Gruftzwerg
2021-12-31, 03:06 PM
Welcome to my newest anime character adaptation as a "lil" new-years-present for you all.
This time it's the undisputed "Master of the Sharingan", Uchiha Itachi (from the Naruto franchise, so be aware of Naruto specific language).
Well, those of you who know my build showcases for the forum already know that they end up pretty optimized. And so is Itachi. I tried my best to be as accurate as possible with his abilities. But this required a big tribute this time..
While I normally tend to make lvl 20 builds, I quickly realized that Itachi will end up as Epic Character. It starts with the need for some epic feats to resemble some of his abilities. Then we need several prestige class abilities to combo. At the end Itachi ended up at lvl 42 (!) Epic Character. I tried hard, but anything less was not satisfying enough as adaptation. At this point, I would like to mention that Itachi never shows the full extend of his abilities. We only get glimpses here and there. This is mainly due to what happened to Shisui. If anyone would know that Itachi might be even more powerful, he would instantly become an even more of a target for evil minded people. He flexed only once in the entire story when Orochimaru approached him the first time (while both where Akatsuki members) and totally alphaed him. The man who is one of the 3 legendary Sannin and the person who a little time after this even raids the leaf and kills the 3rd hokage gets totally overpowered by him. Since Orochimaru is already at the beginning epic lvls (20+), the high lvl of Itachi seems kinda natural.
As always, the build is not really intended to play. It's heavily optimized and has some lil RAW abuse here and there. Further the lvls are neither chronological, nor optimized for play lvl by lvl. I'm just glad that I could fit it somehow together. With that all being said, let's now dive into the build.
Warlock 12 / Chameleon 2 / Unarmed Swordsage 1 / Marshall 1 / Hellfire Warlock 3 / Illusionist (Chains of Disbelief (Ex)) 1 / Eldritch Theurge 10 / Enlightened Fist 7 / Bloodstorm Blade 5
We need a Craftlock as base. This gives access to easy crafing and the much needed floating feat for this build. Unarmed Swordsage + Bloodstorm Balde reflect his taijutsu skills. If you have ever wondered why Itachi always looks so cool when doing his stuff, it's because of Marshall's aura that boosts all skills with CHA mod. Do everything better by just looking good^^. Illusionist is there because of the ACF Chains of Disbelieve, which prevents enemies to get a bonus on their saving throw when allies communicate to him to see the Illusion (a trait of Itachi, knowing that it is just an Illusion doesn't help here). Eldritch Theurge, Enlightened Fist and Hellfire Warlock are the needed prc for the main combos (jutsus) in the build.
Optional homebrew Flaw:
The build doesn't rely on extra feats from flaws, so this is optional. Since I couldn't find a good way with sole 3.5 rules to implement this, it remains just a homebrew suggestion:
"If the character has a negative CON modifier, he takes a stacking 20% misschance on all attack for each point of negative modifier."
Combined with the Hellfire ability and a plain base CON score of 10, this would resemble him turning blind from ability overuse very well.
Stats
Stats: base (additional info); 32 point-buy-system
STR: 10
DEX: 14 (+2 horseshoes of flame, +5 Wish = 21 max)
CON: 10
INT: 16 (+10 horseshoes of flame, +5 Wish = 31 max)
WIS: 10
CHA: 16 (+10 lvlUp, + 5 Wish, +6 horseshoes of flame = 39 max)
Alignment: Lawful - Evil
I have struggled on this for a very long time. Finnally I have settled on L-E. Let me explain it. Imho he is still technically a Leaf Anbu carrying out his very last mission (that the 3rd Hokage did gave him). He stated that he is still "Itachi, Shinobi of the Leaf Village.". The evil part is justified by all the evil things he did in his life. Due to the 3rd ninja war, he was forced to live a life where fighting and killing was the sole solution to handle things. And becoming part of the Anbu didn't help here either, it made it even worse. Further, he often tortures his victims and is constantly lying to anyone who he didn't have sworn loyalty to (sole the 3rd hokage).
LVL
Class
Feats
Abilities
Notes
1
Warlock (1)
Able Learner
Heightened Spell
Eldritch Blast 1d6
Spiderwalk
2
Warlock (2)
Detect Magic
Devil's Sight
3
Warlock (3)
Extend Spell
Eldritch Blast 2d6
Damage reduction 1/cold iron
4
Warlock (4)
Deceive Item
Eldritch Glaive
5
Warlock (5)
Eldritch Blast 3d6
6
Warlock (6)
Extra Invocation:
(Summon Swarm)
Flee the Scene
7
Warlock (7)
Eldritch Blast 4d6
Damage reduction 2/cold iron
8
Warlock (8)
Fiendish Resilience: 1
Brimstone Blast
9
Warlock (9)
Obtain Familiar (Raven)
Eldritch Blast 5d5
10
Chameleon (1)
Aptitude focus 1/day (+2)
11
Chameleon (2)
Bonus (floating) Feat
12
Unarmed Swordsage (1)
Martial Study (Iron Heart Surge)*
*: Abuse Floating Feat with Martial Study to qualify for the maneuver known to pick up IHS
Quick to Act +1
Discipline Focus: Shadow Hand
(Weapon Focus: Unarmed Strike)
Stance:
Step on the Wind
Maneuvers:
Moment of Perfect Mind
Action Before Thought
Mind over Body
Baffling Defense
Insightful Strike
Mighty Throw
13
Warlock (10)
Energy Resistance 5
Voidsense
14
Warlock (11)
Eldritch Blast 6d6
Damage reduction 3/cold iron
Painful Slumber of Ages
15
Warlock (12)
Combat Reflexes
Imbue Item
16
Marshall (1)
Skill Focus (Diplomacy)
Minor Aura: Motivate Charisma
17
Specialized Wizard (1)
Illusionist Variant
Chains of Disbelieve
Scribe Scrolls
ACF: Chains of Disbelieve
Forbidden Schools:
Cojuration
Necromancy
18
Enlightened Fist (1)*
Martial Stance:
(Shifting Defense)
KI Strike (magic)
Monk Abilities
*: Abuse Floating Feat to get Combat Casting and the Heroics spell to get Stunning Fist, to qualify for EF.
19
Enlightened Fist (2)
Fist of Energy
Progresses Wizard casting +1
20
Enlightened Fist (3)
Arcane Fist
Progresses Wizard casting +1
21
Eldritch Theurge (1)
Epic Scribe Scroll
Damage Reduction 4/cold iron
Eldritch Cone
22
Eldritch Theurge (2)
Eldritch Blast 7d6
Fiendish Resilience: 2
23
Eldritch Theurge (3)
Spellblast
Devil's Whispers
24
Eldritch Theurge (4)
Epic Heighten Spell
Damage Reduction 5/cold iron
Caster's Lament
25
Eldritch Theurge (5)
Eldritch Spellweave
Eldritch Blast 8d6
26
Eldritch Theurge (6)
Dark Foresight
27
Eldritch Theurge (7)
Ocular Spell
Damage Reduction 6/cold iron
28
Eldritch Theurge (8)
Eldritch Blast 9d6
Steal Summoning
29
Eldritch Theurge (9)
Fiendish Resilience: 3
30
Eldritch Theurge (10)
Paragon Visionary*
Eldritch Blast 10d6
Damage Reduction 7/cold iron
Greatreach Blast
*: We need a Codex Advocare for See the Unseen to qualify.
