Progression Prestiges

[Talbot]

Hey guys, I'm working on a character concept, and I'm mostly interested in PRCs that advance any of the following (I already know about Uncanny Trickster and all the TOB prestiges):

1) Marshal's Aura progression

2) Both divine & arcane spellcasting (simultaneously), or some combination of one spellcasting type, and either a Warlock's Invocations/Blasts, Bardic Music, or a Binder's vestiges.

3) Please list the books they're in; I have access to most of them, but hunting through them all is a PAIN. Dragon Mags are fine.

[Chronos]

The only classes that advance a marshal's auras are Uncanny Trickster and Legacy Champion, since those can literally advance anything. There are, however, a few other classes that grant their own auras, if you're interested in that.

For arcane and divine together, your options are Mystic Theurge, which is boring, but easy to qualify for; Arcane Heirophant (Races of the Wild), which basically requires druid for the divine side, and Fochlucan Lyrist (Complete Adventurer), which would be an absolutely amazing prestige class, except that it's a royal pain to qualify for (the most straightforward entry requires levels in druid, bard, and rogue).

For combining anything with Binder, the only options are those from Tome of Magic: Either Anima Mage for combining with arcane, or Tenebrous Apostate for combining with divine.

For combining warlock with spells, there's the Eldritch Disciple (divine) or Eldritch Theurge (arcane), both from Complete Mage. Alternately, provided you can qualify for it, you can also advance Warlock with any class that can advance arcane casting. This might mean one of the arcane/divine options listed above, or (arguably) Ultimate Magus from Complete Mage (again, you'd need some way of qualifying for it). Remember, you don't necessarily need to advance the same class that you used to qualify.

For bardic music, there are a number of choices, but the most popular is Virtuoso, from Complete Adventurer, which gives full bardic music progression and then some, and spellcasting progression on 9/10 levels. Alternately, there's Sublime Chord, from Complete Arcane, which gives partial music progression, and doesn't actually progress spellcasting at all, but gives its own (better than Bard) spellcasting progression. These two work very well together, in a build like Bard 9/ Virtuoso 1/ Sublime Chord 1 or 2 / Virtuoso 9 or 8, which is just as bardy as a pure bard or more so, while also having vastly more spellcasting.

[Manateee]

There are a few classes that cover arcane/divine, and I'm sure other posters will be all over those.



1) Marshal's Aura progression

Mythic Exemplar (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20070504a&page=3) from CChamp is all that comes to mind.

[Talbot]

The only classes that advance a marshal's auras are Uncanny Trickster and Legacy Champion, since those can literally advance anything. There are, however, a few other classes that grant their own auras, if you're interested in that.


I would be very interested in that.

[Chronos]

Divine Mind (Complete Psionic) has a few auras to choose from, but they're pretty small, at least at low level (in amount of bonus, and in radius). More notable is the Dragon Shaman (Player's Handbook II), which gets 3 known at first level, and with a feat from Dragon Magic can have two of them up at once. The Dragon Shaman's auras all scale with level, so they're not too powerful with a small dip (they don't have anything like the "minor" auras based on Cha), but one of them gives your entire party fast healing as long as they're below half their max, which can be very handy.

[Talbot]

Anything that dual progresses psionics and some kind of casting?

I'm trying to build a buffer-cohort for the party who runs off Cha and isn't a Bardsader.

Additionally, I'm leaning towards hopping into Fohlucan Lyricist at 10, but having a hard time figuring out what to pair with Bard (the Bard can be arcane or divine). Are there are other prestiges like Sublime Chord that allow earlier entry but give rapid spell advancement?

[Flickerdart]

Psychic Theurge is the vanilla Arcane/Psionic mix. However, Ardent (CPsi) has the ability to learn powers based on its ML, not class level, so you can use Psiotheurgist (Dragon 349) alongside a few levels in Ardent and a bunch of levels in a specialist Wizard, then take another Ardent level, learn a high level power and manifest the hell out of it. Do note that while your bonus PP from ability scores is tied to ML, the base PP is tied to level, so you will have ridiculously few power points.

Edit: as far as I know, these are the only other PrCs that grant 9th level spells quickly:

Ur-Priest: 9th level divine spells
Apostle of Peace: 9th level divine spells
Divine Crusader: 9th level divine spells from one domain

Nar Demonbinder has a screwy progression, but caps out at 8th level arcane spells.

[Urpriest]

If you want to build a Fochluchan Lyrist out of fast-casters, you're looking for the famous Ur-Lyrist! (*May not actually be famous)

Savage Bard 5/Ur-Priest 2/Mystic Theurge 3/Sublime Chord 1/Fochluchan Lyrist 9, getting Evasion from Shape Soulmeld (Impulse Boots) and Open Least Chakra (Feet) and Druidic from RP Shenananananagins.

[Talbot]

That sounds like something that could be relevant to my interests... wanna spare me some book-diving and tell me where to look for all of those? I have access to more-or-less every book, but my system mastery is not at a point where I know where to look for everything...

[Flickerdart]

Savage Bard: Unearthed Arcana (SRD)
Ur-Priest: Complete Divine, Book of Vile Darkness (I think)
Mystic Theurge: Dungeon Master's Guide (SRD)
Sublime Chord: Complete Arcane
Fochlucan Lyrist: Complete Adventurer (online (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20050107a&page=2))
Soulmelds: Magic of Incarnum

[Psyren]

Anything that dual progresses psionics and some kind of casting?

Cerebremancer (XPH) - Psionics/Arcane
Psychic Theurge (Mind's Eye) - Psionics/Divine
Soul Manifester (Mind's Eye) - Psionics/Incarnum
Anima Psion (Tome of Magic, adaptation) - Psionics/Binding

Then there's Psionic Chameleon (Races of Destiny, adaptation) but you and your DM will have to work out exactly what it can do between you.

[hex0]

The only classes that advance a marshal's auras are Uncanny Trickster and Legacy Champion, since those can literally advance anything. There are, however, a few other classes that grant their own auras, if you're interested in that.


Dragon Lord?