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A) Whatever you like, provided you can use it. Quarterstaff is wonderfully versatile.
Equipment) Spell Component Pouches, Food, Skill Kits (Think Heal, Disguise, Crafts), and at least 1 Cure Light Wounds Potion.
Spells) Get whatever, you change your spell list ever day when you prepare your spells just like a cleric. Produce Flame is a great spell for ranged versatility. Summon Nature Ally is always great in a clutch too.
Companion) This guy is always out and around, he is not magical, and basically acts like a second PC for your purposes except you have to communicate through tricks, and the Handle Animal Skill with your Druid.
Many of these are general druid questions.
A) Your weapons should depend on your ability scores and intended build. If you have a high Strength, melee weapons are the way to go. If you don't, then stick with ranged weapons. You can't wield longbows and falchion. Druids have limited weapon choices. A druid's kit is a pretty good starting point for equipment.
B) You know all spells from spell levels that you can cast except ones contradicting your alignment. So if you're a good 3rd level druid, you know all 1st and 2nd level spells except evil ones.
C) Your animal companion is always present. It just follows you around.
Yeah, you can get armor proficiencies. Basically you would generally just grab some studded leather once you have the proficiency. It is the same a regular armor, but it does cost more. Looking up "Barding" for more.
An interesting note is that if you take your animal companion's ability score increase and put it into INT, then it can take any feat it can physically perform. I'm also pretty sure that it can understand at least one language. I would not try to use that to get around a handle animal check, but I think it could help when little timmy is stuck in a well. It gets a bit iffy on how well you can communicate with it, so check with your GM.
I'd still get some weapons. You do not get your transformation abilities until level 2, and even then it would usually only last a couple of fights. By the time you have enough minutes per day of transformation that you can rely upon it, you would already just wild shape a lot of the time. Quaterstaves only crit on a natural 20, but the level 1 spell called shillelagh makes into a +1 weapon with 2d6 damage. So it is rather nice early on. Long enough that you can wait until wildshape at least.
Benji :)
I simply went off Treantmonks "Spirit of the Beast" druid guide and it said that the importance of stats went Str, Dex, Con, Wis, Int, Cha. And this is a PFS character. So it'll take quite awhile to get to level 6, if I even get there.
"Then move to Wisdom, this is delicate, but a 13 will cover you for 6 levels of casting, and a wisdom boost headband can get you the other 6 levels you need for 9th level spells."
Just realized I goofed abit. My stats now are
18 STR
14 DEX/CON
11 INT
13 WIS
7 CHA
If you are going to spam Call Animal, you probably want more than 7 CHA. You will still need to make Handle Animal checks to control called pets.
Check out Peterrco's guide for a more in-depth analysis including some more recent books.
And be aware that with 13 WIS none of your save-or-suck spells will do anything. Not a problem but a tactical limitation.
orfamay. I am the biggest idiot known to man. I was looking at that guide but it told me so little so I had to mix and match... I forgot that it was a 4 section guide. I only looked at the first section... Derp. Well what is your advice then? I saw nothing about stats for a Saurian Shaman there. I'm abit lost. I don't really want to be a caster druid, A SotB druid sounds alot more fun. If I wanted a caster I'd go play Wizard/Cleric.
Lose Call Animal and spam Snowball instead. Throw at range, then wade in and bite their little heads off.
Or dump INT instead of CHA, so you can make the HA checks. Saurian Shaman rocks as a SoTB, but if you are going to play with pets you need pet stats as well as AM SMASH stats.
Well my spells right now Are Obscuring Mist, Cute Light Wounds, And Entagle ( Not sure which 2 to take. ) Which would I get rid of?
18 STR
14 DEX/CON
7 int
13 Wis
11 CHA.
Look at your Gifted Adept trait.
I'd suggest taking Snowball (boosted by GA and later by Intensify Spell) and Shillelagh, for spells. SotB is not a Controller, so take blast or buff spells.
Just my 2p, of course.
Snowball over Obscuring? It seems Obscuring is hands down fantastic for a druid with the Scent ability. It allows me to avoid magic and line of sight while still knowing where they are.
