The party has 2-4 BSF's (depending on who shows up), an NPC cleric (with trapfinding), an enchanter and warlock. I would like to provide a challenge for the party, but would prefer some controllability (i.e., I don't like high crit weapons for big nasties, makes the encounter harder to "control"). Remember, the GM is ultimately supposed to lose.
So, here are the BBEG's that could be faced by the party in various bottom levels. If you could provide some strategy, that would really help (spells, tactics, etc.). Assume all underground with passages between 10' wide and some larger rooms up to 50' in size (except as noted in specific areas).
9 Ogre Mages who worship Nerull (should have some connection, cleric, knowledge religion, other ideas) and ride within Huge/Gargantuan Troll Skeletons. Cavern is about 250' across with pyramid at the center.
32 point buy
CR15 with levels/templates
Shock Troops are Ogres Archers and Foot soldiers (CR8 max), Salamanders (fire), and Troll Skeletons. Use 25 PB for these opponents.
5 wizards (race open) (1 should be neutral, rest are evil, fiendish templates or similar would be great flavor)
32 point buy
CR18 with levels/templates
Humanoid Druid
32 point buy
CR15
Red Dragon (large lair)
32 point buy
CR20 (use Draconomicon if you like here), can polymorph into a small bird to access outside through small opening.
1 Illusionist
32 point buy
CR17
8 Umber Hulks
32 PB
CR12 each
1 Fire Giant Mummy
25 PB
CR17 (module says that because it is fire giant, is immune to fire)
2 Liches (1 is former human), on seperate levels. One should be a "bookworm" and disinterested in the party unless attacked.
32 PB
CR20
2 Spectres and 1 Ghost
25 PB
CR13
1 Troll Druid (only retains spellcasting ability, no wildshape)
32 PB
CR22
2 Mind Flayers
32 PB
CR15
2 Divine Casters (Cleric/FS/etc.), they work together.
32 PB
CR16
Worship Nerull, Vaprak, or Tharizdun
Please limit the books to core, completes, races, BoVD, selected FRCS materials and other books (try to limit this). Use standard NPC money rules. Please no DMM (Persistent). No DL or Eberrron. No Book of 9 Swords (personal preference and players are in agreement).
Again, thanks in advance. I try hard to provide a fun experience for my group and hope this can help. This board is a real help in providing challenges for my players.
WB00 Ogre Foot Soldiers: Male Ogre Bbn2/Ftr4; CR 9 (I consider this CR8 since I did not include the monster hit dice);
Large Giant;
HD 4d10+2d12+36; hp 85;
Init +1; Spd 20 ft/x3;
AC 21 (+8 armor, +1 dex, -1 size, +5 natural, -2 misc), touch 8, flat-footed 21;
Base Atk/Grapple +6/+19;
Full Atk +11/+6 Two-handed (2d8+21;20/x3, Masterwork glaive), +10/+5 Two-handed (2d6+21;20/x3, Spear), +14/+9 Thrown (2d6+9;20/x3, Spear(Thrown));
SA&SQ Rage, Uncanny Dodge(Ex), Wolf Spiritual Totem (Su);
SR 0; AL CE; SV Fort +13, Ref +2, Will +4;
Str 28(+9), Dex 12(+1), Con 22(+6), Int 6(-2), Wis 13(+1), Cha 4(-3);
Skills: Intimidate¹ +5, Listen¹ +7.
–– RACE ABILITIES ––
• +10 Strength, -2 Dexterity, +4 Constitution, -4 Intelligence, -4 Charisma
• Base land speed of 40 feet.
• Space/Reach: 10'/10'
• +5 Natural Armor bonus.
• Darkvision 60 feet.
• Low-Light Vision
• Favored Class: Barbarian
–– CLASS ABILITIES ––
• Proficient in all armor, and all shields(including tower shields)
• Proficient with all simple and martial weapons.
• Rage: You can fly into a screaming frenzy once per encounter, up to 1 time per day. This gives +4 to Strength and Constitution, +12 hit points, and a +2 morale bonus to Will saves, but gives a -2 penalty to AC. Cannot use any skills that require patience or concentration while enraged. Your rage lasts up to 11 rounds.
• Uncanny Dodge(Ex): You retain your Dexterity bonus to AC even if flatfooted or struck by an invisible attacker.
• Wolf Spiritual Totem (Su): You gain an additional +2 bonus on attack rolls when flanking an opponent
–– FEATS ––
• Combat Reflexes (PH 92) : Additional attacks of opportunity.
