AnonymousD&Der
2011-04-13, 01:37 AM
I had someone rather smart kick me in the head for the way I came about asking for information. I see looking back that I sure as heck deserved it.
So I spent today reading. With my eyes. With bright light instead of shadows. And with actual sleep (although I'm tearing into my sleep posting this, so I'm probably going to screw up a heck of a lot).
Our DM is going to allow each of us to suggest an encounter of some kind. Association with an NPC, a dungeon, a quest, a monster fight, a character fight, any one thing we want, so we each have something we (hopefully) wanted and could attempt to do.
My character (the continuous Warblade that I keep yapping about) is the Son of a level 20 King. Borderline Epic. And hopefully with the strength to match. And for my encounter, I would want our party to go through a tournament, and eventually enable the Prince to be able to take on his Old Man in combat (every Warrior based story needs a Tournament Arc, followed by the reckless champion getting his ass handed to him by a superior, then borderline tying with him while getting a bit of characterization pounded into him).
I was looking for what I could get to stat this King, and I came back upon the resources I was using for my Warblade: The Complete Champion, the Complete Divine, and the Tome of Battle. I was doing some reading on prestige classes for Clerics, thinking of having the King be a Cleric Zilla or Super Cleric of some kind (since Kings crowned by Gods was a common thing even in real world society), and I came across the Ruby Night Vindicator. The name -alone- has me interested, but I don't like the Deity. Isn't Wee Jas Evil? And doesn't a Cleric have to be within a certain step of his or her deity? Even Lawful Neutral would be a better option than the King being Evil (although I'd like him to be as Good as I can)...
I did other looking, and found other things, from the Radiant Servant of Pelor, to the Shining Blade of Heronieous... but I kinda liked Ruby Night Vindicator. You just can't beat that kind of awesome in a title. Or can you?
Long story short (and hopefully as clear as I can be), can a Good Cleric / Crusader become a Ruby Night Vindicator? And if so, would a Cleric 9 / Crusader 1 / Ruby Night Vindicator 10 still be able to use 9th Level Spells? If not, are there any other cool / strong melee prestige classes that could be applied to a Cleric desiring to be Melee? If possible, leave spell casting okay enough so that the King could be able to prove to invasionary forces and other plot blisters -why- -he- is the -King-. I'm not quite sure what Miracle is capable of, but (assuming we can get a good deity) that would be interesting to see applied... I'll worry about Feats and Spells once I get the skeleton put together properly.
Unless there's some bloodline thing that could be light enough to allow the son of this character to be passed off as a Human, the Cleric would have to be a Human. Allignment is restricted to Non-Evil and Non-Chaotic. True Neutral sounds kinda weird too, actually. Books can pretty much be.... anything but Incarnum and Dragon Magazine, off of the top of my head.
So I spent today reading. With my eyes. With bright light instead of shadows. And with actual sleep (although I'm tearing into my sleep posting this, so I'm probably going to screw up a heck of a lot).
Our DM is going to allow each of us to suggest an encounter of some kind. Association with an NPC, a dungeon, a quest, a monster fight, a character fight, any one thing we want, so we each have something we (hopefully) wanted and could attempt to do.
My character (the continuous Warblade that I keep yapping about) is the Son of a level 20 King. Borderline Epic. And hopefully with the strength to match. And for my encounter, I would want our party to go through a tournament, and eventually enable the Prince to be able to take on his Old Man in combat (every Warrior based story needs a Tournament Arc, followed by the reckless champion getting his ass handed to him by a superior, then borderline tying with him while getting a bit of characterization pounded into him).
I was looking for what I could get to stat this King, and I came back upon the resources I was using for my Warblade: The Complete Champion, the Complete Divine, and the Tome of Battle. I was doing some reading on prestige classes for Clerics, thinking of having the King be a Cleric Zilla or Super Cleric of some kind (since Kings crowned by Gods was a common thing even in real world society), and I came across the Ruby Night Vindicator. The name -alone- has me interested, but I don't like the Deity. Isn't Wee Jas Evil? And doesn't a Cleric have to be within a certain step of his or her deity? Even Lawful Neutral would be a better option than the King being Evil (although I'd like him to be as Good as I can)...
I did other looking, and found other things, from the Radiant Servant of Pelor, to the Shining Blade of Heronieous... but I kinda liked Ruby Night Vindicator. You just can't beat that kind of awesome in a title. Or can you?
Long story short (and hopefully as clear as I can be), can a Good Cleric / Crusader become a Ruby Night Vindicator? And if so, would a Cleric 9 / Crusader 1 / Ruby Night Vindicator 10 still be able to use 9th Level Spells? If not, are there any other cool / strong melee prestige classes that could be applied to a Cleric desiring to be Melee? If possible, leave spell casting okay enough so that the King could be able to prove to invasionary forces and other plot blisters -why- -he- is the -King-. I'm not quite sure what Miracle is capable of, but (assuming we can get a good deity) that would be interesting to see applied... I'll worry about Feats and Spells once I get the skeleton put together properly.
Unless there's some bloodline thing that could be light enough to allow the son of this character to be passed off as a Human, the Cleric would have to be a Human. Allignment is restricted to Non-Evil and Non-Chaotic. True Neutral sounds kinda weird too, actually. Books can pretty much be.... anything but Incarnum and Dragon Magazine, off of the top of my head.