I have not played a druid and my wife is kinda a dificult person to grasp sometimes.
she wants a caster druid and stil keep a pet.
she decided it to be a Badger or porcupine
we roled her stats as a 20pt buy as it has to be PFS legal
oh and she is a half elf!
she wants to be a caster mainly and stil have a pet friend!
8STR
14DEX
12CON
12INT
19WIS
10CHA
what i mainly need is a feat progression with some explenation aswell as best skils to take as a druid!
other info is nice too! like gear sugestions.
THX!
A caster druid isn't that hard to build, though usually you'd want a domain instead of the AC for more spells per day.
A few hints:
- Take the Menhir Savant archetype from UM.
- As for feats, go for augment summoning and natural spell. Being in small bird or elemental shape keeps a caster druid out of trouble. Summoning is spontaneaus for Druids and should be as effective as possible for a caster. Maybe add Superior Summons as well. Improved Initiative is always good for any caster. The rest of the feats depends on the kind of caster she wants to play. Controler? Healer? Blaster?
- She has decent Dex, so maybe consider Ancestral Arms to get Weapon Proficiency for the Net. Entangling stuff is another way to stay safe - or to help the party even when she runs out of spells.
I would tell her to focus on spell casting and keep the shape shifting to necessity.
yeah she isnt all into shape shifting :-)
augment summoning sounds awsome i think it wil be her lvl 1 feat she can have her pet and her summon attack while she uses a bow or other ranged weapon to aid at low lvl
i would like more info on skils and feats as she progresses in lvl tho!
Can't take Augment Summoning at level 1 because it requires Spell Focus (Conjuration). It's not useful at that level anyway, because the duration of summoning spells is way too short before level 3-5. So getting Augment Summoning at level 3 or 5 is perfectly fine.
I'd advice against using a ranged weapon. Doing so with any real effect requires multiple feats and good stats (high Dex, ideally decent Strength as well). With Str 8, she will suffer a damage penalty with all ranged weapons but crossbows, and druids are not proficient with those. Maybe carry a sling but don't expect it to be more then a "Well, I've got nothing better to do so I might as well sling a stone"-option.
If she doesn't want to shapeshift, Natural Spell is useless. For feat progession, start with something like 1 - Improved Initiative, 3 - SF (Conjuration), 5 - Augment Summoning.
After that, it pretty much depends on her spells of choice. If she uses her spells offensively, Spell Focus and Spell Penetration are good. If she wants to heal, Combat Casting is great for casting near the front lines. Toughness/Great Fortitide/Iron Will will make her harder to take down. If she uses many summoning Spells, Superior Summons is great.
Skills: Max Perception. Other good skills are Knowledge nature, Handle Animal and Spellcraft. A few points in Survival won't hurt either.
she wants a caster druid and stil keep a pet.
Any chance of sneaking a Sorcerer with a Familiar under the radar?
spell focus it is at lvl 1
sounds an easy choice maybe by lvl 5 she knows what she wants!
sounds to me 8 in STR isnt a good choice?
For a shapeshifter druid, it isn't. If she intends to focus on casting, I'd say she's quite good. Not great - I don't like having a negative score in strength as it cuts your options for a druid - but quite livable, especially if she finds some way to carry hear gear (i.e. pouches on her companion if it's big enough :)).
well you got to know my wife she isnt a charachter who wil get involved fast she is not even the helping kind a bit of a loner and selfish player
only getting with the group because they can help her!
she is kinda damaged in her teens by a friend and cant find it to trusth people it only magnefies in they playing field
i love her to death but this is the way she is :-)
Well, maybe she'll try in a character what she won't try herself... but I imagine you know better than I do.
In the end, if she has fun, it's cool. That's why we play, after all.
yeah and she said she liked it.
but if you know i had to actualy explain to her if she didnt help out the others they would actualy die and she would be next.
you get what i mean by selfish, she doesnt like risking her hide to help others. she wouldnt want to heal either!
i realy dont get her atitude tho! we used to play WOW toughter and she was a damn fine healer there! maybe since the baby she got a litle more insecure i dont know!
just that im gooing all they way to please her and enjoy PFRPG because im investing some of my free time in it and I want here to enjoy it too! its just not easy!
I played an elf druid archer in 3.5, and he was pretty effective. Point Blank Shot + Rapid Shot + produce flame is pretty effective at low-to-mid-evels. At 5th level, you're doing 2d6+10 points of damage for a couple rounds with a 1st level spell.
Remember, summoning takes a lot of paper work, especially with Augment Summoning, as you have to re-build the summoned creatures for their higher Str and Con. I would REALLY suggest pre-generating a few favorite summons of each level and not run them out of the Bestiary.
yeah thats the idea! :-)
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Human
Druid
8STR 14DEX 12CON 12INT 19WIS 10CHA
Human Alternate Racial Trait : Eye for Talent(+2 )
Feet
1: Spell Focus Conjuration
3: Augment Summoning
5: Superior Summoning
7: Persistent Spell
9: Sunlight Summons
11: Moonlight Summons
Badger
Starting Statistics
Size Small; Speed 30 ft., burrow 10 ft., climb 10 ft.; AC +2 natural armor; Attack bite (1d4), 2 claws (1d3); Ability Scores Str 12(Eye for Talent), Dex 17, Con 15, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10; Special Attacks rage (as a barbarian, 6 rounds per day); Special Qualities low-light vision, scent.
I'm running a Storm Druid with air(cloud) and eagle domains right now. A very generalized character. Took a bunch of wild empathy feats, and while he's effective, he's far from min-maxed. His schtick is to use the call animal spell and then wild-empathy/wartrain mount whatever shows up. Plus creative uses of wild shape (like Life Bubble/Fly/Wildshape Giant Octopus).
I'm loving the storm druid because you can fade to a corner of the battlefield, pop an obsuring mist, and use the see-through-mist ability to cast and command to your hearts content.