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Kobold Drakerider

Kobold with Spellscale Heritage

1: Dragon Stance, Kobold Breath
2: Cavalier Dedication (Taking Riding Drake, of course)
4: Impressive Mount
5: Ally's Shelter
6: Ki Strike
8: Incredible Mount
9: Dracomancer
10: Ki Blast
12: Overwhelming Breath
14: Specialized Mount
16: Medusa's Wrath
18: Ki Form
20: Deadly Strikes

Hop on your Drake, and start flurrying of blows with your feet while riding your drake! Each hit gets an extra 1d4 from Drakey boy. Later levels sees increased Offensive utility through Ki Spells, so you can do the stuff while on the back of your Drake. Kobold because a little lizard riding on the back of a big lizard feels right somehow. Bonus points if your Kobold surfs on his back and swings from the sides of the Drake to deliver kicks.

Leading Dance + Impaling Finisher is pretty gnarly with a Rapier. Also Leading Dance is fantastic battlefield control utility, imo one of the best forced movement in the game. Can be used to get a bad guy away from squishy with no AoO trigger, or place an enemy into flanking position to get flat footed for finisher. Very creative positioning can send enemies off a cliff.

SpaceWhale42 wrote:

Vlorax wrote:

SpaceWhale42 wrote:

Here's one that I've been rolling around in my head:

Drunken Dervish
Ancestry: Shoony
Class: Swashbuckler (Fencer)
Background: Barkeep OR Wonder Taster (?)

LVL1: Scamper Underfoot,Bloodhound,Goading Feint
LVL2: Monk Dedication Archetype, Tumble Behind
LVL3: Whatever
LVL4: Monk Archetype: Stumbling Stance
LVL6: Attack of Opportunity or Vexing Tumble?
LVL8: MonkArchetype: Stumbling Feint
LVL10: Flurry of Blows

The Idea was to use the Stumbling Feint free Feint to activate Panache, then the FoB gets that Panache precision damage, then use another action to use finisher for more Damage. Have an extra action for moving or extra feint or medicine, etc. for a 2-action/3-attack Panache/Finisher cycling combo.

Was going to play like an Adventuring Shoony that is seeking new tastes for his failing bar back at home, and he constantly pretends to be drunk as a combat tactic after watching many bar fights. I picked Shoony for Scamper Underfoot, so I could sell the 'always drunk' act by 'falling over' a lot.

However, the feat tax seems too heavy for the payoff. I wish there was a better way to get Flurry of Blows lol, I understand why not though.

Human/Half-Elf could get FoB with slightly less impact Class feat wise, using Multitalented they can cover the Dedication which frees up 1 class feat.

Could also possibly slip Adopted Ancestry at level 5 as a Shoony and still get it.

I just realized I could also do this starting as Monk class, kind of like so:

Shoony
Monk

LVL1: Scamper Underfoot,Bloodhound,Stumbling Stance
LVL2: Swashbuckler Dedication
LVL3: Toughness idk
LVL4: Swashbuckler Dedication: Finishing Precision

Mechanically comes online a LOT earlier, but it's a LOT less damage potential as well over time, since the Dedication Precise Strike doesn't scale. Also miss out on that sweet movement speed until later levels

Monks get the same movement speed as Swashbuckler but don't lose...

Would the Movement speed gained from Panache Stack with the Monk Movement speed bonus? Or is it one of those "Choose which ever is highest" deals

SpaceWhale42 wrote:

Here's one that I've been rolling around in my head:

Drunken Dervish
Ancestry: Shoony
Class: Swashbuckler (Fencer)
Background: Barkeep OR Wonder Taster (?)

LVL1: Scamper Underfoot,Bloodhound,Goading Feint
LVL2: Monk Dedication Archetype, Tumble Behind
LVL3: Whatever
LVL4: Monk Archetype: Stumbling Stance
LVL6: Attack of Opportunity or Vexing Tumble?
LVL8: MonkArchetype: Stumbling Feint
LVL10: Flurry of Blows

The Idea was to use the Stumbling Feint free Feint to activate Panache, then the FoB gets that Panache precision damage, then use another action to use finisher for more Damage. Have an extra action for moving or extra feint or medicine, etc. for a 2-action/3-attack Panache/Finisher cycling combo.

Was going to play like an Adventuring Shoony that is seeking new tastes for his failing bar back at home, and he constantly pretends to be drunk as a combat tactic after watching many bar fights. I picked Shoony for Scamper Underfoot, so I could sell the 'always drunk' act by 'falling over' a lot.

However, the feat tax seems too heavy for the payoff. I wish there was a better way to get Flurry of Blows lol, I understand why not though.

Human/Half-Elf could get FoB with slightly less impact Class feat wise, using Multitalented they can cover the Dedication which frees up 1 class feat.

Could also possibly slip Adopted Ancestry at level 5 as a Shoony and still get it.

I just realized I could also do this starting as Monk class, kind of like so:

Shoony
Monk

LVL1: Scamper Underfoot,Bloodhound,Stumbling Stance
LVL2: Swashbuckler Dedication
LVL3: Toughness idk
LVL4: Swashbuckler Dedication: Finishing Precision

Mechanically comes online a LOT earlier, but it's a LOT less damage potential as well over time, since the Dedication Precise Strike doesn't scale. Also miss out on that sweet movement speed until later levels

Here's one that I've been rolling around in my head:

Drunken Dervish
Ancestry: Shoony
Class: Swashbuckler (Fencer)
Background: Barkeep OR Wonder Taster (?)