31
Enlightened Fist (4)
Progresses Warlock invocation +1
32
Enlightened Fist (5)
Eldritch Blast 11d6
Arcane Rejuvenation
Progresses Warlock invocation +1
33
Enlightened Fist (6)
Quicken Spell
Fist of Energy (Burst)
34
Enlightened Fist (7)
Hold Ray
Progresses Warlock invocation +1
35
Hellfire Warlock (1)
Eldritch Blast 12d6
Hellfire Blast +2d6
36
Hellfire Warlock (2)
Improved Counterspell
Hellfire Blast +4d6
Hellfire Infusion
Resistance to Fire 10
37
Hellfire Warlock (3)
Eldritch Blast 13d6
Hellfire Blast +6d6
Hellfire Shield
38
Bloodstorm Blade (1)*
Returning Attacks
Throw Anything
Weapon Aptitude
* (to qualify for BSB):
Abuse Floating Feat and Heroics to get Martial Study & Stance to pick the maneuver and stance needed.
Use Planar Binding (spell) to call an Erinyes (3.5 MM I). Use Devil's Whispers (invocation) to convince her that you may Mirror Move (spell) the needed Point Blank Shot feat.
39
Bloodstorm Blade (2)
Reactive Counterspell
Martial Throw
Thunderous Throw
40
Bloodstorm Blade (3)
Fighter Bonus Feat: Improved Initiative
41
Bloodstorm Blade (4)
Lightning Ricochet
42
Bloodstorm Blade (5)
Epic Counterspell
Blood Wind Ricochet
28 lvls of effective Warlock Eldritch Blast and Invocations
13 lvls of effective Wizard casting
Floating Feat uses: (besides from entering PRCs)
Persistent Spell
Spell Tematics: (dragon) or (water)
Energy Substituion
Enhance Item: Scribe Scroll
Enhance Item: Craft Wondrous Item (with access to magical location. more info see below the Ring of Spellstoring)
Any Crafting feat
Skills
Due to his high lvl, Itachi has very high ranks in some skills. These are further boosted his Marshall aura, which gives you a CHA bonus on top of your other bonuses for skills (if you ever wondered how some people seem to be doing always well by just looking good..^^).
Skills @lvl42: ranks + ability mod + cha mod from marshall = Total Roll Modifier
I was to lazy to do this lvl by lvl. The requirements for PRC and Feats are meat on the required lvls. Otherwise I just maxed the desired skills and put the remaining points into Hide, Move Silently & Spot.
Balance: 8 + 5 + 14 = +27
Bluff: 23 + 14 + 14 = +51
Concentration: 45 + 0 + 14 = +59
Disguise: 8 + 14 + 14 = +36
Hide: 10 + 5 + 14 = +29
Intimidate: 6 + 14 + 14 = +34
Knowledge (Arcana): 8 + 10 + 14 = +32
Knowledge (Religion): 45 + 10 + 14 = +69
Knowledge (the Planes): 12 + 10 + 14 = +36
Move Silently: 10 + 5 + 14 = +29
Sense Motive: 45 + 0 + 14 = +59
Spellcraft: 30 + 10 + 14 = +54
Spot: 9 + 0 + 14 = +23
Use Magic Device: 45 + 14 + 14 = +73
Martial Maneuvers & Stances
Shifting Defense (Stance)
Lets you evade melee attacks by trading an AoO for a 5ft. step whenever someone declares an attack on you. This is his main stance.
Step of the Wind (Stance)
Ignore difficult terrain, gain bonuses to trip & bush rush rolls.
Iron Heart Surge
This maneuver can cancel anything that affects you for longer than a single round and annoys you somehow. Combined with Shifting Defense, it's near impossible to restrict Itachi's movement.
Moment of Perfect Mind (Counter)
Use Concentration (+59) check in place of Will save.
Action Before Thought
Use Concentration (+59) check in place of Reflex save.
Mind over Body
Use Concentration (+59) check in place of Fortitude save.
Baffling Defense
Replace your AC with a Sense Motive (+59) check against a single attack.
Insightful Strike
Use Concentration (+59) check to determine damage.
Mighty Throw
Make a trip attempt to throw your enemy 10ft. away (prone). Use either STR or DEX for the roll and gets a +4 bonus.
(Itachi used this with his Susanno's Arm to grab and safe Bee by trowing him out of danger).
Magic Items
Scrolls of "Glyph of Warding" / "Explosive Tags"
As most shinobi, Itachi also uses these since they are so handy.
Spellstoring Shuriken
While most shinobi use only regular ones, Itachi likes to use some with spellstoring. (-4 to hit due to lack of Exotic Weapons, unless you wanna use the Floating Feat for it..). These can be abused for some of his shuriken jutsus.
Monk's Tattoo
This is Itachi's Anbu tattoo. Since he has no monk class levels, he needs to abuse UMD (emulate class ability: -20 on roll).
We take 10 and end up with an UMD "roll" of 63 (=10 + 73 - 20). The tattoo now gives us the unarmed damage, movement speed and AC bonuses of a monk of 67th lvl (63 from UMD + 4 from tattoo).
Finally we add the monk ability progression of unarmed swordsage (+1) and Enlightened Fist (+7) to end with effectively 71 lvls of monk ability progression.
Unarmed Strike (caps @20): 2d10
Movement Speed bonus: + 230ft movement speed
AC bonus: +14
Necklace of Natural Attacks (unarmed strike) +5 + Sizing "Itachi's Necklace"
Itachi's necklace helps him with his unarmed strike. The "sizing" ability will be abused later for Susanno
Kimono of Storing: "Akatsuki Kimono"
Stores/retrieves an item as free action in each sleeve. Abuse it for the 2 Rod of Many Wands below.
Rod of Many Wands (Power Sight, Know Vulnerabilities, Know Opponent)
If Sense Motive or Paragon Visionary should reval that the enemy should not be taken so easily, we can get here some more information about the target. 3 charges per use due to the rod.
Rod of Many Wands (Identify with Flame, Vision of Fear)
Reveals even more about the target. 2 charges per use due to the rod.
Thought Bottle
Due to the high amount of crafting in this build, the Thought Bottle is necessary. Note, that the Sword of Totsuka is drawn from a bottle, so the item is somehow fitting.
Mask of Lies + Third Eye Conceal "Anbu Mask"
The bonus to buff comes in handy and the Mind Blank is a fitting ability for an Anbu Mask.
Sandals of the Tiger's Leap + Horseshoes of Flame
You could use any other magical boots instead, but I thought sandals are more fitting and stylish. The horseshoes are a good source for ability bonuses (+2 Dex, +10 Int, +6 Cha). Further, it provides a nightmarish look and the ability to fly on command word. If you want to argue that the rider must give the command word, we have a Raven familiar capable of that (riding and speaking the command word).
Ring of Spellstoring (+ Enhance Item) + Ring of Waterwalking / "Akatsuki Ring"
For this, we need to visit a Heward’s Hall [suggested Variant] Magical Location (Complete Scoundrel) to get access to Craft Wondrous Item. Then we can set our Floating Feat to Enhance Item: Craft Wondrous Item.
For crafting the ring, we need to cast "Imbue with Spell Ability" as Cleric (4th). For that we need to fake an ability score with UMD. With this, we also affect the Enhance Item ability which takes your spellcasting modifier when crafting the item.
UMD Roll @lvl42: 45 ranks UMD + 14 CHA mod + 14 CHA mod (again, due to Marshall) + take 10 - 15 (UMD roll penalty for faking an ability score) = 68 fake WIS = +29 fake ability modifier !
We end up with a Ring of Spellstoring that enhances the spell's DCs by an additional +29 (normal DC = 10 + spell-lvl + min. ability modifier to cast the spell).
