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Are you ok with changing your form during combat? An alterself spell would give you a hefty strength boost as you become medium. Or must you do your butt kicking in pixie form?
To punch people across the room, try force hook punch.
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Sorry, it might not be known where to find the Urban Bloodrager.
It's on page 24 of the Pathfinder Player Companion: Heroes of the Street.
The important part, is it's Controlled Rage:
Controlled Bloodrage:
When an urban bloodrager rages, she does not gain the normal benefits. Instead, she can apply a +4 morale bonus to her Constitution, Dexterity, or Strength. This bonus increases to +6 when she gains greater bloodrage and to +8 when she gains mighty bloodrage. She can apply the full bonus to one ability score or split the bonus between several scores in increments of 2. When using a controlled bloodrage, an urban bloodrager gains no bonus on Will saves, takes no penalties to AC, and can still use Charisma-, Dexterity-, and Intelligence-based skills. A controlled bloodrage still counts as a bloodrage for the purposes of any spells, feats, and other effects. This ability alters bloodrage.
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*Squee*
Tiny but fierce, you're adorable! >w< Not to mention adorable, dainty, and delightful!
...But not cute. o mo
For more damage, though, there are a few spells and effects that can be used to treat strike damage as a size larger. If you plan to punch things, that might be worth looking into.
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should be -4 str for being tiny, not -2
Shouldn't it be -8? The STR difference between a Tiny to medium size monster is -8.
Also as blackblood mentioned, you'd have to go dex based. No questions. The urban bloodrager is your best bet, but you'll still need to do something to get dex to hit and damage as fast as humanly possible, which will ultimately determine what weapons you will even use so you're looking at a dip into swashbuckler, or taking the fencing/slashing grace route. Also likely a dip into Titan Mauler barbarian so you can wield... a Small sized weapon.
Overall, it seems like a potentially fun idea, but terribly ineffective, and simply not worth the trouble involved.
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Sorry, it might not be known where to find the Urban Bloodrager.
It's on page 24 of the Pathfinder Player Companion: Heroes of the Street.
The important part, is it's Controlled Rage:
Controlled Bloodrage:
When an urban bloodrager rages, she does not gain the normal benefits. Instead, she can apply a +4 morale bonus to her Constitution, Dexterity, or Strength. This bonus increases to +6 when she gains greater bloodrage and to +8 when she gains mighty bloodrage. She can apply the full bonus to one ability score or split the bonus between several scores in increments of 2. When using a controlled bloodrage, an urban bloodrager gains no bonus on Will saves, takes no penalties to AC, and can still use Charisma-, Dexterity-, and Intelligence-based skills. A controlled bloodrage still counts as a bloodrage for the purposes of any spells, feats, and other effects. This ability alters bloodrage.
And there goes my love of Urbar Barbarian. XD Barbarian gets to keep nothing and still has to be non-lawful...
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And there goes my love of Urbar Barbarian. XD Barbarian gets to keep nothing and still has to be non-lawful...Sorry, it might not be known where to find the Urban Bloodrager.
It's on page 24 of the Pathfinder Player Companion: Heroes of the Street.
The important part, is it's Controlled Rage:
Controlled Bloodrage:
When an urban bloodrager rages, she does not gain the normal benefits. Instead, she can apply a +4 morale bonus to her Constitution, Dexterity, or Strength. This bonus increases to +6 when she gains greater bloodrage and to +8 when she gains mighty bloodrage. She can apply the full bonus to one ability score or split the bonus between several scores in increments of 2. When using a controlled bloodrage, an urban bloodrager gains no bonus on Will saves, takes no penalties to AC, and can still use Charisma-, Dexterity-, and Intelligence-based skills. A controlled bloodrage still counts as a bloodrage for the purposes of any spells, feats, and other effects. This ability alters bloodrage.
I was just thinking that... barbarian really doesn't get much over the bloodrager anymore. :p More rage powers, I guess? And useful in PFS where Primalist BR is banned.
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I think the important part is finding out if the str is a -2, -4, or a -8.
-2, or -4, you can still do str based, but if its -8, you're better off getting urban bloodrager and dex to dmg.
Tiny means that you'll always be taking AOOs going into people's square, and provoking. You might want to dip 1 lv of unarmed fighter for panther style, if you're going to keep provoking AOOs. At least don't let them AOO you for free. Or if you don't want them to AOO you, you need to longarm with a wand before every fight.
Think we'll let some experts sort out the dex to dmg route. For dex to dmg, Mouser dip may be a plan since you're going to be sticking yourself into people's squares all the time.
I think I'd drop con to 14 for more str on the point buy if I were you.
Oh yeah, and you're really cute.
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I had a pixie Barbarian back in 3.5 Spikzy Deathwing. Spiked leather armor, spiked chain, spiked helmet, spiked codpiece. He was into thrash metal and I used a British accent.
