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1) Are the other players helping you with healing and buffs, considering you're taking hits in their place?

2) What level are you at?

Level 10 and the Sorcerer usually hastes a bunch and the druid has been the healer for the majority of the time. The cleric is also new as we died at the same time. The clerics archetype doesnt have channel energy. Amd everything went into wisdom. Physical stats are flat average.

Me and some friend are running War for the Crowns. They have all chosen casters (Storm Druid, Sorcerer, Cleric) which leaves me to be in the frontlines alone. Please no spoilers! My character just died and was a cavalier. Want to play something else that can survive away from the rest of my party. Currently looking at Dandy Ranger as it seems made for this campaign. But my hp and ac are not high.

What would you do? (P.s. have tried asking the cleric if they'd move closer to the action but they seem very passionate about being in the middle with a crossbow.

I am currently making a level 10 Ranger for my current game. This has been asked before but not as specific. It is agreed that you dont need prerequisites to gain combat feats from your combat style list at the levels they are given to you (2,6,10). So could I do this:

Level 2 take two weapon fighting (reduced penalties)

Level 6 take Double Slice (Full STR bonus to off hand)

Level 8 Greater two weapon fighting (to have 3 off hand attacks)

Having improved two weapon fighting is a prequisit for GTWF and therefore is not needed to take GTWF.

This seems to be the coolest thing to do. But GTWF only says you gain a third attack. It does not say you have 3 off hand attacks.

Could this then mean I get an empty attack? Main main off ? off

Or main main off off off

Occultist with Trappings of the Warrior panoply: 4 + Int mod skills and a good selection of class skills, Int-based casting (psychic, which means no somatic components), all simple and martial weapons, light/medium armor and shields (except tower shields), treated as full BAB when fighting with weapon and shield 2nd level and up (1st level implement schools Abjuration/shield implement and Transmutation/weapon implement, 2nd level Trappings of the Warrior panoply as the third "implement"). Half-elf for Ancestral Arms to gain falcata proficiency (or possibly tengu for Swordtrained); masterwork transformation might be worth using one of your limited 2nd-level spells known on (along with Craft Magic Arms and Armor as your feat at 5th level, campaign permitting) to improve your panoply items as you advance in levels.

Very intriguing will look further

Swashigator is a great choice but no reason that a straight strength investigator is not also a great choice. I have one built that makes use of the Healer's Hands and Incredible Healer feats if you are interested.

How about a synergist witch that has great AC and TWF's with pounce as of level 9 from his improved familiar? Ends up as CL18 and gets full 9 levels of spells by level 20. Also fairly skillful as an int caster.

Instead of front-lining yourself, how about a monster tactician inquisitor that summons a phalanx of the most suitable meat shields and uses reach tactics? Sharing your teamwork feats with your summons is the cat's pajamas!

Gotta walk the dog right now. If you want to see any of these, let me know.

Summoning has been made extremely limited due to DM not wanting to worry about too many players on the field.

Leostarnfire wrote:

Can anyone suggest a frontline skill monkey to help keep the party alive? We have access to all advanced, ultimates, unchained and occult. With some wiggle room for heroes of the high court amd Taldor setting.

I actually have a build for this. I've been developing it on the forums, so maybe I should link to it, but I recently added a refinement.

Meet,

Bonzai!! a Goblin
Level 1, Brawler1: Unarmed 1d4, Sneak Attack 1d6, Dodge, BAB+1
2B1Arcanist1 Dimensional Slide

Dimensional Slide is a 10' tactical teleoport that will make it easier for this character to achieve Flanking and lock in Sneak Attack Damage. Plus this character can now use any Wand with Sorcerer or Wizard Spells, granting huge utility.

3B1A1Unchained Rogue1: Sneak Attack +1d6, Weapon Finesse (Unarmed Strike), Combat Reflexes
4B1A1U2: Ninja Trick, Style Master, Panther Style, BAB+2

When you Provoke an Attack of Opportunity by moving out of a Threatened Square, you get a Swift Action Unarmed Strike in retaliation.

5B2A1U2: Mobility, Canny Tumble, Brawler’s Flurry, BAB+3

Since Bonzai!! provokes lots of Attacks of Opportunity, it behooves him to have Mobility. And if he Tumbles through a square, he locks in his Sneak Attack Damage. He can Tumble through the first square then then allow his movement out of the next square to Provoke, triggering his Panther Style Attack and get his 2d6 Sneak Attack Damage. And he still gets his Standard Action Attack.

6B2A1U3: Finesse Training, SAD+1d6, Danger Sense+1, BAB+4
7B2A2U4: Panther Claw, Combat Training, Panther Parry, BAB+5
8B2A2U4Monk1: Monk Stuff, Master of Many Styles, Snake Style
9B2A2U4M1Fighter1: Snake Sidewind, Snake Fang, BAB+6

So, now Panther Claw lets Bonzai make Free Action Retaliatory Strikes up to his Wisdom Mod. If those Attacks of Opportunity miss, Snake Fang lets him make Unarmed Attacks of Opportunity!

Bonzai!! is going to tear through every battlefield...

Cant be a goblin due to the culture being goblin hating and we regularly are seen in courts, balls and in the presence of nobles. They dont even like halflings in Taldor.

Sanctified Slayer or Sacred Huntsmaster would also probably fill those roles.

Ill look into it more

Storm Druid has lots of AOE spells and heals. Charismatic Sorcerer flies around firing fireballs everywhere. Super Smart Wizard goes invisible and buffs the hell out of me.

Swashtigator is a solid choice. I'd also look at slayer. Studied target can be used in social situations to boost several skills and rogue talents can be great to helping with skills challenges if you want to.

For class skills traits can fill in a lot, especially with exemplar traits allowing you to take multiple traits in a single category. "Charming Smile, Cunning Soul" and "Traveler of a Hundred Lands" are particularly good at making a skill monkey out of a class that might otherwise not be. It takes a bit of work, but at that level you can make a "skill monkey" out of any class that has enough points to play with or a heavy dependency on inteligence.

Hi so my friends and I have recently hit half way through our campaign and most of us have hit lv10. Now, our game is more focused on politics and intrigue. But, due to my first two pcs dying I made my 3rd pc an urban barbarian who later on fully retrained into a beastmaster cavalier. Now, due to another character dying and this retraining I lost access to half of my feats (we had a teamwork feat). On top of that my 6ft human was reincarnated as a gnome which lost me another feat due to a stat change. Now we have just been told that the next mission we have is to go undetected into enemy territory and save someone. I have been feeling more and more distant with my current pc even though he is well loved due to his personal development and how much personality he has gained over the year and a half I've been playing him.
Our current party is an insane charismatic sorcerer, crazy smart buff/craft wizard and a super powerful storm druid all are lv10. So I am the only person built for melee frontline combat. However, I feel it maybe time to retire my pc due to the heavy emphasis this next part requires a more subtle approach amd my guy likes to smash while riding an armored lion and has no money or time to retrain and fix himself. He is even stuck using non magic basic gear due to the game lacking in small sized loot and all his money goes into fixing his mechanical problems.

Can anyone suggest a frontline skill monkey to help keep the party alive? We have access to all advanced, ultimates, unchained and occult. With some wiggle room for heroes of the high court amd Taldor setting. 20 point buy and lv9 (retirement death homerule has you start a lv lower)

Thank you.