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Okay sharing is caring and I'm here looking for a bit of advice and broad opinions on my poor life choices
A few core things that I'm rather attached to are,

Class: Druid
Archetype: Nature's Fang
Race: Half Orc
Weapons: Earthbreaker and Klar for, Thunder and Fang.
Campaign: Jade Regent

Key link is half Orc taking human racial traits, in this case Shoanti tattoos. Which unless I've gravely misunderstood you are allowed to as half elves or half orcs.

Alternative racial options would be Sacred Tattoos and Shaman enhancement(assuming I have a pet).

Traits/flaw would be,Shoanti tattoos, fates favoured and wisdom in flesh(stealth). The flaw Mark of slavery.

Feats: 1)weapon focus:Earth breaker, 3)Power attack, 5)weapon focus:klar 7)Thunder and Fang, 9) Outlander 11) improved initiative? Beyond here I'm a little unsure...

Slayer talants: 4) trap finding(not sure if we have a rogue so maybe? But 4th level us a fair way in), 6) Ranger style: twf, 8) ranger style: itwf, 10) ranger style: gtwf or Rogue talant: fast stealth, 12) Evasion, 14) Opportunist

Favoured class bonus could be the Orc one for animal companion +1 damage every 2 levels.

Was considering an Ankylosaurus animal companion, at 3 int i could grab outflank and build for combat patrol. But it's tight on the feats. 1)dodge, 2) Combat reflexes, 5) Mobility, 8) Combat Patrol, 10) outflank, 13) power attack, intercept blow or ability focus?

Items i believe might help would be bloodstained gloves, lenses of the predator, shifting jerkin, pelt of the beast, ring of natural attunement (kami).

Right so... I often like being a jack of all trades but am I over stretching here? Will to hit cope with all these extra offhand atracks even with slayer bonus'? Is this viable? Also Stat spread i guess strength then wisdom priority (feel free to add your preference, will be a 20 point buy)? Most importantly, HAVE I SCREWED ANY OF THIS UP? I'm not infallible and hate making mistakes.

P.s I'm aware I could go crocodile domain instead of the pet but the flanking gaurd Dino does warm my heart. I have looked at a ranged build with worshiping Erastil and getting the feat, Erastil's Blessing, but honestly not a big fan of archer builds.

Right simply put i want guns! Now i know most anything but gunslinger(and even there damage scales weakly) is rather uninspiring with them but is there a trick to pure cleric of ol' Bessy with guns? I can have a rapier thanks to Besmara and guns as detailed below but how to maximise them without loosing too much from a nice full caster.

Best incharacter and mechanically minded domains i can see are Gunpowder Inquisition and war(duels subdomain). Then pick up the Amature Gunslinger feat. Go dex build with maybe light armour rather than medium weapon finess maybe for rapier if possible?

The issue is there are no clean ways to get more grit skills bar the Impressive grit feat and extra grit feat but Impressive has an 11bab requirement which is really late game for pure cleric. And boosting damage with feats is somewhat limited otherwise, war domain(duels) does offer some support with combat feats as required and nice domain spells. Might carry a few daggers to throw as well but not going to go into feats for them(startoss is a cool chain but too feat demanding) and again war(duels) can let me buff them a little with feats on demand)

A small positive is abundant ammunition is a cleric level one spell offsetting guns and there ammo costs. Also positive is the feat gun twirling and war(duels) bonuses to feint but not sure of how good feint is as never really tried a build for that? Especially on a cleric???

So any input or advice would be greatly appreciated cheers.

Been rather in a overwhelmed with ideas and just need to make a final choice, I've never used leadership and feel a little dirty with Esquire but i like my idea. My group suck at team planning and i want to try a good teamwork build cavalier. So help please?

To explain quickly, it's an older dwarf taking the nephew/niece off on an adventure, clan honor and family theme seems a nice simple basis.

Going to build sword(dwarven waraxe) and board, scion of high helm feat to get around charisma so nice gruff chap, order of dragon and oh it's a 20 point buy. Very loose build atm.

So to keep it simple what class would complement a cavalier.
1. Has to be full martial weapons trained class is only restrictions arytypes allowed.
2. But they'll share all the cavalier's teamwork feats.
3. But they'll be two levels behind forever as with leadership as normal so best not be to squishy.
4. Oh and a 15 point build if i understand the cohort rules right...
5. Anything that's a dwarf and probably in heavy armour.

I've looked at barbarian but feel could run a touch risky to go squish as much as the damage might be nice. Hunter twf(waraxes and lace)+ heavy armour... gm might kill me if it has a pet but would be fun... but arytpes can fix that and a pet is also forever-2 levels to current enemies too so might be two squishy outside full tank build in later levels. Teamwork paladin? Gah plain old warrior? I'm unsure, not aiming to be overpowered but it's the balance of survival vs damage that makes this so hard.
Any advice much appreciated cheers.

