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Jun. 19th, 2008
Since my D&D3.5 character died horribly last Tuesday, I am statting up a new one.
(The one who died was a pet idea of mine - a locksmith - who didn't really pan out as I had hoped; as a rogue I felt the need to be useful and so dived into combat instead of pootling along behind. In retrospect it wasn't all that good of a concept.)
So I'm planning to address the lack of magic in the party and my own fondness for charisma-based characters by playing a sorceror, and am planning to work towards the Daggerspell Mage prestige class. Unfortunately, Daggerspell Mage sorcerors have no dump stat and I have an 8 to deal with. I'm torn between dropping it in Wisdom (losing the will save / skill bonuses) and Strength (losing the attack/damage bonus). I'll probably go with Wisdom. I can do "Powerful but easily led." It's fun.
I came across some comments on web forums that suggested a rogue's Sneak Attack would add damage to spells that have an attack bonus. I can't find anything in the PHB to support or counter it - it does mention they get criticals, which does suggest accuracy would be appropriate, but the SA description doesn't specifically mention an association with criticals (even though all the same restrictions seem to apply). Does anyone have insight? I'm tempted to take a level of Rogue straight off...
(The one who died was a pet idea of mine - a locksmith - who didn't really pan out as I had hoped; as a rogue I felt the need to be useful and so dived into combat instead of pootling along behind. In retrospect it wasn't all that good of a concept.)
So I'm planning to address the lack of magic in the party and my own fondness for charisma-based characters by playing a sorceror, and am planning to work towards the Daggerspell Mage prestige class. Unfortunately, Daggerspell Mage sorcerors have no dump stat and I have an 8 to deal with. I'm torn between dropping it in Wisdom (losing the will save / skill bonuses) and Strength (losing the attack/damage bonus). I'll probably go with Wisdom. I can do "Powerful but easily led." It's fun.
I came across some comments on web forums that suggested a rogue's Sneak Attack would add damage to spells that have an attack bonus. I can't find anything in the PHB to support or counter it - it does mention they get criticals, which does suggest accuracy would be appropriate, but the SA description doesn't specifically mention an association with criticals (even though all the same restrictions seem to apply). Does anyone have insight? I'm tempted to take a level of Rogue straight off...