| MalekQuickfingers |
Looking for advice, we are about to start book 4 and a new player is joining who is inexperienced and will probably play a melee character which means in turn that I shall be retiring my fighter and the NPC cleric will be lost.
Therefore the party will consist of a ranged ranger, some form of rogue, not a party face, and the new melee character. I was wondering what people on here would advise for the forth character.
My feeling is that some form of full caster is required, that has some healing. I am not interested in being any form of heal bot. This character would have to do some of the face roles, I was thinking of possibly some type of witch. We are using 15 point builds, which will restrict the number of roles I can fit
Has anyone got any better ideas
| pennywit |
Assuming this character starts at a high enough level for book 4, you ought to pick up the Leadership feat. You explicitly don't want to be the main healer, so you can give this duty to your cohort.
If you're interested in being both the party face and a full caster, you might want to look to the oracle class. With Diplomacy as a class skill, the oracle can slot in comfortably as the party face, and you can keep your topline healing spells on tap for those occasions when the cohort isn't cutting it. The Flame mystery will give you some damaging spells powered by your Charisma.