Fluff and story is a Cleric of Iroir. She needs to run round with no armor or weapons. Due to fluff I was thinking Monk1/clericX but since cleric's of Iroir get unarmed strike im not married to the idea. Issue I have with this is that, the cohort is already 2 levels below the PC's and taking a level of monk really nerfs cleric spells/casting ability.
EDIT: This would be a Healbot/buffer
That about sums up the peramiters. Advice?
Thanks in advance.
If the GM mostly uses humanoids the MoMS might work, but if he likes to use monsters(things with racial HD) it won't work so well because somewhere around level 10 CMD's increase dramatically, and it only gets worse as you go into higher levels.
I would just fluff her as a martial artist trained cleric, and not bother with monk levels. The merciful healer seems like a good healbot, but if you are not going for the healbot idea I would not take it.
Well looking at it I came up with two different lines but the base AC and BAB would be the same, along with most of the other abilities.
Character level 5
Str 8, Dex 12, Con 13, Int 10, Wis 18, Cha 14
AC:16
BAB:+3
Healing Domain
Channel Energy 2d6 (7/day)
Feats:
Human bonus-Dodge
Level 1 - CraneStyle
Monk bonus - Crane Wing
Level 3 - Mobility
Level 5 - Selective Channeling
Would be able to block one melee attack per round with Crane wing
Feats:
Human bonus-Dodge
Level 1 - Mobility
Monk bonus - Improved Trip
Level 3 - Selective Channeling
Level 5 - Extra Channel
Would be able to use immediate action to trip someone that tried to attack her.
Fluff and story is a Cleric of Iroir. She needs to run round with no armor or weapons. Due to fluff I was thinking Monk1/clericX but since cleric's of Iroir get unarmed strike im not married to the idea. Issue I have with this is that, the cohort is already 2 levels below the PC's and taking a level of monk really nerfs cleric spells/casting ability.
EDIT: This would be a Healbot/buffer
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That about sums up the peramiters. Advice?
Thanks in advance.
I know that material from 3.X needs to be closely examined before being introduced into Pathfinder, but since your character concept involves no armor or weapons you may want to consider the Vow of Poverty (feat) http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Vow_of_Poverty. It would work pretty good for cohorts since it means you wouldn't have to worry about keeping their equipment up to date ;P.
What about giving this cohort the cloistered cleric archetype? Since you do not want to have this cohort wear armor, an archetype that loses some armor proficiency (anything above light armor alone in this case) is an obvious option to consider.
What about giving this cohort the cloistered cleric archetype? Since you do not want to have this cohort wear armor, an archetype that loses some armor proficiency (anything above light armor alone in this case) is an obvious option to consider.
Because Cloistered Clerics have Diminished Spell casting. She already 3 levels behind. Two to being a cohort and one to the dip.
But the cloistered cleric does not lose any caster levels -- and I was suggesting this as an alternative to the level dip into monk.
If you want to give the cohort a mechanical reason not to wear armor, dump strength -- even light armor weighs enough that a physically weak character would have good reason not to wear it.
Another option to consider would be an Oracle with the Ancestor mystery, which is available to followers of Irori. The Spirit Shield revelation would be sufficient reason for this character to dispense with armor, as it give a +4 armor bonus to AC, increasing to +6 at 7th level, +8 at 11th level, and so forth. This bonus is available for one hour per Oracle level per day, in increments of one hour.
Another Oracle option is the Lore mystery, which includes a revelation that lets you use charisma (an Oracle's casting stat) instead of dexterity in calculating AC and CMD -- but this mystery gives the Oracle less reason to abandon armor.
One other mechanical advantage to having a character not wear armor would be highly campaign dependent -- in my own game I pointed out the spell to my DM and fellow players for a laugh, not for a serious option. The spell? Lover's Vengeance. Since this spell requires physical intimacy with its intended targets, having to spend a lot of time removing your armor and then putting it back on would be an inconvenience. Of course, since your most likely targets for this spell would have to do the same, it is unlikely that you would save that much time by not wearing armor.
@ DavidKnott - Thanks for the suggestions. Cloistered Cleric would be good if I was not losing spells per day, or if the benefit was not just skill points and knowledge checks. Since she is so far behind on casting I did not want to take more spells from her.
I will take a look at the oracle to see if i can work with that. Thing that pops to mind here is effects of the curse for my role play reasons, being set back another level for spell progression, and the loss of Channel energy.
Most of your suggestions are ways to fix whats probably a low AC. I think with the "MoMS crane wing" or the "Flowing Monk Redirection" she could move into and out of (mobility helps here too) where she needs to be for healing. Otherwise cleaver tactical positioning should be mostly whats needed to keep her safe.
Anything, such as feats what would make her a more effective support class?
EDIT:
@Darkwarriorkarg - Story line and fluffy, the original post has most of the info on that. Its possible I could just drop the monk level, AC would suck even more, along with her +hit though.