This gives us a reason to cast spells from the ring if we have time to prepare. Be it just the regular spells Itachi has (Wizard/Chameleon) or any scribed scrolls he wanna use.
Scribe Epic Scrolls
With his Imbue Item ability, Itachi can scribe very powerful scrolls. With a +73 UMD modifier and take 10 in UMD, we have an effective roll of 83! The DC to fake the needed spells is 15+lvl for arcane spells and 25+lvl for divine spells. We need to pass a DC: spellLVL + 20 roll to later cast the spell from the scroll. Thus we can create & cast scrolls with an effective arcane lvl of up to 63 and with an effective divine lvl of up to 58. This gives much room to (epic) heighten the spell's DC into nirvana.
Ninjutsus
Spiderwalk / basic Chakra use
Base skill that we need 24h/day. Ring of Waterwalking completes this ninjutsu.
Flee the Scene (invocation) / (Decoy/Clone/Cone Great Explosion Justu)
This is often used to talk to enemies while disrespecting them at the same time. Often followed by a swarm of raven (crows/raven, additional option for Summon Swarm from Tome of Magic) for a single round (the raven/crows can blind on a failed Reflex save) or to cast a Glyph of Warding onto his location.
Note on Itachi's fire style jutsus
The Eldritch Blast ability and it's options (Cone + Brimstone) are a good base for his fire jutsus. Wizard offers enough fire spells (e.g. Scorching Ray/Fireball/Wall of Fire..) to cover all fire jutsus. Some examples below.
Brimstone Fireball / Great Fireball Technique
A slight boost to the original spell.
Brimstone Scorching Ray / Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique (without Shuriken)
One of the more simple fire techniques where Itachi spits multiple fire projectiles. The Brimstone essence provides a tiny bonus here.
Twin "Brimstone" Fire Shuriken (scribe scroll) / Fire Release: Phoenix Sage "Flower Nail Crimson"
By adding "Brimstone" we get the "Flower Nail Crimson" version of Itachi's fire shuriken jutsu. Without Brimstone, we get the Phoenix Sage Fire Technique with shurikens.
3d6 initial dmg + 2d6 dmg persisting for 2 more rounds (starting in the initial round)
Sadly the Brimstone Essence scales with Warlock level and persists for 2 round duration. But it starts the dmg the initial round for a total of 3 rounds dmg.
Since they sole require a normal ranged attack, we can throw multiple shurikens per round. The "twin spell" is because Eldritch Spellweave requires the spell to be at least the same level as the essence added (3rd). Further due to throwing multiple shuriken per turn, 12 are way better than 6. With 12 we can easily cover 3 rounds of Shuriken spam (4/round). This jutsu is barely used by Itachi, which is reflected well by the scribe scroll workaround.
Note on Itachi's water style jutsus
3.5 lacks water spells, but there are still a few. Alternatively you can use Energy Substitution and refluff cold energy type to water. Spell Thematics (water) would be another option.
Shadow Conjuration: Fog / Hidden Mist Technique
One of Itachis base water style techniques. Use any fog related spell. Due to having permanent True Seeing, and the fog being an Illusion, Itachi himself can perfectly see in the fog.
Tidal Surge + Floating Feat: Spell Thematics (dragon) / Water Release: Waterdragon Bullet Technique
Water formed like a dragon pushes your enemies away. Stronger is a body of water is available. Fits perfect.
(Floating Feat: Extra Invocation:) Crawling Eye / Eye Transplantation
Imho this is the way Uchiha characters can give their eyes to others (as Obito & Shisui did). And here comes the 3.5 silliness into play. The eye has still the humanoid type and is a tiny creature. Hm... that sounds perfect for the "Symbiotic" template (not type!). This would mean, that Itachi's familiar raven (who had the eye implanted) is/was under full control of Shisui. The same would be true about Danzo. Maybe Shisui abused this to backlash/counter Danzo's plan. He would pretend to still be Danzo, while watching over Konoha. He took the chance to be freed by this reality and died by the hand of Sasuke. This would also mean that Sasuke is under full control of Itachi, since he got his eyes implanted! Itachi just pretends that Sasuke is himself. Just think about it. Sasuke would never acknowledge Naruto nor Sakura. And Sasuke's interactions with Sakura are kinda awkward now (which would be fitting if Itachi is in control). Itachi is doing what he always does, lying and hiding his true intends! ^^
Sharingan
The Sharingan provides a variety of abilities, thus we will try to break it down as much as possible. Note that some abilities have varying effects despite having the same name in the franchise. For that we also need to rely on a variate of 3.5 abilities. So be aware of that.
Visual Perception Abilities
With the combination of the following abilities, everything important will be revealed by Itachi's eyes. A bunch of at will abilities and skills as base, combined with a wand collection put into 2 Rods of Many Wands will serve us here to adapt these abilities.
Power Sight (Druid/Chameleon 1 or wand)
Reveal enemy HD.
Know Vulnerabilities (Bard/Chameleon 2, Wizard 4 or wand)
You learn any special qualities (!), vulnerabilities, and resistances the target creature has.
Know Opponent (Bard/Cleric 3 or wand)
Reveal up to 4 strengths or weaknesses of the target.
Identify with Flame (Wizard 4 or wand) (#Dragon 308)
Identifies designated creature types or classes by a flame over their heads.
Vision of Fear (Wizard 2/Chameleon 2 or wand) (Dragon #333)
Learn the greatest or most recent fear (your choice) of the target. (also alters scry, teleport and fear spells for the next 24h+).
Sense Motive
Complete Adventurer gives the option to compare your level with enemies CR and see if he poses a threat to you.
Detect Magic (at will)
Having it constantly up/available makes it really useful to see if enemies have any spell effects (possible dispel targets).
Devil's Sight
Gives 30ft Darksight all day, even in magical darkness.
See the Unseen
Again 30ft Darksight, but this time we can also see invisible things.
Voidsense
Together with Paragon Visionary it gives Blindsight 60ft.
Paragon Visionary
True Sight + see if target is an arcane or divine caster. Reveal the highest lvl spell and or SLA known. Automatically identify any spells and magical effects going on.
Bonus on all Listen, Sense Motive, and Spot checks equal to double Wisdom modifier or +6.
Probe Toughts
Itachi can read in the memories of his enemies if he wishes (as seen vs Kabuto).
Mirror Move + Heroics + Floating Feat
The Sharingan can easily copy most martial maneuvers without any problems. With the combination of these 3 effects, we can easily get access to most feat and maneuver chains.
Genjutsu
The effect of the abilities in the franchise are flexible and thus again, we need different combos of 3.5 abilities to fake the flexibility. Note that some spells have to be sribed via Epic Scribe Scroll with UMD/Imbue Item abuse (and can be stored in the Ring of Spellstoring - his Akatsuki ring). Also be aware the Itachi is mostly toying around with his enemies and rarely serious to kill his enemies.
Summon Swarm / Demonic Illusion: Mirrage Crows
There is an option to summon raven/crows as swarm (Tome of Magic). They can fly and can blind the enemies in addition to the normal distract ability of swarms.
Devil's Whispers
While Itachi never admits this, imho he has the same ability as Shisui Uchiha but he is hiding it. If he would reveal it, he would become even more of a target as he was. He knows what happened to Shisui because of this ability. But if you watch carefully, he is using this very often to "convince" others by disguising it as casual talk/common sense. Just watch his interactions with Kisame. E.g. when they are in Konoha, he "suggests" to not go all out at first to Kizame. He uses the lil time bought to leak their intentions to the Konoha shinobi without him noticing.
