more diabolical by the minute. Now the only thing we need to do is find a way to beat spell resistance, since our CL is so low....
Also, for worlds in which warforged do not exist this build could always be made by using flaws to pick up willing deformity and deformity: Clawed Hands feats.
Also, I realized that this guy can become a demigod pre-epic if he wants. All he has to do is locate city wrightbomb enough areas to get 200+ wrights under his command(easy for this guy at level 20.)...and order them to worship him...suddenly he becomes a demigod. The more wrights you command, the higher your divine rank will go, and you can also grant spells meaning you can now have clerics. Get a few clerics, or even better, turn fallen clerics to your cause(so they will already be high level.) and they can build their own undead legions for you.
Take the Leadership feat and snag a cohort with planar travel spells( A Cleric would be a good choice both RP and mechanically) so when the time comes to go conquer other worlds you can do it, and also grab some Diplomancers. Send the Diplomancers out to tell people about how great it is to become undead and that joining the wrightpocopyse church would be super special awesome and both save them(and their family) from the master's wrath and do away with their boring, mundane life as a peasant farmer..or whatever else your Diplomancers may say to convince people to join your church. between your constant production of wrights that serve you, clerics making undead to worship you and diplomancers converting people to the the church of the wrightpocolypse you should be able to go from demigod to lesser deity quite quickly, and possibly even reach greater deity...PRE-EPIC....
Meanwhile if any high level casters try to foil your scheme your cleric buddy can deal with them for you, and if push comes to shove you could potentially deal with them if you get lucky with spell drain or happen to level drain some particularly nasty monster to use your Soul Radiance power to shapechange into.(Have your cleric minion use Greater Planar Ally, or see if you can spell drain greater planar binding to call some powerful outsider that you can force to stay still so you can keep touching it until it's level drained to 0.)
This guy would make a very powerful BBEG, to say the least...Last edited by Maho-Tsukai; 2011-07-17 at 08:44 AM.
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Negative levels don't make the dead come back as wrights unless they already were, or you train the wights you raise to craft, create and repair things.
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I do believe he meant wight.
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His idea is that Soul Eater doesn't specify HOW you make them, just that you have to make them. I, personally, think it's amusing to imagine.
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Re: Soul Eater PrC + Locate City Bomb = Instant wright army?
Practiced Spellcaster and an Ioun stone are obvious ways to boost CL.
Also, you can probably get an easy to enter PrC to replace some of the sorcerer levels. I don't see this as directly helping the CL issue but it does make the build stronger. The most obvious sorcerer level to replace is to replace level 11 with a PrC dip that has level 1 adding to caster level. Fatespinner would be an obvious one (so go sorcerer 10/fatespinner 1/soul eater 9) but the skill points required might not be worth it.
9th level ability of a Soul Eater: "If a 9th-level soul eater completely drains a creature of energy, the victim becomes a wight under the command of the soul eater." Now, you could argue that this only applies to energy drain by using soul eater class features but the other interpretation seems completely reasonable.Last edited by JoshuaZ; 2011-07-17 at 10:16 AM.
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A 4 man squad of level 5 clerics with the Sun Domain? :P
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Not only that but they're only averaging a Turn Damage of 14 HD for the 5th level clerics, meaning they're turning or destroying 3-4 wights per turn, provided they roll a 7 or better, meaning they only have a 70% chance of actually affecting them. This doesn't consider if any turn resistance they've otherwise picked up since raising, which makes it worse.
And besides, even if the clerics get their AC up to 23 or better (full plate, heavy shield, Dex 12 or better, shield of faith), there's enough of them that probability will dictate that one of them will crit and you'll suck up some negative levels, which will make you start slipping down the slippery slope into negative level death and wightdom. I don't expect them all to have Enduring Life or Sacred Vitality, so you need to keep yourself safe from the life-hating hordes somehow.Last edited by Cieyrin; 2011-07-17 at 01:58 PM.
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I can't quite remember the specifics of the LCB and I am away from book but a Stalwart Battle Sorcerer could get you the BAB faster and a free weapon focus for your claws (I guess it does say you get martial weapon proficiency and weapon focus with that weapon but what DM is honestly going to stop you?). This is all assuming you don't mind neutering your spells a bit.
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Well, with this build your not going to cast anything that an 11th level sorc could not cast traditionally(You can still cast higher level spells by spell-draining them from other casters, though, and you can get scrolls of what you need in a pinch) so as a result stalwart battle sorc would actually be good here, so you can actually be more effective in melee when you want to be...remember, arcane gets some good buffs, but nowhere near cleric-level when it comes to melee. So if you want to hack things up(and with soul eater levels, you do) and are not really focusing on being a traditional, spell-focused caster(which your not focusing on here with only 11 levels in a caster class.) stalwart battle sorc becomes ideal.
I am beginning to like this build as a BBEG...I will have to stat him up eventually and perhaps use him against my new playgroup in the future.Last edited by Maho-Tsukai; 2011-07-17 at 03:52 PM.
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That's such a waste of his potential.
He should be a PC who goes Face Heel Turn.
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Um yeah, I said Death Ward unless there's some single word version out there I'm unfamiliar with. I think 5 minutes of Death Ward should be long enough, though you may want to Extend it via DMM to be sure. Certainly cheaper than DMM(Persist), especially if you want to use your turns for actually driving off undead hordes.
Nimbus of Light does certainly have its appeal, though that kinda seems like nickles and dimes to me. Sacred Vengeance may be more applicable if you can get your attacks up for dishing out the holy smackdown.
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I think he could work well as a hidden baddie, someone you thought was a good patron and ally but was using the PCs as pawns to get rid of all the resistance in his way. He has the Charisma to pull off such a bluff, certainly.Last edited by Cieyrin; 2011-07-17 at 04:10 PM.
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While adventurers are always an issue(for every villain) this guy still has ways to deal with them. He has a 17th level cleric for his second in command, and since he is charismatic he can take ranks in social skills and get SOME of the other high level casters in the world on his side. With both his clerical "Dragon" and a bunch of high level casting conspirators/allies, he should have no issue taking out some messily low-mid level adventurers...it's the high level guys he has to worry about, but since he's a BBEG and not a PC I can basically give him access to any resources he needs...so yeah. Of course, as a BBEG the players will, eventually, defeat him....or join him, if they so choose.
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