| Master of the Dark Triad |
Hey, all.
My friend made a thread recently about his build, but he's new to both pencil and paper RPGs and forums alike, so his thread fell flat.
Being a great friend, after hearing his disappointment at the ordeal, want to get him some help here that he can look at to guide his hand at making his character.
What he wants is a human, vivesectionist, saboteur (gnome racial archetype) alchemist. That of course requires racial heritage as a feat at first level.
The campaign the character is for is largely based on the espionage centered politics of the 14 and 15 hundreds in Europe, embellished of course, so there's a lot of stealth and assassinations. The PCs are both politicians and assassins.
So, that's why he wants sneak attack and the chameleon mutagen, and he just likes the alchemist class too.
I guess what he really needed help with was feat and discovery choice.
Other info that may or may not be relevant:
-Starting at level 1
- Rolling 4d6 drop lowest (have not rolled yet, but I don't forsee that mattering much in regards to feats and discoveries)
- He wants to use a katana for the deadly weapon ability. He wants to two hand it, so he doesn't need EWP
All advice is welcome appreciated by both him and I, thank you.
| Zwordsman |
Well primarily I'd either go str or dex.
You can always build a riddiculus damager with the sneak attack, beast morph that you can find easily on the forums but generally I'm not a fan of super specific builds. And he's after the chameleon mutagen.
Str just nab a nice weapon with a feat (or if human racial feat gnome also gives weapons look at those) or just get a simple weapon you like, power attack and then some survivablity stuff. I also don't really know how reach works with sneak attack and flanking since i rarely do sneak attack builds
dex wise, his ac will be higher but loss of damage.
I'm a bit tired (just woke up for work) so i'll add more later today but,discovery wise since he doens't have bombs his choices are pretty limited. While he gets fly as a infusion, the wings discovery isn't a bad buy. along with the 2 healing related ones, its limited but it's basically fast heal for a certain amount of damage a day.
infusion is also good simply because teammates love a buff.
Like 80% of the discovires are bomb related so he can probably pick up a fair few of the non bomb ones.
Any interest in poison usage? I know a decent bit about it since I've built a few poison persons but haven't used them in an actual game much.
as for feats i assume he's gonna be melee (as ranged sneak attack kinda hard) so i'm a bit less sure on that bit.