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Lord_Gareth
2010-10-06, 01:59 AM
Dragon as in the trope, of course - the villainous subordinate that makes for an epic boss fight before the main course!

Today's Dragon needs to be a level 18 caster with ten of those levels in Infernomancer (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9492410#post9492410). His backup consists of tenth level barbarians, and he's CN. Tell me Playgrounders - how would YOU build him?

Rixx
2010-10-06, 02:38 AM
Sorcerer with blasty spells.

IncoherentEssay
2010-10-06, 02:44 AM
Am i reading this class right?
-lvl 1, it gets to cast spontaneously any spells with [Fire] description, or spells that deal fire damage (not including those metamagic'd to do so)
-lvl 4, all conjurations with [summoning], [teleportation] & [calling] are now fire spells, and can thus be cast spontaneously?
-lvl 7 all dispels get the same treatment?
Alright, pretty much a flat upgrade for a wizard, but you'd have to invest quite a bit of gp in your book to make the most of it.
-lvl 9, all [fire] spells are automatically known.
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Does this add up like i think it does :smallconfused:? What sort of a party are you dealing with here anyway? Any particular reason for making the 10th level completely skippable in favor of base casting class?

As far as build goes, unless the entire party is very high-powered, any building beyond taking wizard, writing a list of all the spells he can cast spontaneously and preparing defensive buffs in the daily slots would be overkill, really. Losing Heart of Water might sting a bit, but there's a ring for that anyway.
If you could give me the party composition and some guidelines for how mich POWAH this guy is supposed to wield, i'll write up a build :smallsmile:. Also, i couldn't find the Controlled Immolation feat, so mind posting that with either the class or here?
Edit: doh, a sorcerer with a heavy emphasis on fire spells for the class provided spells known would be a pretty good self-nerf. Still quite mighty, but without the full defensive options.

Lord_Gareth
2010-10-06, 02:48 AM
Controlled Immolation is in the SRD under Spelltouched feats; I've got too any tabs open to link at the moment.

I'm not looking for Mailman level optimization, as the party consists of the following:

16th level Fighter. Yes, fighter. No, not ubercharger. Really, that's all you need to know.

16th level conjurer wizard, focusing on dropping monsters onto the field. Augment summon & all that good schnazz. Jank at tactics.

11th level Cleric/5th level Psion (kineticist).

10th level Bard/5th level Seeker of the Song.

EDIT: The focus, ideally, is to give the guy abilities that make the damage fly without making it happen TOO godawful fast. Think collateral damage and OOH SHINY more than "Haaka Palle!". The party has easy access to fire immunity, which they've been using, so they can shrug off the first 40 points of fire damage that's coming their way.

Gavinfoxx
2010-10-06, 02:52 AM
Focused Conjurer5/Incantatrix3/Infernomancer10

1 Fiery Spell
Human Controlled Immolation
Flaw Iron Will
Flaw Empower Spell
3 Precise Shot
Wiz5 Easy Metamagic: Fiery Spell
6 Skill Focus Concentration
6Inc Easy Metamagic: Empower Spell
9 Maximise Spell
12 Easy Metamagic: Maximise Spell
15 Twin Spell
18 Easy Metamagic: Twin Spell

Argghhh this would be sooo much easier without this class! Twinned, Maximised, Empowered, Fiery Spelled Lesser Orb of Fire is where it's at, really! That does everything this class needs...

IncoherentEssay
2010-10-06, 04:11 AM
human sorcerer 8/Pyromancer 10
STR:10 DEX:13 CON:14 INT:12 WIS:8 CHA:19 IN:+2 AL:CN
HP: AC:// SV:5b/7b/9b BA:+9 GRAB:+9 SPEED: 30
Feats: Controlled Immolation, Point Blank Shot(H), Precise Shot, Skill Focus(Concentration), Quicken Spell, Explosive Spell(CArc.), Versatile Spellcaster(RoDra)
Skills: Bluff(21r.), Concentrate(21r.), Craft(Poetry)(12r.) Spellcratf(21r.)
Special: halfling traits, Metamagic Specialist(4/d),
Spells: Known:9/5/5/4/4/4/3/2/1 (marked w. *), base spells/d:6/6/6/6/6/6/6/5/3, DC:14+lvl
0th:irrelevant, really
1st:Mage Armor*, Burning Hands*, Lesser Orb of Fire(Spc)*, Burning Rage(PHB2)*, Shield*
2nd:Flaming Sphere*, Body of the Sun(Spc)*, False Life*, Mirror Image or Wings of Cover(RoDra)*
3rd:Fireball*, Fly*, Anticipate Teleportation*(Spc/CArc){1}, Dragonskin(Spc)*, Dispel,
4th:Hoard Life*(DrMag), Heart of Stone(CMag) or Stoneskin*, Gtr. Resistance*, ???*, Dimension Door, Wall of Fire, Fireshield, Dispelling Screen?
5th:Arcane Fusion(CMag)*, Wall of Force*, Overland Flight*, Sending*, Heart of Fire(CMag), Teleport, Gtr. Dimension Door(Spc)/Dimension Jumper(CMag)
6th:Gtr. Heroism*, Contigency*, True Seeing*, Gtr. Dispel,
7th:Spell Turning*, Limited Wish*{2}, Gtr. Teleport,
8th:Gtr. Arcane Fusion*, Incendiary Cloud,

{1} cast at min CL(6) to block any attempts to teleport near by summons/others.
Doesn't impede his own teleports if they are headed more than 30ft from his current location.
{2} an 'oh Sh-' card. Need to pull him out of trouble? More options for that are always good.

The unmarked spells are spells he gets from class features. I focused his known spells around defensive buffs,
as nothing is worse than a climatic encounter ended by a lucky crit, no :smallwink:?
For offense, Blazing Potence synchs up nicely with all the damage-over-time that would otherwise be worthless. 12d6 Flaming sphere? Why not.
15d4 from Body of the Sun? Sure. Arcane Fusion and it's Greater version let him pour out all sorts of area-damage-over-time effects,
forcing the party to play firefighters with their dispels or roast to a nice crispy finish :smalltongue:. Ignis Daemonia means that their clever fire immunity amounts to naught. Sure, the damage is halved, but it all adds up.

I used elite array for stats, and didn't include items. Hope this is useful to you :smallsmile:.
BTW, what is "Haaka Palle!" a reference to? The closest i can think of would be "Hakkaa Päälle!" from finnish cavalry in the 30 years war.

Lord_Gareth
2010-10-06, 05:40 AM
It's the rough English version of the more accurate one you posted :p

This DOES, in fact, help, though I am still accepting submissions ^_^