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Hi! We got a player with an interesting idea, but were not sure if it is wise :-) instead of gaining a companion the ranger gets the ability to change into his companion animal at will. Progression of the animal is as normal. If defeated the ranger shifts back into his normal form. Stats are all of the animal companion. Will this break the game? Or is this fine to go allong with?
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I was playing a minster hunter who uses a 2-handed sword and uses animal shapes for stealth, tracking and sometimes combat (altough this is not the focus). I created ise the feral hunter for this build, it fits the flavour (the buffs from the ranger spells can bypass almost all dr's...). My dream character would be a full bab class which can shift into a leopard at will. Should i stick with my feral hunter or is there a better option available?
What class would you choose if you want to build an arcane shapeshifter with abilities like a druids wildshape? Duration and times a day as much as possible. An option is a multiclass druid... But i hope to find a class who won't lose levels for his spell progression... My inspiration is based on the wizard chick from dragon age orgins (morrigan) :-)
Hi all, I want to play as a barbarian for the strong melee 2 handed weapon ability and rage. I want to flavour it with "bear"... I think about playing a coldborn skinwalker, if possible I would love to have a kind of beast shape like ability for at least beast shape 2 forms. So maybe a 4 level druid dip with shaping focus? I hope you can give some good suggestions about feats, archtypes, if a druid dip is any good :-)
Hello fellow pathfinders, I'm looking for advice on how to do this build. I want to play an inquisitor who has been cursed with lucanthropy. After years of training he leaned how fo control the curse and uses it now to fight supernatural monsters. I don't want to play a natural lycanthrope. Also i like to play a more classical lycanthropix character, a shape into a bear instead of a hybrid form. The skinwalker archtype doesn't give an animal form. Druid and inquisitor don't combine... A druid dip is a bad idea imho. 3rd party material is fine, but we prefere official pathfinder. Anu suggestions?
These characters have a lot in common, but also offcourse differences... I have no experience with any of these but would like to play a shapeshifting, melee swordfighting, natural hunter like pc :-) I was wondering if someone could tell something about the difference in play between the Druid, feral hunter and a druid4/ranger with shaoeshifting hunter feat and shifting focus feat.
Would you allow a natural lycanthrope race? I know there is the skinwalker race, but the don't get a real animal shape... I don't like how the progression is for a lycanthrope according to the rules... But it is also an option to just let a player choose it as a race? Maybe allow the animal shape from around level 8 to become active? Or when wanting to use it earlier there is a chance the PCs becomes controlled by the dm? So would you allow it and if so... How would you integrate it in your game??
Good morning! I've been playing around with a Feral Hunter build, but I am wondering how I can increase the damage done by my PC further... Who can help with my build?? I'm a not so skilled in all rules and modifiers... so correct me where I'm wrong!!! I made some sample damage calculations to base the additional feats and spells I want to add on... I want to do some hurt with a greatsword and as a bear. I choose the skinwalker coldborn as my race. (It's not optimal but I like the flavor...). My stats are (high fantasy point buy):
My feats are (If I'm right they both have also usage while wildshaped..):
When I do some math I come to the following damages:
Direbear
Off course these values are without damage from summoned animals and flanking bonus... Also I left out spell damage and bonus attacks from cleave... What would you change? What spells would you choose? What feats are also great?
A while back I decided to prepare for our upcoming adventure, I want to play a "monster hunter" martial wildshaper. A kind of like van helsing who also happens to be a werecreature. He uses a 2 handed weapon and shapes for combat. The shapes are also used for utility. My race will be a Coldborn skinwalker. For the classes I have 2 options: The feral hunter or a multiclass Demonslayer Ranger / Menhir Savant Druid. (Both are based on personal preference and features I like in my characters... I already had some topics about the classes, so those I'm not going to change..) For feats I need for my concept to work for the druid/ranger the Shaping focus and Shapeshifting hunter feats. For both concepts I like the eldritch claws feat and the power attack feat. The rest is still open... I'm looking into feats that give extra damage in both combat styles... Now that my two options are more clear and I eliminated all other classes and races... how do these 2 compare?
Really looking foreward to what you think :-)
I really like the inquisitor and want to take the skinwalker coldborne race. Im going for a monster hunting monsters kinda pc. The only thing i miss is wildshape... I really like it and love it for my pc concept. From wildshape i only want the bear shapes that function like a druids wildshape. 4 levels of Druid would do the trick with the feat shaping focus but this really hurts the progression of the inquisitor... So my question is this... Can i effectively multiclass with 4 levels of Druid or is there Some other way of getting wildshape??
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Hi all, anybody got some good tips on how to tackle these foes? I know there are items, but I was wondering what spells and feats u could also use. We're going to play the carrion crown adventure, so there should be all kinds of incorporeal, undead and stuff I think that we're up against :-) I'm either playing a feral hunter or ranger/Druid, all tips are welcom :-)
Hi all! I was wondering how exactly the spirit sense ability alters detect undead. How I read it it adds more types, not only undead but also fey and outsiders. When detecting undead you can also detect the sub type, ethereal and incorporeal... Or normal offcourse.
Spirit sense:
I want to play a feral hunter, but each time I start planning my build I get lost why I shouldn't just stick with a druid. I like the whole lycanthropic theme... but that flavour could also be "added" to a druid... I get the feeling I'm missing something... care to share your view? I want a sword fighting shaping character... I don't want a goliath druid or elemental druid... so those can be left out of the comparison :-) The feral hunter has its feral focus, but does it outweigh the druid abilities?
