Low Level Conjurer

[Master Thrower]

Hello, so i'm entering a low level campaign, starting at level 5, and I have the wizard role. So I decided to play a conjurer. Not many sources are usable, so I decided to stay core using Red Wizard.

Build- Human Conjurer 5 Red Wizard X

1. Tattoo Focus, X
3. Craft Wonderous Item
5. X
6. SF (Conj)
9. Leadership (for circle magic shenningans)
But I have no clue what metamagic/item creation feats to take past that..

I play on banning Enchantment and Necromancy, and then banning evocation for red wizard, as i'll have the basics of evocation.
Any other ideas?

Books- PHB,DMG,MM, CA,CD,CadV,CW,DrC, PlH,LM,

[Black_Zawisza]

Hello, so i'm entering a low level campaign, starting at level 5, and I have the wizard role. So I decided to play a conjurer. Not many sources are usable, so I decided to stay core using Red Wizard.

Build- Human Conjurer 5 Red Wizard X

1. Tattoo Focus, X
3. Craft Wonderous Item
5. X
6. SF (Conj)
9. Leadership (for circle magic shenningans)
But I have no clue what metamagic/item creation feats to take past that..

I play on banning Enchantment and Necromancy, and then banning evocation for red wizard, as i'll have the basics of evocation.
Any other ideas?

Books- PHB,DMG,MM, CA,CD,CadV,CW,DrC, PlH,LM,
In Complete Champion, there's an ACF called Spontaneous Divination, which replaces your 5th level feat. It allows you to use your slots to spontaneously cast *any* divination spell. (Yes, that includes spells off the Wizard list.) The errata changed it so it's only Wizard spells, but it remains a very good choice. Of course, if your group doesn't use errata for some reason, it's a must-have.

[Gavinfoxx]

I thought the errata changed it to only spells that you actually know?

[Master Thrower]

Unfortunately Complete Champion isn't on my sources allowed..

[Urpriest]

At higher levels you'll likely want Quicken. Extend is good at lower levels, at least on Rope Trick (I'm assuming by your choice of a Red Wizard Conjurer aiming for Simulacrum shenanigans that you want something on the higher PO-low cheese part of the spectrum, so sleeping in Rope Trick is something you'll be cool with doing on a regular basis). Level 5 is actually a nice time to pick it up.

Since you don't have too many options, you might as well get Greater Spell Focus (Conj) for those few Conjurations that offer saves. Does a Red Wizard need Heighten to do those Circle Magic heighten shenanigans? If so, that would be useful too.

Sculpt Spell is quite nice for a BFC Conjurer, and with CArc you have access to it.

[Master Thrower]

At higher levels you'll likely want Quicken. Extend is good at lower levels, at least on Rope Trick (I'm assuming by your choice of a Red Wizard Conjurer aiming for Simulacrum shenanigans that you want something on the higher PO-low cheese part of the spectrum, so sleeping in Rope Trick is something you'll be cool with doing on a regular basis). Level 5 is actually a nice time to pick it up.

Since you don't have too many options, you might as well get Greater Spell Focus (Conj) for those few Conjurations that offer saves. Does a Red Wizard need Heighten to do those Circle Magic heighten shenanigans? If so, that would be useful too.

Sculpt Spell is quite nice for a BFC Conjurer, and with CArc you have access to it.

Thanks this is alot of good stuff, extend I'll pick up, and maybe sculpt, we house ruled specialist wizards get +1 DC to the specialist school, so in total I'll have +4 to my conjuration DC's (Tattoo focus, SF, GF, and specialist).

For heighten stuff I dont believe I need heighten, so thats all clear, any suggestions for my cohort (it cant take leadership)

[ericgrau]

Quicken at level 10 is obvious. I wouldn't get extend for level 1-3 spells, just spend 3,000 gp on a lesser rod of extend spell. I'd say empower but you don't have necromancy, so it's only good for fireballs and pyrotechnics.

Since you're level 5 I'd recommend sleet storm, sleet storm, and haste. There are few problems that liberal application of sleet storm cannot handle. It doesn't have a save but your feats will boost the concentration DC for enemy spellcasters.

Your cohort and a few of your followers might be a focused specialist so they can sacrifice more spell slots.

[Runestar]

At 10th lv, there really aren't that many spells you can quicken. Extend is still fairly useful, and serves as a viable prereq feat for sculpt spell. :smallsmile:

For spells, consider haste, summon monster 3, sculpted glitterdust, stinking cloud and/or extended rope trick.

See if you can get your DM to allow complete mage (assuming one of you has the book). The idea is conjurer3/master specialist3/red wizard+. If you are feeling particularly daring, you can go focused specialist for the extra slots, but the drawback is that you eventually end up with 4 schools banned (after going red wizard). Probably consider dropping evocation, necromancy, enchantment and perhaps even illusion. :smalleek:

C1: tattoo focus, spell focus, scribe scroll(b), swap familiar for abrupt jaunt
C3: extend spell
MS1: skill focus(b)
MS3: greater spell focus(b), sculpt spell

Paving the way for entry into red wizard. Shame that augment summoning will likely need to wait till lv9. :smalltongue: