Mr. Pitt is right you can't go wrong with a well-designed Wizard and you wanted to play one anyhow.
Summoner with a front line eidolon might be nice here.
If you want to play a conjuror, please for the love of the other players, please print out monster stat sheets before summoning!
One of the players at my tables tried to play a summoner a couple months ago. Literally every one of his turns took over 15 minutes, not to mention his summons outshined half the party. He was never prepared, always having to scour the bestiary for the best thing to summon each turn, always loosing his page on the bestiary...
The GM made it his mission to kill the summoner, so the summoner died. Then the GM banned anyone else from summoning anything at his table.
I would suggest a Bloodrager. Unlike the wizard it will be able to use the Skalds rage song more effectively. Also whit a blood rager you can fill a tank roll.
Depends. Are the hunter and the NPC front line material? If not the skald could look rather useless without someone (except the animal companion) to give rage to.
Play a slayer or cavalier or some other melee without own rage. That way you benefit most from the skald.
For a small party light on melee, I'd go with a Synthesist summoner. You can tank with the best of them, and while merged with your eidolon, you won't be summoning extra monsters to suck up other people's playing time. Plus, when the monsters actually work through your eidolon's temporary hit points and hurt you, you get to look shocked and say "You made me bleed my own blood!"
Depends. Are the hunter and the NPC front line material? If not the skald could look rather useless without someone (except the animal companion) to give rage to.
Play a slayer or cavalier or some other melee without own rage. That way you benefit most from the skald.
Actually a Barbarian or Bloodrager would benefit greatly from rage song. They use their own rage stats (+4Str, +4Con, -2AC, +2Will) instead of the rage song stats (+2Str, +2Con, -1AC, +1Will)and the rounds from rage song don't count against a Barbarians or Bloodragers rage rounds per day. Now they can't use their rage powers, but they can jsut enter their own rage in order to do that.
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The GM made it his mission to kill the summoner, so the summoner died. Then the GM banned anyone else from summoning anything at his table.
That seems like overkill. I've just always ruled that if they don't have the stats at their fingers, then their character doesn't know the creature well enough to summon them and the spell fails.
There's really only 1-2 monsters which are generally the best for each spell level anyway.
For a small party light on melee, I'd go with a Synthesist summoner.
A synth is never a good suggestion. In fact a summoner never is. Two games with summoners, both broke the game.
For a small party light on melee, I'd go with a Synthesist summoner.A synth is never a good suggestion. In fact a summoner never is. Two games with summoners, both broke the game.