Factotum help

[dantiesilva]

I was wondering if there was a feat or anything that got you extra inspiration points? After all 10 is cool and all, but at level 20 it is also not enough.

[Flickerdart]

There is (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/frcc/20070606) (scroll down a ways). Font of Inspiration is pretty much the best feat for Factotums to take.

[dantiesilva]

And thats what I was looking for but could not find. Thank you.
As a human I could thus have a total of
1st level feat (Font of inspiration 1)
Human feat (FoI 2)
Flaw 1 (FoI 4)
Flaw 2 (FoI 8)
3rd level (FoI 16)
6th level (FoI 32)
9th level (FoI 64)
12th level (FoI 128)
16th level (FoI 256)
20th level (FoI 512)

Thats a lot of inspiration points and could actually be quite useful. I may have to use just that build in a game XD. I sneak attack you for a million damage your turn.

[Rubik]

I think you'd be better off trading some of your FoIs for things like Martial Study, Craven, and Power Attack for some things to actually do with your inspiration points.

[dantiesilva]

Yea probably just had to laugh at how much you could actually get. Add power attack.

[yugi24862]

And thats what I was looking for but could not find. Thank you.
As a human I could thus have a total of
:smallannoyed:

Thats a lot of inspiration points and could actually be quite useful. I may have to use just that build in a game XD. I sneak attack you for a million damage your turn.

You've read the feat wrong, it doesn't scale like that. It would go

1st level feat (Font of inspiration 1)
Human feat (FoI 3)
Flaw 1 (FoI 6)
Flaw 2 (FoI 10)
3rd level (FoI 15)
6th level (FoI 21)
9th level (FoI 28)
12th level (FoI 36)
16th level (FoI 45)
20th level (FoI 55)

So no triple-digits. Still alot of Inspiration though.

[Fruchtfliege]

Also: You can only take this feat a number of times equal to your Int-modifier.
With two flaws and being human this number should be reached fast depending on the generosity of your DM. :D

[Fouredged Sword]

Human with 18 starting Int, +4 over levels, +5 tome, +6 enhancement bonus caps out at...

+11 ability modifier. You should have no problem taking it at every possible level.

Also, for cheese applications dip a level of cloistered cleric for travel and knowledge devotions and the freedom domain power, and carry a wand of nerveskitter.

Now you go first in combat due to nerveskitter, and you burn inspiration points and a pair of turn attempts to gain 2 move actions and as many standard actions as you need to kill every target within reach of any two points on the battlefield.

[dantiesilva]

Yes it should. Especially saying my DM is very nice to us.

And not as many as I hoped for but still better then 10.

[Gildedragon]

I dont have much to add but I concur with Rubik.
You can do something more interesting than just FoI up; especially if working within a party.

[dantiesilva]

No I am working to kill a party member, I am the handy dandy Finster from the orginal power rangers creating putties and monsters for Rita, I mena my DM, to try to kill us with. We have a person that wants to use out of allowed sources stuff so she has to kill something that is out of source. Thus I need to make a level 12 factotum that can counter a warlock that mostly uses FtS and a version of freezing fog in almost every combat that is also immune to acid damage.

[Flickerdart]

Human with 18 starting Int, +4 over levels, +5 tome, +6 enhancement bonus caps out at...

+11 ability modifier. You should have no problem taking it at every possible level.
The bonus doesn't scale linearly, and neither do the feats. With a feat distribution of 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, half of them are taken before the character hits level 3. Unless the character has a starting Intelligence of 20 and uses all his money to get a Headband ASAP, he cannot take FoI as his 3rd or 6th level feats.

[Fouredged Sword]

It could be possible with an application of the retraining rules to retroactively qualify due to outside modifiers like tomes and headbands.

This would be pure cheese though, and I wouldn't suggest it for anything other than TO.

Don't forget to dedicate yourself to an elder evil to fill in the 11th font. Nothing like selling your soul for class features!