Preface: I approve of this thread-necro.
* Assumes an actual 1st-level character (i.e., not a higher-CR monster with a single PC class level)
* Assumes all starting money cannot be used to purchase three lions. (GM: "Does your character have clothes? Food? Anything? These lions are untrained, and unless your Handle Animal is spectacular, will begin eying you hungrily only seconds after you purchase them.")
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Concept: This is a "sleeper build" designed to survive tit-for-tat attrition at low-level (and whose abilities accelerate drastically by 3rd as a barbarian/cleric/fighter multiclass). This is especially good if you're in a game in which the GM, briefly overlooking your character sheet and not seeing an 18 or 20 in any physical stat, isn't immediately inclined to add 50% more monsters to every encounter to keep the difficulty up, let alone have the toughest thing always pile on you first. --He'll begin doing that eventually, but not before we have our legs under us.
str: 15
dex: 14
con+ 16
int: 12
wis+ 18 (dwarf 16,15,14,14,12,7 25pt array)
cha- 5
traits: Berserker of the Society, Glory of Old
01 barbarian1 [savage technologist], Steel Soul
Raging saves vs. poison/magic/supernatural: Fort: +10, Reflex: +9, Will: +11
Skills: 1pt in Diplomacy, Handle Animal, Perception, Ride, Swim
Equipment:
* wartrained heavy horse w/Leather barding, military saddle, bags, 344gp
* armor: chainshirt, armored kilt, buckler, 125gp
* weapons: lance, bardiche, castus, javelins (10), sling + bullets (10), heavy crossbow + bolts (10), dagger, 102gp
* misc: explorer's outfit, rope, string, grappling hook, fishooks, chalk, pitons, stewpot, pepper, soap, kibble, etc., (29gp worth)
HP 15, AC 18 (20 raging)
attack melee: +3, +2 (raging) +1 (mounted vs afoot target)
attack ranged: +3, +2 (raging)
warhorse: bite +5 (1d4+5), 2 hooves +5/+5 (1d6+2)
Tactics: Against more powerful foes (e.g., a Str minmaxed barbarian), he keeps out of range while mounted and plinks. Minmaxed casters will struggle to near a 50% chance of affecting him with anything granting a save. Any beatable target is plinked at, then rode down with lance charges or toyed with and made to eat AoOs before being subjected to a combined full-attack of mount+rider. (The horse is also +7 to grapple, although it grants an AoO. ...not a bad ploy against a spindly-armed caster within 50' not holding a melee weapon: "Clyde? *Sit* on 'em!")
Did I say they are archetypes?
Although heirs to similar arcane bloodlines may share commonalities, the unique circumstances in which a bloodline enters a bloodrager or sorcerer’s lineage can result in the manifestation of particularly strange or unusual bloodline powers known as mutations. Whenever a bloodrager or a sorcerer gains a new bloodline power, she can swap her bloodline power for a bloodline mutation whose prerequisites she meets. Once this choice is made, it cannot be changed, and a bloodrager or sorcerer cannot swap a bloodline power that she has altered or replaced with an archetype for a bloodline mutation. A bloodrager need not be in a bloodrage to use her bloodline mutation powers. Alternatively, a bloodrager or sorcerer can select a bloodline mutation in place of a bloodline bonus feat, provided her class level is at least equal to the level of the bloodline ability the mutation normally replaces.
Huh, that's interesting. Apparently doesn't stop you from trading out "altered" bonus feats though.
At first level, I don’t think anything is as strong as the half elf synthesist summoner.
Since we're continuing the old thread, here is a 'martial' character that I typically use as a 'pregen' for level 1 PFS. Granted, you are giving an extra 450 gp, and 5 more point buy so I'll note where to spend it.
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This isn't OP, at all, it's just super smart. D@mn clever playing right here.
There are so many "over powered" builds reliant on grounded combatants within 30' I have to question the definition of overpowered. Flight/hover + bow/crossbow kills all of this at level one.
There are so many "over powered" builds reliant on grounded combatants within 30' I have to question the definition of overpowered. Flight/hover + bow/crossbow kills all of this at level one.
At 4.5dmg a bolt, you're annoying them for the few rounds it takes them to get indoors. A few builds will orient their tower shield with facing "up", and dare you to come down within reach of the ground in order to have a shot.
