Quote Originally Posted by Fouredged Sword View Post
Well, lets start with some cool stuff you can do.

Lets be a dragonborn of behamut. Lets get a really nice charisma score, so lets start with a spellscale base. You end up with something like -2 dex, +4 cha. They have an ACF that allows you to rebuke dragons in place of turn undead. Now, take the fire and earth domains as your domains. Pick up Planer Touchstone(Catallouges of enlightenment) for the cold domain and contemplative 1 for the water domain.

Now, you have 4/5 of the elemental rebukes, plus rebuke dragon (enough to cover all metalic dragons). You have 5 turning pools capable of controling dragons (most of them have elemental subtypes). If you abuse level draining (temporary only) you can control a single dragon up to 40HD in each. You can control up to you cleric level in each pool, you are cleric 20 with the improved turning feat (making up for the loss of 1 level to contemplative).

That means you run around as a cleric accompanied by the following.
1 adult brass dragon with one class level (rebuke fire creatures)
1 Young adult bronze dragon with two class levels (rebuke water creatures)
1 Adult copper dragon (rebuke earth creatures)
1 Young adult gold dragon (rebuke dragons)
1 Young adult silver dragon with one class level (rebuke cold creatures)

To rebuke these massively powerful high HD creatures, you have to do some prep-work. First, you have to reduce their HD so you can turn them. The best way to do this is to apply 10 negative levels. Once they have half your HD, you can control them by using rebuke. So long as they don't end up more than your HD when you restore the negative levels, they remain under your control.

There are items that allow you to act as a level

If your DM throws out the level drain cheese, you can still rebuke 2 of each dragon type so long as they remain under half your cleric level (so 10hd)
Unfortunately that restricts you to wyrmling and very young dragons, not the most useful in an epic or pre-epic game.

Have fun running around with 5 level 20 flying melee monsters with minor magic to do your bidding.

EDIT - Oh, you also specified a horde of dragons, so let's get cheesy.

Take draconic leadership, boom, another dragon. This one can be any dragon no more than 1 step from your alignment and up to ECL 21 (draconic cohort allows you to reduce the ECL by 3 when calculating it's level as a cohort)

Now have each of your rebuked dragons take draconic leadership (they all have 20 HD, so another 21 ECL follower each)

Now, each of those can take leadership and dragon cohort.

AND, all those level 6 followers, they can be wyrmling brass dragons (ECL 6).

Have fun with your dragon army.
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