Nightmare Terrain / Demonic Illusion Shackling Stakes Technique
Many people get trapped into this Genjutsu. Orochimaru and Daidara are both victims of this spell. While most perceive the illusionary terrain as horrific, Daidara sees the most beautiful art ever, since that is his biggest fear (Vision of Fear).
Painful Slumber of Ages + Persistent Timestop (on yourself) + (Floating Feat) Craft Contingent Spell: Persistent Timestop* (on target) + Persistent Timestop (on yourself again to trigger Contingent Spell) + Heightened Persistent Hold Person/Eternity of Torture / Tsukuyomi
First we cast Painful Slumber of Ages on the enemy. Then we abuse Persistent Timestop (Epic Scribe Scrolls) to give Itachi enough time to Craft Contingent Spell: Persistent Timestop* on the enemy (since the enemy is asleep, he is willing). We will let it trigger when Itachi uses the next time Persistent Timestop. Once this gets triggered, we cast a Heightened Persistent Hold Person and start to torture the target for the next 24h. Alternatively use Eternity of Torture (Scribe Scroll an arcane version , Use Persistent Ocular Nightmare Terrain for the visuals. Abuse the Extract Pain spell to get some liquid pain to lessen the crafting xp costs a bit..^^
Kakashi had to face this for 72h (3x the entire combo) until the others took notice and helped him with his save roll (Aid Another).
*= Alternatively you could also abuse a magic trap or even a spellclock for the Timestop for the enemy.
(Floating Feat) Craft Contingent Spell: Miracle / Izanagi*
Miracle/Izanagi, can change reality itself. Create or negate any effect you want, including death.
Painful Slumber of Ages + Dream Casting + (Floating Feat) Craft Contingent Spell: Dispell Magic / Izanami*
Kabuto had to face this combo. The target is put permanently to sleep and receives a message via Dream Casting. The Dispel Magic is placed on the target via Craft Contingent Spell to dispell Painful Slumber of Ages, when the target has an alignment switch while dreaming (because of self reflection while dreaming).
* If you want to adapt the "become blind on one eye" part of the ability, Incantations (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/magic/incantations.htm)are a good alternative solution. They can produce magical effects and have custom costs. You could add the "become blind on one eye" condition to the components/drawbacks of the Incantation. Since the rituals take some time, we would still need a Persistent Timestop to accompany it.
Mindrape / Shisui's eye
This spell reflects shisui's main ability perfect. Btw, have you ever noticed that Orochimaru basically has the same ability? Maybe not as strong at Shisui's version, but he still has Mindraped Anko.
Susanno
Each of the several parts of Susanno can be summoned separately. Thus we designate several abilities for each part. We also rely a bit on refluffing the visuals, but that was to be expected I guess..
The size of Susanno is represented by the "Sizing" enchantment on the necklace. While any bodypart can be sized up to colossal, the character still only has a regular spacing. This is exactly what we where looking for. Bloodstorm Blade and some spells can provide the extended reach for the unarmed strikes.
Torso: (DR; Hellfireshield; Horseshoes of Flame)
The warlock's inbuild DR is a good starting point. Hellfireshield is the base for the visuals. The "nightmarish look" from the Horseshoes of Flame complete the visual look.
Arm/Fist: (Bloodstrombalde abilities; Claws of Darkness - Wizard/Chameleon 2)
Bloodstorm Blade gives Throw Anything and the improved returning ability (as free action). Note that the Necklace of Natural Attacks (SS) suggests this as possible/legal for natural attacks and unarmed strikes. This can be further extended by the Claws of Darkness spell. This gives shadowy claws that are like natural weapons, but function as unarmed strikes (including iterative attacks). It also turns Itachi's attacks into melee touch attacks, gives a reach of up to 10ft. and allows to grapple. Just what the doctor ordered.
Sword of Totsuka: (Eldritch Glaive + Epic Hightened Smoky Confinement)
The Sword of Totsuka ain't a real physical sword. Thus imho an Eldritch Glaive represents it very well. Smoky Confinement may have the wrong visuals (smoke instead of liquid), but otherwise is a perfect fit to seal someone into a container for eternity.
Yata Mirror (shield): (Epic Counterspell + Srinshee's Spell Shift (Wizard 9th; cast from scroll/ring))
Itachi abuses the Spell Shift spell together with his unlimited amount of free counterspells. This is also the spell used to reflect Genjutsu/Illusions back. This makes him kinda invincible against most casters.
Full Susanno: (all of the above)
The Horseshoes of Flame give the abiltiy to fly with good maneuverability, thus allows to hover.
With all the other mentioned parts, our Susanno is now complete. We abuse the extended reach (sole from the claw spell) + Combat Reflexes as first layer of the so called "impenetrable defense". Shifting Defense (stance) is the second layer. And Caster's Lament is the final layer combined with Spell Shift.
Hellfire Blast + Spellbalst: Meteor Swarm / (lesser) Yasaka Magatama
Note that the meteors hit a corner of the space where the target stands and not the target itself. This costs us the 2d6 direct hit damage of the meteors. But for that, we get the Hellfire Blast (19d6) and each of the meteors also profit form the extra hellfire damage for a total of 12d6 damage (and dmg conversion into hellfire!).
(with active Arcane Spellsurge) Hellfire Blast + Spellbalst: Eldritch Spellweave: Brimstone Meteor Swarm / (greater) Yasaka Magatama
With Eldritch Spellweave: "Brimstone" we can add the catching on fire condition, which also profit from the Hellfire boost and gets raised to 8d6 hellfire damage per round that persists for 2 rounds (but start the dmg on the initial round = 3x damage).
Amaterasu
Amaterasu: Pesistent Occular Adic Arrow + Hold Ray + Greatreach Blast + Hellfire Blast
If your foe survives the initial damage of the Eldritch Blast (19d6), he has to face 2d4 + 6d6 hellfire damage every round for the next 24h!
Variants: Alternatively, you can if you like, exchange Acid Arrow for other spells like "Wall of Fire" or "Acid Rain" to cover/target an area instead of a single opponent.
Craft Contingent Spell: Persistent Occular Brimstone Adic Arrow
Itachi uses this to give Sasuke his (weakened form of) Amaterasu to activate is he sees "Tobi's" Sharingan. Does lesser damage, but still kills most stuff within the the 24h. Tobi only survived because he could counter the Amaterasu with his special ability.
END
We've arrived at the end of this adaptation and I hope you all enjoyed the build and survied the wall of text. Feedback is welcome as always. Be it critique or questions regarding Itachi's abilities or how the 3.5 abilities/rules reflect this.
I hope that I didn't missed anything in my notes. If I should missed anything important (e.g. abilities), pls let me know.
EDIT:
XP-Loophole
While working on the build I realized that there is a theoretical option for an XP loophole. It's about "Persistent Spell: Time Stop". First note that you don't need to kill your foe's to get XP. You just need to get past the encounter (after it has started) without dying. Noncombat solution work here too. The next argument here is that an adventuring day is 24h long. Thus from the perspective of the caster/Itachi the encounter ends when Persistent Time Stop is cast. This would effectively give you the full encounter xp at the cost of the Persistent Spell: Time Stop scroll. At the end of the spell, it's a new adventuring day from the casters perspective and he starts immediately being in combat (unless the caster just leaves the place in the 24h time-window). Just spam this as much as possible at high XP encounters.
So, if you wanted to have an explanation how Itachi did get up to lvl 42, now you know. By abusing loopholes. As expected by Itachi.
