PRC8_Builds/Elf, Drow, Male/Ebonfowl - Rake.txt

I noticed there aren't many places to find epic level build ideas for the updated incarnations of the PRC.  I love building epic characters in NWN and I keep my designs in a spreadsheet so I figured I would share them here for anyone else who wants ideas.  Here is my first one.  I also believe this is the best high-level NWN build I have ever played.

What this build gives you: full warlock invoking by level 25, 16 pre-epic BAB for 4 attacks/round; charisma bonus to saves and an additional charisma bonus to one save of your choice; access to shifter forms starting at mid-to-high levels for massive AC, physical stats, and immunities; the ability to infinitely heal yourself (undead shape and utterdark eltritch doom); doubled eldritch blasts (eldritch sculptor, quadrupled with haste); doubled eldritch essences (lord of all essences); damage, attack and save bonus that stacks with each kill (lolth's meat); devastating critical with either falchion or scimitar (your choice, falchion is best but is not in the vanilla game); good scaling spell resistance; and CHILLING TENTACLES!

Weak points: invocations only have a caster level of 25; invocation save DCs are not super high; slows down a bit killing constructs, undead, and other critical-immune monsters.  It may be worth working in extra invocation somewhere to get vitriolic blast to deal with spell resistance and the critical-immune stuff, but lolth's meat generally boosts the damage enough for me.  You could also replace Flee the Scene after level 11 with vitriolic blast, but I would read the notes at the end before doing that - it will essentially force you to primarily use smaller Shifter forms until level 35.

Build Name: Rake (Malazan fans will get the name)

Race: Drow

Alignment: Any evil                        
                        
STR 18         
DEX 10            
CON 10         
WIS 13         
INT 10            
CHA 15         
                           
Lvl   Class
1   Warlock 1: Power Attack, Eldritch Blast, Sickening Blast, Hide 2   
2   WL 2: Eldritch Spear      
3   WL 3: Cleave, DR 1/Cold Iron, Hide 3   
4   WL 4: Deceive Item, Dark One's Own Luck, 19 STR   
5   WL 5: Hide 4   
6   WL 6: Lolth's Meat, Eldritch Chain      
7   WL 7: DR 2/Cold Iron, Hide 5   
8   WL 8: Fiendish Resilience 1, Beshadowed Blast, 20 STR   
9   WL 9: Great Cleave         
10   WL 10: Elemental Resistance 5, Flee the Scene      
11   WL 11: DR 3/Cold Iron, Chilling Tentacles      
12   Blackguard 1: Improved Critical (Falchion/Scimitar), Use Poison, 21 STR   
13   BG 2: Smite Good, Dark Blessing      
14   WL 12: Imbue Item      
15   WL 13: Alertness, Fiendish Resilience 2, Noxious Blast      
16   WL 14: 22 STR   
17   BG 3: Turn Undead, Create Undead      
18   BG 4: Sneak Attack +1d6      
19   WL 15: DR 4/Cold Iron, Eldritch Cone      
20   WL 16: Eldritch Doom, 23 STR   
21   WL 17: Eldritch Sculptor         
22   WL 18: Fiendish Resilience 5, Utterdark Blast      
23   BG 5: Summon Fiend      
24   WL 19: Lord of all Essences, DR 4/Cold Iron, 24 STR   
25   WL 20: Elemental Reistance 10, Mask of Flesh      
26   Shifter (PnP) 1: Greater Wild Shape, Creature Weapon Proficiency      
27   Shifter 2: Overwhelming Critical (Falchion/Scimitar), Animal/Monstrous Humanoid Shape
28   Shifter 3: Large/Tiny/Beast Shape, Greater Wildshape 3/day, 25 STR
29   Shifter 4: Giant/Vermin Shape
30   Shifter 5: Devastating Critical (Falchion/Scimitar), Magical Beast Shape, Greater Wildshape 5/day
31   Shifter 6: Abberation/Ooze Shape
32   Shifter 7: Huge/Dragon Shape, Greater Wildshape 7/day, 16 CHA
33   Shifter 8: Daylight Adaptation, Undead/Construct Shape      
34   Shifter 9: Elemental/Outsider Shape, Greater Wildshape 9/day
35   Shifter 10: Evershifting Form      
36   WL 21: Epic Eldritch Blast, 17 CHA   
37   WL 22                        
38   WL 23: B: Epic Eldritch Blast, DR 5/Cold Iron, Fiendish Resilience 7
39   WL 24: Epic Eldritch Blast         
40   WL 25: 18 CHA

Some shape suggestions for Shifter if you can find them:

27: Asabi Chieftan, Dire Tiger
28: Brown Bear Companion, Bulette
29: Hill/Mountain Giant
30: Androsphinx
31: Battle Devourer
32: Old Red Dragon, Fire Giant
33: Demilich
34: Ancient Red Dragon
37: Dracolich (Best all-around form IMHO)
38: Mithral Golem
40: Prismatic Dragon, Adamantine Golem

Note, this is a great candidate for an undead template like necropolitan for the infinite utterdark eldritch doom healing mentioned above.  Make sure to buy off the drow level adjustment with XP as soon as you can (level 6 and 9).