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I tried to look for a good link on the CharOp boards for this, but none was forthcoming.

It seems one of the new things that a good fraction of CharOp is bouncing up and down all amazed about is the Ultimate Magus prestige class from Complete Mage.

Why, you ask? Because you can be The Word with it.

Imban at [unixtime wrote:1161142085[/unixtime]]I tried to look for a good link on the CharOp boards for this, but none was forthcoming.

It seems one of the new things that a good fraction of CharOp is bouncing up and down all amazed about is the Ultimate Magus prestige class from Complete Mage.

Why, you ask? Because you can be The Word with it.

I think the best caster level was around 34, not exactly Word material...

Anyway, any cleric can be The Word with enough beads of karma.

Well, yeah. I just found it amazing that there was such a hubbub over this when the Word did it so much better so long ago.

It's because the word isn't kicking their brains in during a contest. While being presented by an outsider, no less.

The one good thing about the word hubbub is that it forced a few people to show their true colors. I prefer knowing in advance if someone's a total douchebag.

Well, there were a few problems with the initial version of the Word, and the Wish's trick really was available to every single character presented. While amazingly cool exploits (the things were actually what got me to wake up to the possibilities of reading the rules) and certainly deserving of the victory (see MingT's posts in the "Infinite Wishes and Broken Rules" thread) there are legitimate arguments against the Word's legality.

Meh. I'm not one of the ones impressed by the caster level shenanigans presented by Ultimate Magus. The useful part of the class is Augmented Spellcasting.

There is a Char Op thread called the Preliminary Ultimate Magus Handbook. I'll link it here later.

In a nutshell, how are you guys getting 34 CL's in a 20 level Ultimate Magus build?