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"His wide glowing eyes can be seen peering behind blood splatter that covers its tiny face and paws almost as if it were discolored spots in its fur. The last thing I hear as the fluffy creature descends upon me with its sharp claws is a comforting purring sound, as if the creature was enjoying itself…"
So it’s been a very fun obsession of mine the last few weeks... Ive been building characters around the concept of a "doomsday kitten." This was first conceived in the last campaign I was in but I never got past level 7 in that game so I never truly got to play it and get it out of my system hehe. It revolved around 4 levels of druid, the focused shaper feat, and then all the evil-fluffy whimsy I could think of. :)
I'm curious what fun builds you guys can think of? :) The rules of the build revolve around the mentality that by level 13 the character must be able to be in cat form for 24 hours (meaning at least 8 levels of wildshape or some other cheese), from there on the flavor is up to you. Just remember the point is to have fun with it, not to necessarily be optimal. Here are some of my favs that I made...
1. Martial Kitten (4 basic druid, 4 martial artist, 12 Brawler)
build highlights - feral combat training, dragon style/elemental fist tree, medusas wrath tree, deadly stroke tree. This uses mostly the big cat forms (so not a true doomsday kitten). This is the highest consistent damage of the three listed but is basically 100% melee with less tricks than the other builds. BAB +18, fort +16, ref +9, will +12
2. Shadow Kitten (4 druid, 16 scout)
build highlights - deadly sneak, 8d8 sneak attack with vicious claws as a catfolk, eldricht heritage shadow for hide in plain sight, boar style feat tree, gang up and rending claws for even more d6s. Sneak attack has no size requirement so it can Roll as the small cats, so it’s true to the doomsday kitten theme. Very high DPS pounces from scouts charge, probably my favorite mix of flavor and efficiency. BAB +15, fort +9, ref+11, will +9
3. Dragon Kitten (8 druid, 2 sorceror, 10 dragon disciple)
build highlights - eldricht heritage for abyssal bloodline for an additional 6 str, full 12 levels of wildshape with the +4 feat, enough p/d to use planar wildshape, speaks with ghost sound for a super creepy effect. So this one stays in kitten form out of combat, but has full wildshape and dragon shape at its disposal inside combat. abyssal and dragon bloodline claws for some added flair, muddy spell list however, mostly tactical spells rather than damage spells. BAB +14, fort 11, ref 5, will14
others included a bard/sandman, barbarian, and even a cleric/green faith acolyte healer kitty (that is obviously less doomsday-ish. The most brutal version was a synthesis but synthesists are banned in my local group for obvious “what-was-pathfinder-thinking” reasons. :)
The really old school ad&d supplement "Arduin Grimore" had packs of Kill Kittens roaming the forests...had poisonous bites that paralyzed you before they ate you.
Darn...that was way back in the early 80"s...
*shuffles off muttering about dating himself*
Kitsune with the Fox Shape feat skinned to be a cat-headed guy with cat shape.
Halfling Beastmorph Alchemist 10 Master Chymist 10 with permanent reduce person, an agile AoMF and the extend mutagen advanced mutagen although he may not count as he can only hold the form for 17.3 hours at 13th level.
Bonus post Dead Lvl 10+ Beastbonded Witch with improved familiar dweomer cat or silvaneshee who jumped ship to her familiar.
Oo beast ofthe society is very nice! And with the dragon disciple build one could take noxious bite to be similar to the kill kittens :)
The beast bonded witvh is sweet, one could even do a sacrificial sort of event to force it earlier,, adds more flavor :)
I never really looked at the kitsune much, im now a fan!
Wait, they banned the synth but left the basic summoner(who is significantly more powerful) in?
Dreamscrarred psionics could probably manage something with the psychometabalism focused psion.
The really old school ad&d supplement "Arduin Grimore" had packs of Kill Kittens roaming the forests...had poisonous bites that paralyzed you before they ate you.
Darn...that was way back in the early 80"s...
*shuffles off muttering about dating himself*
wow you are showing your age there . I loved the Ardiun Grimore stuff . Great fun !!