Strength Based Caster

[tricktroller]

Ok Folks of the Playground,
In one of my groups we use the AEG feat book. In it is a feat that lets you use your highest stat as your casting stat for all classes. Pretty potent feat and something I will be taking on this character.

The character is a human Stalwart Battle Sorcerer 2/ Focused Specialist Wizard 1 starting out.

2 Flaws

Stats as

Str 21
Dex 21
Con 18
Int 14
Wis 16
Cha 18

(on Triples we add 3 so I rolled 18, 18, 15, 14, 16, 15 which becomes what you see.)

So his feats are
Fl1 Practised Spellcaster (Sorcerer)
Fl2 Fey BLood (casting stat moves to highest score)
Human ?
1st ?
W1 Scribe scroll or variant
3rd ?

From Stalwart Sorcerer he gets the greatsword proficiency and the weapon focus feat and from battle sorcerer he takes the MWP for Warhammer. Also proficient with Light armor.

Going to be leveling SBS2/W3/Ultimate Magus 10/Sorcerer 1/Wizard 4

I will probably Ban Evocation and Enchantment for the wizard focused specialist and specialize in transmutation. This character is meant to bend over the BSF and laugh at him, I do not want to play "God."


So what do you guys think? He will be casting from Strength so obviously pump that but I don't know what else to take for the character.

[Hyena]

Cancer mage. You forgot the cancer mage.

[Waker]

Stalwart and Battle Sorcerer are bad ACFs to take if you have any plans on using PrCs. You don't get the bonuses to HP/BAB, but still take the penalty to your spells.

From Stalwart Sorcerer he gets the greatsword proficiency and the weapon focus feat and from battle sorcerer he takes the MWP for Warhammer. Also proficient with Light armor.
What benefit do you get for having proficiency with those two weapons?

Anyways, if your goal is to play a Strength-based caster, I would suggest sticking to just Sorcerer or Wizard and not mix the two. You'll have terrible BAB, so perhaps consider some of the Gish classes like Abjurant Champion. Master Transmogrifist is a good class to consider, as it lets you turn into a big scary monster and gives you a number of bonuses whenever you do so.

[tricktroller]

Its effective 1 spell of 1st through 5th level known in exchange for 3 feats. I'll take that trade for a character who is about summoning up mobs and beating carp up with his greatsword.

His acfs will be
Focused Specialist Conjurer, banned schools Enchantment, Illusion
Conjurer Variant Rapid summoning, augment summoning, and spontaneous summoning
Stalwart Sorcerer
Battle Sorcerer

[Urpriest]

Its effective 1 spell of 1st through 5th level known in exchange for 3 feats. I'll take that trade for a character who is about summoning up mobs and beating carp up with his greatsword.

His acfs will be
Focused Specialist Conjurer, banned schools Enchantment, Illusion
Conjurer Variant Rapid summoning, augment summoning, and spontaneous summoning
Stalwart Sorcerer
Battle Sorcerer

They're three useless feats, though. Three useless feats for 5 spells, each of which can cover several feats worth of utility.

Banning Illusion on a gish is inadvisable. You're losing some great buffs like Mirror Image and Displacement.

[tricktroller]

Ok so Feats will be explained if they are listed here as AEG

Fl1 Practised Spellcaster Sorcerer
FL2Fey Blood (AEG)
Human Legendary (AEG)
1st Spell Focus (Conjuration)
SS1 Light Armor Prof
SS1 Weapon prof Great sword
SS1 Weapon Spec Greatsword
BS1 Weapon Prof Warhammer
W1 Augment Summoning
3rd Arcane Disciple War
6th Mystic Summoning (AEG)
9th Conjure Mastery (AEG)
Fey BLood -> use highest stat as casting stat and +1 to DC's untyped
Legendary -> Stat point every 3rd level as opposed to 4th
Mystic Summoning -> standard action sacrifice summon monster spell add hit die to summoned creatures equal to spell level sacrificed, if 5th add +1hp per die if 9th also max HP per HD.
Conjure Mastery -> +2 str dex and con to all summoned monsters

So at 9th level I will be a 4th level sorcerer 7th level wizard with CL of 10 for sorcerer and 9 for wizard summoning creatures with +6 Str and Con and +2 dex with +4 HD while also being pretty nasty in CC.

What suggestions would you guys make to change them instead then? What weapon should I use? I am pretty much set on wanting to go sorc wizard ultimate magus with this whole thing.

[GreenETC]

I don't see why you're bothering to try and Gish it up here, or at least Gish it up with Str. If you're gonna make one stat the super stat for your character, I feel Con would be better, since you're trying to be a Gish with an entire character full of d4 HD. Sure, keep your Str up there, but if you're ignoring the need for stats to cast spells as well as ignoring the extra for bonus spells, I feel Con would be the best, since you can just turn into a Hydra with Polymorph or something to be able to hit things.

IMO, hitting people with a Greatsword is much better when you can turn into a Wartroll. Also, you should probably increase your Int since it gives you more skill points.

[HalfQuart]

Abjurant Champion (CM) might be worthwhile: full BAB and full casting, and free quicken on abjuration spells is very handy.

Also, to qualify for Ultimate Magus you need a metamagic feat... None of the ones you listed jump out at me as being one; maybe one of the ones from AEG?

[Psyren]

An Aeshkrau Illumian gets bonus spells from Strength. If you focus on buffs, summons, or other such magic that doesn't require saves, you could indeed have a Str-based caster. A liberal reading of transparency would allow you to key bonus PP off strength as well, letting you have a Str-based Psywar.