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I see a lot of paired builds in PFS, where two players have made a pair of characters designed to work together really well. I think that one of the things that appeals to me beyond the mechanical / gameplay advantages is the chance to come in with a shared story.
What are your favorite paired builds that you have done with one or more other players? What makes for a great paired build?
The floor is open.
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Some fun ideas that I came across recently:
We have a trio of Half-orcs locally that are becoming quite memorable. "Rough" and "Tough" are teamwork-using Barbarians and "Buff" is the Cleric that buffs them.
They're a riot to play with.
Further down in the same thread, there was a discussion of a whole clan of Gnomes called "Nackles" that have a blast being ridiculous together.
With my boyfriend, I am currently playing a Sylvan Sorcerer (with tiger companion) and he's playing my spouse the Reach Cleric. We bring some good combat capability, healing, and a variety of divine and arcane spellcasting to any table we play in. That and we totally play up our Keleshite heritage, complete with hokey arabic accents. I've been having lots of fun with Zahra and Omar.
One idea that I've been noodling around is recreating the Blues Brothers with a pair of half-orcs doing an inquisitor + bard paired build. We haven't built them yet because we want Omar and Zahra to get a little higher before we start our next characters. But I think they'll be hilarious as they try to convince other players and NPCs to rejoin the band...
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Haven't had a chance to try it yet since this relies on new ACG stuff, but how about someone taking arcane strike and riving strike paired with a wizard/sorcerer/anything with SoS spells? Because making anything you smack take a -2 to saves against spells is rather good (and the extra damage from arcane strike isn't bad either)
Maybe a nice intimidate build with Cornugon Smash or Enforcer on top of that as well later on to make them take another -2 on saves and such with the same hit.
Overall, I like the idea that enemies are easier to dominate after you smashed their heads in a few times.
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Always thought a reach half orc battle oracle/ reach half orc cleric with growth domain and an elven witch had potential. Slumber + surprising charge/swift enlarge would mean lots of cdg opportunities.
ACG combos..aberant blood rager + shaman. Shamans have slumber hex too. The bloodrager will qualify for riving strike to make foes more suspectible to slumber hex,
Wizard and Witch can be lights out if built right.
Life Oracle and Bones Oracle.
TWF kukris with Butterfly's Sting and scythe with Power Attack (classes can vary greatly and the concept still is awesome.)
Slumber Witch and Void Wizard
A threesome of witches for a coven would be good. Maybe hubble (diplomancer type) bubble (magic item crafting), trouble and toil (debuffer)?
Sometimes I end up at a table that is short on players and I get to play 2 PCs. My favorite pairing thus far is my halfling married couple they were not optimized but were always contributing and viable in combat.
Lily- A Druid that mixed in 3 levels of Rogue. 1) Comes with her own flanking partner 2) Healing 3) Strong skills 4) Battlefield control spells
Personality: Lily is bold but not to the point of reckless. On the Chaotic side of neutral because she was enslaved and abused as a child. Fiercely loyal to those she trusts, absolutely ruthless to her enemies.
Wink- A battlefield controlling wizard with a a strong stealth score. 1) Leads with a lock down AOE like pit trap, web, grease ect. 2) Usually follows up with a summons of some sort 3) Not above using stealth with metamagic rods that silence and remove somatic from his spells 4) Uses raven to mobile deliver buffs 5) likes to use illusions to trick enemies into spell AOEs or in conjunction with summons.
Personality: Humble and unassuming until his wife Lily is threatened, then he uses magic to play out "short man" syndrome. Wink wisely made a wide variety of wands and scrolls for damage spells and used his slots entirely for battlefield control.
Wildshaped Druid ridden by a Mounted Fury Barbarian
Twin Oracles, one of the Lunar Mystery, one of the Solar mystery. Yinyang.
i like this idea, one could take it even farther too, lunar oracle takes inflict spells while solar takes cure, lunar goes evil while solar is good, maybe they could be brothers or something? all in all the yin-yang of it seems like it could be fun to watch and/or play :)
My wife and I play a bloodrager and skald that work really well together.
Two stalwart defenders using teamwork feats. Both using reach weapons but having no-hand non-reach weapons like armor spikes or dwarven boulder helmets ready to threaten adjacent.
Two ratfolk (occupy same square) with the teamwork feats:
- Enfilading Fire (works because of Swarming racial trait)
- Target of Opportunity
- Lookout
Both ratfolk players are ninjas and both take Deadly Range to increase range of sneak damage. They should also take similar visually deceptive talents from the ninja list or from the rogue talent list, Assault Leader, Befuddling Strike, etc.
Advanced Talents should at least take Hide in Plain Sight or Stealthy Sniper from the advanced rogue talents. Master Tricks from the ninja list should be See the Unseen, Assassinate, and Ghost Step in no particular order.
Be sure to use poisons, both of you.
Happy hunting ;)
Really? Are these all of them? I thought the Ying-Yang idea was clever
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Me and a mate run an effective pair - a wildshaping druid (allosaurus) with his allosaurus animal companion, and my evangelist buff-o-tron. With me raising his to-hit rolls and damage so he hits with lots of attacks, most enemies don't survive a round.
My profile has the buff-o-tron's stats at 13th level to give you an idea of how effective it is.
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We're talking a lot of combat mechanics in this thread. I'd love it if there was also some roleplay combos.
My boyfriend and I are talking about starting a pair of characters that would be a Paladin / Rogue combo. Two friends, both working for Silver Crusades, but in different capacities. Think Captain America and Black Widow when they work together.
Mechanically, perhaps its not so awesome... Roleplay-wise? Very interesting indeed.
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Laurel and Hardy
Abbott and Costello
Richard Pryor and Gene Widler
The 3 Stooges
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Garfield and Odie
Garfield and Jon
Tom and Jerry
Wile E Coyote and Road Runner
Ralph and Sam
Han and Chewie
Luke and Leia
Frodo and Samwise
Jon and Samwell
The Addams Family
The Munsters
The Beverly Hillbillies
Gilligan's Island
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A half-orc scythe wielding fighter with Blade of Mercy/Enforcer to keep opponents shaken, combined with a ninja (or rogue, or even slayer for that matter I suppose) with both Butterfly Sting to crit-feed the fighter, and eventually grabbing Shatter Defenses to get sneak attack on every opponent that the fighter demoralizes.
It's combat effective and fills the classic archetypes of the beefy fighter and lithe sneaky-guy doing the classic double-team.
Either that or a halfling focused on mounted combat riding a half-orc barbarian. I'm not sure how the rules would work for that. (Does the half-orc go at the halfling's initiative? What if the halfling has the trample feat? etc) But the idea of it amuses me to no end.
...... You could make the characters from Twilight and decide a large boulder falls from the sky, roll a 80 reflex save (due to the immense size of the boulder) and see who lives. That might be fun
Just having parties of all small characters can be a riot. I once ran a game where the players without collusion were three halflings, a gnome, and a human. The human took reduce person so he could fit in. They were once defeated by a door, it was pretty epic.
Beyond the obvious benefits of building duos / entire parties with Teamwork feats, having a pair of characters built around Swift Aid & Bodyguard, and Aid Another in general can be highly effective. Currently I'm favouring a Exemplar Brawler / Dragon Daring Champion Cavalier into Battle Herald paired up with a Spell Warrior Skald.
Both using Benevolent weapons and armour. The Skald will use gloves of Arcane Striking and take the helpful (or be a halfling to instead take helpful halfling) trait. The Battle Herald instead takes the battlefield disciple trait - it's not as big a boost, but it stacks with the Dragon Cavalier bonus.
Between the two of them, they'll almost never be hit, and very rarely miss an attack.
From our last campaign, Witch with Slumber and Inquisitor (or anything str-based) using a heavy pick. Many fun times were had. Also had an rp pairing with said inquisitor and the cleric of sarenrae, Good cop and bad cop (inq was bad cop, what with ridonculous intimidate skills).
a Lawful good Paladin would not play with a party full of evil people.
We can make it happen...
Step 1) Anti Detect evil items
Step 2) High Bluff scores
Step 3) Have Paladin dump Wisdom
Step 4) Win at everything forever
Just having parties of all small characters can be a riot. I once ran a game where the players without collusion were three halflings, a gnome, and a human. The human took reduce person so he could fit in. They were once defeated by a door, it was pretty epic.
That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.