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So Cleric Mage Mystic Theurge combo?

Looking to make a necromancer of the non minion sort.

Example, taking life from the bad guys and giving to the good guys....

The title says it all. I've played a great many games and a great many characters. I'm looking for a stable group hoping to share in a good story. I live in Valrico, but I can travel to Brandon or Tampa. My previous group didn't work anymore cause I work on their game nights (Sun, Wed, and Fridays). Looking to playing again.

Is there a place for Improved Unarmed Combat on a Melee Solarian?

I figure if Bare Fist is Bludgeon. Solar Weapon can be Piercing or Slashing. Having an additional type of damage could be helpful.

Plus...

Improved Unarmed Strike(Combat)

You have trained to make your unarmed attacks lethal and strike with kicks, head-butts and similar attacks.

Benefit: Your unarmed attack damage increases to 1d6 at 4th level, 2d6 at 8th level, 3d6 at 12th level, 5d6 at 15th level, and 7d6 at 20th level. You threaten squares within your natural reach with your unarmed strikes even when you do not have a hand free for an unarmed strike. If you are immobilized, entangled, or unable to use both legs (or whatever
appendages you have in place of legs, where appropriate), you lose the ability to make unarmed strikes without your hands. When making an unarmed strike without your hands, you can't use such attacks for combat maneuvers or similar abilities-only to deal damage.

Normal: You don't threaten any squares with unarmed attacks,
and you must have a hand free to make an unarmed attack.

There may be times when you can't use the Solar weapon or use of it may not be optimal.

Thoughts?

I'm going for a Melee Warlock er, Solarian...

Heh. I was thinking something along the lines of Destiny's Warlocks. But Iron Fist works too.

Yes, just form you solar weapon into a fist. Says you can make it whatever form you want.

So, no need for Improved Unarmed Strike then?

Is such a thing possible/viable? I want to give it a shot. Especially since there are no space monks.

Hoping this has multiplayer. That was the only disappointing thing about Sentinels of the Multiverse.

Why do I feel like there should have been a link there? ;)

These are grand nuggets of wisdom. I shall hoard them greedily to my chest as would a dragon with it's first hoard. Thanks all!

Any thoughts on how I can do this for an upcoming game? 20 point buy. Starting at one, going to 15 (Runelords anniversary)

Half Elf Bard/Inquisitor/MT- Salt to Taste.

I too am running this and have RP considerations to deal with. As such, people should think things out logically. In the first adventure, the town just got attacked by goblins. A goblin then walks in and says "We will save...." Goblin dead before he can finish. And a Goblin sneaking around to avoid the mob is going to miss out a lot of things the rest of the party will get to enjoy (mechanically or fluffwise). It's just too much of a hassle. I often restrict my players to the core races. It's just easier that way for Path/Modules. Now for an open sandbox style campaign? Sure go ahead and play your Goblin Paladin. Once everyone starts seeing all the attention the special snowflake is getting, then everyone will want one. Which will in turn defeat the original players purpose. All in all I wish the game the best and if everyone enjoys themselves then what do the rest of us know? :)

If you choose to go fighter. I recommend the Mobile Fighter Archetype. It has more of the flavor of the Prince. With all that leaping around and such the chance to make double attacks will be rough. So best to take the benefits.

Batman is like Elminster from 3E. A couple levels here couple levels there. I see him a couple of levels of Brawler (or Monk as the Op's requirement), inquisitor. But mostly? Bard (Detective).

I can't decide what to play. We have a Blackblade Magus, A Bloodrager, and a Synthesist/Ranger (trapper). Thoughts on rounding this out? Oracle or Cleric perhaps?

Death of Crane Style + Birth of Brawler + Rise of Qigong = Death of Monk as we know it.

This guide is soooo good. Google won't even let you look at it. ;)

They need to do more stuff with this guy. Of course, I'm partial to him.

The Herolab program disagrees with the OP's formula...

Zen Archer Lvl.3 Empyreal Sorc up to Arcane Archer. Would that work? It has divine emphasis.

I don't allow 3rd party stuff. If it doesn't have Golarian in mind, I'm not interested. Mixing that stuff with Pathfinder is a sure fire way to breed munchkin. Other than that I try not to ban anything outright. I can adapt. I always warn my players, anything they can do so can the bad guys. Sometimes even better.

Sounds like the Monk is overdue for an arch-nemesis. An opposite aligned Monk who wants to test his skills against the PC and will do whatever it takes to make that happen... Classic Kung-Fu showdown.

^^^ Chip Truth.

*Slips on Jack Nicholson hat* This game needs an enema. *Takes off Jack Nicholson hat* I'd suggest a group meeting to sit around the table and do rebuilds with input from everyone on character creation. There is such special snowflake shenanigans going on, its disrupting the party dynamic. With the group knowing what everyone is capable of, it there will hopefully be more interaction. As for the IPAD/Electronics thing? If the GM banned them, stick by the ban. It's better to have no player than a bad player. That's what MMO's are for.

The iconics should be interesting races like aboleth, mu spores and gelatinous cubes.

Humanoid races are boring. If I wanted to be a humanoid, I'd just go outside.