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*: I hoped you survived the wall of text and I wish you all a happy new year. See you next year!
This time it's the undisputed "Master of the Sharingan", Uchiha Itachi (from the Naruto franchise, so be aware of Naruto specific language).
Well, those of you who know my build showcases for the forum already know that they end up pretty optimized. And so is Itachi. I tried my best to be as accurate as possible with his abilities. But this required a big tribute this time..
While I normally tend to make lvl 20 builds, I quickly realized that Itachi will end up as Epic Character. It starts with the need for some epic feats to resemble some of his abilities. Then we need several prestige class abilities to combo. At the end Itachi ended up at lvl 42 (!) Epic Character. I tried hard, but anything less was not satisfying enough as adaptation. At this point, I would like to mention that Itachi never shows the full extend of his abilities. We only get glimpses here and there. This is mainly due to what happened to Shisui. If anyone would know that Itachi might be even more powerful, he would instantly become an even more of a target for evil minded people. He flexed only once in the entire story when Orochimaru approached him the first time (while both where Akatsuki members) and totally alphaed him. The man who is one of the 3 legendary Sannin and the person who a little time after this even raids the leaf and kills the 3rd hokage gets totally overpowered by him. Since Orochimaru is already at the beginning epic lvls (20+), the high lvl of Itachi seems kinda natural.
As always, the build is not really intended to play. It's heavily optimized and has some lil RAW abuse here and there. Further the lvls are neither chronological, nor optimized for play lvl by lvl. I'm just glad that I could fit it somehow together. With that all being said, let's now dive into the build.
Warlock 12 / Chameleon 2 / Unarmed Swordsage 1 / Marshall 1 / Hellfire Warlock 3 / Illusionist (Chains of Disbelief (Ex)) 1 / Eldritch Theurge 10 / Enlightened Fist 7 / Bloodstorm Blade 5
We need a Craftlock as base. This gives access to easy crafing and the much needed floating feat for this build. Unarmed Swordsage + Bloodstorm Balde reflect his taijutsu skills. If you have ever wondered why Itachi always looks so cool when doing his stuff, it's because of Marshall's aura that boosts all skills with CHA mod. Do everything better by just looking good^^. Illusionist is there because of the ACF Chains of Disbelieve, which prevents enemies to get a bonus on their saving throw when allies communicate to him to see the Illusion (a trait of Itachi, knowing that it is just an Illusion doesn't help here). Eldritch Theurge, Enlightened Fist and Hellfire Warlock are the needed prc for the main combos (jutsus) in the build.
Optional homebrew Flaw:
The build doesn't rely on extra feats from flaws, so this is optional. Since I couldn't find a good way with sole 3.5 rules to implement this, it remains just a homebrew suggestion:
"If the character has a negative CON modifier, he takes a stacking 20% misschance on all attack for each point of negative modifier."
Combined with the Hellfire ability and a plain base CON score of 10, this would resemble him turning blind from ability overuse very well.
Stats
Stats: base (additional info); 32 point-buy-system
STR: 10
DEX: 14 (+2 horseshoes of flame, +5 Wish = 21 max)
CON: 10
INT: 16 (+10 horseshoes of flame, +5 Wish = 31 max)
WIS: 10
CHA: 16 (+10 lvlUp, + 5 Wish, +6 horseshoes of flame = 39 max)
Alignment: Lawful - Evil
I have struggled on this for a very long time. Finnally I have settled on L-E. Let me explain it. Imho he is still technically a Leaf Anbu carrying out his very last mission (that the 3rd Hokage did gave him). He stated that he is still "Itachi, Shinobi of the Leaf Village.". The evil part is justified by all the evil things he did in his life. Due to the 3rd ninja war, he was forced to live a life where fighting and killing was the sole solution to handle things. And becoming part of the Anbu didn't help here either, it made it even worse. Further, he often tortures his victims and is constantly lying to anyone who he didn't have sworn loyalty to (sole the 3rd hokage).
LVL
Class
Feats
Abilities
Notes
1
Warlock (1)
Able Learner
Heightened Spell
Eldritch Blast 1d6
Spiderwalk
2
Warlock (2)
Detect Magic
Devil's Sight
3
Warlock (3)
Extend Spell
Eldritch Blast 2d6
Damage reduction 1/cold iron
4
Warlock (4)
Deceive Item
Eldritch Glaive
5
Warlock (5)
Eldritch Blast 3d6
6
Warlock (6)
Extra Invocation:
(Summon Swarm)
Flee the Scene
7
Warlock (7)
Eldritch Blast 4d6
Damage reduction 2/cold iron
8
Warlock (8)
Fiendish Resilience: 1
Brimstone Blast
9
Warlock (9)
Obtain Familiar (Raven)
Eldritch Blast 5d5
10
Chameleon (1)
Aptitude focus 1/day (+2)
11
Chameleon (2)
Bonus (floating) Feat
12
Unarmed Swordsage (1)
Martial Study (Iron Heart Surge)*
*: Abuse Floating Feat with Martial Study to qualify for the maneuver known to pick up IHS
Quick to Act +1
Discipline Focus: Shadow Hand
(Weapon Focus: Unarmed Strike)
Stance:
Step on the Wind
Maneuvers:
Moment of Perfect Mind
Action Before Thought
Mind over Body
Baffling Defense
Insightful Strike
Mighty Throw
13
Warlock (10)
Energy Resistance 5
Voidsense
14
Warlock (11)
Eldritch Blast 6d6
Damage reduction 3/cold iron
Painful Slumber of Ages
15
Warlock (12)
Combat Reflexes
Imbue Item
16
Marshall (1)
Skill Focus (Diplomacy)
Minor Aura: Motivate Charisma
17
Specialized Wizard (1)
Illusionist Variant
Chains of Disbelieve
Scribe Scrolls
ACF: Chains of Disbelieve
Forbidden Schools:
Cojuration
Necromancy
18
Enlightened Fist (1)*
Martial Stance:
(Shifting Defense)
KI Strike (magic)
Monk Abilities
*: Abuse Floating Feat to get Combat Casting and the Heroics spell to get Stunning Fist, to qualify for EF.
19
Enlightened Fist (2)
Fist of Energy
Progresses Wizard casting +1
20
Enlightened Fist (3)
Arcane Fist
Progresses Wizard casting +1
21
Eldritch Theurge (1)
Epic Scribe Scroll
Damage Reduction 4/cold iron
Eldritch Cone
22
Eldritch Theurge (2)
Eldritch Blast 7d6
Fiendish Resilience: 2
23
Eldritch Theurge (3)
Spellblast
Devil's Whispers
24
Eldritch Theurge (4)
Epic Heighten Spell
Damage Reduction 5/cold iron
Caster's Lament
25
Eldritch Theurge (5)
Eldritch Spellweave
Eldritch Blast 8d6
26
Eldritch Theurge (6)
Dark Foresight
27
Eldritch Theurge (7)
Ocular Spell
Damage Reduction 6/cold iron
28
Eldritch Theurge (8)
Eldritch Blast 9d6
Steal Summoning
29
Eldritch Theurge (9)
Fiendish Resilience: 3
30
Eldritch Theurge (10)
Paragon Visionary*
Eldritch Blast 10d6
Damage Reduction 7/cold iron
Greatreach Blast
*: We need a Codex Advocare for See the Unseen to qualify.