• Power Attack (PH 98) : Trade attack bonus for damage (up to base attack bonus).
• Quick Draw (PH 98) : Draw weapon as free action.
• Brutal Throw (CAd 106) : Use Str rather than Dex to attack rolls with thrown weapons
• Power Throw (CAd 111) : Power Attack with thrown weapons
• Improved Toughness (MM4 203) : Gain hp equal to your current HD.
BTW, Ogre is raging, which explains AC and STR adjustments and used 4 points of Power Attack as a default. Please offer constructive criticism to help me improve these monsters. I fear the party members are getting used to my typical construction of monsters and so therefore, I'd like to change things up a bit.
For the mind flayers, I suggest the variant from the Expanded Psionics Handbook. You trade the psi-like abilities for manifesting as a 9th level psion (telepath). You could fill them out with 7 levels of slayer.
If they don't need to be mind flayers per se, you could use ulitharids (Lords of Madness). Those are essentially scaled-up CR 12 mind flayers.
It was surprisingly difficult to find out that BSF stands for big stupid fighter. Knowing that, I'd just go with 24 HD for the umber hulk. Aberrations get +4 CR for +16 HD and the boost to huge size is another +1 CR. The physical resilience from +16 HD is good against the fighters and the +8 to will saves is good against the enchanter.
I'd add on Robilar's gambit (PHBII), combat reflexes, improved combat reflexes, and improved trip.
XPH and LoM, I don't have them. Also, since the players and I generally have hated psionics since 2E, I'd rather not piss them off by using it. But thanks for the idea.
Like the idea of the Umber Hulks. Huge is out due to lack of space for that size and I'm guessing the improved combat reflexes is to fuel Robilar's Gambit.
Would it be possible to just take the feat multiple times instead? I'm putting the monster together in Monster Forge and the stats don't support much cleric use. I can see 3 open feat slots right now.
Current Feats: Combat Reflexes, Great Fortitude, Improved Toughness, Multiattack, Robilar's Gambit, Travel Devotion, 3 open feats.
EDIT: After thinking about it more, I like the idea of the Umber Hulks worshipping a god. Is there an umber hulk deity? Or should they worship a standard Oerth deity? I know its flavor, just trying to make the flavor fit the build.
Please comment.
Male Ogre Mage Clr7/Gnt5; CR 15;
Large Giant;
HD 12d8+72; hp 135;
Init +1; Spd 30 ft/x3;Fly 40 ft.(Good);
AC 31 (+11 armor, +4 shield, +1 dex, -1 size, +5 natural, +1 deflection), touch 11, flat-footed 30; (used Buckler to allow scythe use, Nerull's favored weapon - I know I am contradicting myself from the 1st post, but it does fit flavorwise)
Base Atk/Grapple +8/+21;
Full Atk +17/+12 Two-handed (2d6+15;20/x4, +2 Scythe), +9/+4 Thrown (2d6+9;20/x3, Masterwork spear(Thrown));
SA&SQ Damage Reduction(Ex), Aura of Evil(Ex), Spontaneous Casting, Restricted Spells, Rebuke Undead(Su), Domains;
SR 26; AL NE; SV Fort +18, Ref +7, Will +19;
Str 28(+9), Dex 12(+1), Con 22(+6), Int 14(+2), Wis 23(+6), Cha 20(+5);
Skills: Concentration¹ +24, Knowledge (arcana) +7, Knowledge (religion) +9, Knowledge (the planes) +11, Listen¹ +14, Spellcraft +12, Spot¹ +14.
–– RACE ABILITIES ––
• +10 Strength, +6 Constitution, +4 Intelligence, +4 Wisdom, +6 Charisma
• Base land speed of 40 feet.
• Space/Reach: 10'/10'
• +5 Natural Armor bonus.
• Darkvision 90 feet.
• Low-Light Vision
• Regeneration(Ex): 5
• Spell-like abilities: At will - darkness, invisibility
1/day - charm person(DC 16), cone of cold (DC 20), gaseous form, sleep(DC 16).
• Spell Resistance 26
• Flight(Su): You have a Fly speed of 40 feet(good). You can cease or resume flight as a free action. While in gaseous form you can fly at your normal fly speed with perfect maneuverability.
• Change Shape (Su): An ogre mage can assume the form of any Small, Medium, or Large humanoid or giant.
• Favored Class: Sorcerer
–– CLASS ABILITIES ––
• Proficient in all armor, and all shields(except tower shields)
• Proficient with all simple and martial weapons.
