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Thanks! Those are all really good ideas. Purify Food and Drink on salt water is particularly inspired, and Cup of Dust is just *evil*. Create Treasure Map, too. If I point it out to the GM, that can be our main source of loot from enemy pirates. It would make justifying the hoard of gear that they sometimes carry much easier. Again, thanks!
So. I'm a pretty long-time D&D player, but I have much less experience with Pathfinder. Some friends and I were considering starting a nautical/pirate-themed campaign, which gave me this idea to play a Druid as their resident, semi-savage 'weatherwitch' they picked up on an island someplace. Druids have more water-and-weather magic than any class I know of, which sounds like it would be really helpful on a boat. I've never played a a Druid, either in D&D or PF, so I read through their spells for pretty much the first time. It was then that I saw Shillelagh and realized the potential for an awesome, if not exactly optimal, character: Cast shillelagh on the first round of combat, charge in essentially and TWF +1 greatswords at level 1. Likely not the best way to play a druid, but it looked like so much fun that I could't pass it up. I'm also taking the Growth domain to use its swift-action Enlarge Person to really kill stuff.
So, I have a couple of questions: 1. I'm human, so what's a good second feat choice to make the most of my staff? I'm thinking Double Slice, but I'm not entirely settled. With 18 str (20 with enlarge) it's a difference of +3 damage on my offhand attack. I also considered Weapon Focus to bring up my shaky attack bonus (+3/+3). Thoughts?
Thanks!
I read through a fairly large amount of this thread, and I can't come up with any argument that hasn't already been said- and I don't want a fight to keep going once everything's been said. Whatever happens, happens. Also, thanks for the warm welcome! Even though I made a sort of botched entrance.
I'm sorry! I didn't know there was a history here.
I haven't read this entire thread yet, but from what I've seen, I think I should draw your attention to the Stormwind Fallacy. Here's a link to the best explanation I could find on short notice: http://forums.gleemax.com/wotc_archive/index.php/t-822626 But basically, in short, it can be summarized like this: Just because one optimizes his characters mechanically does not mean he cannot also roleplay well. Just because a character plays his character well does not mean he cannot be optimized. As a corrollary, characters who are min/maxed are not automatically played worse than those who are not, and characters who are deliberately handicapped are not automatically played better than those who are not. It's easy to imagine players who are good at either one of those things, or bad at both, or good at both. I enjoy optimization, to an extent. I like playing a character who is as effective at what he does as he can. D&D is, by it's nature, epic. So I want to play an epic hero. If I am going to be a wizard, I don't want to be any old wizard- I want to be Gandalf, or Belgarath. I want to play Achilles or Sparhawk. I want to be able to pitch in and not let my allies down. I don't want to break the game. I find it fun to hunt for loopholes and the like, not so that I can play a character that can infinite Wish with the gate spell but for the joy of saying "hey! guys! look what I found!" Security experts spend their time looking at alarms and locks in order to find problems, not so that they can break into houses, but so that they can improve security in the future (and because they enjoy it). I optimize, and I roleplay at the same time. Also, I try to be as nice as I can on forums. As a side note, this is my first post on the Paizo boards. I go by dbay on WOTC. |