LVL1: Scamper Underfoot,Bloodhound,Goading Feint
LVL2: Monk Dedication Archetype, Tumble Behind
LVL3: Whatever
LVL4: Monk Archetype: Stumbling Stance
LVL6: Attack of Opportunity or Vexing Tumble?
LVL8: MonkArchetype: Stumbling Feint
LVL10: Flurry of Blows

The Idea was to use the Stumbling Feint free Feint to activate Panache, then the FoB gets that Panache precision damage, then use another action to use finisher for more Damage. Have an extra action for moving or extra feint or medicine, etc. for a 2-action/3-attack Panache/Finisher cycling combo.

Was going to play like an Adventuring Shoony that is seeking new tastes for his failing bar back at home, and he constantly pretends to be drunk as a combat tactic after watching many bar fights. I picked Shoony for Scamper Underfoot, so I could sell the 'always drunk' act by 'falling over' a lot.

However, the feat tax seems too heavy for the payoff. I wish there was a better way to get Flurry of Blows lol, I understand why not though.

Hello!

I am currently building a Staff Acrobat Fighter/Draconic Sorcerer (My GM is letting us use Dual Classing rules) for our campaign. It is inspired by the Dragoon class in Final Fantasy, but with Pathfinder flavor. I would like to take some opinions on it, and see if there are ways I can improve it!

The only restriction is that I cannot pick the Human Ancestry, due to some rules the GM put in place. However, I can use pretty much any uncommon weapon/feat/etc that I wish! This character starts at lvl 3.

Cliffscale Lizardfolk Fighter 3
Background: Laborer
Class: Fighter / Sorcerer
STR 18 DEX 16 CON 12 INT 8 WIS 14 CHA 12

Skills: Athletics +11 Acrobatics +8, and arcana, medicine, etc
AC:21 (Full Plate)
Weapons: Naginata and Fauchard

Ancestry Feat: Tail Whip
LVL1 Fighter Feat: Power Attack
LVL1 Sorcerer Bloodline: Draconic
LVL2 Skill Feat: Quick Jump
LVL2 Sorcerer Feat: Staff Acrobat Dedication
LVL2 Fighter Feat: Lunge
LVL3 General Feat: Fleet

Sorc Spells:
Cantrip - Electric Arc, Light, Detect Magic, Read Aura, Shield (bonus)
1st Level - Endure (Signature), Magic Weapon, Jump, True Strike (bonus)
2nd Level - Longstrider (Heightened 2nd), Enlarge (Signature), Resist Energy (bonus)

I plan on taking feats Powerful Leap, Sudden Leap, and Felling Strike to do some Jumping shenanigans for my fighter feats, and for my sorcerer feats either increasing my Bloodline level (advanced bloodline, etc) or picking up the Staff Acrobat feats like Staff Sweep.

Is there anything I should be focusing more on? Any feat that I might be overlooking? Tell me what you think!

EDIT: He will be mainly focused on using Shove or Trip + Lunge with his Naginata or just do damage, and he will mainly be focusing on supporting his allies with AoO and Athletics shenanigans. His spells are mainly for Self-buffing since he has a low charisma

Interesting, I actually never thought to do a Ruffian/Scoundrel Rogue! In the Ruffian's case, would it be worth it at all to use a weapon or should I stick mainly to the spiked gauntlet? For example, using the Human Ancestry feat Unconventional Weaponry to get an Martial weapon down to Simple proficiency and use it?

Hello folks!

I am currently rolling a new level 3 character for our playgroup (my previous Goblin Barbarian has been discontinued due to a re-location into the stomach of a Worg) and I am stuck between class decisions. My overall goal with this character is to be the Main Martial Tank/Presence, as the rest of my party consists of a Damage Dealing caster, a cleric healer/Damage Dealer, and a rogue that likes to sneak around and flank (and do lots of damage).

Since everyone is really only interested in doing Damage, I wanted to try to fill the role of Battlefield Control and/or de-buffer as well, to protect my squishy allies and/or make it easier for them to do damage. I had three ideas as how I want to do this, but are unsure if they would even work or if there is a better option that I am not seeing:

Champion - Take Redeemer Reaction, Load up on Heavy Armor and a Tower Shield, Maybe take Bard Dedication for Fear and other spells like that, and try to use Athletics to keep people away from my buddies and wedge myself in the way

Monk - Take a stance and Stunning fist, and load up on High Mobility to get to the bad guys first before they get to my guys, then use shove/trip shenanigans to keep them occupied and flat-footed while my allies fire away

Fighter - Heavy Armor and 2H reach weapon, use Brutish shove feat to keep baddies away

What is your favorite way to play Battlefield Control and/or Tank Martial?

If you shift the Staff of Divination into a Pick, can you still cast spells with it, or do you have to shift it back first?

RP Reasons mostly!

Howdy, Title explains my predicament. I want to create a Barbarian Animal Instinct that Goes into Magic Warrior Dedication at Lvl. 2. Is this possible?

Ah, what is needed to activate the bomb before dropping, so that it would set it off upon landing after being let go?

Howdy! I have a question. Say you are a monk with high athletics, and you just drank a Leaper's Elixir. As I understand it, it's a free action to let go of an item that is in your hand. Would he be able to drop an item halfway through the leap, like a bomb?