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I am joining a group already playing Jade Regent. So I am looking for advice on what to play. The following is the criteria:

  • 11th level.
  • 82,000 gold for gear.
  • No one item more than 50% of total gold.
  • +3 item at highest, although I am looking at not going above +2.
  • 15 point buy: I have never done point buy before.
  • 2 traits: one must be from Jade Regent.
  • Only paizo material: Core, Apg, Uc, Um, etc.

The group is 5 players already.

  • alchemist: not sure or type
  • ranger: machine gunner extraordinaire
  • hellknight: rough-rider fighter
  • cleric: battle style
  • wizard: transmutation I think

I prefer ranged characters and usually play a wizard. I am thinking a bard could help a lot (never played one before). Or I might go with my favorite class, a summoner. Any advice appreciated as I am not limited to those 2 classes, those are just my thoughts.

BUMP.

Here's to hoping the character builders are still at work/school...

should roll a ninja, you would became the mods favorite.

J/k

But if you did go ninja I would go 10 ninja and dip the last of your levels into shadow dancer. Reason imo, you can shadow jump at 4th for 40 ft (to 80ft at 6th). You also can hide in plan site, get evasion and darkvision. Plus you still get to pick rogue talents and Ninja tricks and you get a advanced talent Defensive roll.

Any other ideas?

I like the Summoner Idea. Isn't there a bard archtype for Summoner? I dont have access to my material atm.

Bard would be usefull but Im not a fan of the class. Witch could also work well in that group.

BUMP

Being the 6th player, i'd caution against summoner or druid, with that many people, you should try to make sure you don't have too many moving pieces on the map to slow game play.

Starting at 11th level means there aren't many options that are denied to you.

Bard is a viable option, by 11 your inspire courage would be +3, with 4th level spells.
You could play around with Prestige classes, Battle Herald could be interesting (something that buffs the existing party is always welcome)

Human. Two levels Master of Many Styles into full Dervish Dancer Bard archetype.

Take Weapon Finesse and Weapon Focus level 1, and use your two bonus feats at level 1&2 to grab Crane Style and Crane Riposte. Level 3 take the Dervish Dance feat and go from there. For flavor I like to then spec into Dazzling Display > Performing Combatant and using performance feats to give yourself massive +s to hit and damage in combat, and since they last until the END OF YOUR NEXT TURN and give unnamed bonuses, you can stack them at the beginning of each round and get double what the feat normally gives. Fight defensively, and you will never be hit.
Joanna Swiftblade wrote:

Human. Two levels Master of Many Styles into full Dervish Dancer Bard archetype.

Take Weapon Finesse and Weapon Focus level 1, and use your two bonus feats at level 1&2 to grab Crane Style and Crane Riposte. Level 3 take the Dervish Dance feat and go from there. For flavor I like to then spec into Dazzling Display > Performing Combatant and using performance feats to give yourself massive +s to hit and damage in combat, and since they last until the END OF YOUR NEXT TURN and give unnamed bonuses, you can stack them at the beginning of each round and get double what the feat normally gives. Fight defensively, and you will never be hit.

Wow is all I can say to that. I have never played a bard and would never of seen/thought of that myself. Thanks for the idea Joanna

I decided on playing a bard and figured I would post him here to see if anyone had any advice on my choices.

  • STR 12
  • DEX 14
  • CON 13
  • INT 9
  • WIS 9
  • CHA 15

CHA & CON +1 for leveling up. Dex +2 for human. Perform:

  • Dance
  • Sing
  • Wind Instrument
Which apparently can be used for skill checks in acrobatics & fly, bluff & sense motive, and Diplomacy & handle animal checks respectively. Next I bought some magic items.
  • belt of physical perfection +2
  • headband of mental superiority +2
  • +3 cloak of resistance
  • +3 mithral chain shirt (AC: 7 I think)
  • +3 adaptive composite longbow
  • efficient quiver
  • handy haversack

That brought my stats up to 14, 18, 16, 11, 11, 18.
Next is feats: point blank shot, rapid shot, percise shot, deadly aim, weapon proficiency (longbow), & weapon focus (longbow). I used a feat to get dance of 23 steps.
My AC is (21) which seems to be low comparitively as only the alchemist, bomber type, is lower (18). Not really sure how important AC is for a ranged character. I have about 7k gold anything else I should purchase? Does anyone see anything I missed/should have?

Thanks,

+J
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