Hi All,
It has been a couple year since I've been on this board but I know that you all have a slew of ideas and I am hoping you could help me with this one. Our DM will be starting Iron Gods in 6-10 months. Right away The Terminator popped into my head, and I was hoping you might have suggestions as to how I might build such a character. I think either Alchimist or Fighter might be the ideal class. It might be nice to make something Tank-like. Thoughts?
Thank you all in advance. Cheers!
For rage bonuses to Str and Con, anyway. You still get everything else.
I built a Savage Technologist Barbarian/Bramble Brewer Alchemist for PFS, that combination can be extremely tanky. I spent most of my money/feats/discoveries on making it viable, but it works. My AC is insane due to medium armour, natural armour, and shield AC. I disregarded the gun element completely, but you could work with it. I eventually took more to the Alchemist side, but either side could work. Your INT doesn't need to be incredibly high if you want to hit stuff, so a 12 or 14 could totally work to start with (considering you're multiclassing, you'll never get full use of your spells, and your bomb DC will be meh).
Not sure how you'd implement the Terminator element. The gun works already in your favour, but I think most of it can come from flavour alone. Inquisitor could work as a "judge, jury, and executioner" vibe, but you can also solve that with backstory. In a Kingmaker campaign one guy in my party wanted to be a judge-type character. So he simply became a Wizard with a few ranks in Profession: Judge. That's solved easily enough.
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Android slayer.
Android, because obviously.
But the terminator always seemed more of a slayer than barbarian (as compared to other roles Arnold has had... wait, no...Conan is also called a slayer). Slayer is my suggestion because it is a class where you can cold evaluate your target, and then systematically hunt then down. Studied target as you do the red eye scanning over the target, and then it even lets you use survival to track them down.
Maybe go with some kind of hammer or other smacky weapon. I am not sure about android DR, but bludgeoning seems good. Also, it just seems to visually fit with Arnold's frame.
The Cyber Soldier fighter archetype works, but only at 19th level with lots of cyberware.
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Slayer is a pretty well put together class anyway. Lots of skills, lots of combat feats and not so many annoying prerequisites.
In Iron Gods it's better to be nimble defender (with a lot of HP) than heavy armor defender.
Having a healthy Will save won't hurt either BTW. You could also consider a Sohei in mithral medium armor.
For the unstoppable warrior aspect I always found samurai to be best if only for its unique access to the resolve mechanic. Come rain or shine you will reach your target and kill them. Though you probably want to see about an archetype or something to switch out your mount for something.
I think the Unbreakable Fighter and Invulnerable Rager archetypes also do a nice job of capturing the idea of an extremely tough, hard to put down character. If you're thinking of primarily focusing on that aspect of the character, you might check out those archetypes too.
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Slayer is a pretty well put together class anyway. Lots of skills, lots of combat feats and not so many annoying prerequisites.
In Iron Gods it's better to be nimble defender (with a lot of HP) than heavy armor defender.
Having a healthy Will save won't hurt either BTW. You could also consider a Sohei in mithral medium armor.
What is your fascination with Sohei?? :P
What is your fascination with Sohei?? :PSlayer is a pretty well put together class anyway. Lots of skills, lots of combat feats and not so many annoying prerequisites.
In Iron Gods it's better to be nimble defender (with a lot of HP) than heavy armor defender.
Having a healthy Will save won't hurt either BTW. You could also consider a Sohei in mithral medium armor.
Well, it is a rather nice archetype. It simplifies monk AC (or at least makes it easy to survive early on without using turtle stats; you can switch to unarmored later when you would actually get good AC) and adds an attack/damage booster that brings them to an acceptable level. Plus, it gives you polearms as a flurry option, allowing for reach builds.
Yeah, I dig it in terms of style (warriors with a monastic attitude) and it can serve as both a dip or main meal for quite a few concepts.
Well, it is certainly more multiclass friendly than most monks, since it uses rather nice weapons and some armor. I wouldn't 'dip it', since the nicer class features are a few levels in, but I can see branching out after level 8 when you get the fake ITWF.
You could then just grab a nice mithral breastplate (since you wouldn't be able to get scaling unarmored stuff) and you would be fine.
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It's got something for dips of varying depths really.
1) A mounted feat from the distant future. Or just a bonus feat. Flurrying with a temple sword. A saving throw upgrade. IUS as a prerequisite for other stuff or just to be always armed. Always acting in the surprise round.
2) Evasion, more saving throws. Bonus Feat.
3) Still Mind is a prerequisite for a few things.
4) Monastic Mount. Ki pool. More saves.
6) Weapon Training, Feat, (high jump the previous level), more saves.
Christopher Symons,
What is the Terminator to you? What do you want to emulate?
I like the idea of the unfeeling terminator. I would like to make a character who to quote the phrase "Takes a licking but keeps on ticking."
Thanks for the advice everyone, I super appreciate it. I will take your suggestions, check em out, and probably post the final result. Cheers to you all! :-)
Chris