Party:
Gnome Fey Sorceress
Dhampir Acrobat Rogue
Human Cleric of Milani
Human Cad Fighter (swashbuckler like, doesn't want to be meat shield)
This leaves the Alchemist, who actually wants to tank.
Core races only, due to already having 1 special race per GM.
Less cheese the better.
Please recommend feats, feat trees traits, skills, race, spells, etc..
I don't necessarily need completed character sheets.
Thanks all!
I recommend Ogre's Mr. Hyde build. It should get you started.
My suggestion would be to go Beastmorph / Vivisectionist.
Important Notes:
1) Even though they're Supernatural Abilities, making a ranged attack provokes attacks of opportunity. If your alchemist friend is tanking, then he's going to often be swarmed with enemies. This is why I recommend Vivisectionalist, it drops Bombs for Sneak Attack, which is an ability that will do tons more damage to opponents while playing off the fact that your alchemist actually wants to be in the middle of a large group of foes.
2) Beastmorph drops most of the anti-poison abilities, but it makes your mutagen NASTY. If being able to basically give yourself any movement speed without using an extract wasn't cool enough, your alchemist can gift himself with grab or trip attacks, meaning they can grapple or trip opponents after attacking without provoking attacks of opportunity. Both of those combat maneuvers heavily restrict your opponent's ability to hurt your allies and trip even makes it easier for the rogue and cleric to hit opponents. If you take the Feral Mutagen discovery, you can also select pounce and rake instead of your player wanted to, allowing him to dish out some impressive damage in addition to becoming big and bulkier.
Going Master Chemyst is almost a given. Mutagen is basically your player's "Tank Mode."
1 level of fighter or a similar class for weapon and armor proficiencies.
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Try this character out.
Half-elf
Alchemist (Bramble Brewer)
-Stats-
STR 10
DEX 16 (+4 leveling) = 20
CON 13 (+1 leveling) = 14
INT 14 (+2 racial) = 16
WIS 09
CHA 08
-Feats / Discoveries-
01 Martial Weapon Prof Scimitar, Weapon Finesse
02 Tanglefoot Bomb
03 Dervish Dance
04 D. Precise Bombs
05 Extra Discovery (Spontaneous Healing)
06 D. Healing Touch
07 Combat Expertise
08 D. Preserve Organs
09 Extra Discovery (Preserve Organs)
10 D. Mummification
11 Extra Discovery (Preserve Organs)
12 D. Greater Mutagen
13 Extra Discovery (Grease Bomb)
14 D. Enhance Potion
15 Extra Discovery (Extend Potion)
16 D. Eternal Potion
17 Extra Discovery (Grand Mutagen)
18 D. Smoke Bomb
19 Weapon Focus Scimitar
20 D. Inferno Bomb, D. True Mutegen
-Extracts-
1- Shield, Cure Light Wounds, Ant Haul, Expeditious Retreat, Detect Secret Doors
2- Cure Moderate Wounds, Barkskin, Aid, Blur, Cat's Grace
3- Cure Serious Wounds, Fly, Heroism, Elemental Aura, Draconic Reservoir
4- Cure Critical Wounds, Stoneskin, Greater Invisibility, Freedom of Movement, Greater Darkvision
5- Elemental Body, Spell Resistance, Sending, -, -
6- Heal, Elemental Body, Caging Bomb Admixture, True Seeing, -
-Method-
Character will have a 75% chance to ignore sneak attacks and turn crits in2 regular attacks, 5x character level in rounds of fast healing 5, ability to make a potion permanent (displacement is best option), double the duration of potions and make them work at character's alchemist level (mage armor and shield of faith is best option), use bombs to create difficult terrain, and get additional fast healing from mutegen thanks to Bramble Brewer.
-Needs-
The character will need the blade of his Scimitar perma enchanted with the daylight spell to take full advantage of mutagen at any time in the day / night, agile enchantment, and a Dex stat item when possible.
Alchemical allocation extract plus Acccelerated drinker plus a prehensile tail (tiefling) = pull a potion, drink it, then spit it out to use it again later all in a single round. Only resource expended is the level 2 extract.
Buy or craft some high level potions... cure serious wounds, greater magic fang (if vivisectionist with feral mutagen), invisibility, etc. Make a single one and be able to use it over and over and over. :)
That's a neat trick utsutsu. I don't know how I missed that one.
I also recall blackbloodtroll talking a while ago about a 4 armed alchemist weilding a reach weapon, carrying a shield, and using the 4th arm for wands/potions/etc
Thought that was kind of neat.
Thanks for the suggestions so far.
Any other interesting combos?