Construct Character

[Sharigen95]

My friend is starting a high level campaign (at least lvl 20) and I want to create a character who specializes in building and using constructs, like a Runic Guardian. Is this possible and if so how?

[Sir Chuckles]

Building and using them?
Artificer (http://dndtools.eu/classes/artificer/), and take the Craft Construct (http://dndtools.eu/feats/monster-manual-iv--77/craft-construct--449/) feat.

[Flickerdart]

Artificers do a pretty good job of it, especially with the Rudimentary Intelligence feat. The problem with Constructs, though, is that they are very expensive, difficult to repair, and usually pretty fragile due to few, crappy HD and no CON.

[Sharigen95]

Is there a certain build I should follow?

[Gavinfoxx]

Have you read this?

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=177

[Biffoniacus_Furiou]

Effigy Master in Complete Arcane, I'd go something like Wizard 5/ Incantatrix 10/ Effigy Master 5/ Epic Incantatrix+. The Effigy template in Complete Arcane can be applied to creatures with templates for no additional cost, so make every one of your effigies a Paragon creature (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/monsters/paragonCreature.htm) with Half-Dragon applied forty-four times, once for each possible half-dragon variety listed in RotD plus the three in Dragons of Faerun.

For example, one of those using a Fleshraker dinosaur as the base creature would only cost 6,000 gp and 320 xp, and it would have Str 388 (+189), Dex 32 (+11), so it gets the following:
HD 4d10+68 (108 hp)
Speed 120 ft.
AC 234 (+189 natural, +11 Dex, +12 Insight, +12 Luck), Touch 45, Flat-Footed 223
Fort +11, Reflex +22, Will +11
Base Attack +2, Grapple +191, Trip +189
Charging with Leaping Pounce: 2 claws +216 melee (1d6+209), Bite +211 melee (1d6+114), Tail +211 melee (1d6+114), and Rake +211 melee (1d6+114). That's 765-790 damage when it charges, and of course all of those attacks are almost guaranteed to hit. If that doesn't kill the target outright, it gets a free trip attempt, and if successful it gets to make a grapple check to pin the opponent.

[Dr. Azkur]

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