| Mygrrd |
Okey, my GM is willing to let me play a Houri that we created using the ARG playtest. For those unfamiliar with Houri, they were featured in a 3.5 supplement called Bastards and Bloodlines, as a +5 LA Half-Nymph race. I was intending to remake an old 3.5 Houri character that I had back in the day for our PF game we're starting soon.
Houri (Half-Nymph) Total RP: 16
Type: Fey 1 RP
Size: Medium 0 RP
Base Speed: Normal (30 ft) 0 RP
Ability Score Modifiers: Standard (+2 cha, +2 dex, -2 str) 0 RP
Languages: Standard Array 1 RP
Other Racial Abilities
Advanced Cha +4 8 RP
Advanced Int +2 4 RP
Low-light Vision (from Fey) 0 RP
+2 on saves vs mundane and magical diseases (similar to the 2 RP cost Plagueborn but this just applies to disease and nothing else)1 RP
Spell-like Ability: 1 RP
---> Charming Beauty - This ability affects one animal or humanoid creature within 30 feet. This improves the attitude of an animal or humanoid creature by 1 step, as if the Half-Nymph had successfully used the Diplomacy skill. The effect lasts for a number of rounds equal to the Half Nymph's charisma modifier. A will save (DC 10 + 1/2 HD + cha mod) negates this effect. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this effect again for 24 hours.
Decided on 1 RP for the spell like effect Charming beauty cause it's duplicating the effects of a witch's hex that can be taken at lvl 1.
While our Houri is not as powerful as it's 3.5 incarnation, she definitely has a few steps up on the base PF races. However, this doesn't stop me from wondering if I'd still not be better off just making a whole new HUMAN character. That bonus feat sure is a tempting one too.
So the question is Human or Houri? Stats or Feat?
| MC Edgar Allan Floe |
Well, what type of bard are you trying to be? I'm currently playing an Arcane Duelist who uses lots of intimidation and trips with a whip. With a build like that, an extra feat is pretty useful because there are multiple lines of feats that are all useful (Weapon Focus->Dazzling Display, Combat Expertise->Improved Trip->Greater Trip, etc.).
A Houri would get lots of bonus spells and have very high save DCs, so the natural way to go with that would be more focused on casting, which is a little less feat intensive than a controller build that uses lots of combat maneuvers.
| Mygrrd |
There's no rogue so I'm gonna be the skill monkey and party face for the group so a charisma bonus is gonna be great regardless and if I go human that's probably where the +2 will go.
I thought of going controller bard but I've read from different sources that when you get high enough level you run into too many things that either have a really high CMD, many legs or can fly. I decided archery was the way to go with her.
The GM is allowing 3.5 feats and PF feats so right now I think my 10 feats from level 1 - 20 will be thus:
Nymph's Kiss 3.5 feat
Point Blank Shot
Precise Shot
Rapid Shot
Words of Creation 3.5 feat
Discordant Voice
ManyShot
Deadly Aim
Knowledge Devotion 3.5 feat
Arcane Strike
If I go human I was thinking Prodigy as the bonus feat. I *could* go Versatile Performer from Complete Adventurer but even *I* think that's a lil' too OP when combined with Versatile Performance.