Dot.
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Why would you have any penalty to your STR? If you look at the small races only a few have a STR penalty and that is in their stat line. Yes when you use things like reduce person spells you get a penalty to STR, but from what I can see you would start with a 10 STR like anyone else.
Just about all tiny and small sized monsters have either a -8 or a -4 to their STR. A medium sized Cave scorpion has 11 STR. Meanwhile a tiny sized Greensting Scorpion has a -8 to their Strength, bringing them to 3 from their "natural" 11.
A Pixie is naturally a Small sized creature, it therefore has an innate -4 to STR, and therefore they start with only 7 STR after applying stat arrays. Obviously OP is planning some weird custom race like a Pixie while also being significantly smaller to the size of Tiny, which would therefore drop the STR another -4 bringing them to a 3 from a "medium" sized Pixie of 11.
PC races like halflings and 0 HD Races are exceptions to the rule. Even if you want to BS your way into having a tiny sized Pixie magically have more STR somehow, the end result is nothing short of absurd on all levels as you're still attacking people with a toothpick, with 0 reach. Hell, does a tiny sized reach weapon even still have reach?
If you use DEX you are completely missing the point of this concept. It's all about being a tiny brute. Being simply tiny and powerfull is all but too common around here.
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If you use DEX you are completely missing the point of this concept. It's all about being a tiny brute. Being simply tiny and powerfull is all but too common around here.
If "brute" = STR then it is simply not possible if OP wants to be tiny. Small is manageable as it'd only be a -4 to STR which is till terrible, but you can kind of make it work in a really terrible subpar way.
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The you should look no further than hereI apologize for trying to share some ideas. Please forgive me, I shall never speak of this again.
I thought they were good ideas. I also liked that link, though. :D
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The OP is correct about the Str adjustment, since they are using the Race Builder rules:
Tiny (4 RP): Prerequisites: Aberration, construct, dragon, fey, outsider (native), or plant type; Benefit: Tiny creatures gain a +2 size bonus to Dexterity and a –2 size penalty to Strength. Tiny races gain a +2 size bonus to their AC, a +2 size bonus on attack rolls, a –2 penalty on combat maneuver checks and to their CMD, and a +8 size bonus on Stealth checks. Tiny characters take up a space of 2-1/2 feet by 2-1/2 feet, so up to four of these characters can fit into a single square. Tiny races typically have a natural reach of 0 feet, meaning they can't reach into adjacent squares. They must enter an opponent's square to attack it in melee. This provokes an attack of opportunity from the opponent. Since they have no natural reach, they do not threaten the squares around them. Other creatures can move through those squares without provoking attacks of opportunity. Tiny creatures typically cannot flank an enemy.
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*Squee*
Tiny but fierce, you're adorable! >w< Not to mention adorable, dainty, and delightful!
...But not cute. o mo
For more damage, though, there are a few spells and effects that can be used to treat strike damage as a size larger. If you plan to punch things, that might be worth looking into.
tiny but fierce, Have you read the dresden files? or is it just a coincidence?
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@Thirdhorseman: Yes.
That said, the overall idea of this character DOES amuse me. Tiny characters that hit like a freight train are usually pretty fun. XD
Oh, yea. He's the gnomish geokinetist I outlined above.
At least until someone uses a nonlethal blow to the back of his head culminating with all his burn to knock him straight into staggered/unconscious.
I think the point being people have to do less non-lethal to him than normal in order to knock him out.
Wait, someone said Gnome Geokinetist?
The big thing here is going to boosting strength, see if you can have your DM let you move that racial CON bonus to STR, that'll negate the penalty, then as much from levels and items as possible.
The Abyssal bloodline comes on late but gives an extra bonus to your STR while raging in exchange for a higher AC penalty (-4 to be precise). The Abyssal Bulk ability will get rid of size penalties and boost STR further. If you can go crossblooded Abyssal is a good suggestion, fixing the reach problem and open options with gaining a familiar from the Aberrant Tumor feat or using a flawed Scarlet and Green Cabochon Ioun Stone to rage cycle. (Use the stone to convert rage fatigue to sickness, aberrant gives immunity to sickness).
Eldritch Heritage and Improved Eldritch Heritage can net you the Orc or Abyssal bloodlines from sorcerer for an inherent bonus to strength.
For literally punching someone across the room, the Primalist Archetype can net you rage powers from barbarian, including Strength Surge to add your level to combat maneuvers, Superstition if you can handle the wonky flavor that would result, and the nifty Totem rage powers.
The build would come online rather late but by level 20 you could easily be hitting 46 STR while raging (15 Base, +5 levels, +2 Demonic Bulk +6 Strength of the Beast/Abyss, +6 Enhancement Items, +12 Abyssal Bloodrage) , maybe a bit more if you can change the race build.