Flickerdart
2010-12-26, 12:20 AM
I've been looking at the Fiendbinder class (Tome of Magic) lately. The prestige class practically oozes liquid flavour, but it has two things against it. The first is that it requires the truenaming skill, but there's a feat for that.
The second is that it's a standard action to command a fiend under your control. Normally, this limits you to controlling only one fiend at a time, which isn't very cool at all. I am aware of the Necrotic Cyst shenanigans to get a permanent Dominate on them, but that's a little too [Evil] for my liking. Thus, the other solution is to get more standard actions.
The best way for this I've been able to come up with so far is through psionics. Fiendbinder advances arcane casting, but that's nothing creative multiclassing can't solve. Bard 1 with Talfirian Song and Precocious Apprentice qualifies you for the spellcasting requirement of Nar Demonbinder, which you can then advance with Fiendbinder. Ardent fills the gaps (so Bard 1/Ardent 7/Nar Demonbinder 1/Fiendbinder 10/Ardent 1 gets you full Nar Demonbinder casting and as much manifesting as your ML will allow). This gives you access to Schism and Fission, giving you four standard actions with which to command fiends. Eventually. Synchronicity cheese gets tons of standard actions earlier but that's not even remotely RAI.
The other way would be to replace Ardent with Factotum, binge on Font of Inspiration and generate standard actions that way. This has the advantage of being a lot less complicated, but at 3 IP a command you're liable to quickly run dry.
Are there any ways of consistently getting extra standard actions without, ideally, exploiting as many things as I have (or at least not as gratuitously)?
The second is that it's a standard action to command a fiend under your control. Normally, this limits you to controlling only one fiend at a time, which isn't very cool at all. I am aware of the Necrotic Cyst shenanigans to get a permanent Dominate on them, but that's a little too [Evil] for my liking. Thus, the other solution is to get more standard actions.
The best way for this I've been able to come up with so far is through psionics. Fiendbinder advances arcane casting, but that's nothing creative multiclassing can't solve. Bard 1 with Talfirian Song and Precocious Apprentice qualifies you for the spellcasting requirement of Nar Demonbinder, which you can then advance with Fiendbinder. Ardent fills the gaps (so Bard 1/Ardent 7/Nar Demonbinder 1/Fiendbinder 10/Ardent 1 gets you full Nar Demonbinder casting and as much manifesting as your ML will allow). This gives you access to Schism and Fission, giving you four standard actions with which to command fiends. Eventually. Synchronicity cheese gets tons of standard actions earlier but that's not even remotely RAI.
The other way would be to replace Ardent with Factotum, binge on Font of Inspiration and generate standard actions that way. This has the advantage of being a lot less complicated, but at 3 IP a command you're liable to quickly run dry.
Are there any ways of consistently getting extra standard actions without, ideally, exploiting as many things as I have (or at least not as gratuitously)?