gaming thoughts
Jun. 7th, 2012 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brushwolfDC to resist spell is spell level plus caster bonus plus 10. This means in my experience that most lower-level spells can be overcome - a 20 Int, 8th level wizard casting a 1st level spell still has a DC of 16 unless the spell's somehow bolstered. I don't think there's any way to do this other than Heighten Spell, to a lesser extent Spell Focus and Greater Spell Focus. Either I game with very lucky people or DCs of 14-17 will just slide off most things' hides. I'd missed this because prior to this past few game sessions, I just hadn't played an offensive caster (and um, it's actually kinda fun).
This means that my original idea, 'way back when, to have my character do Cleric/Bard/Mystic Theurge was bad, but not terrible (and to some extent limited by feats) since I won't have as many higher level spell slots available. We are beginning to hit the levels where the opposition are like, like, DOOMGUARD ABYSSAL ROT GIANT with rogue levels or whatever. I wonder if there's a way to salvage that? I've been tempted to ask to just swap out to a different character - probably a straight Bard kitsune (automatically +1 to all enchantment spells, they and gnomes are the only races that get bonuses to any spell DCs).
Any thoughts?
This means that my original idea, 'way back when, to have my character do Cleric/Bard/Mystic Theurge was bad, but not terrible (and to some extent limited by feats) since I won't have as many higher level spell slots available. We are beginning to hit the levels where the opposition are like, like, DOOMGUARD ABYSSAL ROT GIANT with rogue levels or whatever. I wonder if there's a way to salvage that? I've been tempted to ask to just swap out to a different character - probably a straight Bard kitsune (automatically +1 to all enchantment spells, they and gnomes are the only races that get bonuses to any spell DCs).
Any thoughts?