I was flipping through the Races of Destiny book and I fell in love with the idea of playing an Illumian. I am currently a dwarven cleric of Pelor in the World's Largest Dungeon and I decided to make my backup character as a cleric/wizard Illumian. He'll have the magic and the knowledge rune, giving him a +2 on his caster levels so he's almost on par with a single-classer as well as a sweet +2 bonus to all Int checks. The combined word gives him the ability to drop two spells to gain a +1 to DC (I think) for that spell level.
I'm looking for some feedback on feat choices and possibly on School Specialization. I was thinking about picking up Tattoo focus and Inscribe Rune from the FRCS, but I don't know how much we'll use the item feat in a dungeon romping session.
I'm also thinking about item customization, but I don't know how it works with backup characters, so that is not a priority at the moment. Let me know what you think.
Words have incredible power. They define our world. They allow us to touch its truths. They also have the power to create truths and imprint them upon the world. Word and Truth are one and the same. I know this well, because I am a creature created from the cloth of Word. I am knowledge incarnate. Illumians learnt from the Rituals of the Word Made Flesh that the gift of Word is bound by nothing but the simmering humility of spirit.
I was a planewalker turned slave, bound by the Words of another in the land of Thay of Toril. My runic powers were suppressed, my will bent to subjugation... but my soul hungered for freedom. My master was an expert in Conjuration, but he knew relatively little about the true power of portals and I managed to escape to back home to Sigil. I bore the scars of magical torture, but I turned them into magical signs of experience -- never again, I vowed, would I become a slave to another.
Yet here I am -- a prisoner of this dungeon. Bound to its fate. Again, I must struggle for my freedom and my only keys of hope are the people I travel with.
Character Name: Aein
Character Race: Illumian
Character Class: Cleric of Mystra 3/Diviner 3/Mystic Theurge 2
Alignment: True Neutral
Deity: Mystra
Domains: Knowledge, Spell
Description: a bald man with a head covered with runic tattoos -- some seem to glow faintly with the light of a candle and with closer inspection, they rotate slowly around Aen's head like a golden halo.
Character Region: Thay
Level: 3/3/2
Strength: 10 [+ 0 ]
Dexterity: 14 [+ 2]
Constitution: 10 [+ 0 ]
Intelligence: 18 [+ 4]
Wisdom: 17 [+ 3]
Charisma: 14 [+ 2]
AC: 12, 16 with Mage Armor, 20 with Mage Armor and Shield
Armor Type:
Speed: 30
HP: 36
Initiative Modifier: 2
Base Attack Bonus: 4
Melee BAB: 4
Ranged BAB: 6
Saving Throws:
Fortitude: 4 = {4} + {0} + {0}
Reflex: 6 = {2} + {2} + {2 weasel familiar}
Will: 12 = {9} + {3} + {0}
Languages:
Common
Illumian
Celestial
Abyssal
Infernal
Draconic
Current Skill points: 66
Skills :
+ 10 $ Decipher Script (Int) ** 4 ranks
+ 15 $ Knowledge (Arcana) (Int) ** 9 rank
+ 7 $ Knowledge (Architecture and Engineering) (Int) ** 1 rank
+ 7 $ Knowledge (Dungeoneering) (Int) ** 1 rank
+ 7 $ Knowledge (Geography) (Int) ** 1 rank
+ 11 $ Knowledge (Nobility and Royalty) (Int) ** 5 rank
+ 15 $ Knowledge (Religion) (Int) ** 9 rank
+ 10 $ Knowledge (The Planes) (Int) ** 4 rank
+ 20 $ Spellcraft (Int) ** 11 ranks
+ 13 Concentration (Con) ** 11 ranks + 2 domain
+ 15 Craft (calligraphy) (Int) ** 9 ranks
+ 5 Diplomacy (Cha) ** 1 rank +2 K(N&R)
+ 5 Listen (Wis) ** 0 rank
+ 6 Search (Int) ** 0 rank +2 secret doors/compartments
+ 5 Spot (Wis) ** 0 rank
$ = Trained skills
+2 to all Int checks
Feats:
Spellcasting Prodigy (wizard) [FRCS]
(3rd level feat)
(6th level feat)
Gear and items:
Specialty Wizard: Diviner
Prohibited Schools: Necromancy
Spells:
Racial and Class Abilities:
Magic Sigil: +2 to Caster Level
Knowledge Sigil: +2 to Int checks
Word: drop 2 spells to add +1 DC to all spells of that level
Runic Affinity: Immune to Sigils and Wards of equal level or lower, -4 to saves vs higher
Familiar (Weasel named Ron
)
Scribe Scroll
Turn Undead
Thoughts? Corrections? Comments?
