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Name: Hanse Drakkar

Class: Barbarian 1/ Dragonic Sorcerer (then Draconic Disciple)

Hanse was born in the Northern Mammoth Tribes. He knew his mother lived alone and had never met his father. the kids always considered him and outcast and knew most of his tribe had some disrespect of his mother. As he grew he ask various tribal elders for strait answers and learned that his mother left the tribe when she was a teenager to "see the world". She came back several years later in the pregnant. As can be imagined some called her a harlot while others saw it as an honest but very real consequence to youthful curiousity. All the same he still grew up with a slight chip on his sholders to show he can be all the same as his peers in strentgth and ability, and took on the ways of his warrior peers to defend his tribe. however, one day, he escorted his mother to forage for herbs and berries and made the mistake of leaving most of his heavy gear at home. They were set apon by a wolf and the wolf mauled his mother, in a berserk rage he attacked the wolf and way astoning to find his hands had turned to claws. He dispatched the wolf but not before it did critical damage to his mother. As his mom lay there bleeding and tying, she told him a story of how his father was a powerful sorcerer from the lands of endless desert to the south. With nothing left for him in his tribe and his elders unable to answer his questions about his new found arcane powers, he headed south to learn the ways of magic, his quickly changing evolving body, and maybe even finding his father who could bring the whole story of his life together.

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E I wrote:

Hmm, does anyone know if Master Chymist's Brutality bonus applies to Crossbows as well?

It does. Brutality applies to all Simple Weapons, a category Light and Heavy Crossbows are in.

Items resize at casting of growth spell as long as carried but shrink when dropped. Picking up item does not resize. Growth on dex build is very counter productive, as you lose a to hit bonus and dex goes down. The damage increase due to size is not really worth the minusus in to hit and defense.

Also your feat tree is wrong in order of what qualifies you for what feat but can easily be reworked as to make it legal, just as is progression has a few prerequisite viloations
Lastly, better to focus use on Alchemist poisin use and rapid reloading crossbow death with high brutality damage and poisin on every shot. A good con or paralysis poisin should do as even low saving throw poisins have the advantage of combined effect of poisins (REF core rulebook 557-560 for specifics).

I've run many "alt" tank approchaes and the STR alchemist approach is a little different than a dragon disciple approach but not by much. If someone gets jump on you, straight fighter or barb is better. If you can get jump on them, you tend to do better than fighter barb. Spammed dispell magics are your bane.
Dwarf/Human/Half orc seem to be best alchemist depending on what you are exactly trying to do.
The Dwarf was fun as a single level of fighter can bring AC up due to platemail and using extracts has no spell failure. AC in 30's even by 5th level is easy by using extracts sheild, barkskin, wearing platemail, usinf mutagen is easy.
Human and orc can get greater STR bonus for to hit and damage and Half-orc is still open to Ironhide.
In terms of the Ultimate STR build you need alchamist to make it work. This is not a very playable character but does have an "OH-AH" effect is Alchemist 1-3 (2), Barb 1-3 (1), Dragon Sorceress 1-3 (2)and then Dragon disciple 4. This allows you between spell, mutagen, rage, inherent bonus to get an STR 38 with BAB of +6/+1. Feat out however you like but that +14 to hit and +14/+21 to damage minimum is very hard to ignore.

What would you say for going into cleric/oracle(life) and prestige into Holy vindicator. 3 cleric(battle cleric from campaigne setting and go 4 oracle. Would the effects of both your channels stack with the proceeding of the holy vindicator channel feature.