I saw the demonslayer ranger archtype and it's perfect for what I want, a sword fighting demon/monster hunter who also has wildshape. To get wildshape I plan on taking 4 levels of Druid and the shaping focus feat. I get level 8 wildshape... That's enough. I want it mainly for non combat. But turning into a dire tiger is also awesome. I'm not looking for the best build, I want a ok fun build with these things. I am wondering what Druid archetype, race, spells and what feats would be good for this build? Any suggestions are welcome!
Hi all, How should I precisely interpret these? Shaping Focus
Shapeshifting Hunter
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Feral hunter also has this ability...or is this only for the animal companion?: Nature Training (Ex): A hunter counts her total hunter level as both druid levels and ranger levels for the purpose of qualifying for feats, traits, and options that modify or improve an animal companion. And if this is the case... why does the feral hunter get this? :-S
Hi all, I decided to play a Feral hunter. I want to create a sword fighting hunter who shifts for stealth and tracking and also occancionally fights in beast shape. I want to specialise the human form into other things than the shape changed form... First of all i'm curious about experiances playing the feral hunter, how does the class hold up compared to the other classes? Secondly does anybody have good advice about what i must take and what not? I prefere a sword of some kind..
I'm investigating a ability to change into a tiger at will for my pc. I'm going to make my own race with this ability... I'm thinking of giving my PC the wild shape ability but an unlimited uses and only tiger shapes. To balance this character I'm in doubt about when to allow this ability. At what level should I allow the shift into a tiger and when into a dire tiger? The druid gets a tiger at level 6 and a dire at level 8. Just use this? All advice on balancing this skill is welcome also!
Hi all... After a couple of questions I finally narrowed down my choice in classes... I have 2 options left. The feral hunter or the Druid/Ranger multiclass. What I want in a character is the following:
I'm looking more for a ranger with wild shape than a druid with wild shape... I'm not sure to what side the feral hunter is on... Pro's for the feral hunter are that I do not need to spend 2 feats taking shapeshifting hunter and shaping focus... but I do think the ranger/druid will be the stronger sword fighter if I only take up to 4 levels of druid.... Or do 2 feats make up for this? What do you think? :-)
Hello all, quick question :-) The druid spell Hallow (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/hallow.htm) has a simulair protection function as magic circle against evil. "First, the site or structure is guarded by a magic circle against evil effect. " The magic circle against evil can also be turned inwards to use as a trap... is this than also possible with hallow? In other words, can I for example trap a creature in a hallowed building for example?
I'm thinking about playing a natural weretiger, but I don't like the fact that you trade player levels and don't progress normally. An easy way to avoid this is is to take the skinwalker race, but then I get no real animal form. In wayfinder 13 there is a feat, but we prefere official paizo... This animal form is the main reason for playing a natural weretiger.. Therefor I have another topic already on gaining a animal shape by class. But I also wonderd if there aren't any other options. So this question is explicit to becoming an beast but not due to wildshape like abilities :-) Can it be done by magic items? A wish? A reward from a campaign? Allow it as a custom race created with the advanced race guide? any other option?
Hi all, I've got another question :-) Is there any way to let the beast shape spell duration go from minutes per caster level to hours, like the wild shape ability? (If not hours.. what is the best other option?). This by means of meta magic, feat, magic items, wishes or other?... everything is optional, what would you allow? :-) I'm looking into options for my PC, this is one of them :-)
Hello fellow pathfinders, I could use some advice with picking the best race, class, fears, traits and items for a PCs I want to play, hope someone can help... I want to play a sword fighting hunter like pc (tracking, sneaking and fighting) of all things unnatural. The character was selected to become a Druid but a demon wiped all elder Druids out but he somehow survived. He was thought in the principles of wildshape and uses the shapes to track, scout, sneak, spy, infiltrate etc. He joined a group of Rangers tasked with defeating all things unnatural (monsters, demons, ghosts, undead etc) by the King, these rangers found the pc after the demon incident. Things I want in my PC:
I was thinking a Druid/trapper ranger multi class with the shapeshifting hunter feat and the
What do you think?
Hi All, I want to make blade wielding gehost/demon/monster hunter who van shape into a tiger at will... Any suggestions? I was thinking multi class Druid/ranger with shaping focus and shifting hunter feats.. But flavour wise I prefere an inquisitor... But he can't tiger shape... So maybe I could create a new race... A tiger-kitsune like race? I prefere to use paizo products and official rules.. Great 3rd party is also doable but less preferred. The focus of the pc are: blade fighting 1-2 handed...,with shifting in a tiger form:.? I'm curious to read your suggestions!
I'm curious about what others put in there bag when there out hunting :-) Our game will getting some ghosts (undead/incorpeal) and demons to kill :-) What are some good strategies to combat these monsters as a ranger? What weapons are must-haves? Are there items like holy water or others that are very useful? I'm thinking about maybe using some ranger traps, I found these 2 traps, are these any good? ---------------------------------
Still working on my new pc but almost ready. the concept is a pc that is a tracker and hunter who fights with a 2 handed blade. he also uses wild shape in certain combat situations but the sword is his main combat form. the wild shape is also used out of combat for tracking and stealth and other situations. to create this class I'm looking into a Druid4/rangerX build with the feats shaping focus and shape shifting hunte. Or i'm going with the feral hunter. What build would be better in 2 handed sword fighting? this considering bab, the available spells for buffing, and other things :-)
At what level would you allow a ranger to change into a grizzly bear (Beast shape 2) at will for as long as desired? This instead of the animal companion. Mainly for out of combat usage and roleplaying flavor. Or would you say.. NO don't do it :-) Still looking for the best way to approach my desired build... this is just a quick question I got :-) I would say lv 6 is ok... but not sure this would break the game balance...
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