• Damage Reduction(Ex): 3/-
• Aura of Evil(Ex): You have a strong aura of Evil.
• Spontaneous Casting: Can spontaneously cast Inflict spells, by sacrificing a pre-prepared spell of equal or higher level.
• Restricted Spells: cannot cast Good spells.
• Rebuke Undead(Su): Can rebuke undead 8 times per day. A rebuking check is made on 1d20+7; rebuking damage is equal to 2d6+12 on a successful check.
• Domains:
¤ Evil: You cast evil spells at +1 caster level.
¤ Death: You may use death touch once per day. If you touch your victim, roll 7d6. If this at least equals the victim's hit points,
it dies.
–– FEATS ––
• Skill Focus (PH 100) (Concentration) : +3 bonus on checks with selected skill.
• Divine Fortune (PH2 88) : You can expend turn/rebuke attempt to gain +4 bonus on next save.
• Divine Shield (CW 106) : Add Cha bonus as sacred bonus to your shield's defense.
• Somatic Weaponry (CM 47) : Cast spells with your hand full.
• Evil Devotion (CC 58) : Grant yourself and allies within 30' DR/good for 1 minute
Male Ogre Mage Hxb4/SuA1/AbJ2/Gnt5; CR 15;
Large Giant;
HD 6d8+6d10+84; hp 165;
Init +2; Spd 40 ft/x4;Fly 40 ft.(Good);
AC 28 (+4 armor, +6 shield, +2 dex, -1 size, +5 natural, +2 deflection), touch 13, flat-footed 26;
Base Atk/Grapple +9/+21;
Full Atk +12/+7 Two-handed (2d6+8;19-20/x3, +2 Composite Longbow [+6]), +17/+12 Two-handed (2d6+13;15-20/x2, +1 Falchion);
SA&SQ Hexblade's Curse(Su), Arcane Resistance(Su), Mettle(Su), Spell Ability, Ignore Spell Failure Chance(Ex), Tenacious Spells(Ex), Abjurant Armor (Su), Extended Abjuration (Su), Swift Abjuration (Su), Dark Companion;
SR 26; AL NE; SV Fort +12, Ref +6, Will +14;
Str 26(+8), Dex 14(+2), Con 24(+7), Int 14(+2), Wis 14(+2), Cha 29(+9);
Skills: Concentration¹ +22, Intimidate¹ +17, Jump¹ +19, Knowledge (arcana) +7, Spellcraft +15, Spot¹ +5, Tumble +14.
–– RACE ABILITIES ––
• +10 Strength, +6 Constitution, +4 Intelligence, +4 Wisdom, +6 Charisma
• Base land speed of 40 feet.
• Space/Reach: 10'/10'
• +5 Natural Armor bonus.
• Darkvision 90 feet.
• Low-Light Vision
• Regeneration(Ex): 5
• Spell-like abilities: At will - darkness, invisibility
1/day - charm person(DC 20), cone of cold (DC 24), gaseous form, sleep(DC 20).
• Spell Resistance 26
• Flight(Su): You have a Fly speed of 40 feet(good). You can cease or resume flight as a free action. While in gaseous form you can fly at your normal fly speed with perfect maneuverability.
• Change Shape (Su): An ogre mage can assume the form of any Small, Medium, or Large humanoid or giant.
• Favored Class: Sorcerer
–– CLASS ABILITIES ––
• Proficient in light armor, and all shields(except tower shields)
• Proficient with all simple and martial weapons.
• Hexblade's Curse(Su): 1 time(s) per day, as a free action, you can unleash a curse upon a foe within 60 feet that you can see. The target of your curse takes a -2 penalty attacks, save, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls for 1 hour thereafter. A successful Will save (DC 21) negates the effect.
• Arcane Resistance(Su): You gain a bonus of +9 on saving throws against spells and spell-like effects.
• Mettle(Su): If you make a successful Will or Fortitude saving throw that would normally reduce the spell's effect, you suffer no effect from the spell at all. Only those spells with a Saving Throw entry of "Will partial," "Fortitude half," or similar entries can be negated through this ability.
• Spell Ability: Your spells are affected by arcane spell failure.
• Ignore Spell Failure Chance(Ex): When casting a Suel Arcanamach spell, your arcane spell failure is reduced by 5%.
• Tenacious Spells(Ex): Add 6 to the DC required to dispel your arcanamach spells.
• Abjurant Armor (Su): Any time you cast an abjuration spell that grants you an armor bonus or shield bonus to AC, you can add your abjurant champion level to the bonus.
