Let's make Batman in Pathfinder


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master_marshmallow wrote:
He doesn't really assassinate people, so a lot of the sneak attack stuff to me at least seems not very Batman like unless he's doing non lethal, which cannot be done with anything but a sap.

You can deal nonlethal sneak attack damage with unarmed strikes


Entryhazard wrote:
master_marshmallow wrote:
He doesn't really assassinate people, so a lot of the sneak attack stuff to me at least seems not very Batman like unless he's doing non lethal, which cannot be done with anything but a sap.
You can deal nonlethal sneak attack damage with unarmed strikes

And you can do it with any normally-lethal bludgeoning weapon if you have the Bludgeoner feat.


I did a full write up on this topic, actually.

While there are some points I disagree with, and some points I agree with that have been made, this is how I would recommend creating the Dark Knight to people who are looking to do a full campaign as a PC.

I Want You To Tell All Your Friends About Me...

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I feel that classes for the Bat would be Investigator (maybe 7+ lvl here) as the main class, ranger (3-5 lvl here) as the secondary class, and just a plush of monk (maybe 1-2 lvls here). Let's face the facts here Bat Man is an investigator/detective at the core of his role in the D.C. Comic universe/rich CEO play boy (as Bruce Wayne). The parent classes for the investigator are rouge and alchemist (int, dex as the main stats). The animal aspect of the ranger (aka- bat [dark vision]) and the favored enemy as human/any humanoid race. Plus the ranger has armor available to him via that class. Bruce is human but I feel that half-elf help us out better with the multi-classing we are doing here. The highest stat is a tie between int and dex, with str as the next highest, con will be the next highest after that, but cha and wis will be a min of 12 each. Light armor is best at low lvl and med-heavy armor at upper lvl. As with any rouge base class the thieve's tools (,masterwork) is a must to use disable devise at the best it can be. His top skill checks will be knowledge (local, engineering), intimidate, disable device, and diplomacy bringing up the rear. These are what I will use for my version of the dark knight.


Gestalt Brawler/Investigator


This is not a good necro. Most of the options discussed in here are outdated by current options. The new vigilante class is meant to be a Batman type character and fits pretty well.

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