Looks great!
but what wiht your mental stats!
You have a awful personalaty, when you try to say something nice you insult someone.
You are to stupid to realize that you even insulting the dragon. And above all! With that wisdom you always fail to see an ambush!
But if you play only combat and no roleplay at all then this is ultimate powerplay.
Looks great!
but what wiht your mental stats!
You have a awful personalaty, when you try to say something nice you insult someone.
You are to stupid to realize that you even insulting the dragon. And above all! With that wisdom you always fail to see an ambush!But if you play only combat and no roleplay at all then this is ultimate powerplay.
Or just be like the guy a played with at my last PFS game. 7 Wis and 7 Int, but still managed to give battle orders and suggestions as if he were the smartest PC around.
Or just be like the guy a played with at my last PFS game. 7 Wis and 7 Int, but still managed to give battle orders and suggestions as if he were the smartest PC around.Looks great!
but what wiht your mental stats!
You have a awful personalaty, when you try to say something nice you insult someone.
You are to stupid to realize that you even insulting the dragon. And above all! With that wisdom you always fail to see an ambush!But if you play only combat and no roleplay at all then this is ultimate powerplay.
Is it just me or does anyone else feel that there should be a minimum for stats in the game?
No problem if its roleplayed but my money is on it won't be.
Congratulations for turning a roleplaying game into WoW...
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Would you still be so concerned if the archer was a slighter, nimbler, lovable chap (Str 12, Dex 20, Con 7, Int 7, Wis 7, Cha 17) with ranks in perhaps diplomacy? It might fit more into your thoughts of what a character should be, but not everyone believes the same. I think that a player should have as many options to customize their character as possible, even highly split ability scores. IMHO, it is up to the GM to not only create an enjoyable, even memorable campaign, but to test the strengths and weaknessess of the characters. Obviously, the archer would be at a great disadvantage in social environments as well as resisting enchantment/charms. Use that (but don't abuse it) to show the player that perhaps a more rounded character (ala, less min/max) would be a better idea. That is easily accomplished in a home-game. Perhaps more of a challenge in a society game, but doable.
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You are going to spend the game with a massively crippled will save? The only effort to short up what is a glaring weakness is the trait. With a hole that huge this guy is likely to kill as many party members as enemies. Not someone I want in my group.
Maybe I'm biased about the subject because the 16th level fighter in our party has killed 2 characters in our party and nearly killed another over the past 2 session. He's also spent a lot of time on the bench due to hold person, imprisonment, confusion, dominate... The casters wind up wasting rounds fixing him only to have him fail another save 2 rounds later.
I would strongly urge you to make an effort to shore this up. Maybe Iron Will as that 5th level feat and Improved Iron Will at 9th moving crtical focus to 10th.
Optimised for combat, useless everywhere else. Congratulations.
This isn't even optimized for combat.
Just look at that will save.
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A lot of assumptions about PFS
You are making a lot of assumptions here that other players are going to cover for your weaknesses. I'm not sure if this character is for con play but what happens if 5 people show up with Uber Archers? I can see other players getting quite irritated if they showed up at a con and your one trick pony got hit with confusion or dominated and killed their character.
On an unrelated note, many of the faction missions are based on making a successful skill checks. Unless someone else in the party is covering for you there you are pretty much SOL on a good number of faction missions and will find you are falling behind on PA.
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Has PFS gaming really devolved into rocket-tag so thoroughly?
I have yet to play in an official table, but if that's the style generated, I would rather go to the Warmachine table.
As far as "bloodthirsty" dms goes...if there's a ranged combatant dropping allies left and right, he becomes prime Will Save-or-Die bait real quick.
Playing enemies otherwise is tantamount to setting the game on "easy" mode.
Just my opinion, of course, and ot whole were at it.
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Has PFS gaming really devolved into rocket-tag so thoroughly?
I have yet to play in an official table, but if that's the style generated, I would rather go to the Warmachine table.
As far as "bloodthirsty" dms goes...if there's a ranged combatant dropping allies left and right, he becomes prime Will Save-or-Die bait real quick.
Playing enemies otherwise is tantamount to setting the game on "easy" mode.
Just my opinion, of course, and ot whole were at it.
I've GMed PFS at several cons and recently set up a group, most groups are pretty laid back. The modules are a bit tight for the original 4 hour window but Josh now recommends 5 hours for a session and the Paizocon schedule reflects this.
A lot of assumptions about PFSYou are making a lot of assumptions here that other players are going to cover for your weaknesses. I'm not sure if this character is for con play but what happens if 5 people show up with Uber Archers? I can see other players getting quite irritated if they showed up at a con and your one trick pony got hit with confusion or dominated and killed their character.
On an unrelated note, many of the faction missions are based on making a successful skill checks. Unless someone else in the party is covering for you there you are pretty much SOL on a good number of faction missions and will find you are falling behind on PA.
Dominate, hold person, ambushes and party split ups(who's problem are you gonna be?)
I have seen fighter archers and a strenght of 16 is more then enough. that should give your character enough points to skip the retard, ashwole and blind part of you character.
Again, I feel the need to point out, this isn't an optimized character. You've made a one hit wonder with some hilariously sizable weaknesses.
I really should bookmark FighterMan so I can trot him out for all the archer threads. Lemme go look him up...
Ah, there we go. HERE is my optimized level 20 Fighter Archer. You can fairly easily deconstruct him from that. He's not perfectly optimized, but he'd demolish pretty much any non-perfectly-optimized enemy when with a party, and you can easily change his skills around to be more useful in a party (his skills are set up for solo fighting).
Mok, you should take a good long look at Zurai's Fighter. The character you have created is the definition of a one shot wonder, his will save is so open to abuse it would be like adventuring with a Frenzied barbarian, awe inspiring when under perfect conditions, but a hassle and downright danger to the party at all times. Not only that, but the fighter is functionally retarded, roleplaying wise, do you want to roleplay that?
The low Will save is a problem, however as an archer you tend to not be the one getting in the face of the spellcaster and so it's much less likely that you'll get zapped with the spells, because someone else will be charging forward and grabbing all the attention.
Now, if a GM in our local Pathfinder Society started dominating a guy like this and killing off the rest of the party... well, all I can say is I doubt many people would want to sit down at his table again. Bloodthirsty GMs are really frowned upon in our neck of the woods.
That wouldn't be the DM's fault, it would be your fault. People would not want to sit next to this character again.
To fix the character, I'd suggest increasing your wisdom to 14, and investing in Iron will and Improved Iron Will. You don't have to increase your intelligence....if you don't want to be drooling on the table. It also couldn't hurt to raise your constitution, you'll need the HP and fortitude.Keep your Dexterity high, and lower that strength to make the adjustments.
If your concerned this will weaken your character in combat, consider the monsters that currently outright defeat you. -Dragons, Vampires, almost all Demons and Devils, any Spellcasters, Hags, Fey, Aberrations. That's a vast swath of the bestiary, and creatures like these make up almost all of the monsters above 10 CR. So rather than getting stronger in higher levels, this build actually becomes more and more vulnerable.
Something to think about.