I'm looking for some feedback on feat choices and possibly on School Specialization. I was thinking about picking up Tattoo focus and Inscribe Rune from the FRCS, but I don't know how much we'll use the item feat in a dungeon romping session.
I'm also thinking about item customization, but I don't know how it works with backup characters, so that is not a priority at the moment. Let me know what you think.
Words have incredible power. They define our world. They allow us to touch its truths. They also have the power to create truths and imprint them upon the world. Word and Truth are one and the same. I know this well, because I am a creature created from the cloth of Word. I am knowledge incarnate. Illumians learnt from the Rituals of the Word Made Flesh that the gift of Word is bound by nothing but the simmering humility of spirit.
I was a planewalker turned slave, bound by the Words of another in the land of Thay of Toril. My runic powers were suppressed, my will bent to subjugation... but my soul hungered for freedom. My master was an expert in Conjuration, but he knew relatively little about the true power of portals and I managed to escape to back home to Sigil. I bore the scars of magical torture, but I turned them into magical signs of experience -- never again, I vowed, would I become a slave to another.
Yet here I am -- a prisoner of this dungeon. Bound to its fate. Again, I must struggle for my freedom and my only keys of hope are the people I travel with.
Character Name: Aein
Character Race: Illumian
Character Class: Cleric of Mystra 3/Diviner 3/Mystic Theurge 2
Alignment: True Neutral
Deity: Mystra
Domains: Knowledge, Spell
Description: a bald man with a head covered with runic tattoos -- some seem to glow faintly with the light of a candle and with closer inspection, they rotate slowly around Aen's head like a golden halo.
Character Region: Thay
Level: 3/3/2
Strength: 10 [+ 0 ]
Dexterity: 14 [+ 2]
Constitution: 10 [+ 0 ]
Intelligence: 18 [+ 4]
Wisdom: 17 [+ 3]
Charisma: 14 [+ 2]
AC: 12, 16 with Mage Armor, 20 with Mage Armor and Shield
Armor Type:
Speed: 30
HP: 36
Initiative Modifier: 2
Base Attack Bonus: 4
Melee BAB: 4
Ranged BAB: 6
Saving Throws:
Fortitude: 4 = {4} + {0} + {0}
Reflex: 6 = {2} + {2} + {2 weasel familiar}
Will: 12 = {9} + {3} + {0}
Languages:
Common
Illumian
Celestial
Abyssal
Infernal
Draconic
Current Skill points: 66
Skills :
+ 10 $ Decipher Script (Int) ** 4 ranks
+ 15 $ Knowledge (Arcana) (Int) ** 9 rank
+ 7 $ Knowledge (Architecture and Engineering) (Int) ** 1 rank
+ 7 $ Knowledge (Dungeoneering) (Int) ** 1 rank
+ 7 $ Knowledge (Geography) (Int) ** 1 rank
+ 11 $ Knowledge (Nobility and Royalty) (Int) ** 5 rank
+ 15 $ Knowledge (Religion) (Int) ** 9 rank
+ 10 $ Knowledge (The Planes) (Int) ** 4 rank
+ 20 $ Spellcraft (Int) ** 11 ranks
+ 13 Concentration (Con) ** 11 ranks + 2 domain
+ 15 Craft (calligraphy) (Int) ** 9 ranks
+ 5 Diplomacy (Cha) ** 1 rank +2 K(N&R)
+ 5 Listen (Wis) ** 0 rank
+ 6 Search (Int) ** 0 rank +2 secret doors/compartments
+ 5 Spot (Wis) ** 0 rank
$ = Trained skills
+2 to all Int checks
Feats:
Spellcasting Prodigy (wizard) [FRCS]
(3rd level feat)
(6th level feat)
Gear and items:
Specialty Wizard: Diviner
Prohibited Schools: Necromancy
Spells:
Racial and Class Abilities:
Magic Sigil: +2 to Caster Level
Knowledge Sigil: +2 to Int checks
Word: drop 2 spells to add +1 DC to all spells of that level
Runic Affinity: Immune to Sigils and Wards of equal level or lower, -4 to saves vs higher
Familiar (Weasel named Ron
)Scribe Scroll
Turn Undead
Thoughts? Corrections? Comments?
