Sorcerrer/Red Dragon Disciplin

[DaweX]

I now have a lvl 5 Sorcerrer/lvl 10 Red Dragon Disciplin (total lvl of 15) and at lvl 10 you have all the special abbilities of a dragon disciplin, and I wonder if I at next lvl should continue with the discipline, became a sorcerrer again, or choose a completely different job.

[SupaCat]

You can't go on with RDD. You're not epic and prestige classes only go as high as 10 (until epic ofcourse). Go on with sorcerer.

[DaweX]

You can't go on with RDD. You're not epic and prestige classes only go as high as 10 (until epic ofcourse). Go on with sorcerer.

Thanks ^^ (what do you mean with epic??)

[SupaCat]

Epic: once your total amount of levels goes above 20. You can get this only with the Hordes of the underdark expansion. Epic gives you lots of powerfull feats, spells and abilities. Your pretigeclass can only go up one level I believe when Epic (not sure, though).

[DaweX]

Epic: once your total amount of levels goes above 20. You can get this only with the Hordes of the underdark expansion. Epic gives you lots of powerfull feats, spells and abilities. Your pretigeclass can only go up one level I believe when Epic (not sure, though).

Thanks, but will you then stop leveling at lvl 20??

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

If you have both expansions you can get up to level 40, if not then I heartily recommend getting them as the original NWN single player campaign is pretty disappointing, whereas the expansions are much better and usually necessary for the better downloadable fan-made modules. Henchman inventory control in SoU and HotU and having 2 henchmen in HotU is another nice addition. I think you need them for the Community Expansion pack as well.

If you're going with RDD I'd suggest a few combat-class levels (barbarian is good for the 10% speed increase/weapons proficiencies/d12 HP increase and you don't need the heavy armor proficiency, take at least 2 levels for Uncanny Dodge I). RDD mostly boosts AC, HP and STR, and so isn't so useful for 'pure' spellcasters as those with some melee abilities. There should be some light/medium armors that have arcane failure reductions too (again it's better to have the expansion), though they're still not so useful as some of the better mage robes.

Ultimately it comes down to whether you want your character to be a spellcaster who isn't quite so vulnerable/ineffective in melee as 'pure' spellcasters (take a level or 2 of barbarian or whatever combat class takes your fancy), or a melee warrior with some magical augmentation/offensive spells (in which case buffing and/or defensive spells are your best bets with one or two area-effect offensive spells). Another advantage of buffing spells for the latter option is they can often be used on both henchmen and familiars, and if you only have a few Sorceror levels your familiars will be pretty weak.