Social acceptance is important; becoming undead is not an acceptable option. Being blatantly marked as a servant of a dark god is not acceptable. Politics are big in this game, and I need to make sure any big dark rituals that are required can be covered up afterward without branding my character.
The DM is quite (and appropriately) wary of Archivist shenanigans. No arcane-to-divine tricks. No monster divine spells. No Adept. No Divine Bard. No Anyspell. Though I do have free reign of the divine base classes (sans Shugenja without extreme justification), and I'm allowed access to domains, but anything weird (like the slime domain) must be justified, so I can really only draw from those sparingly.
So, any standard paths to immortality y'all'd suggest?
Yeah, just go Elan
Hrm. That's problematic, as I'd prefer immortality as something to be sought out; becoming an Elan basically means dying, losing human memory, and losing a great deal of what I seek to achieve with the character, essentially creating a completely new character born with immortality.
Timeless Body - or immune to aging, or can't die from age, or something similar
- Sapphire Hierarch 8, ecl 13, Magic of Incarnum
- Monk 17
- Druid 15
- Cloud Anchorite
- Alienist 9, ecl 14, Complete Arcane
- Contemplative 9, ecl 19, Complete Divine, don't take penalties for aging, still die of old age
- Tattoed Monk 5, ecl 10, Complete Warrior, don't take penalties for aging, still die of old age
- Master of Many Forms ?
- Henshin Mystic
- Eldritch Disciple 10, ecl 15, Complete Mage
- Zerth Cenobite 10, ecl 16, Complete Psionic, same name but completely different ability
- Holt Warden 9, ecl 14, Complete Champion
- Dragon Prophet 10, ecl 15, Magic of Eberron, "ageless", gain the bonuses but not the penalties, see text
- Initiate of the Draconic Mysteries 9, ecl 14, Draconomicon
Becoming a Dragonborn (Races of the Dragon, pg. 8) almost solves the problem, costing 100 gp and 48 hours, but granting you several hundred more years of life.
Exactly what it says on the tin. I want a way to make my character immortal. The character in question is a level 6 human Archivist, and old. For the purposes of this thread, "immortal" means the prevention of natural death, stopping the aging process, though a way to effectively reverse the aging process would also be nice.
Social acceptance is important; becoming undead is not an acceptable option. Being blatantly marked as a servant of a dark god is not acceptable. Politics are big in this game, and I need to make sure any big dark rituals that are required can be covered up afterward without branding my character.
The DM is quite (and appropriately) wary of Archivist shenanigans. No arcane-to-divine tricks. No monster divine spells. No Adept. No Divine Bard. No Anyspell. Though I do have free reign of the divine base classes (sans Shugenja without extreme justification), and I'm allowed access to domains, but anything weird (like the slime domain) must be justified, so I can really only draw from those sparingly.
So, any standard paths to immortality y'all'd suggest?
How high of level do you plan the campaign to go? Because so long as you don't expect to die of old age before the end of it, you can buy an epic spell from Boccob's Reading Room for 1,000gp.
There aren't, like, any arrangements in BoVD that let you sacrifice a kender every Tuesday or something?
The magic of the spell creates an entirely new young adult body for the soul to inhabit from the natural elements at hand. This process takes 1 hour to complete. When the body is ready, the subject is reincarnated.
As you age again, you get more and more mental abillity adjustments, but you can always reincarnate again to negate the physical penalties.
Downside: costs a level every time, but most humanoids live for at least 70 years.
http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=562479
There aren't, like, any arrangements in BoVD that let you sacrifice a kender every Tuesday or something?
Well... Actually.
If you can manage to swing using the sacrifice rules, you could get the granted "wish" and use it to obtain immortality. You would need to convince your DM that a wish can grant immortality.
Another way that im not sure would work RAW is to have an arcane caster with at least 4 levels in Spellguard of Silverymoon cast Steal Life and allow the effects to apply to you. This ability states it only works on defensive spells (which would screw us) but then describes what this ability considers "Defensive Spells." Two of these conditions are Improves AC and Improves Saving Throws. If you can drain long enough to regress aging penalties, your new increased Dex and Con would improve your AC and Saving Throws. Its a pretty controversial interpretation of the rules but it might be worth running it by your DM.
Its important to note that this isn't an entirely evil process as well. The spell is evil, but the caster can be neutral. The spell doesn't state the ability drain is permanent and as long as you don't drain the "donor's" constitution to 0, they won't die.
I'm liable to settle for a Wish spell via sacrifice, as it's closest to what I'm looking for. Hitting that DC50 is going to be tough... really tough... but I might be able to swing it, and it's the kind of thing I'm looking for in-character.
Using PrCs for this are, by and large, too late and not what I'm going for. A couple may work, eventually, but... meh.
For such a major motivation for so many characters in fantasy, I'm surprised there aren't more simple, defined paths for anyone with the time, resources, and lack of scruples to attain immortality.
Since I am not familiar with your DM's game I am not sure if making yourself into an eternal, adamantine hard living emerald statue would be a social mistake.
Or die and be reincarnated as a Warforged or Elan. I would assume there is a luck altering mage PrC which can help with making sure you come back as the race you want.
Lastly I can only assume immortality can be achieved via epic magic as several epic level mages in the FR campaign are human, yet vital and several thousand years old (Elminster and Blackstaff to name two).
Isn't there an Epic Destiny which also does this, but even better? Like, auto-true rez every day?
Well, Diplomancy would work, technically.
*edit* Demigod epic destiny.
There used to be potions of longevity...
And looking for the elixir of life is quite a classic.
Talk to your GM about a quest for immortality and develop an interest in alchemy...?
I'm liable to settle for a Wish spell via sacrifice, as it's closest to what I'm looking for. Hitting that DC50 is going to be tough... really tough... but I might be able to swing it, and it's the kind of thing I'm looking for in-character.
Guidance of the Avatar gives you a +20 competence bonus, and Divine Insight can give you a +15 Insight bonus. Both of these are second level cleric spells. So you only need another +14 to automatically succeed, which should be very easy. 9 Ranks and a + 5 Int bonus and you're there.
Outside DM fiat and Ice Assassin? Not that I know of.
Well, Diplomancy would work, technically.
*edit* Demigod epic destiny.
DM Fiat, Ice Assassin, Epic Destinies, and Epic Spells. Though that option has been ruled out as it's not going to go that far. Divine Disciple, if it hasn't been mentioned yet, changes you to an outsider, and IIRC the kind that doesn't die of old age (even though you have the "native" subtype).
Guidance of the Avatar gives you a +20 competence bonus, and Divine Insight can give you a +15 Insight bonus. Both of these are second level cleric spells. So you only need another +14 to automatically succeed, which should be very easy. 9 Ranks and a + 5 Int bonus and you're there.
Well... that sacrifice just became so simple I could do it in a broom closet next Tuesday. And here I was tallying up the generic ritual mods to see if I couldn't get there. Gracias.
Mystra's chosen are immortal.
Good luck wwith that.