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So I'm GMing a limited-session campaign for several experienced D&D and Pathfinder players. I'm using a mix of source materials, specifically I'm allowing Players to import races, classes, feats and spells from certain D&D 3.5. The premise of the campaign is pretty simple: a great red wyrm is attempting to ascend to godhood, and they need to slay him in order to prevent him from becoming the next Garyx and destroying all of creation.

I am planning on using the same resources my Players are allowed to create a very strong, customized Dragon for my Players to attempt to kill. One of the primary spells is a gem I found in the 3.5 Spell Compendium, Effulgent Epuration. Essentially, it causes spells aimed at the target of Effulgent Epuration to essentially say "No", and is unaffected by the spell. It does specify within the spell description that the Target of Effulgent Epuration needs to be the Target of the spell he's pressing the Nope Button on, and that Area of Effect spells and "spells that do not have a target" are not absorbed by Effulgent Epuration.

One of my Players has let slip that he's playing a Sorcerer that plans to use Mage's Disjunction to de-buff the Dragon. My question is: how do you think these two spells would interact with one another? I want to make sure I'm being fair to my Players while still keeping true to this Dragon's strengths. It will be - after all - trying to kill them.

So I'm preparing for the new Pathfinder Society season, when Nagaji become a legal race to play. As soon as I saw the race in the Advanced Race Guide, it seemed to me that - with the racial bonuses to Strength and Charisma, as well as the natural armor - this race seemed very fitting to build into a specific prestige class: the Dragon Disciple. Brace yourselves, the criticism of a prestige class is coming...

Okay, now that the obligatory Game of Thrones reference is out of the way, this is why I'm posting this: with the Hypnotic Gaze racial ability (swapping out a minor Skill Focus with Perception and limited Handle Animal for a pretty nifty spell-like ability), technically all this Nagaji character needs is five ranks in Knowledge (Arcana) to qualify for the prestige class. However, my optimization skills aren't as up to par as I'd like, so I'd like a little advice about a few things.

So pretty much, what I'm trying to figure out is the best class (and ability scores as well) for this character. I really want to have him specialize in unarmed / natural attacks, even before he starts into Dragon Disciple. Because of this, I've been toying with either an unarmed Fighter archetype (like Brawler) or some form of Monk. I'm just not sure which would be better and can't decide. I've also toyed with the idea of just going straight Sorcerer (Dragon bloodline) to just boost the bloodline powers as much as I can, but I'm uncertain how effective that would be.

So I'm looking for input. I've read Osterisk's guide to Disciples, but I'd like to hear what the interwebs has to say... of course, other than "I can haz cheezburger?"

So I'm going to be joining a weekly Pathfinder Society game in a couple of days, and I have a concept that I would like help making reasonably competent. I want to create a Half-Orc unarmed warrior, probably a Barbarian/Monk combination, that has no problem getting in close to enemies, grappling effectively and is able to pin them and perform a coup-de-gras. There may be a certain flavor to this maneuver that any Batman fans can predict. *cough*

I'm thinking that the Urban Barbarian and Brutal Pugilist archetypes could be handy, but if I do multiclass into Monk, I'm not sure if they're necessary, although the Controlled Rage from Urban Barbarian definitely fits this character's flavor.

Thanks in advance for your input!