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Mercutio01	Playing in an Evil Campaign	Lead	[-]
Posts: 571 (05/31/05 14:51:15) Ancient Dragon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I'm joining a F2F campaign this weekend with a group I haven't actually met yet. The campaign is evil, starting at 10th level, and I'm coming in about 2 weeks after campaign start. The DM asked me to bring a character. Now, evil builds are pretty easy and fun, but I'm not sure with which way I want to go. I'm tempted to go rogue/assassin, but I've done that before. I'm looking for mostly core builds, as I'm unsure what kind of books the DM has right now, but I'll entertain builds from any of the Complete series too. My initial idea is something like wizard/acolyte of the skin. My other, as I said before was something like rogue/assassin. Any ideas would be helpful.
jiriku	Re: Playing in an Evil Campaign	#1	[-]
Posts: 672 (05/31/05 16:14:51) Ancient Dragon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	With careful choice of skill points and a sufficiently high Int, you can go Rogue 1/Wizard 5/Assassin 1/Arcane Trickster 3. This gets you sneak attack +3d6, 8th level spellcasting, and a decent collection of skills. Cast blink on yourself and every attack is a sneak attack. Get yourself a wand of enervation and you can sneak attack with it for 1d4 negative levels + 3d6 negative energy damage. That's an average of about 23 damage + hefty penalties on every hit. And of course you get to act like a sneaky git. It requires Complete Adventurer and Complete Arcane, but for an oriental twist on the same idea, you could do Ninja 1/Wu Jen 5/Assassin 1/Arcane Trickster 3. As for the acolyte of the skin, Warlock X/Acolyte of the Skin X would be GREAT. The flavor of the two classes is such that they blend perfectly.
RogueSavior	Re: Playing in an Evil Campaign	#2	[-]
Posts: 54 (05/31/05 18:34:46) Hatchling Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Jiriku... why cast blink when you can get potions/items with it? Save your spells! I find your lack of faith disturbing
jiriku	Re: Playing in an Evil Campaign	#3	[-]
Posts: 672 (05/31/05 22:11:31) Ancient Dragon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Blink = free. Money = free to be spent elsewhere.
Mercutio01	Re: Playing in an Evil Campaign	#4	[-]
Posts: 571 (06/01/05 06:50:31) Ancient Dragon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I like the Warlock/Acolyte thing. I haven't played a warlock yet, and I've wanted to since I saw the class. I know the board is funky, but any other suggestions?
RogueSavior	Re: Playing in an Evil Campaign	#5	[-]
Posts: 54 (06/01/05 11:36:01) Hatchling Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Blink = 3rd level spell Also 3rd level spells - Nondetection Clairaudience/Clairvoyance Deep Slumber Displacement Fireball and Lightning Bolt (Ok, not so useful for Rogue builds) Major Image Fly Gaseous Form Haste and Shrink Item Any one of which are just as useful, if not more useful, for Rogue-type magic users. I find your lack of faith disturbing
Andorax	Re: Playing in an Evil Campaign	#6	[-]
Posts: 7052 (06/01/05 12:52:55) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	RogueSavior, it makes sense to have the spells you most often cast. If Blink is part of his normal strategy, it makes sense for him to memorize it, as he uses it more often than the other listed spells. Besides, it's not like he's doing a Sorcerer build that limits how many 3rd level spells he can know. If 3.0 OA material is allowed, a favorite build I put together once was a Rogue/Assassin/Blade Dancer. Synergizes nicely, and makes for a fairly effective character, as well as an interesting one. "Whadda ya mean, Orcs get levels too?!?"
ExarZun	Re: Playing in an Evil Campaign	#7	[-]
Posts: 262 (06/01/05 12:57:35) Dragon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	F2F you say merc? why, thats basicly the exact same thing as Azure's game... /shrugs. Why not go a high level melee? I got a minotuar barbarian going that really kicks ass.... Just a sugestion since everyones talking bout magic casters...
jiriku	Re: Playing in an Evil Campaign	#8	[-]
Posts: 672 (06/01/05 19:39:47) Ancient Dragon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	For something from an entirely different direction, a goliath scout 7/barbarian 2, or scout 3/fighter4/barbarian 2 is an interesting build. Especially with the fighter approach, you can build some abusable combos that exploit the mountain rage and powerful build. With improved sunder, improved bull rush, knockback, and combat brute, and wielding a large two-handed adamantine weapon, you can own almost anything on the battlefield, while still having enough skill points and the odd track feat to carve out a role for yourself outside of battle.
Akuma 145	Playing in an Evil Campaign	#9	[-]
Posts: 36 (06/02/05 13:56:25) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	why not go ghost faced killer? 5 fighter/ 5 ghostface u get +2D6 sudden strike and frightful attack and ghost step twice a day. get a good BAB, the ghost step is good for the sneak attack, and in later lvls, you can go ethereal. frightful attack is awesome. BOO!

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