• Extended Abjuration (Su): The duration of your abjuration spells are doubled.
• Swift Abjuration (Su): Beginning at 2nd level, you can cast abjuration spells as a swift action.
• Dark Companion: Gain an illusory panther as companion that hinders adjacent ennemy defenses, giving them -2 to AC and Saves.
–– FEATS ––
• Combat Casting (PH 92) : +4 bonus on Concentration checks for defensive casting.
• Combat Reflexes (PH 92) : Additional attacks of opportunity.
• Improved Critical (PH 95) (Longbow, Composite) : Double threat range of weapon.
• Iron Will (PH 97) : +2 bonus on Will saves.
• Improved Toughness (MM4 203) : Gain hp equal to your current HD.
Comments?
If you don't want the umber hulks to be huge, you can use the dungeonbred template (Dungeonscape). It knocks a creature's size down by one step, gives bonuses to compensate, and does not change CR.
Alternately, you can say these are unusual umber hulks that did not become huge upon reaching 13 HD. In that case, they would be only CR 11 at 24 HD and would not have the normal benefits of the size increase. If you like, you could give them 28 HD to make them CR 12. Again, this would require them to be special umber hulks.
Bear in mind, you are allowed to change the feats a monster has. Steadfast determination (PHBII) lets you use con instead of wis for will saves. Improved rapidstrike (Draconomicon) gives you 4 extra attacks.
Here is the Fire Giant Mummy.
Fire Giant Mummy: Male Giant(Fire) Und20; CR 15;
Large Undead (augmented giant, fire);
HD 20d8; hp 245;
Init +1; Spd 40 ft/x4;
AC 28 (+1 dex, -1 size, +18 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 27;
Base Atk/Grapple +15/+36;
Full Atk +22/+22 Secondary Natural (2d6+17;19-20/x2, Slam);
SA&SQ ;
SR 0; AL NE; SV Fort +12, Ref +7, Will +10;
Str 44(+17), Dex 12(+1), Con —(+0), Int 6(-2), Wis 19(+4), Cha 18(+4);
Skills: Intimidate¹ +27, Spot¹ +22.
• ½ damage from fire
–– TEMPLATE ABILITIES ––
• Despair(Su): Those who gaze upon you must make a successful Will save (DC 24) or be paralyzed with fear for 1d4 rounds. Successful Will save or not, your target cannot be affected again by the sight of you for 24hrs.
• Mummy Rot(Su): With a successful hit by a natural attack and a failed Fort save (DC 24) you cause a disease which takes 1 minute to incubate and causes 1d6 Con & Cha damage.
• DR 5/-
• Immunities: Immune to mind-affecting spells and effects, poison, sleep effects, paralysis, stunning, disease, death effects, damage to physical ability scores, energy drain, fatigue, exhaustion, death from massive damage, extra damage from critical hits, and effects that require Fort saves, unless it works on objects.
–– FEATS ––
• Improved Critical (PH 95) (Slam) : Double threat range of weapon.
• Daunting Presence (LM 25) : Overawe enemy to make it shaken
• Death Master (LM 26) : On your critical hit, target is also shaken
• Eviscerator (LM 26) : On your critical hit, foe and its allies are shaken
• Improved Natural Attack (MM 304) (Slam) : Natural attack increases
by one step, as if your size category had increased.
• Improved Toughness (MM4 203) : Gain hp equal to your current HD.
• Unholy Toughness(User): Gain HP equal to your HD times CHA modifier.
And another Ogre Mage
ogre mage duskblade: Male Ogre Mage DuB7/Gnt5; CR 15;
Large Giant;
HD 12d8+84; hp 147;
Init +2; Spd 30 ft/x4;Fly 40 ft.(Good);
AC 30 (+12 armor, +2 dex, -1 size, +5 natural, +2 deflection), touch 13, flat-footed 28;
Base Atk/Grapple +10/+24;
Full Atk +21/+16 Two-handed (3d6+17;19-20/x2, +2 Cold Iron greatsword), +12/+7 Two-handed (2d6+1;20/x3, +1 Composite Longbow);
SA&SQ Arcane Attunement (Sp), Armored Mage (Light) (Ex), Arcane Channeling (Su), Armored Mage (Medium) (Ex), Quick Casting, Spell Power (Ex), Armored Mage (Heavy Shield) (Ex);
SR 26; AL NE; SV Fort +19, Ref +8, Will +11;
Str 30(+10), Dex 14(+2), Con 24(+7), Int 22(+6), Wis 14(+2), Cha 14(+2);
Skills: Concentration¹ +15, Knowledge (arcana) +23, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +13, Knowledge (local) +21, Knowledge (nature) +21, Knowledge (religion) +10, Knowledge (the planes) +16, Listen¹ +10, Spellcraft +16, Spot¹ +10.
