Greetings and salutations!
My current campaign, where I'm DM-ing is approaching an end after three years and recently we have started a new one, this time with long exp progression and me as a player. Me and most of my friends have a history of making challenging and brutal campaign/sessions so this new story line was no exception. Anyways I had a great idea and story for a dex-based vivisectioinist but he ended up being gutted during the first session, because being forced to climb a rope when being chased by an angry mob of hobgoblins and bugbears while having no climb skill and an amazing strength score of 7, has never in the history of rpg failed before and I was just really unlucky...<cough,cough> ;)
I need a new character. When we create characters we roll 4d6 and then remove the lowest number. This leads to sometimes very good characters and sometimes not so good, but in the end we like the rng factor of it. My stats are as follows: 18, 18 , 17, 12, 11, 9 so these stats have some potential...;) Currently my party member is an Arcanist-occultist (crowd control and summons) and that's it. We are a two man party for the moment. Usually 1-2 guys joins eventually but for now it's just us two and we need to survive until more shows up.
We are starting at level 3. All books are allowed except 3rd party and the new occult stuff/classes so that would be Core, apg, um, uc, stuff from inner sea etc...My initial thoughts was some sort of melee. DPR is important but is not alfa/omega, he needs to be self sustained and have survivability. At first i was thinking of a melee oracle: lunar for the sake of pet, war-sighted for the sake of feat and versatility and ancient lorekeeper for the sake of replacing the shitty bonus spells of lunar oracle.
How would you guys build such a character? I am also open for another ideas/builds, doesn't have to be a lunar oracle...I just need something durable with good dpr that can pull his weight in a two man party...
Thank you for your time and effort
Kind regards
VictorH