The adventurering lawer

[Jabarie]

due to my love of cha based charaters, and new passtion of bostan legal i have desided i need a charater concept for a adventuring lawer type.

there are many hamlets that need lil things resolved. it would be similar to the concept of the confesser from legend of the seeker.

so after looking over some heated moral debates i think it would be fun to play a LN cleric of Asmodiuos.

the question here is

what kind of build would you guys make based on the travling lawer concept?

[mplindustries]

What about an Oracle with the Legalistic Curse instead?

Also, it's "lawyer."

[darkwarriorkarg]

Ouch. Please check your spelling...

- Bard
- Paladin
- Cleric (Adabar or Asmodeus)
- Inquisitor

Depending what level you're starting at, the Justicar PRC seems built to be an add-on to the inquisitor for this.

And, of course, mor ethan one flavour of Hellknight.

[Jabarie]

mplindustries wrote:

What about an Oracle with the Legalistic Curse instead?

Also, it's "lawyer."

dont know much about oracles i look into it thx

[Coridan]

The dwarf exarch archetype is good for a law class. Or a cleric or inquisitor of Asmodeus.

[Ciaran Barnes]

And its spelled Boston.

:)

[Meridoc]

Hey I've trademarked this!

Defense Attorney Meridoc at your service. No crime too heinous, no fee too high. Make sure to stabilize all opponents, the state pays for each and every defendant no matter how innocent or guilty they are. One poor devil actually said, hey I can't pay you - you've already taken everything I own...of course I replied, "No dear the state pays me I'm a public defender."

And sure I'm a Holy Vindicator, Cleric of Asmodeus, Signifier of the order of the Scourge. But don't let that get you down, I've not lost a case except wherein the Aspis consortium was invovled, (they all hanged - not my fault)...guilty as sin they were. They were lucky to just be hanged and not bound into eternal undead servitude or worse.

Mind you I do have a side business in contract law. Feel free to drop by my law office, its in the Ivy district not too far from you know who's house. And do remember to mark the Meridoc promotional box on any contract you sign...thank you for your support.

[Meridoc]

As for the build - you channel negative so holy vindicator is an option (gets you to heavy armor when you can buy mithril full plate). The key thing to make note is movement (if you use negative channel in any fashion).

Movement strictly will hamper your damage ability depending on your charisma bonus. its why I went halfling (riding dog = at low levels) and eventually fly potions and summoned creatures. I didn't go haste boots (too costly and my speed would be 30 max)...but I may have gone winged boots if I had the money.

make yourself into a hard target (because they're already wanting to hang those lawyers...and now they have a reason to do it.) So high AC is a must. (Holy Vindicator can get you a profane bonus to your shield)

I'd advise improved initiative and at level 5 quick channel. You can drop two doses of your channel on the unwary (it costs total 3 uses, but the effects can be priceless). If you can get it to work desecrate can create a site where a +3 profane bonus to dc on channel...but its very hard to land.

For domains - law is interesting (take 11 on d20 rolls) and Fire is fun.

For magic items - I recommend the pylactery of negative channeling. The selective (lesser metamagic wand...and my favorite defending mace +(whatever you can afford)...and all the basics (natrual armor, defelection, resistance cloak, circlet of persuasion...yada yada)

That phylactery is a head slot - so no headband of wis/cha so its a tradeoff more spells or more negative booms.

One last thing Undead - eventually pick up command undead as its your blindspot. Its not really going to stop the very high level undead, but you still make them roll (and they can fail)...but at least you can do something beyond turn them to ash with fireballs / walls of flame / bhands / etc.

[Jabarie]

Meridoc wrote:

As for the build - you channel negative so holy vindicator is an option (gets you to heavy armor when you can buy mithril full plate). The key thing to make note is movement (if you use negative channel in any fashion).

Movement strictly will hamper your damage ability depending on your charisma bonus. its why I went halfling (riding dog = at low levels) and eventually fly potions and summoned creatures. I didn't go haste boots (too costly and my speed would be 30 max)...but I may have gone winged boots if I had the money.

make yourself into a hard target (because they're already wanting to hang those lawyers...and now they have a reason to do it.) So high AC is a must. (Holy Vindicator can get you a profane bonus to your shield)

I'd advise improved initiative and at level 5 quick channel. You can drop two doses of your channel on the unwary (it costs total 3 uses, but the effects can be priceless). If you can get it to work desecrate can create a site where a +3 profane bonus to dc on channel...but its very hard to land.

For domains - law is interesting (take 11 on d20 rolls) and Fire is fun.

For magic items - I recommend the pylactery of negative channeling. The selective (lesser metamagic wand...and my favorite defending mace +(whatever you can afford)...and all the basics (natrual armor, defelection, resistance cloak, circlet of persuasion...yada yada)

That phylactery is a head slot - so no headband of wis/cha so its a tradeoff more spells or more negative booms.

One last thing Undead - eventually pick up command undead as its your blindspot. Its not really going to stop the very high level undead, but you still make them roll (and they can fail)...but at least you can do something beyond turn them to ash with fireballs / walls of flame / bhands / etc.

neat