• Darkvision 90 feet.
• Low-Light Vision
• Regeneration(Ex): 5
• Spell-like abilities: At will - darkness, invisibility 1/day - charm person(DC 13), cone of cold (DC 17), gaseous form, sleep(DC 13).
• Spell Resistance 26
• Flight(Su): You have a Fly speed of 40 feet(good). You can cease or resume flight as a free action. While in gaseous form you can fly at your normal fly speed with perfect maneuverability.
• Change Shape (Su): An ogre mage can assume the form of any Small, Medium, or Large humanoid or giant.
• Quick Casting: You can cast 1 spell(s) a day as a swift action as long as the spells casting time is one standard action or less.
• Spell Power (Ex): If you injure an opponent in melee you gain a +2 bonus to caster level checks to overcome spell resistance for the rest of the encounter.
• Armored Mage (Heavy Shield) (Ex): You can now use heavy shields with no chance of spell failure.
–– FEATS ––
• Combat Casting (PH 92)² : +4 bonus on Concentration checks for defensive casting.
• Power Attack (PH 98) : Trade attack bonus for damage (up to base attack bonus).
• Battle Caster (CAr 75) : Ignore arcane spell failure chance from heavier armor
• Practiced Spellcaster (CAr 82) (Duskblade) : Your caster level is +4 but not above your HD.
• Knowledge Devotion (CC 60) : Gain bonuses on attack rolls and damage rolls against specific creature types based on your knowledge of them
• Versatile Spellcaster (RDr 101) : Use two lower-level slots to cast a higher-level spell
Spells (6/7/6), CL11
—— Cantrips ——
Acid Splash
Disrupt Undead
Ray of Frost
Touch of Fatigue
—— 1st-Level Spells ——
Chill Touch
Expeditious Retreat, Swift
Ray of Enfeeblement
Resist Energy
Shocking Grasp
Stand
True Strike
—— 2nd-Level Spells ——
Acid Arrow
See Invisibility
Touch of Idiocy
Kobold Ambush:
Kobold#1
Adept 11(CR 8)
Kobold#2
Adept 11(CR 8)
Kobold #3
Adept 11(CR 8)
Kobold #4
Adept 11(CR 8)
Kobold #5
Adept 11(CR 8)
Kobold #6
1/2 Dragon Warrior 9(CR 8)
Kobold #7
1/2 Fiend Warrior 9(CR 8)
Kobold #8
1/2 Fiend Warrior 9(CR 8)
Kobold #9
Warrior 11(CR 8)
Kobold #10
Warrior 11(CR 8)
Kobold #11
Warrior 11(CR 8)
Kobold #12
Warrior 11(CR 8)
combined this is a CR 15 encounter ..... lots of Fun for you, great challenge for Players .... make the last 4 Warriors Archers, the 1/2 Dragon and 1/2 Fiends are Melee Specialists ..... the Adepts support thier troops an Harrass the opponent Spellcasters ..... mainly they team up on PCs
for more fun .... remove the last 1/2 Fiend Warrior 9(CR 8) ... and replace with 6 CR 3 creatures(Hell Hounds might be fun)
For the ogre mages, maybe monster of legend (MMII). That is “a creature chosen by a god to perform an appointed task.” The template gives +2 CR, immunity to acid, fire, and mind-affecting, casting as a 5th level cleric, str +10, dex +6, con +10, int +2, wis +2, cha +4, and 5 more natural armor.
In order to qualify for the monster of legend template, the ogre mages would need the shadow creature template (Manual of the Plains). That is +1 CR and gives 60 foot speed, cold resistance, +2 to saves, and fast healing 2.
The regeneration overcome by nothing and immunity to mind-affecting should be difficult for all the PCs and not unduly target any particular player. I assume diehard lets the ogre mages take a standard action each round no matter how much non-lethal damage they have taken.
You could add 4 cleric levels to round them out.
Maat, I am confused by the Diehard reference. I don't recall that being in any of the builds I posted yet. Maybe your templates could build the baddest Ogre Mage, sort of a master BBEG. The blocking of mind affecting would be OK for 1 or 2 of the 9. But, I don't want to completely gimp the Enchanter. The SR will be tough enough to get past as it is.
