Synergy in the Arabian Nights


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So, my GM during at the end of a campaign said after looking into the other books offered me a rework for the Legacy of Fire campaign, saying that with what I focused my build into I'd have a really hard time since most things are immune to what I focused on.

I was looking to make an Arabian like feel into a tank position, though also something that will work well in the party, racking my brain I can't think of anything currently. Probably due to lack of sleep considering I've been working at this character since the session ended.

I want to keep my race, which is a witchwolf (SkinWalker), and we have a bard, a brawler/slayer (Damage Dealer), cleric, wizard, and rogue. We are level 5 currently.

Any suggestions at to what class/archetype/prestige has an arabic feel without being detrimental to the party's balance?

Summoner is out, I suggested up the idea that I could be a summoner that summons a genie to fight Devil Summoner style. :P

TL;DR: Arabic like Tank, that has synergy with a rogue, brawler/slayer, cleric wizard, and rogue. Race: Witchwolf (Skinwalker) Level: 5 GO!


Ok, no summoner then.

Personally, I'd say go with a scimitar wielder. Sarenrae is the go to 'arabian' godess, and you want to shoot for a dervish kind of feel with this thing.

There are a couple of routes you could go here, all of them dex-based.

Option #1: Magus. With Slashing grace, you wind up in light armor, dex-based all the way, and multiple attacks per round+spellcasting mixes well with the mystical feel of the dervish.
Displacement, mirror image, blur+ghost touch on your weapon via arcane pool all stack, making direct anything unlikely to hit you, making you tanky as you please, considering your high damage output+high ac.

Then we have the Warpriest. Here I'd go sacred fist for the flavor, then pick up crusader's flurry and dervish dance, and run around in no armor, dancing it up with your curved sword.

Finally, a swashbuckler with slashing grace+scimitar. Swashbuckler has a mechanic for discouraging people trying to hit you, so it might not be all that 'tanky'.

The flavor, we're evoking here;

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Also, gunpowder was used pretty early in the middle east, so you might wrangle that flavor into a musket-wielding gunslinger, if you work for it a bit. Your party doesn't seem to possess a real ranged specialists, so that might be nice.


Ah, the bard is specializing in ranged attacks, I forgot to mention that. Arcane Duelist, into arcane archer I believe. Thank you for the suggestions though.

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