Seatbelt
2012-03-02, 12:17 AM
So the game I was running will end in a pseudo-TPK and one of the players is taking over as DM. The party will all be turned in to vampires, which have LA+8 and the party is ECL8 with no other templates or HD.
One of the players doesn't want his character to be turned in to a vampire and Ban Dage (pronounced da-jay) will be escaping with an artifact to become an antagonist. He's thinking of making a new cleric focused on negative energy/inflict spells. The character is supposed to be the antithesis of his current cleric. So instead of being small (Ban is a gnome) he wants to be large, and instead of healing he wants to do something with inflict (and call the character something like Ein Jury or Frack Sur).
Looking through the MM, almost all the possible options come with some hefty HD along with their LA. He pointed out to me that he could just roll a level 16 evil cleric and be within the rules. But we both know it's better to have 8th level spells than a level adjustment so he's not doing this. We also both know that racial hit dice suck. So I don't want to force this on him.
What is the best way to arrange for him to have some kind of cool large sized thing without being too terribly cheesy (the party is pretty low-op), and still be around level 8ish?
For reference the party consists of a Shapeshfter Druid variant/Stormlord, a Ftr2/Warblade 6, A scout 7/Dervish 1, my wiz 5/Shadow Weave Adept 3 (I confess to being a high op player), and the other player's Barb 1/Ftr7 that may or may not adventure with us as a DMPC/my spawn slave.
One of the players doesn't want his character to be turned in to a vampire and Ban Dage (pronounced da-jay) will be escaping with an artifact to become an antagonist. He's thinking of making a new cleric focused on negative energy/inflict spells. The character is supposed to be the antithesis of his current cleric. So instead of being small (Ban is a gnome) he wants to be large, and instead of healing he wants to do something with inflict (and call the character something like Ein Jury or Frack Sur).
Looking through the MM, almost all the possible options come with some hefty HD along with their LA. He pointed out to me that he could just roll a level 16 evil cleric and be within the rules. But we both know it's better to have 8th level spells than a level adjustment so he's not doing this. We also both know that racial hit dice suck. So I don't want to force this on him.
What is the best way to arrange for him to have some kind of cool large sized thing without being too terribly cheesy (the party is pretty low-op), and still be around level 8ish?
For reference the party consists of a Shapeshfter Druid variant/Stormlord, a Ftr2/Warblade 6, A scout 7/Dervish 1, my wiz 5/Shadow Weave Adept 3 (I confess to being a high op player), and the other player's Barb 1/Ftr7 that may or may not adventure with us as a DMPC/my spawn slave.