31
Enlightened Fist (4)
Progresses Warlock invocation +1
32
Enlightened Fist (5)
Eldritch Blast 11d6
Arcane Rejuvenation
Progresses Warlock invocation +1
33
Enlightened Fist (6)
Quicken Spell
Fist of Energy (Burst)
34
Enlightened Fist (7)
Hold Ray
Progresses Warlock invocation +1
35
Hellfire Warlock (1)
Eldritch Blast 12d6
Hellfire Blast +2d6
36
Hellfire Warlock (2)
Improved Counterspell
Hellfire Blast +4d6
Hellfire Infusion
Resistance to Fire 10
37
Hellfire Warlock (3)
Eldritch Blast 13d6
Hellfire Blast +6d6
Hellfire Shield
38
Bloodstorm Blade (1)*
Returning Attacks
Throw Anything
Weapon Aptitude
* (to qualify for BSB):
Abuse Floating Feat and Heroics to get Martial Study & Stance to pick the maneuver and stance needed.
Use Planar Binding (spell) to call an Erinyes (3.5 MM I). Use Devil's Whispers (invocation) to convince her that you may Mirror Move (spell) the needed Point Blank Shot feat.
39
Bloodstorm Blade (2)
Reactive Counterspell
Martial Throw
Thunderous Throw
40
Bloodstorm Blade (3)
Fighter Bonus Feat: Improved Initiative
41
Bloodstorm Blade (4)
Lightning Ricochet
42
Bloodstorm Blade (5)
Epic Counterspell
Blood Wind Ricochet
28 lvls of effective Warlock Eldritch Blast and Invocations
13 lvls of effective Wizard casting
Floating Feat uses: (besides from entering PRCs)
Persistent Spell
Spell Tematics: (dragon) or (water)
Energy Substituion
Enhance Item: Scribe Scroll
Enhance Item: Craft Wondrous Item (with access to magical location. more info see below the Ring of Spellstoring)
Any Crafting feat
Skills
Due to his high lvl, Itachi has very high ranks in some skills. These are further boosted his Marshall aura, which gives you a CHA bonus on top of your other bonuses for skills (if you ever wondered how some people seem to be doing always well by just looking good..^^).
Skills @lvl42: ranks + ability mod + cha mod from marshall = Total Roll Modifier
I was to lazy to do this lvl by lvl. The requirements for PRC and Feats are meat on the required lvls. Otherwise I just maxed the desired skills and put the remaining points into Hide, Move Silently & Spot.
Balance: 8 + 5 + 14 = +27
Bluff: 23 + 14 + 14 = +51
Concentration: 45 + 0 + 14 = +59
Disguise: 8 + 14 + 14 = +36
Hide: 10 + 5 + 14 = +29
Intimidate: 6 + 14 + 14 = +34
Knowledge (Arcana): 8 + 10 + 14 = +32
Knowledge (Religion): 45 + 10 + 14 = +69
Knowledge (the Planes): 12 + 10 + 14 = +36
Move Silently: 10 + 5 + 14 = +29
Sense Motive: 45 + 0 + 14 = +59
Spellcraft: 30 + 10 + 14 = +54
Spot: 9 + 0 + 14 = +23
Use Magic Device: 45 + 14 + 14 = +73
Martial Maneuvers & Stances
Shifting Defense (Stance)
Lets you evade melee attacks by trading an AoO for a 5ft. step whenever someone declares an attack on you. This is his main stance.
Step of the Wind (Stance)
Ignore difficult terrain, gain bonuses to trip & bush rush rolls.
Iron Heart Surge
This maneuver can cancel anything that affects you for longer than a single round and annoys you somehow. Combined with Shifting Defense, it's near impossible to restrict Itachi's movement.
Moment of Perfect Mind (Counter)
Use Concentration (+59) check in place of Will save.
Action Before Thought
Use Concentration (+59) check in place of Reflex save.
Mind over Body
Use Concentration (+59) check in place of Fortitude save.
Baffling Defense
Replace your AC with a Sense Motive (+59) check against a single attack.
Insightful Strike
Use Concentration (+59) check to determine damage.
Mighty Throw
Make a trip attempt to throw your enemy 10ft. away (prone). Use either STR or DEX for the roll and gets a +4 bonus.
(Itachi used this with his Susanno's Arm to grab and safe Bee by trowing him out of danger).
Magic Items
Scrolls of "Glyph of Warding" / "Explosive Tags"
As most shinobi, Itachi also uses these since they are so handy.
Spellstoring Shuriken
While most shinobi use only regular ones, Itachi likes to use some with spellstoring. (-4 to hit due to lack of Exotic Weapons, unless you wanna use the Floating Feat for it..). These can be abused for some of his shuriken jutsus.
Monk's Tattoo
This is Itachi's Anbu tattoo. Since he has no monk class levels, he needs to abuse UMD (emulate class ability: -20 on roll).
We take 10 and end up with an UMD "roll" of 63 (=10 + 73 - 20). The tattoo now gives us the unarmed damage, movement speed and AC bonuses of a monk of 67th lvl (63 from UMD + 4 from tattoo).
Finally we add the monk ability progression of unarmed swordsage (+1) and Enlightened Fist (+7) to end with effectively 71 lvls of monk ability progression.
Unarmed Strike (caps @20): 2d10
Movement Speed bonus: + 230ft movement speed
AC bonus: +14
Necklace of Natural Attacks (unarmed strike) +5 + Sizing "Itachi's Necklace"
Itachi's necklace helps him with his unarmed strike. The "sizing" ability will be abused later for Susanno
Kimono of Storing: "Akatsuki Kimono"
Stores/retrieves an item as free action in each sleeve. Abuse it for the 2 Rod of Many Wands below.
Rod of Many Wands (Power Sight, Know Vulnerabilities, Know Opponent)
If Sense Motive or Paragon Visionary should reval that the enemy should not be taken so easily, we can get here some more information about the target. 3 charges per use due to the rod.
Rod of Many Wands (Identify with Flame, Vision of Fear)
Reveals even more about the target. 2 charges per use due to the rod.
Thought Bottle
Due to the high amount of crafting in this build, the Thought Bottle is necessary. Note, that the Sword of Totsuka is drawn from a bottle, so the item is somehow fitting.
Mask of Lies + Third Eye Conceal "Anbu Mask"
The bonus to buff comes in handy and the Mind Blank is a fitting ability for an Anbu Mask.
Sandals of the Tiger's Leap + Horseshoes of Flame
You could use any other magical boots instead, but I thought sandals are more fitting and stylish. The horseshoes are a good source for ability bonuses (+2 Dex, +10 Int, +6 Cha). Further, it provides a nightmarish look and the ability to fly on command word. If you want to argue that the rider must give the command word, we have a Raven familiar capable of that (riding and speaking the command word).
Ring of Spellstoring (+ Enhance Item) + Ring of Waterwalking / "Akatsuki Ring"
For this, we need to visit a Heward’s Hall [suggested Variant] Magical Location (Complete Scoundrel) to get access to Craft Wondrous Item. Then we can set our Floating Feat to Enhance Item: Craft Wondrous Item.
For crafting the ring, we need to cast "Imbue with Spell Ability" as Cleric (4th). For that we need to fake an ability score with UMD. With this, we also affect the Enhance Item ability which takes your spellcasting modifier when crafting the item.
UMD Roll @lvl42: 45 ranks UMD + 14 CHA mod + 14 CHA mod (again, due to Marshall) + take 10 - 15 (UMD roll penalty for faking an ability score) = 68 fake WIS = +29 fake ability modifier !
We end up with a Ring of Spellstoring that enhances the spell's DCs by an additional +29 (normal DC = 10 + spell-lvl + min. ability modifier to cast the spell).
