My Fox form Kitsune Barbarian / swashbuckler / brawler / fighter is lvl 9 and is up for review! Give me your advice!


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So, I have been playing my Kitsune fox shape character for a while now I was looking for some feedback on it. It uses fox shape combined with mouser swash+some other goodies. So here goes:

Don Diego de la Vega(aka Zorro)Confession: I did steal the name idea from Taenia here on the forums.

Mouser Swashbuckler/Snakebite Brawler/Urban Barbarian/Mutation warrior fighter

Stats with kitsune mods: STR: 8 DEX: 18 CON: 14 INT: 8 WIS: 14 CHA: 14
All level enhancements and item enhancements go in dex and with mutagen and rage my dex bonus absolutely skyrockets

Traits: Berserker of the society, Whatever the will trait is called
Now, I cant remember what my original level order was so I'll just wing it.
lvl1 Swash(mouser) 1: Weapon finesse
lvl2 Barbarian(urban) 1
lvl3 Barbarian(urban) 2: Extra rage powe(lesser fiend totem) Ragepower: Lesser abyssal blood
lvl4 Brawler(snakebite)
lvl5 Fighter(mutation warrior): Piranha strike, Fox shape
lvl6 Fighter(mutation warrior): Combat reflexes
lvl7 Fighter(mutation warrior): Snake style
lvl8 Fighter(mutation warrior): Snake sidewind
lvl9 Fighter(mutation warrior): Snake fang

Gear so far: Belt of Incredible Dexterity +4, Furious agile AoMF, Gloves of dueling, Headband of Intelligence +2, Ring of eloquence

Man, I wish there was a better way or a format or something to post your character here.

Anyways there it is I realize 12 rounds of rage is a little low but so far with clever use of barbarian chew it hasn't been a problem.
This build originally had MoMS monk and monkey style but that version ran into the sand with the errata. Any suggestions? The plan was to go for bodyguard but I feel like the mouser ability is as much of a deterrent as is needed for enemies not to attack my friends.

Grand Lodge

No eldritch guardian with a fox familiar with boon companion?


God damn Gandlounge where were you about a year ago.


Advanced Weapon Training as a feat is a bargain, and another level of fighter gives you a bonus feat next level. Then you might as well take a 7th level for the alchemist discovery. I assume you'll get Vulpine Pounce at 11.


That is one of the things i have been wondering. Does Vulpine Pounce work with fox form?


Huh. Probably not. 'change shape into your kitsune form' is pretty clear, I hadn't read it carefully before.


Help me understand this.

- Fox Shape makes you Tiny: +4 DEX...but 0' reach (so must enter foe's square to attack, triggering an AoO)

- Mouser's Underfoot Assault softens that some--you can enter their square for free if they attack you and miss--but it seems you still suffer an AoO whenever you want to attack a new foe. Am I missing something? (I suppose you can use a blue scarf swordsmaster's flair to extend reach as long as you have enough panache to spend on it.)

Am I missing something?

---EDIT---

Oh! And Eldritch Guardian for a Mauler Fox Familiar seems *totally* were retraining for.

I want to see the tiny fox PC riding into battle on the back of a pony-sized fox familiar! ;-)


You are tiny and you don't provoke when you attack from within a foes square. You can make an acrobatics check to enter a foes square if you are tiny.


I'm not quite sure why I took the brawler level. I think maybe I was planning on mixing unarmed strikes with my natural attacks when i got enough static bonuses and for a while I was playing a lot with a bard. I might retrain it to a fighter level anyway. Any good Advanced weapon training options? I feel like Weapon specialist might be good if i decide to get weapon focus/specialization. Versatile Training might be good as well for some skills.


The snake style line requires IUS which the brawler gives.

For AWT there's Warrior Spirit to consider as well, though it might apply only to your unarmed strikes.


Hmm, yeah if I decide to use unarmed strikes warrior spirit might be nice. Too bad I can't use it on the AoMF.


Woodoodoo wrote:
You can make an acrobatics check to enter a foes square if you are tiny.

Hmmm, can you cite rules to support this? Acrobatics can allow one to "Move Through Threatened Squares"...but that's entirely separate from entering an occupied square which (as I understand the rules) still triggers an AoO...unless there's another special ability in the mix here that I don't understand.

For more on the general rules, the top answer on this question is very thorough (and quotes from an FAQ that I think removes any doubt that tiny creatures trigger AoOs when they enter an occupied space).


Oh damn I could have sworn I had something about this. Best answer i could google was this post What I gather from it is that the faq and rules are badly written and it's up to the GM to make the ruling.
-edit-
Then there is this post.


I wonder how for example the step up chain would interact with this. Am I adjacent to my enemy if i'm in his square?

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