fyi, unless i'm missing something that looks like an 18 point buy for demonspawn, not 20
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I'll fix that. Thx. I may throw that into Strength or dump str to 7 then use the total 6 pts to boost another area.
A part of me screeching in pain a little at that suggestion. I love optimizing, but you REALLY put yourself into a brutal corner when you min/max to this extreme. You're going to be utterly useless any time you have to swim, climb, or god forbid face some Str damage/drain. A character with a Str of 7 is a very, very limp noodle. Even the lower-level poisons/venom/disease/what have you will make you nearly immobile VERY quickly.
I know there's not much difference between 7 and 8, but even then be ready to face the consequences of extreme min-maxing your Ability Scores.
I'll fix that. Thx. I may throw that into Strength or dump str to 7 then use the total 6 pts to boost another area.A part of me screeching in pain a little at that suggestion. I love optimizing, but you REALLY put yourself into a brutal corner when you min/max to this extreme. You're going to be utterly useless any time you have to swim, climb, or god forbid face some Str damage/drain. A character with a Str of 7 is a very, very limp noodle. Even the lower-level poisons/venom/disease/what have you will make you nearly immobile VERY quickly.
I know there's not much difference between 7 and 8, but even then be ready to face the consequences of extreme min-maxing your Ability Scores.
str damage does not affect encumbrance
Strength: Damage to your Strength score causes you to take penalties on Strength-based skill checks, melee attack rolls, and weapon damage rolls (if they rely on Strength). The penalty also applies to your Combat Maneuver Bonus (if you are Small or larger) and your Combat Maneuver Defense. A character with a Strength score of 0 is too weak to move in any way and is unconscious. Some creatures do not possess a Strength score and have no modifier at all to Strength-based skills or checks.
also low level magic items can solve any strength skill issues (wand of touch of the sea, wand of jump, potion of spider climb makes most of these issues not a problem)
I would start with Grease at level 1 for the Range and higher DC and the fact it last longer.
for your 2nd trait 'mother's rage', religion trait, requires you to be chaotic neutral though (to worship lamashtu)
Requirement(s) Lamashtu
The blood of the beast runs thick in your veins, and your appearance is bestial. You receive a +1 trait bonus on Survival checks, and you treat your caster level as +1 higher when summoning creatures.
gives +3 levels for summoning, so 1st level summoning lasts 4 rounds, that's nice, and really means you can only spend 1 spell per combat and still help the entire combat, since 1 summon plus cantrips won't drain your resources.
they don't dictate 'trait bonus' like other abilities, so i assume they are untyped bonuses and therefore stack
Traits
Character traits are abilities that are not tied to your character's race or class. They can enhance your character's skills, racial abilities, class abilities, or other statistics, enabling you to further customize him. At its core, a character trait is approximately equal in power to half a feat, so two character traits are roughly equivalent to a bonus feat. Yet a character trait isn't just another kind of power you can add on to your character—it's a way to quantify (and encourage) building a character background that fits into your campaign world. Think of character traits as “story seeds” for your background; after you pick your two traits, you'll have a point of inspiration from which to build your character's personality and history. Alternatively, if you've already got a background in your head or written down for your character, you can view picking his traits as a way to quantify that background, just as picking race and class and ability scores quantifies his other strengths and weaknesses.
Many traits grant a new type of bonus: a “trait” bonus. Trait bonuses do not stack—they're intended to give player characters a slight edge, not a secret backdoor way to focus all of a character's traits on one type of bonus and thus gain an unseemly advantage. It's certainly possible, for example, that somewhere down the line, a “Courageous” trait might be on the list of dwarf race traits, but just because this trait is on both the dwarf race traits list and the basic combat traits list doesn't mean you're any more brave if you choose both versions than if you choose only one.
Character traits are only for player characters. If you want an NPC to have traits, that NPC must “buy” them with the Additional Traits feat. Player characters are special; they're the stars of the game, after all, and it makes sense that they have an advantage over the NPCs of the world in this way.
Sorry Trait bonus do not stack.
Final Stats (Stat after Adj)
Str 10 (12)
Dex 12
Con 14
Int 12 (10)
Wis 8
Cha 17 (19) [21 after Teifling +2 to all Sorc class abilities and this moves to 20/22 at level 4 giving a bonus 2nd level spell as well]Resulting character isn't suffering anywhere apart from Wis. Under optimized but makes the resultant character more 'balanced' without sacrificing being very good at what they do.
Grease and Summon Monster 1... no damaging spell but I can try for a new one at level 3.
Acid Splash Cantrip
Traits
Character traits are abilities that are not tied to your character's race or class. They can enhance your character's skills, racial abilities, class abilities, or other statistics, enabling you to further customize him. At its core, a character trait is approximately equal in power to half a feat, so two character traits are roughly equivalent to a bonus feat. Yet a character trait isn't just another kind of power you can add on to your character—it's a way to quantify (and encourage) building a character background that fits into your campaign world. Think of character traits as “story seeds” for your background; after you pick your two traits, you'll have a point of inspiration from which to build your character's personality and history. Alternatively, if you've already got a background in your head or written down for your character, you can view picking his traits as a way to quantify that background, just as picking race and class and ability scores quantifies his other strengths and weaknesses.Many traits grant a new type of bonus: a “trait” bonus. Trait bonuses do not stack—they're intended to give player characters a slight edge, not a secret backdoor way to focus all of a character's traits on one type of bonus and thus gain an unseemly advantage. It's certainly possible, for example, that somewhere down the line, a “Courageous” trait might be on the list of dwarf race traits, but just because this trait is on both the dwarf race traits list and the basic combat traits list doesn't mean you're any more brave if you choose both versions than if you choose only one.
Character traits are only for player characters. If you want an NPC to have traits, that NPC must “buy” them with the Additional Traits feat. Player characters are special; they're the stars of the game, after all, and it makes sense that they have an advantage over the NPCs of the world in this way.
Sorry Trait bonus do not stack.
traits that give trait bonuses do not stack. traits that give untyped bonuses do stack. the traits mentioned both do not list a type for the bonus, therefore they stack.