We will be playing rise of the runelords with only 3 pcs with me being the lone experienced player. The other two are a Natural Weapons AM barb-ish kinda build. (Superstition beast totem so on and so forth) The other is samurai. So that leaves us missing an arcane caster and skill monkey and a divin. I have a 6th level wizard and incantatrix in my other game. So i wanna do something different. Maybe blaster?
Im thinking of samsaran witch if I dont want to blast. Ill pull some utility spells to help buff our overall tiny number of skill points.
at the same time there is a school of thought that says a the best crowd control is a dead crowd. So sorcerer or evoker wizard. I wont mix the two like the one popular build going around because that seems wrong. (Im unbridled arcane might! Oh while in between killing kobolds in dungeon 1 and dungeon 2 i found a way to learn wizard stuff... seems to ridiculous in a game full of kobolds and pugwampis)
Also thinking of doing some elritch heritage since i will probably have to have a decent amount of CHA for party face reasons.
Also thinking bard and it may have taken the lead. Skills and arcane casting and a bit of emergency healing? Yes please.
with all that said HELP.
Thanks.
Go with either a Cleric or a Druid (or maybe an Oracle). You'll need a healer in the group (unless you have a GMPC healer), and Clerics have a decent number of offensive spells (and Druids even moreso). Further, Summoning spells can be quite effective in providing extra bodies to help whittle through enemies.
Alternatively, a Bard could work fine in this regard as Bards can take healing magic and their buffs to the party improve efficiency.
I think there will be a GMPC CLeric or at least its hinted at it. ANd as a bard i can help out a bit as well.
Bard seems like the best bet since i can do all the skill monkey things. Now all i need to do is pick an archtype and figure out if i wanna be Straight Support, ranged, and ill probably be avoiding melee since thats taken. Or should i pump up my spell casting?
And what race. If i see something good in the Eldritch Line ill probably go half elf. If not it opens up a whole slew of options.
Well, there's always Aasimars - their bonus to Charisma is handy. (Changelings are also interesting, but their gender restriction (female only) could be a problem to some.)
As for Bardic archetypes, Savage Skald does sound interesting (if you want to play an Ulfen - basically, a Nordic type). Some of the others like Archaeologist sound interesting as well, but at the expense of group buffing abilities. I'd actually suggest not using an archetype. The straight bard is still quite versatile.