You will not want to get into an artillery duel with this guy at 1st level (i.e., if VoodistMonk's strix crossbow flier had a dex-rage class at 1st, it'd be 50% to hit Ned's AC, which is great, but will only do a miserable average ~1.5 damage after quilted cloth's DR):
str: 12 (2)
dex+ 18 (10) (Ulfen human, 25pt-buy)
con: 16 (10)
int: 12 (2)
wis: 14 (5)
cha: (-4)
racial alternative trait: Dimdweller
character traits: Berserker of the Society, Weapon Training (+1dmg w/traditional Ulfen weapons)
01 barbarian1 [savage technologist], Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot
Move 40; Raging saves: Fort: +5, Reflex: +6, Will: +4
Weapons: STR+3 composite longbow (nonmasterwork, 400gp), 40 thistle arrows, 20 regular, two additional quivers, 47gp
Armor: quilted cloth, armored kilt, buckler (125gp), ... AC 19, DR3/- vs small piercing, ACP:0
(Advantage strix: it can see in the dark; Ned can't.)
Misc. (28gp for clothing, traveling gear, cheap melee weapons, mundane equipment)
Backstory: An impatient and irritable youth, Ned's father sent him to a monastery to learn discipline and enlightenment. After two weeks of drudgery, Ned decided it was the most excruciating waste of time imaginable, and swiped a choice bow from the Zen armory on the way out to the nearest longboat departing for foreign shores.
Ranged attacked (raging): 110' increment, +7, or +5/+5 Rapid Shot, +1 (if target within 30')
Damage, arrows: 1d8+4(+1 bleed/6 rounds), +1 (if target within 30')
* variant: starting dex 18>20, drop con and int two apiece to pay for it; results in +1 attack bonus, -1 skill, and Fort-1/Ref+1, but AC does not increase (exceeds capacity of armored kilt; save 20gp by getting rid of it). IMO having an extra skillpoint and hitpoint per level, and an extra round of rage in a build that won't stay barbarian, is worth not minmaxing.
not going to fully build stuff. but here are a few 1st level shenanigans you might like:
-human with racial heritage (Stone giant) and stone soul feat (stoneskin sla at level 1 +1 nat ac.)
-Sylph with one of the acid breath alt abilities (they can pick one of two)a bite attack (from traits, like adopted into orc and gaining their racial bite trait) and noxious bite feat (a bite attack with +1 acid damage + save or nauseate)
-nagaji (or human+racial heritage) fighter (bonus for venomblade archtype) who focus on the spit venom tree. specifically Viscous Venom which entangles on hit.
beside level 1,later on taking the aoe toxic spray make it even better as you can hit a grid (dc 5) and every1 who start or move through it is effected (and like above entangled) at level 2 you can hit it with dex +1 by not rolling a nat 1. venomblade archtype is recommended as it make spitting even less of an action as they advance (up to swift action) so can fight while he entangle a foe who then need to spend turn getting out of it can't engage or range. (be sure to pick ranged weapons or reach). beside blinding\acid\bleeding effects that can be added via tree.
I'd use the fey sorcerer mentioned above plus I'd hire a few npc spellcasters, get rich parents trait, buy as many scrolls of magic missile as possible and kill any slumber witch due to higher range ... most 30ft abilities like the witches hex are useless against PCs.
just have a famliier or trained campanion wake you up with standard action.done.
Dez'No Che'ating (Drow Noble, Gunslinger 1)
Str 10, Dex 22, Con 12, Int 12, Wis 14, Cha 11.
Drow Nobles are, according to Jason Bulmahn, one level less than characters of standard races. Essentially, this means that the moment Dez'No acquires a class-level, he's a CR2 creature (i.e., one class level and one monster level).
-- 22 Dex would work if he were a goblin (and he'd get a further bonus to attack from being small).
I doubt that even the most lenient GM would let him manufacture modern firearms and ammo at all, let alone at a 10% discount.
"Really? You've learned the composition for smokeless powder? You know how to make primer caps and brass? Where do you have the tools to do this, and where did the know-how come from? You're telling me that you have a chemistry lab, an industrial press, a foundry, and a blast-furnace capable of high-grade alloy steel, as well as access to the rare-earth elements necessary for those alloys, to make rifle barrels that can handle 56,000psi 7.62 ammunition without exploding the first time they're shot?"
(Yes, it is irksome when GMs actually know how things work. It's hard to get away with nonsense around them. Dream-crushers, every one, I tell ya.)
It's hard to go wrong with a bat form kineticist. really high stealth, good to hit, and damage, no real limit on usage, 120 ft if you have a full round to attack. The skinwalker version is I think slightly worse than the human with racial heritage though. It even holds up if your DM decides that the bat form can't be diminutive.
Of course, he's also buying lions.