So my fiancee agreed to learn to play and run a game for me as a gift for Valentine's day. Now I'm not sure what she will be running yet most likely a module or adventure path. All I know is it will be solo 20 pt buy and I will gestalt so I have kicking around ideas for characters. Right now I have a master Summoner / alchemist embarkin aasimar. Plan is to summon meat shields use a reach weapon and have elidon for scouting and alchemical throwing later for wand usage. I also plan on picking up leadership asap. I am not 100% sold on this concept and was hoping I could get others input incase there was a combo I didn't think of. Thanks.
TLDR; gestalt character combos for solo play go.
Master Summoner with Evangelist would be potent, inspire courage with full cleric spells would makes summons that much better, and the light armor synergy would also work well.
YMMV
Paladin/sorcerer (lol)
Had actually considered this also thought taking it into dragon disciple.
Master Summoner with Evangelist would be potent, inspire courage with full cleric spells would makes summons that much better, and the light armor synergy would also work well.
YMMV
Considered inspiring summons by having a Summoner /bard but I like the idea of more diverse spells that the evangelist gives.
You say she's going to learn to play and run a game. As in it'll be her 1st time DMing, then you list this crazy combo of classes and race that would make a veteran DM cringe with their complexity. Perhaps you should go with something more simple and not overwhelm her with rules variations and such on her 1st outing.
Monk/Paladin can be pretty effective in solo play. It's got awesome defensive abilities and can bring the offense pretty well too. Take the feat that lets you flurry with your deities favored weapon and maybe quigong archtype for some cool SLAs.
Wizard/Alchemist could also be interesting. Use wizard spells for crowd control, utility and summoning spells & alchemist for self buffs, mutagen, and bombs.
You say she's going to learn to play and run a game. As in it'll be her 1st time DMing, then you list this crazy combo of classes and race that would make a veteran DM cringe with their complexity. Perhaps you should go with something more simple and not overwhelm her with rules variations and such on her 1st outing.
Point taken. I know I will probably helping by policing myself as any player really should, and answering any questions I can.
With only one character in the party, I would suggest building the most survivable character possible.
A gestalt Dwarf Unbreakable Fighter/Monk would be nearly unstoppable. At level 20, you will have something like 28-30 feats. Plus, both classes are relatively "basic" and good starter classes for beginning players and GMs.
If you take Steel Soul, Lightning Reflexes, Iron Will, Great Fortitude, and the dwarf cleave feats, you will have incredible defenses and still be able to dish out absurd damage.