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TheCrowing1432
2016-06-29, 11:56 PM
So for an upcoming campaign, Im going to be rolling a halfdrow character, (Shes the daughter of one of my previous characters who made it with a drow and had a kid with her)

That said, i wanted her to follow in her fathers wizardry footsteps, but with a drow twist. And so I settled on Spellwarp Sniper, hitting things from the shadows with spells seemed appropiately drow like.

In my build I had planned to take leadership, the only catch is wizards have familiars, which would reduce my leadership score and make my cohort weaker now I could always simply not summon one, but that would be a waste of a class feature, and as an optimizer, that simply wont do.

So I decided to trade it away and I ended up looking for ACF's for wizards.

And I found the specialist varients, which you can trade away your familiar for some cool things (Abrupt Jaunt in particular caught my eye)

But as a half elf, I am eligible for the Generalist Elf substitution level meaning If I take it, I cant specialize and therefore loose access to the specalist acf's.

So which would be better for my purposes?

gorfnab
2016-06-30, 03:10 AM
If you're wanting to use Elf Generalist and may be experiencing some issues with the familiar maybe you should look into the Easy Bake Wizard option as listed in the handbook in my signature. For a Spellwarp Sniper build you could do something like Rogue or Spellthief 1/ Easy Bake Wizard with Spontaneous Divination ACF 5/ Unseen Seer (for Hunter's Eye Spell) 2/ Spellwarp Sniper 5/ Unseen Seer 7.

Gildedragon
2016-06-30, 10:55 AM
Elven Generalist + Domain Wizard
Ask your DM if you could use a cleric domain or make a thematic domain around drow etc
Furthermore you can trade the familiar away for a number of things

Considering drow SLAs... Maybe go into shadowcraft mage?

TheCrowing1432
2016-06-30, 06:46 PM
Elven Generalist + Domain Wizard
Ask your DM if you could use a cleric domain or make a thematic domain around drow etc
Furthermore you can trade the familiar away for a number of things

Considering drow SLAs... Maybe go into shadowcraft mage?

What is a Domain wizard?

Troacctid
2016-06-30, 06:57 PM
Domain wizard is this (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#wizardVariantDomainWiz ard).

If you have access to Dragon Magazine material, there are a number of ACFs in Dragon #357 that replace your familiar.