Because special snowflakes are hard to make mini's for. Plus can you see the Gelantinous Cube Sorc gliding into the shop bargain for supplies and turn out well? Iconics are Iconic for their easy recognition.

Historically, Calvary has always been an elite force over the 'footman'. So mounted archers are perfectly accurate. My advice? Bad guy archers or someone with Charm Animal. So, Giant Druid with emphasis on archery (mobile ballista).

I asked in a thread if anyone who was using a whip build ever had thier GM sunder the whip, and this is one of the responses I got.

"I've never had a GM who screwed his players over by abusing sunder.

It's just bad form to destroy player's magical weapons."

So is it wrong to uses combat maneuvers against a PC if said maneuver would destroy a players equipment?

The GM giveth, the GM taketh away. Anything the players can do, everyone else should be able to do as well. Any tactic is valid especially when you give it real world application (as best can be in a fantasy setting).

Talk to the other players about your misgivings. Other than that, this thread makes my teeth hurt.

Wow. Nothing really? Is the concept that horrid?

I need help making a Gnome Inquisitor (yeah, I know). Its 20 point buy starting 3rd level and could use help with the build. I'm going for the Church's version of Tyrion Lannister meets James Bond (which except for height, probably isn't that far apart) Any help would be great.

Sent you a message!

Yeah, I know it's not optimized. But a group member is still locked on the 2E belief that Dwarves don't do magic. So I'm rolling up something to show him otherwise. Any thoughts for a 20 point build? I was thinking Primalist with Admixture school.

What about using Necromancy in the manipulation of life and death, Healing and doing damage through life drain or something like that. As opposed to using undead minions?

How would you do it? Think Teclis from Warhammer or Elminster, Khelben Blackstaff, and Vandergast from D&D. They don't have overwhelming god smoting power (though fans might disagree). But they have the wit and skill to stay ahead of their foes. Now, they do have the writer on their side and they don't have to worry about 1's rolling up. But even Elminster was a PC once. How do you go about playing the Man with the Plan. Especially when you're playing a Wizard?

If he was an Empty Hand Monk, you think he could have Imp Shield Bash and Flurry with the Shield using it as an Improvised Weapon?

How does this work for Prestige classes?

Hows this work with Prestige classes?

Sleep/Color Spray tie for out in the wilderness. Charm Person in town. Find the biggest Mofo in the bar and make him your buddy. Buy him a drink or two and the affection lasts even after the spell. Poof! You just got a monster summon that will never go a way. Make a habit out of it and you have a loyal following that you can later use to justify getting the Leadership feat.

I was thinking MoMS/MA combo. At least to lvl 4-5. Hadnt thought about the Breast Plate idea...

So I was tossing about some ideas and the concept of a Half Orc Gladiator Monk came up. On a 20 point buy how would you do an Monk master of performance combat in AND out of the ring?

My group has all but had the town run them out (bad choices and bad rolls a plenty).

-They went into the prison on the 2nd night without doing more than cursory research.

-Ran into the poltergeist in the infirmary, tried to escape it and instead ran into the room with the furnace.

-Had their butts handed to them slunk back off to the Lorimar house and rather than visit the town weren't able to help the town till near the end.

-Since they went back into the prison on the same night, they weren't there to help or stop the city hall fire. After coming back out, they decided to 'screw this town'.

-The Oracle received a vision of what would happen if they didn't try and stop the five.

-Went back to town to get more supplies, found the rest of the survivors holed up at the Inn and got them back to the Lorimar house.

-Used the combination of Create Water and Bless to stock up on Holy Water and charged back in.

-They took out the Piper and Father Charlatan. Finally, ended up on the bottom level. And all that Holy Water they made? It goes away in an hour...

-They also think Kendra is behind it all. Even though she was attacked by her zombie dad and they've never confronted her on it (searched her room while she was out sure, but no face to face).

This is why it is important to have those non combat skills useful. They could have prevented half the pain if they put points into the skills that I and the players guide recommended. They for the most part choose to focus on combat. Which really doesn't work, none of them wanted to use a bow, so the Ghost Touch arrows are being used...

I second Fighter due to the feat intensive nature of the build. I'll expand on that a bit and recommend the Two-Weapon Warrior archetype. The versions of weapon training and armor training that you receive for that build are a decent substitute for the real thing, and you get some other nifty tricks along the way. Probably the best part is that since a Whip has a reach of 15 feet, you should be able to full attack much more frequently, giving you those situational weapon training and armor training replacements more frequently.

Why Two Weapon Warrior?

So a friend is rolling up (20 point build actually)character with me. He wants to make up a mean mofo (ala Belmont from Lords of Shadows) I told him Scorpion whip would be the way to go. But we're not sure who would be the best user: Fighter, Pally, Magus or Inquisitor? I say Inquisitor. Any thoughts on this? It looks like we're going to be running in the Carrion Crown module, so any help would be great. PF books only. Thanks!

Shocking Grasp is what I was looking at, but Corrosive is very tempting.

Hello. I need some ideas/advice to roll up Magus with the Hexcrafter and Staff Magus Archetypes. This a 20 point buy. Thanks in adavance.

But, but, what about Balthier?

I think Paladin. Warrior of the Holy Light (Odin).

I'd be curious to see what people think of Balthier.