Um,... You don't seem to have Scent. Your pet has it, but that still leaves you blundering around in the fog.
It would be safe to assume if I had my pet use Scent, track them down myself and possibly my party members would be able to run after the extremely loud Stegosaurus roaring and fighting, No?
Yes, but that basically messes up the entire party. Your controller can't control, your archer can't arch, and your rogue can't do anything. You're also assuming that the bad guys are in one easy to find group, which means any orc band that's heard of pincer movements will do evil things to you.
Your pet is also pretty fragile; sending him into the mist alone could be dangerous.
Obscuring Mist is a great control spell or a great escape or concealment spell. Unfortunately Benji won't conceal well, and I don't think you can easily capitalize on the control.
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Companion dinosaurs are weaker than the full blown bestiary versions.
Stats are given here: Stegosaurus
Yeah I saw that and my stats are like that. I just wasn't 100%. And as per my other two questions, allow me to eloborate on the last. "Unless a fighter takes a proficiency, he provokes an attack opportunity when he attempts a combat manoeuvre. You don't." Why is this? I'd rather not go to my PFS game tonight and just be like "I can trip with no attack opp because I read a guide that didn't tell me why. K?" Ahh, I think I see why. Natural attacks don't provoke an Attack opp and are counted as both the CMB and Damage? Which means if I roll properly for the CMB with my Stego's tail swipe. It'd be 2d6+Trip?
Not until 7th level. Then, yes.
So currently the trip and attack are seperate, but once my Stego hits level 7 it can do both at the same time?
Currently it has no special trip attack and would trip using humanoid PC rules.
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At level 7, it gains Trip (Ex) A creature with the trip special attack can attempt to trip its opponent as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity if it hits with the specified attack. If the attempt fails, the creature is not tripped in return.
The d20 roll for the initial attack is separate from the d20 roll for the trip attempt.
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Alright. My only question left is the whole can I have two pets during an adventure. In my last one my Paladin managed to (BARELY) tame a wolfman in order to fight for it. Can I do the same and have one companion and one just for that adventure? I really appreciate all the help!
If you want to use Diplomacy or Handle Animal to improve the attitude of NPCs or animals, respectively, or use spells, you can influence or even control them, but you cannot turn them into animal companions in the sense of the druid class feature.
Alright. My only question left is the whole can I have two pets during an adventure. In my last one my Paladin managed to (BARELY) tame a wolfman in order to fight for it. Can I do the same and have one companion and one just for that adventure? I really appreciate all the help!
Yes. Have a dozen pets if you like. But only one counts as the AC; the rest are just trained animals.
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So in theory, My druid by the end of a adventure can have, 5 Trained 1 Companion, All doing as he says?
Read up on the Handle Animal skill.
It takes time and effort to train animals, and there is an upper limit on what they will do.And if you clutter my dungeon with critters, I am going to be tempted to fireball them.
I don't think one of my questions was ever answered. Do I need to be say, Level 7 to train a Stego? Do I have to start with level 1 animals?
You start at level 1 with a Stego with the level 1 animal companion stats, which IIRC means only two hit dice, no skills to speak of, and so forth. He will increase in hit dice and so forth as you adventure, and when you hit level 7, he will have a major power-up including growing twice as big overnight. (What HAVE you been feeding him?)
But he will continue to increase in hit die and stats and whatnot over your career, until at level 20 he will be a truly Big Bad Stegosaurus Guy.
So in theory, My druid by the end of a adventure can have, 5 Trained 1 Companion, All doing as he says?
Don't forget your Summoned Nature's Allies as well.
Yes, you can put a full platoon on the board if you work at it. Be prepared for the game master to throw dice at you if you do.
I swear. Last question. ( Maybe. ) Can I simply switch out my companions? Say I was a Veloc for the first 7, then I want to switch? Can I do that?
Up to your game master. If you're on the middle of a ship in the ocean, a GM who likes realism might object to the idea that there was a heretofore unsuspected stegosaurus hiding under one of the lifeboats, for example.