Nine-tailed Kitsune, fast melee fighter.

[prileska]

Making a Jade Regent character - DM is pretty lenient when it comes to material as long as it's on the SRD. Just wanting to make a level 20 build for him to look over.

I've decided on the Fighter with the Quickblade archetype. Also, wanting to variant multiclass into Oracle. Taking the Aged curse, for the mental bonuses and physical penalties (and the other bonuses later on). The Wind mystery with Air barrier, wind sight, and wings of air. Probably choose the Read Magic orison, unless there's a better suggestion. DM ruled the VMC Oracle level is 1/2 + 5 for revelation effects as well as curse effects.

Taking a Kitsune race, with alternate feature to get the nine-tail inheritance and lose the bite. They get +2 Dex, +2 Cha, -2 Str so my highest rolls would go to dex, cha and con.

The premise is kind of a sagey ninja-like old dude who can still melee but has some caster abilities as fluff (and some situational stuff).

At level 20, with a one-handed or light weapon, the character has a 25ft speed bonus, can change direction during a charge, can move after an attack, can use light armor only, has a +4 AC, can use air barrier to up the AC by another +12, and have ranged attacks have 50% miss chance for 15hrs/day. Can use 90ft perfect flight for 15min/day, clairaudience/clairvoyance 15rds/day, 14 total feats (8 of which for Magic Tail), 20% concealment during movement, perma-haste, extra actions per turn, +3 Int, Wis, Cha, -1 Str, Dex, Con, immune to magical and non-magical disease, and immune to death effects and will not die of old age. Also the orison at will.

Traits I'll probably do Childhood Crush (for the campaign) and Carefully hidden (as I'll take the raised by humans).

I'm guessing a Dex build would be best (and pump everything into Dex using level bonuses), probably want to use an Asian themed weapon (or a sword-cane as that would fit an old guy).

I'll not deviate from this class and dip other places; unless a total overhaul of the idea is proposed and not really house ruling much (maybe reflavor the swordcane to be an asian blade, if he'd allow that). Other builds that can achieve a similar feel are welcome as well. I was thinking it could probably work with a monk too with an oracle VMC - not a huge fan of unarmed builds though, but I love the speed characters.

My questions:

1. What orison would be best?

2. What feat progression would be best?

Any help would be appreciated!

[avr]

The orison doesn't matter a lot. Stabilize or detect magic are useful too, but at 11th level you can easily afford items for any orison.

If you're going for a dex-based fighter with no weapon training then the first feats have to go

1: Weapon Finesse
1B: Dodge (fixed)
2B: Mobility (fixed)
4B: Dervish Dance

Since you can't get dex to damage to work with a sword cane (unless there's something 3rd party), I'd suggest dervish dance and a scimitar. Slashing grace is an option but costs another feat and you are feat starved.

From there you probably want to get into your magical tail feats while they're not horribly outclassed by the casters.

5: MT1
6B: MT2
8B: MT3
9: MT4
10B: MT5
12B: MT6
13: MT7
14B: MT8

After that you might want to start getting into crit-fishing since you're probably using a high crit range weapon.

16B: Improved Critical
17: Critical Focus
18B: Staggering Critical
20B: Stunning Critical

With all the constraints you're working with there's not a huge number of options.

[Eltacolibre]

Pretty sure jade regent doesn't reach level 20.

[Dryad Knotwood]

Magical Tail isn't a fighter bonus feat and due to the Oracle VMC, you can only take 5 feats total over the course of 20 levels.

You can't actually make a 9-tailed Oracle-VMC Fighter20 by RAW.

Unless of course your GM decides otherwise.

[avr]

Dryad, they're using an alternate racial trait from Everyman Games, Nine-Tailed Inheritor.

On reading that carefully I see you get one bonus magical tail feat at 1st level. That means you could move those critical feats up one place each and perhaps get critical mastery at level 20 if your game somehow gets that far.

[prileska]

avr, thanks for the suggestion. I'll probably do a scimitar and dd as suggested - will worry about the flavor after the build. Crit build looks like it might work. Thanks!

Eltaco, I'm thinking he's tweaking the xp a bit. He's planning so we end at/near 20 in the hopes of doing a mythic campaign after.

Dryad, using the alternate racial as avr mentioned, I can sub a bonus feat, or regular feat, of any kind, for a tail.