Coidzor
2010-08-04, 02:42 AM
I've got a beguiler and bard as backup (and the ranger probably has enough wisdom to cast some spells for himself), but I'm the only character devoted to it, as the bard is focusing on melee to PrC into Swiftblade and, well, the beguiler is learning the ropes of playing 3.5 and being a beguiler in addition to being a caster.
I've at least got a leg up that I've played with the system more and been a cleric more often, but this is my first cloistered cleric, I don't have DMM and Divine Power yet so I can't shrug and make myself a better fighter than the ranger and the bard combined, and I can't really shell out a bless and other buffs and then go be flanking buddies like I'm used to when I've played support and utility to a wizard battle-field controller/blaster.
It mostly hasn't come up aside from an introductory battle with werewolves who we were bogged down with dispatching due to not being able to penetrate their DR and when I ran out of turning (using Sun domain and Disciple of the Sun feat for 2 turnings into 1 greater turning) after dusting a lot of zombies.
But, still, pretty much all books are allowed casting-wise, and I have Knowledge, Inquisition, Oracle, Sun, and Glory domains due to PrCing into Church Inquisitor and Divine Oracle from a Cloistered Cleric of Pelor base.
Is probably going to be a fairly undead heavy campaign, so what to do about them when I run out of turnings would be good to know.
Right now I've got a net, a +1 Heavy Crossbow, a morningstar, and a longspear for armaments and +1 mithril breastplate for armor. Ranger is TWFing with axes with Flaming on one and Frost on the other. Bard is looking to be TWFing but isn't yet, going for swiftblade and beyond bladeweave for a 2nd level spell I'm not sure what he's gone with. The beguiler burned through all of his spells pretty quickly but didn't have much of an effect on things as far as I could tell, I think mostly because he's well, new to the game and new to the class and mostly new to the game.
as an aside, if a spell doesn't specify what kind of damage it does, does DR apply against it?
I've at least got a leg up that I've played with the system more and been a cleric more often, but this is my first cloistered cleric, I don't have DMM and Divine Power yet so I can't shrug and make myself a better fighter than the ranger and the bard combined, and I can't really shell out a bless and other buffs and then go be flanking buddies like I'm used to when I've played support and utility to a wizard battle-field controller/blaster.
It mostly hasn't come up aside from an introductory battle with werewolves who we were bogged down with dispatching due to not being able to penetrate their DR and when I ran out of turning (using Sun domain and Disciple of the Sun feat for 2 turnings into 1 greater turning) after dusting a lot of zombies.
But, still, pretty much all books are allowed casting-wise, and I have Knowledge, Inquisition, Oracle, Sun, and Glory domains due to PrCing into Church Inquisitor and Divine Oracle from a Cloistered Cleric of Pelor base.
Is probably going to be a fairly undead heavy campaign, so what to do about them when I run out of turnings would be good to know.
Right now I've got a net, a +1 Heavy Crossbow, a morningstar, and a longspear for armaments and +1 mithril breastplate for armor. Ranger is TWFing with axes with Flaming on one and Frost on the other. Bard is looking to be TWFing but isn't yet, going for swiftblade and beyond bladeweave for a 2nd level spell I'm not sure what he's gone with. The beguiler burned through all of his spells pretty quickly but didn't have much of an effect on things as far as I could tell, I think mostly because he's well, new to the game and new to the class and mostly new to the game.
as an aside, if a spell doesn't specify what kind of damage it does, does DR apply against it?