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#1 Endarire Jul 01, 2008 2:23:12	(E8 is like E6, but the level cap is 8. No character can ever advance beyond level 8 and spell levels 5 and above don't exist.) We get 40 a point buy with all WotC material available pending DM approval. (No flaws or artificers are allowed. Psionics will be banned or modified.) We start at ECL8 and get 2 LA for free with 5000 extra XP for a feat, LA buyoff, or item creation. (We have 45,000 gold to spend on ourselves or minions.) Anything 'full castery' such as wizards, clerics, druids, and warlocks gets replaced by vitae mages. (It's the only way I can play something resembling a full caster in this campaign.) Vitae mages, in short, are wizards with cure or inflict spells and access to only 5 schools, plus spells from the Community and Protection domains. (Cures and domain spells are cast as divine spells while wizard spells are cast as arcane.) Since I'm a lifebond mage, I get abjuration, conjuration, divination, enchantment, and transmutation; more than all I should need. Vitaes have somewhat weird spontaneous spell point casting. Base WIS determines spell points and base INT determines how many levels of spells I can prepare. Spell DC is 7 + INT mod + WIS mod. Unfortunately, items that boost INT or WIS only affect spell DCs and skills. I chose to play a homebrew race called Allacar. It's +3 LA, but makes me a native outsider with 40' perfect fly, +6 INT and WIS, and 120' telepathy. In short, it's probably well worth the LA. As for classes, since I'm stuck at L8, I'm hesitant to take a PrC. Vitae8 allows me to apply a metamagic feat I know for free to any spell twice a day. Finally, we're dungeon keepers akin to the PC game Dungeon Keeper since we've been hired to guard this base and have a minion task force. I want to try being a battlefield controller and buffer akin to a 'God' wizard. CURRENT BUILD LN Allacar Vitae Mage8 Stats: 6/14/6/24/26/8 1: Aggressive (Trait), Cloudy Conjuration, Improved Initiative (DM bonus feat) 3: Mindsight 4: Sculpt Spell (class bonus) 6: FEAT (Craft Wondrous?) 8: Quicken Spell (class bonus) ITEMS - 45,000G budget for my minions and me -Blessed Book (12,500) -Spell component pouch (5) -Wand of Cure Light (750) -Rod of Lesser Chaining? Rod of Lesser Quicken? Uh...
#2 keyes2k4 Jul 01, 2008 16:09:34	I would reccomend some nice robes, a bag of holding of some type, and some nifty spell components (for identifying stuff, resurrecting?, or anything else you may be consuming that bears a price tag.). You could get a nice metamagic rod if you want also, but I've never been a fan of rods (mostly because I've only had one on any character, and I was the skill-monkey that campaign). Other than that, your dm's campaign idea sounds fun as hell, you have my jealousy