Lark Ohiya
2007-10-01, 02:37 AM
Hello, some of you may know bunny Rein, or some variant of the name here on the forumes. Well I happen to be a friend and both of us have come up with a slight tweek on the Dragon shaman. I loved the idea, but the dragon shaman in its natural form was a bit... lacking. after using its breath attack and later "laying hands" to heal he doesn't do much other then attack with simple weapons and be beefy.
Well we decided to throw a twist on it. D8 hp instead of D10 and only light armour instead of medium. these reductions also gave access to sorcerer spell casting! only its at a slower progression then strait sorc (thankfully!)
so far its 2 lvls of spell progress and 1 of no progress (unless I remembered wrong and its only half progression again)
All thats well and good, but why am i posting this in the General D20 forumes instead of homebrew? well because I had a question that doesnt really have to do with the varient...
the question: What are some spells that are good to use with a melee class. Or more specificly spells that would work best without depending on caster lvl or resistances.
I have only a limited spell list and for the most part only lvl 1 to 3 spells for most of the game so try and limit it to that.
So far my spell list is:
1st lvl
shield (protection=good)
-burning hands (flavorful and good area damage)
-benign transposition (to move people around in battle and get the clumsy people to hard to reach places)
-ghostly tail (flavorful)
-Enlarge Person (for himself or that lovely fighter you kept in the group)
2nd lvl
-Electric Vengance (electric damage to target after taking melee damage, because he should be getting hit at least a little)
-Tail slap (flavorful again and also decent damage with push back effect)
-touch of idiocy (lowers targets mental stats 1d6)
Animalistic power (raises str dex con by 2 each enhancment bonus)
3rd lvl
-Evard's Menacing Tentacles (grow 2 tentacles that get their own free action attacks at 10 foot reach for a few rounds)
-Warcry (cone blast "cower" on targets)
This might seem like a significant power boost to the dragon shaman, but I only have access to (or will only allow myself to use) my natural claw attacks for weapons as well as progress solely in this new dragon shaman variant. Remember! Let me know some spells that come to mind for this kind of caster. I will make you a happy panda.
Well we decided to throw a twist on it. D8 hp instead of D10 and only light armour instead of medium. these reductions also gave access to sorcerer spell casting! only its at a slower progression then strait sorc (thankfully!)
so far its 2 lvls of spell progress and 1 of no progress (unless I remembered wrong and its only half progression again)
All thats well and good, but why am i posting this in the General D20 forumes instead of homebrew? well because I had a question that doesnt really have to do with the varient...
the question: What are some spells that are good to use with a melee class. Or more specificly spells that would work best without depending on caster lvl or resistances.
I have only a limited spell list and for the most part only lvl 1 to 3 spells for most of the game so try and limit it to that.
So far my spell list is:
1st lvl
shield (protection=good)
-burning hands (flavorful and good area damage)
-benign transposition (to move people around in battle and get the clumsy people to hard to reach places)
-ghostly tail (flavorful)
-Enlarge Person (for himself or that lovely fighter you kept in the group)
2nd lvl
-Electric Vengance (electric damage to target after taking melee damage, because he should be getting hit at least a little)
-Tail slap (flavorful again and also decent damage with push back effect)
-touch of idiocy (lowers targets mental stats 1d6)
Animalistic power (raises str dex con by 2 each enhancment bonus)
3rd lvl
-Evard's Menacing Tentacles (grow 2 tentacles that get their own free action attacks at 10 foot reach for a few rounds)
-Warcry (cone blast "cower" on targets)
This might seem like a significant power boost to the dragon shaman, but I only have access to (or will only allow myself to use) my natural claw attacks for weapons as well as progress solely in this new dragon shaman variant. Remember! Let me know some spells that come to mind for this kind of caster. I will make you a happy panda.