The Order of the Eastern Star from occult adventures looks to be designed for use with the daring champion. Your level 2 order ability gives you skaling DR and a flat +2 bonus to all saves when fighting defensively in light or no Armor while your level 8 ability removes penalties to fighting defensively on your first attack. The challenge ability grants a dodge bonus to AC and a bonus to saves.
Have folks come up with any builds for this combo?
As fighting defensively/Combat Expertise seems like a given I guess you have two possible build paths.
a) Combat Expertise
b) Crane Style: Either via a Monk dip or the hard way by picking up IUS and Dodge.
Also what kind of stuff can you do with the free Psychic Sensitivity Feat gained at level 1?
I assembled two sample builds. A flurrying Snake Style Sohei Monk/Daring Champion and a STR based Based Dwarven Dagger Wielder. Both have good damage capacaties saves and AC.
The monk build uses flurry with the double damage bouses from precise strike and Challenge thanks to piercing unarmed Strikes, Brawling armor further enhances to hit and damage capacities and currently theres still plenty of open feat slots to be exploited. This build seems superior in the long run but might be solw getting started as it's dependent on an AoMF to deal decent damage and Crane Style paired with flurry early on really hurt your to hit.
The Dagger Dwarf is looking for the Favored Class bonus as well as Deific Obedience Pharsma, however it's stats are slightly worse than the monk dip build and it also has far worse skills.
Human Daring Champion X/Sohei 1
STR 10 DEX 18 CON 14 INT 10 WIS 14 CHA 10
Traits:Mitsu Hari Rebel/ Deathless
Feats
1 IUS/Dodge/Crane Style/Weapon Focus (UAS)
2 Finesse/Psychic Sensitivity
3 Snake Style
5 Open Feat Slot
6 Chain Challenge
7 Open Feat Slot
9 Open Slot
11 Open Feat Slot
Stats Level 9
DPR: Full Attack 88/ Single 30 (35 k spent)
Saves WIL 10 (+2 vs. Mind affecting) REF: +13 FORT:+ 12 (+3 versus challenged Foe) (4k spent)
AC 16 +5 +5+3+2+1+1= 33 (6 K Spent)
Dwarven Daring Champion
STR 18 (17) DEX 12 (2) CON 14 (2) INT 13 (3) WIS 12 (0) CHA 5 (-4)
Traits: Threatening Defender/River Rat or Glory of Old
1 Finesse/Psychic Sensitivity/Expertise
3 Deific Obedience (Pharsma)
5 WF (Dagger)
6 Chain Challenge
7 Steel Soul
9 Improved Critical
11 Open Feat Slot
Stats Level 9
AC 11+1+1+8+3+3+2+2= 31 (17k Spent)
Saves: FORT:+12 WILL: + 8 REF +8 (+4 vs Magic+3 versus Target of Challenge) (4 k spent)
DPR: Full Attack 70/ Single39 (25k spent)
casting raise dead on this thread, as I also am looking into such a build, particularly with a halfling to take advantage of their racial feats relating to fighting defensively, another way to use combat expertise is to pick up the stalwart feat to stack even more DR on this little creature
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casting raise dead on this thread, as I also am looking into such a build, particularly with a halfling to take advantage of their racial feats relating to fighting defensively, another way to use combat expertise is to pick up the stalwart feat to stack even more DR on this little creature
idk but dotting for the sweet combo