And I could also use some help with the feat progresion. I'll be entering the campaign somwhere in the 20's so i'll already be a Dry Lich.
8 levels of Dread Necromancer, and 10 levels of Walker in the Waste is what I have so far and now I need 12 more levels and I don't know what to do with them. Any help here?
And I could also use some help with the feat progresion. I'll be entering the campaign somwhere in the 20's so i'll already be a Dry Lich.
Try these:
Dread Necromancer Handbook
Revised Necromancer Handbook
Expand Spell List
Negate Undead Creation Costs
So...
1. Mage of the Arcane Order, or access to Shadow spells or Anyspell
2. Ignore Material Components, Epic Spellcasting OR Improved Spell Capacity AND Multispell.
Persist Lifeward. Contingent Ghostform if HP < 100.
Incorporeality or Etherealness + Transdimensional Spell + no need for material components = nasty.
Six levels of Fiend-Blooded (Dread Necro + feats qualify) gets Greater Shadow Evocation, Greater Shadow Conjuration and Shades, for an example. Go Shadowcraft from there, if you like.
Edit: if you really want more Dread Necromancer for flavor or if your DM allows the lich and the dry lich templates to stack, you can try Dread Necromancer 9/Ur Priest 2/Walker in the Wastes 10/Dread Necromancer 9
So I'm going to do that now.
"1. Mage of the Arcane Order, or access to Shadow spells or Anyspell or Runestaffs"
(actually I think it should be runestaves, but "staffs" is how MIC pluralizes it)
2. add Spellstitching, or play a race with innate spellcasting such as a dragon (I recommend Steel)
Don't forget that when you became a lich you were in a dessecrated area with an altar to your god.
this gives you +2 hp/hd for free
Even better would be
DN4/Class with good Fort save 1/Ur Priest 2/Walker 10/Dweomerkeeper 10/XX3
spellcasting necro i would do: DN 5/Ur Priest 2/walker 10(boosting Ur-priest by 8 and DN by 2)/DN+3/fiend-blooded 9/archmage 1(spell power high arcana)
we get TWO pools of epic spells. this is HUGE, as epic spellcasting is pretty much powerful enough that you can just beat up the game balance and tell it to get a job.
Undead controller: Anthropomorphic giant octopus 2/cleric 3/Walker 10/soul eater 9/master of shrouds 6
with this build, you just run around slaughtering small villages all day, sending off your wights to do more killing, thus gaining more and more wights. ooh, no control pool, nice!
Still thinking about this build, perhaps combining my previous two ideas into DN9/Ur Priest 2/Walker 10/Contemplative 1/Dweomerkeeper 8
Even better would be
DN4/Class with good Fort save 1/Ur Priest 2/Walker 10/Dweomerkeeper 10/XX3
where is the Dweomerkeeper found.
where is the Dweomerkeeper found.
the Complete Divine Web Enhancement
the Complete Divine Web Enhancement
oh well, I'm having difficulty finding it.
oh well, I'm having difficulty finding it.
If you had googled "complete divine web enhancement", you'd have seen that this page is the first result.
Dweomerkeeper is on the first page of the web enhancement.
How is that difficult?
JaronK
You also might want more DN levels, as the level 8 ability sets your controlled undead limit to be based on DN levels, NOT character levels.
Though if you're not going to add dread necromancer levels...
Animate dead is normally based on caster level, so at ECL30 you could do a number of things:
Heighten Spell [metamagic] + Earth Spell + Improved Heighten Spell [epic]
+
Demiplane created by Genesis (Planar trait: adds heighten spell to spells cast on this plane for free) (arbitrarily high caster level, as long as you're touching the ground)
-or-
Spelldancer 1 with a hugely pumped perform check could get it pretty damn high. At least high enough to compete with Undead Mastery. The only problem is that you can't apply Spelldance to Necromancy spells. I think emulating it with Limited Wish would work.
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On the more reasonable side of things, if you end up being a necromancer with both cleric casting and arcane casting, take a look at the Aligned Theurgy feat from Dragon Magazine 325. Take the Evil domain, and suddenly, your arcane and divine levels stack for CL on [evil] spells (animate dead, plague of undead). That alone should get you to about 50~ish CL without even trying.
Trout out.
Where is the spell stiched template found.
I want to say Libris Mortis, but it's actually in Complete Arcane.
Where can I find the Lord of the Dead prc?
I don't know if it can be found anywhere else, but I do know that it can be found in this WoTC article.