This gives us a reason to cast spells from the ring if we have time to prepare. Be it just the regular spells Itachi has (Wizard/Chameleon) or any scribed scrolls he wanna use.
Scribe Epic Scrolls
With his Imbue Item ability, Itachi can scribe very powerful scrolls. With a +73 UMD modifier and take 10 in UMD, we have an effective roll of 83! The DC to fake the needed spells is 15+lvl for arcane spells and 25+lvl for divine spells. We need to pass a DC: spellLVL + 20 roll to later cast the spell from the scroll. Thus we can create & cast scrolls with an effective arcane lvl of up to 63 and with an effective divine lvl of up to 58. This gives much room to (epic) heighten the spell's DC into nirvana.
Ninjutsus
Spiderwalk / basic Chakra use
Base skill that we need 24h/day. Ring of Waterwalking completes this ninjutsu.
Flee the Scene (invocation) / (Decoy/Clone/Cone Great Explosion Justu)
This is often used to talk to enemies while disrespecting them at the same time. Often followed by a swarm of raven (crows/raven, additional option for Summon Swarm from Tome of Magic) for a single round (the raven/crows can blind on a failed Reflex save) or to cast a Glyph of Warding onto his location.
Note on Itachi's fire style jutsus
The Eldritch Blast ability and it's options (Cone + Brimstone) are a good base for his fire jutsus. Wizard offers enough fire spells (e.g. Scorching Ray/Fireball/Wall of Fire..) to cover all fire jutsus. Some examples below.
Brimstone Fireball / Great Fireball Technique
A slight boost to the original spell.
Brimstone Scorching Ray / Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique (without Shuriken)
One of the more simple fire techniques where Itachi spits multiple fire projectiles. The Brimstone essence provides a tiny bonus here.
Twin "Brimstone" Fire Shuriken (scribe scroll) / Fire Release: Phoenix Sage "Flower Nail Crimson"
By adding "Brimstone" we get the "Flower Nail Crimson" version of Itachi's fire shuriken jutsu. Without Brimstone, we get the Phoenix Sage Fire Technique with shurikens.
3d6 initial dmg + 2d6 dmg persisting for 2 more rounds (starting in the initial round)
Sadly the Brimstone Essence scales with Warlock level and persists for 2 round duration. But it starts the dmg the initial round for a total of 3 rounds dmg.
Since they sole require a normal ranged attack, we can throw multiple shurikens per round. The "twin spell" is because Eldritch Spellweave requires the spell to be at least the same level as the essence added (3rd). Further due to throwing multiple shuriken per turn, 12 are way better than 6. With 12 we can easily cover 3 rounds of Shuriken spam (4/round). This jutsu is barely used by Itachi, which is reflected well by the scribe scroll workaround.
Note on Itachi's water style jutsus
3.5 lacks water spells, but there are still a few. Alternatively you can use Energy Substitution and refluff cold energy type to water. Spell Thematics (water) would be another option.
Shadow Conjuration: Fog / Hidden Mist Technique
One of Itachis base water style techniques. Use any fog related spell. Due to having permanent True Seeing, and the fog being an Illusion, Itachi himself can perfectly see in the fog.
Tidal Surge + Floating Feat: Spell Thematics (dragon) / Water Release: Waterdragon Bullet Technique
Water formed like a dragon pushes your enemies away. Stronger is a body of water is available. Fits perfect.
(Floating Feat: Extra Invocation:) Crawling Eye / Eye Transplantation
Imho this is the way Uchiha characters can give their eyes to others (as Obito & Shisui did). And here comes the 3.5 silliness into play. The eye has still the humanoid type and is a tiny creature. Hm... that sounds perfect for the "Symbiotic" template (not type!). This would mean, that Itachi's familiar raven (who had the eye implanted) is/was under full control of Shisui. The same would be true about Danzo. Maybe Shisui abused this to backlash/counter Danzo's plan. He would pretend to still be Danzo, while watching over Konoha. He took the chance to be freed by this reality and died by the hand of Sasuke. This would also mean that Sasuke is under full control of Itachi, since he got his eyes implanted! Itachi just pretends that Sasuke is himself. Just think about it. Sasuke would never acknowledge Naruto nor Sakura. And Sasuke's interactions with Sakura are kinda awkward now (which would be fitting if Itachi is in control). Itachi is doing what he always does, lying and hiding his true intends! ^^
Sharingan
The Sharingan provides a variety of abilities, thus we will try to break it down as much as possible. Note that some abilities have varying effects despite having the same name in the franchise. For that we also need to rely on a variate of 3.5 abilities. So be aware of that.
Visual Perception Abilities
With the combination of the following abilities, everything important will be revealed by Itachi's eyes. A bunch of at will abilities and skills as base, combined with a wand collection put into 2 Rods of Many Wands will serve us here to adapt these abilities.
Power Sight (Druid/Chameleon 1 or wand)
Reveal enemy HD.
Know Vulnerabilities (Bard/Chameleon 2, Wizard 4 or wand)
You learn any special qualities (!), vulnerabilities, and resistances the target creature has.
Know Opponent (Bard/Cleric 3 or wand)
Reveal up to 4 strengths or weaknesses of the target.
Identify with Flame (Wizard 4 or wand) (#Dragon 308)
Identifies designated creature types or classes by a flame over their heads.
Vision of Fear (Wizard 2/Chameleon 2 or wand) (Dragon #333)
Learn the greatest or most recent fear (your choice) of the target. (also alters scry, teleport and fear spells for the next 24h+).
Sense Motive
Complete Adventurer gives the option to compare your level with enemies CR and see if he poses a threat to you.
Detect Magic (at will)
Having it constantly up/available makes it really useful to see if enemies have any spell effects (possible dispel targets).
Devil's Sight
Gives 30ft Darksight all day, even in magical darkness.
See the Unseen
Again 30ft Darksight, but this time we can also see invisible things.
Voidsense
Together with Paragon Visionary it gives Blindsight 60ft.
Paragon Visionary
True Sight + see if target is an arcane or divine caster. Reveal the highest lvl spell and or SLA known. Automatically identify any spells and magical effects going on.
Bonus on all Listen, Sense Motive, and Spot checks equal to double Wisdom modifier or +6.
Probe Toughts
Itachi can read in the memories of his enemies if he wishes (as seen vs Kabuto).
Mirror Move + Heroics + Floating Feat
The Sharingan can easily copy most martial maneuvers without any problems. With the combination of these 3 effects, we can easily get access to most feat and maneuver chains.
Genjutsu
The effect of the abilities in the franchise are flexible and thus again, we need different combos of 3.5 abilities to fake the flexibility. Note that some spells have to be sribed via Epic Scribe Scroll with UMD/Imbue Item abuse (and can be stored in the Ring of Spellstoring - his Akatsuki ring). Also be aware the Itachi is mostly toying around with his enemies and rarely serious to kill his enemies.
Summon Swarm / Demonic Illusion: Mirrage Crows
There is an option to summon raven/crows as swarm (Tome of Magic). They can fly and can blind the enemies in addition to the normal distract ability of swarms.
Devil's Whispers
While Itachi never admits this, imho he has the same ability as Shisui Uchiha but he is hiding it. If he would reveal it, he would become even more of a target as he was. He knows what happened to Shisui because of this ability. But if you watch carefully, he is using this very often to "convince" others by disguising it as casual talk/common sense. Just watch his interactions with Kisame. E.g. when they are in Konoha, he "suggests" to not go all out at first to Kizame. He uses the lil time bought to leak their intentions to the Konoha shinobi without him noticing.