Ogre mage's have SR 19. An 8th level caster can overcome that 100% of the time with assay resistance (Spell Compendium/Complete Arcane). It costs a swift action and a 4th level spell to gain +10 to overcome SR. The character is presumably at least 15th level. If a creature has less than 27 SR, you should just assume he will overcome it.
If he's willing to spend a standard action, there's also spell vulnerability (Spell Compendium), which decreases a creature's spell resistance by 1 per caster level (max 15). That's only 3rd level. If he's willing to spend a feat, there's also arcane mastery (Complete Arcane), which lets you take 10 on caster level checks, including checks to overcome spell resistance. A determined 15th level wizard can get through SR 50 with 100% reliability.
Diehard lets a creature remain conscious at negative HP. It doesn't address non-lethal damage, but it would be silly if non-lethal damage knocked you out when lethal damage wouldn't. So, if you are comfortable allowing diehard to be as effective against non-lethal damage as lethal, an ogre mage with diehard could not be knocked out with anything but acid or fire damage.
This would mean a fighter wailing on an ogre mage with a sword would ultimately decrease the effectiveness of the ogre mage but not remove him from combat completely. This makes dealing acid or fire damage essential to attacking an orge mage via HP damage instead of merely easier.
The point is, if he can't be taken out of the fight by non-lethal damage, he takes non-lethal damage from everything but acid and fire, and he is immune to acid and fire, then he can't be taken out of the fight by damage. That is the point of making him immune to mind-affecting effects, giving everyone trouble. This is the sort of fight where you add in an alternate way of defeating the enemy, because the PCs normal approach is ineffective.
Anyway, you can pick different abilities for a monster of legend. A +4 bonus to all save DCs, fast healing 5, and a permanent haste effect are all options. I think the permanent spell turning effect is one of the best ones, but I was trying not to be too mean to the enchanter.
what is the Module you are running ...... what types of NPCs are you looking for
OK, here is one of the wizards listed. Not too experienced with wizard making, so go easy. Used +4 stat items (+6 headband), +4 cloak, +2 ring and belt of battle. More suggestions for equipment are appreciated.
Male Human Wiz13/FtS4/Mnb1; CR 18;
Medium Humanoid (human);
HD 18d4+72; hp 127;
Init +5; Spd 30 ft/x4;
AC 15 (+3 dex, +2 deflection), touch 15, flat-footed 12;
Base Atk/Grapple +8/+7;
SA&SQ Familiar, Alertness, Scry on Familiar(Sp), Spin Fate(Ex), Fickle Finger of Fate(Ex), Spin Destiny(Ex), Deny Fate(Ex), Resist Fate(Ex), Telepathy(Su);
SR 0; AL LE; SV Fort +15, Ref +12, Will +18;
Str 8(-1), Dex 16(+3), Con 18(+4), Int 26(+8), Wis 10(+0), Cha 14(+2);
Skills: Bluff¹ +26, Concentration¹ +25, Diplomacy¹ +27, Intimidate¹ +10, Jump¹ +9, Knowledge (arcana) +18, Knowledge (arch & eng) +9, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +9, Knowledge (geography) +9, Profession (gambler) +9, Sense Motive¹ +15, Spellcraft +31, Tumble +10.
Feats: Spell Focus (PH 100) (Enchantment), Greater Spell Focus (PH 94) (Enchantment), Scribe Scroll (PH 99)², Extend Spell (PH 94), Arcane Thesis (PH2 74) (Charm Monster; Dominate Person), Still Spell, Twin Spell (CAr 84), Extraordinary Concentration (CAd 109), Able Learner (RD 150).
One feat slot is open. I'm open to constructive ideas on improving this build. Basic thrall-maker build. Please comment on feats, equipment, templates, spells, tactics, and whatever else you can think of. Also, you could suggest a decent thrall if you like.
Wizard 5/ Incantatrix 8/ Fate Spinner 4/ Mindbender 1
Which book is incantatrix in? I probably don't have it, which is a problem. Would Master Specialist help almost as much? What does Incantrix do do well?
Incantatrix is almost without question the most powerful wizard PrC in the entire 3.5 system, even if you include most homebrew...
The big thing it does is allow you to apply metamagic to spells by making a (often very high) spellcraft check. You can even apply them to other people's spells. And it has full casting progression, and actually gives you a bonus metamagic feat like every other level.
It's from the Player's Guide to Faerun.
Would Mage of the Arcane Order mitigate this loss?