thinking of playing a dog(race)

[fel_horfrost]

Like the minbari war hounds from dragon age.
For class I'm thinking barbarian.
And doing the vital strike chain of feats.
Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.
This is a player character.

[Deadmanwalking]

Well, there are really two ways to do this in the core rules, use the Monsters As PCs rules...or play a Synthesist Summoner. In the second case you're more were-dog than dog, but it's the easiest mechanically.

In either case, talk to your GM and see what they'd prefer.

[fel_horfrost]

I was thinking more awakened animal.
Still that's something to look at.

[Deadmanwalking]

fel_horfrost wrote:

I was thinking more awakened animal.

Still that's something to look at.

That would use the Monsters as PCs rules, as suggested. Though personally, I'd go with a Blink Dog instead. They're already smart, only CR 2, and have some ridiculously awesome spell like abilities and solid stat mods (+2 Str, +4 Dex, +4 Con, +2 Wis). What level are you starting at?

[fel_horfrost]

One.
As my game group has only 3 regular players at the moment it would have to serve as the melee member of our group. We have a druid and a sorcerer at the moment.
I agree the blink dog is neat but maybe a wolf of dire wolf would fit the concept better.
Plus tripping on a bite would be good too.

[fel_horfrost]

Maybe a pick this one up with leadership at sixth level.

[Deadmanwalking]

fel_horfrost wrote:

One.

As my game group has only 3 regular players at the moment it would have to serve as the melee member of our group. We have a druid and a sorcerer at the moment.
I agree the blink dog is neat but maybe a wolf of dire wolf would fit the concept better.
Plus tripping on a bite would be good too.

Sadly, an Awakened Wolf is still CR 2 and thus not a 1st level character equivalent (they're CR 1 without being Awakened, and Awakened adds +2 HD along with Int and Cha).

You could indeed probably get one with Leadership, though.

[fel_horfrost]

Personally i would like to start a game at 4th to 6th level but I'm not running this one.

[Deadmanwalking]

fel_horfrost wrote:

Personally i would like to start a game at 4th to 6th level but I'm not running this one.

*shrug* The only real way to do this at 1st is the Synthesist Summoner route. If that's not your thing, well, I don't think there are a lot of other options.

[fel_horfrost]

Maybe the young template then awakened later?

[eakratz]

You could just take the riding dog, strip it of it's racial hit dice, and go from there. For stats, just use a floating modifier and buy/roll normally.

[Alexander Augunas]

You could go Oracle, be whatever race you wanted, and then take the Wolfscarred curse. Say that instead of just having a wolfscarred face, your whole body is cursed to look canine.

Viola, instead of a dog race that you don't need GM approval to acquire. Plus bonus points for being a mauled freak of nature! You could even go Barbarian (Mad Dog) > Oracle (Nature Mystery) > Rage Prophet. If you took the animal companion revelation, you'd have an animal companion equal to your level in addition to rage and all of the fun perks of being a rage prophet.

[fel_horfrost]

War hounds tend to be beefy.
They're smart too well for a dog anyway.
They seem to understand human language too.

[ThatWeirdGeckoGuy]

Fat goblin games put out a humanoid dogs book called Racial Ecologies Canids, and they can function quadrupedally .

[Larkos]

Maybe a skinwalker?

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/races/other-races/more-races/standard-races-1-10-rp /skinwalkers-10-rp

They can change shape. Maybe you could talk to your gm about being "mode-locked" by a curse/spell/Deific fiat.