Ok just started making a character for a run of the Ironfang Invasion. After reading the player's guide I realised I wanted some nature/survival themed character but you know... Mix it up.

So went with a strange local girl who travels the local areas helping and healing. Loves her community which excepted her even with her strange origins.

The prestige class Stargazer(from paths of the righteous) caught my eye a while back as a nice mix of flavor and function, so this is built towards that prestige. But I'm not 100% happy. Please critique what follows.

20 point buy. 11, 12, 12, 10, 16, 14. Then adding racials...

Str 11
Dex 12
Con 10 (too low?)
Int 10
Wis 18
Cha 16

My aims have evolved into party face, summoning and solid by the numbers healing. Might be too much but here we go.

Domains:
Weather(seasons)
Travel(trade)(Separatist domain)
Void(stars)(at lvl 6 from prestige)

Traits:
Frontier healer(from Ironfang Invasion player's guide)
Creative manipulator

Feats:
1) Selective channel
3) spell focus (conjunction)
5) augment summons
7) superior summons
9) Sacred summons
11) divine interference
13+ not sure but first few levels so crowded wanted extra traits for more flavor but just so tricky.

lvl 1-5 cleric, 6-15 Stargazer and rest cleric unless I find something better.

Sidereal Arcana:
7) the mother
9) the pack
11) the Stargazer
13) the wagon
15)the thrush

Hexes:
6) heaven's leap
14) flight

Ok it's a big ask for people to look at as the prestige is so rule heavy but am I missing anything, the prestige is only d6 hd am I risking too much with con 10(could move 2 from charisma). And and summoning tips as never really tried a focused summoner I know sacred will work ok with CG and when I want I can just summon loads of animal summons at +2 thanks to "the pack" and superior summons. Domains are full progression bar -2 on Separatist liked travel for theme and face... Gah so much going on with this build.

Any help is appreciated, thanks Monty.

Odd question if I say polymorph through our spell link would my big cat retain his pounce ability? In say dragon form... I think it's unlikely but I'm unsure.

Means using certain beasties might be preferable for this build if only base stats carry through, a megalocerous(big elk) might be better. I'm probably going to stay cat personally either way but numbers matter to a lot of people.

Right first time posting on here first time posting after many years of being in the shadows on the forums and thats as im kind of at my wits end balancing concept and functionality on this character. This'll be a long post please forgive me.

OK so I've read a few threads on Ecclesitheurge and they have mixed opinions but I'm trying to make something a little unique and as always Pathfinder to it's credit sort of meets my expectations at least half way.

My concept is a half naked slightly off the rails cleric who worships a God of some sort but tells people to sod off any time they ask about it oh and I carry a tree but we'll get back to that. In function I aim to heal and offer support with summons and maybe a reach weapon but this all adds up to the stretching thin issue... Oh and let's not forget armour class.

Now stats are not an issue my group roll and I rolled well, I'm the sort of guy who crits the assimar in round one at the end of book 1 of rise of the runelords with my paladin's smite and one shots her, dice are my friends GMs are not. 18, 17, 17, 15, 13 and 10. But like the best stories... I'm still naked and I've also kind of set my heart on running around with a Orc skull ram because metal illness might not just be only my character's problem.

So things I know fit with this well...
Weapon: Orc Skull Ram(martial for half Orc but that's a minor problem)
Domains: Darkness(night maybe) and Travel
Feats: Dreamed Secrets(oh this is rather nice), Orc weapon expertise(for ac), Tenacious Survivor chain(can get endurance free as racial trait swap ironic as that is with me being naked), Dimension Door feat chain?, Sacred summons(well duh?), Summon neutral monster(it might be worth it) Combat Reflexes, Power Attack, Selective channel and superior/augment summons maybe.
Alternate race rules: Sacred tatoos(if going Tenacious Survivor route this swap makes even more sense also characterful) and Shaman's apprentice(not a lot lost here).
Traits: Heirloom Weapon and Adopted(enlightened warrior-ok this comes later). Maybe others... But depends if I can get martial weapons another way...

OK so... Can this work and what tricks can I employ. One level of Sohei Monk?(base monk don't compare) or Unchained Monk? Is it worth the lost caster level and maybe bab(if not unchained) but Sohei gives cool stuff for a one level dip. Thinking DD feat chain probably silly as well as extra summon feats beyond Sacred oh and is summon neutral monster worth its salt?

I know I'm asking a lot but any wisom or feedback would be nice. Keep it to pazio products and no third party stuff but otherwise help if you can. And please there must be a place in your heart for this tattooed half naked cleric of sod off.