Nightmare Terrain / Demonic Illusion Shackling Stakes Technique
Many people get trapped into this Genjutsu. Orochimaru and Daidara are both victims of this spell. While most perceive the illusionary terrain as horrific, Daidara sees the most beautiful art ever, since that is his biggest fear (Vision of Fear).
Painful Slumber of Ages + Persistent Timestop (on yourself) + (Floating Feat) Craft Contingent Spell: Persistent Timestop* (on target) + Persistent Timestop (on yourself again to trigger Contingent Spell) + Heightened Persistent Hold Person/Eternity of Torture / Tsukuyomi
First we cast Painful Slumber of Ages on the enemy. Then we abuse Persistent Timestop (Epic Scribe Scrolls) to give Itachi enough time to Craft Contingent Spell: Persistent Timestop* on the enemy (since the enemy is asleep, he is willing). We will let it trigger when Itachi uses the next time Persistent Timestop. Once this gets triggered, we cast a Heightened Persistent Hold Person and start to torture the target for the next 24h. Alternatively use Eternity of Torture (Scribe Scroll an arcane version , Use Persistent Ocular Nightmare Terrain for the visuals. Abuse the Extract Pain spell to get some liquid pain to lessen the crafting xp costs a bit..^^
Kakashi had to face this for 72h (3x the entire combo) until the others took notice and helped him with his save roll (Aid Another).
*= Alternatively you could also abuse a magic trap or even a spellclock for the Timestop for the enemy.
(Floating Feat) Craft Contingent Spell: Miracle / Izanagi*
Miracle/Izanagi, can change reality itself. Create or negate any effect you want, including death.
Painful Slumber of Ages + Dream Casting + (Floating Feat) Craft Contingent Spell: Dispell Magic / Izanami*
Kabuto had to face this combo. The target is put permanently to sleep and receives a message via Dream Casting. The Dispel Magic is placed on the target via Craft Contingent Spell to dispell Painful Slumber of Ages, when the target has an alignment switch while dreaming (because of self reflection while dreaming).
* If you want to adapt the "become blind on one eye" part of the ability, Incantations (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/magic/incantations.htm)are a good alternative solution. They can produce magical effects and have custom costs. You could add the "become blind on one eye" condition to the components/drawbacks of the Incantation. Since the rituals take some time, we would still need a Persistent Timestop to accompany it.
Mindrape / Shisui's eye
This spell reflects shisui's main ability perfect. Btw, have you ever noticed that Orochimaru basically has the same ability? Maybe not as strong at Shisui's version, but he still has Mindraped Anko.
Susanno
Each of the several parts of Susanno can be summoned separately. Thus we designate several abilities for each part. We also rely a bit on refluffing the visuals, but that was to be expected I guess..
The size of Susanno is represented by the "Sizing" enchantment on the necklace. While any bodypart can be sized up to colossal, the character still only has a regular spacing. This is exactly what we where looking for. Bloodstorm Blade and some spells can provide the extended reach for the unarmed strikes.
Torso: (DR; Hellfireshield; Horseshoes of Flame)
The warlock's inbuild DR is a good starting point. Hellfireshield is the base for the visuals. The "nightmarish look" from the Horseshoes of Flame complete the visual look.
Arm/Fist: (Bloodstrombalde abilities; Claws of Darkness - Wizard/Chameleon 2)
Bloodstorm Blade gives Throw Anything and the improved returning ability (as free action). Note that the Necklace of Natural Attacks (SS) suggests this as possible/legal for natural attacks and unarmed strikes. This can be further extended by the Claws of Darkness spell. This gives shadowy claws that are like natural weapons, but function as unarmed strikes (including iterative attacks). It also turns Itachi's attacks into melee touch attacks, gives a reach of up to 10ft. and allows to grapple. Just what the doctor ordered.
Sword of Totsuka: (Eldritch Glaive + Epic Hightened Smoky Confinement)
The Sword of Totsuka ain't a real physical sword. Thus imho an Eldritch Glaive represents it very well. Smoky Confinement may have the wrong visuals (smoke instead of liquid), but otherwise is a perfect fit to seal someone into a container for eternity.
Yata Mirror (shield): (Epic Counterspell + Srinshee's Spell Shift (Wizard 9th; cast from scroll/ring))
Itachi abuses the Spell Shift spell together with his unlimited amount of free counterspells. This is also the spell used to reflect Genjutsu/Illusions back. This makes him kinda invincible against most casters.
Full Susanno: (all of the above)
The Horseshoes of Flame give the abiltiy to fly with good maneuverability, thus allows to hover.
With all the other mentioned parts, our Susanno is now complete. We abuse the extended reach (sole from the claw spell) + Combat Reflexes as first layer of the so called "impenetrable defense". Shifting Defense (stance) is the second layer. And Caster's Lament is the final layer combined with Spell Shift.
Hellfire Blast + Spellbalst: Meteor Swarm / (lesser) Yasaka Magatama
Note that the meteors hit a corner of the space where the target stands and not the target itself. This costs us the 2d6 direct hit damage of the meteors. But for that, we get the Hellfire Blast (19d6) and each of the meteors also profit form the extra hellfire damage for a total of 12d6 damage (and dmg conversion into hellfire!).
(with active Arcane Spellsurge) Hellfire Blast + Spellbalst: Eldritch Spellweave: Brimstone Meteor Swarm / (greater) Yasaka Magatama
With Eldritch Spellweave: "Brimstone" we can add the catching on fire condition, which also profit from the Hellfire boost and gets raised to 8d6 hellfire damage per round that persists for 2 rounds (but start the dmg on the initial round = 3x damage).
Amaterasu
Amaterasu: Pesistent Occular Adic Arrow + Hold Ray + Greatreach Blast + Hellfire Blast
If your foe survives the initial damage of the Eldritch Blast (19d6), he has to face 2d4 + 6d6 hellfire damage every round for the next 24h!
Variants: Alternatively, you can if you like, exchange Acid Arrow for other spells like "Wall of Fire" or "Acid Rain" to cover/target an area instead of a single opponent.
Craft Contingent Spell: Persistent Occular Brimstone Adic Arrow
Itachi uses this to give Sasuke his (weakened form of) Amaterasu to activate is he sees "Tobi's" Sharingan. Does lesser damage, but still kills most stuff within the the 24h. Tobi only survived because he could counter the Amaterasu with his special ability.
END
We've arrived at the end of this adaptation and I hope you all enjoyed the build and survied the wall of text. Feedback is welcome as always. Be it critique or questions regarding Itachi's abilities or how the 3.5 abilities/rules reflect this.
I hope that I didn't missed anything in my notes. If I should missed anything important (e.g. abilities), pls let me know.
EDIT:
XP-Loophole
While working on the build I realized that there is a theoretical option for an XP loophole. It's about "Persistent Spell: Time Stop". First note that you don't need to kill your foe's to get XP. You just need to get past the encounter (after it has started) without dying. Noncombat solution work here too. The next argument here is that an adventuring day is 24h long. Thus from the perspective of the caster/Itachi the encounter ends when Persistent Time Stop is cast. This would effectively give you the full encounter xp at the cost of the Persistent Spell: Time Stop scroll. At the end of the spell, it's a new adventuring day from the casters perspective and he starts immediately being in combat (unless the caster just leaves the place in the 24h time-window). Just spam this as much as possible at high XP encounters.
So, if you wanted to have an explanation how Itachi did get up to lvl 42, now you know. By abusing loopholes. As expected by Itachi.
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*: I hoped you survived the wall of text and I wish you all a happy new year. See you next year!