check it out dude!
Seriously though ... you're looking at 9 LA. The answer is "No ... you can not make a decent wizard with 9 LA".
9 LA means that when you're casting 1st level spells, the other folks are throwing around 5th. It means at 17th they are slinging 9th level spells and you're sitting pretty at ... 4th. It means at 20th level you have 11 hit dice and the cleric has 20 ... one misplaced holy word and you're gone for good.
9 LA is a bit much to swallow, and harsher still for casters.
and the manual of monsters in witch a solaris is located would be mister smarty pants?:P
If you mean the Solar, it's in the Monster Manual pg. 12, under Angels.
Ghost Pixie = LA 9
You get Incorporeality and GI, which makes you pretty much unseeable without True Sight. We'll work on exploiting your hideyness for all it's worth. your total stat adjustments are:
Str -4 (This stat is only important for things you encounter on the ethereal plane); Con -; Dex +8; Int +6; Wis + 4; Cha +10
Str is a dump stat, put everything in the other 4. As for class levels, we want to get as much brokenness as we can out of that Cha +10:
Rogue 1/Paladin 2/Marshal 1 (Complete Miniatures)/Battledancer 1 (Dungeon Magazine)
The rogue is for useful sneaking class skills, the Pally is for Divine Grace (Cha to Saves), the Marshal is for Minor Aura: Art of War (+ Cha to Disarm, Trip, Bull Rush), and the Battledancer gives Cha to AC. If you can't sell the Dancer to your DM, go monk instead for Wis to AC.
From here, we go to offense. Note that Paladin has concentration as a class skill. We use this to qualify for Master of the Unseen Hand and we take at least four levels of it (The last ability is kinda crappy). The final two levels are pretty much up to you (more Rogue for the fun skills ain't bad: get your Hide up so you can sneak by pesky people with True Sight!).
In summary, we get Telekinesis, at Caster level 12, as an Su (meaning you never have to check SR) from Ghost. You're full attacking with a BaB of +12 (by RAW, Improved caster level doesn't work for Su abilities, for the good reason that they scale themselves), and can use that BaB with your Cha added to make touch attacks for combat maneuvers. Disarm, Trip, and Bull Rush all have insane modifiers due to Cha adding to them twice, and you should be able to do them to pretty much anything. As for Violent Thrust, which you can do every 1d4 rounds, have your party members carry around a collection of greatswords or something to utterly ravage the poor target with. There's more skeeze that can be done with violent thrust, such as using Greater Mighty Wallop (Races of the Dragon) on all the objects, but it isn't truly necessary. Don't forget that your ghost can get gear like a +6 Cha cloak if a party member plane shifts it to the ethereal plane for him.
In the end, we actually manage to eat 9 levels of LA, and if the game is at least ECL 18, we still have a quite playable character.
Yes, I can. A wizard 17 can Shapechange into a ghost pixie. The end.
you can shapechange into templated forms?
Well, if you wanna be an ECL 20 Ghost Pixie, there's really only one way it's gonna work, and that's Telekinesis. And it'll be GOOD too, just watch.
In the end, we actually manage to eat 9 levels of LA, and if the game is at least ECL 18, we still have a quite playable character.
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):DAcquired Template that can be applied to any Aberration, Animal, Dragon, Giant, Humanoid, Magical Beast, Monstrous Humanoid, or Plant.
Pixies are Fey Types..... thus unable to do it...
but Pixie Wizard 17 is still very nice and is great for even a Core only game
:D
i also have trouble with words like Aberration
:D
also who's otto? it should be carnivore's magical dance!
:D
you can shapechange into templated forms?
Well, it's broken as hell of course, but I think RAW it is legal.
assume the form of any single nonunique creature
I doubt a pixie ghost is unique.
it is the Charismatic Hero type from D20 Modern games
:D
I always assumed it was Leorio, a character from an anime I saw back at college.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leorio
ghosts can become in-corporeal and corpreal
no, they cant. they can stay on the ethereal plane or manifest as an incorporeal creature on the material plane.
(also see the feats listed in the ghost guide because they explain my logic. search for it. find it.)
The bad news, is you have to devote yourself to the cult of the Dragon Below. You can't be Lawful, or Good, which means the following retroactive build changes:
The Paladin has to be a Unearthed Arcana Paladin of Slaughter (C/E). If you went Monk instead of Battledancer, you're gonna have to be a Chaotic Monk. (Dragon 335). Lastly, you don't have space in the build for the Rogue level anymore, but don't worry, we can still get Hide as a class skill.
Start as a C/E Pixie with +4 LA. Then, take Pally 2/Marshal 1/Battledancer 1. Then, proceed to Dragon 332, devote yourself to the Cult of the Dragon Below, turn to page 45, and take three levels in Aberrant Paragon. At the end of the day, you gain +2 Cha (yay!) and become an Aberration.
After this, die, rise as a Ghost, change your type to Undead, and gain +5 LA. From here, take Master of the Unseen Hand 4. You are now ECL 20 with 11 HD, as a Telekinesis-abusing C/E Ghost Pixie with a side of Aberration.
Take that, logic and reason.
YOU DID IT! you actually did it!........ you only broke the laws of physics int the process.....
also would that work? i'm not sure cuz i'd still be fey. or is that as long as your one of those types you can take templates
You would still be a Pixie Ghost. Your type would be Undead (Augmented Aberration (Augmented Fey)). If you have Fey only Feats to take, take them before you reach Aberrant Paragon 3.
i think we need to unleash this undead augmented abberition fey on the boards!:D