Caster dip guide?

[ramrod]

Hi guys, I'm sure that this must exist but I'm searching for the wrong thing!

I'm looking for a guide with dip suggestions for casters. There are lots of full caster level classes worthy of dipping but was hoping to find them all in one place!

Reason for laziness is that I'm running a night to help 4 players in my campaign to rebuild/level up their characters and just want some spring boards to start from

[RolandDeschain]

Hi guys, I'm sure that this must exist but I'm searching for the wrong thing!

I'm looking for a guide with dip suggestions for casters. There are lots of full caster level classes worthy of dipping but was hoping to find them all in one place!

Reason for laziness is that I'm running a night to help 4 players in my campaign to rebuild/level up their characters and just want some spring boards to start from

arcane or divine?

dip with features + caster progression?

[Rebel7284]

There isn't even a consensus on what a dip IS. I have heard anything from 1 to 5 levels being considered a dip.

Some nice ones for arcane casters.
Mindbender 1
Nightmare Spinner 1 (after you get 9th level spells)
Master Specialist 1/3/4
Spelldancer 1
Divine Oracle 1/2
Ruathar 1/2/3 (filler)
Sacred Exorcist 1
Arcane Archer 2
Wurm Wizard 2
Incantatrix 3
Shadowcraft Mage 3

[eggynack]

Really depends on the starting class. As a starting point, my current list of dip options for druids goes contemplative, divine oracle, dracolyte, hierophant (doesn't advance casting, but good if you already have 9th's), holt warden, sacred exorcist, seeker of the misty isle, singer of concordance, spelldancer, and talontar blightlord. A good number of those do transfer over to other classes, but I don't think they all do, or that the classes they transfer to are consistent.

[Zanos]

Shadow Adept 1 will get you 3 decent feats and only costs 1 feat of questionable worth.

Cleric 1-3 is good. Cleric 1 is great if you want to make Dweomerkeeper as some Domain powers are very good. Cleric 3 for Initiate of Mystra.

[nedz]

These maybe ?

Dipping Mini-Handbook (http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=5003)

Dipping Cleric 1 (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=2773)

[Vhaidara]

Don't forget Abjurant Champion 5. For the cost of taking Combat Casting and getting proficiency with a martial weapon through some means, you get 5 levels of a full BAB d10 class, plus some really nice abjuration buffs.

[defiantdan]

Tainted Scholar from HoH or Tainted Sorcerer from UA make great dips. Binder 1 with improved binding. Metaphysical Spell shaper 3 from BoEF.

[sideswipe]

cancer mage 1 on any build is good