gnome sorcerer PFS - smoke and mirrrors

[Shalin]

HI folks,

looking to play a full arcane in low level PFS. was wondering about this as a build. Would it be fun and effective?

Gnome Tattooed Sorcerer (Draconic?)

s 8
d 14
c 14
i 14
w 8
ch 18.

I know people like dumping stats, but i really don't. and i like having lots of skill points.

Feat - effortless trickery (free action to maintain illusions)
Mages Tattoo (archetype - evocation)
familiar - greensting scorpion (for Init)

traits - extremely fashionable (diplomacy)
milita training (ride as class +2)

Racials-
- linguist (buffing bluff and dip)
-pyro (dpr bonus)

spells
colour spray (dc 15)
burning hands dc 15 3d4+3 damage at 1st level!

skills - FCB used
dip, bluff
ride, per
spell craft,

buy a silent image wand after 1st adventure.
get a riding dog asap!

for some reason i imagine gnomes with outrageous french accents. i can imagine him complaining about his parents trying to make him a soldier, moi, a soldier, pleease. How can you imagine such a thing!

gameplay wise you've got a high damage attack (burning hands), battlefield utility (colour spray) and imagination the limit (silent image) with his main things. Mobility with the dog. can happily do party face

Does this seem viable? how useful is silent image in PFS. Any better bloodlines? i like draconic for spells, perception as a class skill and the fire damage boost.

[Blakmane]

Shalin wrote:

I know people like dumping stats, but i really don't. and i like having lots of skill points.

Particularly amusing considering the two dumped stats you have.

Looks good, but be aware having both the familiar and the riding dog in combat may cause issues with some DMs - the PFS instructions are a little unclear and some DMs interpret them to mean 'one other permanent creature other than yourself'

Of course, chances are you are not planning to use the scorpion beyond the initiative bonus so this isn't likely to come up anyway.

Also, I assume you won't be going to far into the high levels as you did say 'low level PFS'. Be aware if you do decide to take the character further, the riding dog gimmick will quickly become less useful.

[Kalindlara]

The DC on that wand you're thinking about is going to be abysmal. Do yourself a favor and just learn the spell.

Also, if it's legal in PFS, you might think about a different familiar and the Mauler archetype. This would allow your familiar to eventually become large enough for you to ride. I believe a fox has decent base stats, and feels right for the image you're going for (ridiculous and French?)

Any illusion will run into a certain amount of table variation, I suspect. Just stay brushed up on the Illusion rules, and you should be fine.

I'd make a little room for Use Magic Device - as a sorcerer, you should be pretty good, and it's great for those wands of cure light wounds your party will have.

Just my first thoughts... any questions? ^_^

[Shalin]

blakemane - 8 ins't quite a dump, i think of 7 as dumping...

tattooed can keep familiar as tat and still get bonuses. so if there is a prob can just do that.

kalindlara - lots of people say silent image is good on wands... don't people have to use an action to disbelieve. so it's done its job even if the save dc sucks?

yeah, UMD is important, more important than spell craft or one of the social skills?

i play PBP and it takes soo long for a game to finish that i'm not really into builds that you have to wait for to work out. Although the fox would rock! kinda like in labyrinth (showing my age!)