Guide to (prestiege)class dip

[Der Origami Mann]

Byrdology wrote::

Fighters are great, but I would dip into something else for more versatility options. Ranger has a ton of flavor and benefits for a fighter. Skills, ref saves, a grizzled scout feel, and FE. All fighter have that one enemy type that they dread. A 2 lvl ranger dip gives you alot.

Bard is great for a lightly armored fighter. You can get max potential out of 3 lvls of bard with only an 11 cha. But you get saves, skills, some inherent magic and access to a ton of wands. Inspire courage is t a bad buff either that you can share with the party. It will give you that battle leader feel you are looking for.

Barbarian is not a bad choice. Gives a skill bump, rage, movement, and rage powers. 4 lvl dip min for a unique feel all of his own.

Cavalier/ samurai gives the non- paladin knight feel. Take boon companion and you have a faithfull steed as well.

Rogue up to lvl 3 gives ref, evasion, trap finding, skills, and 2d6 SA to help encourage some teamwork and flanking.

By all means though, there is nothing wrong with straight fighter, but depending on the expected lvl cap, dips can be great tools.

I also think about dipping in other classes or prestiegeclasses and searching for a guide. OK, in the most class guides are some dip listed, but not all of them make sense to my characteridea.

Let´s write together a guide for dipping in (prestiege)classes.

For example:
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4 lvl dip in Dragon Disciple gives you

• Str +4 (Ability boost)
  
• AC+2 (natural armor increase)
  
• Dragon Bloodline (Blood of dragons)
  
• bloodline feat
  
• dragon bite
  
• Breath Weapon

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1 lvl dip in Fighter gives you

• Bonus Feat (Take Unbreakable archetyp for "Die Hard" & "Endurance")
  
• Proficion with all simple and martial weapons
  
• Proficion with all armor (heavy, light, and medium)
  
• Proficion with shields (including tower shields)

[Bearded Ben]

There's already a guide to dipping into cleric and this list, which is almost a dipping guide.

[Der Origami Mann]

Bearded Ben wrote:

There's already (...) this list, which is almost a dipping guide.

Cool. This is what I am searching for. We should place the link in the first post of "Guide to the character guide List".

But it is only "a name list"!

What I mean is a list that give you a short discription on the "Bonus" without looking in a booktext. With this list I must still read the text to understand why I should take this (prestiege)class. For example:

Alchemist 1: Mutagen

--> What can mutagen do?
--> short answer: 10min/Lvl: +2 AC (natural), +4 STR/KON/DEX & -2 INT/WIS/CHA (alchemical bonus)

--> That is a usefull list ...