Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - Kitsune / fox shape

[meyerwilliam]

The characters I build are usually complex, lots of moving pieces, so I'm posting my newest build here for people to poke holes into prior to running it.

I'd much rather any gaps get plugged before the DM sees it.

This will be for PFS.

(thanks in advance)

The Character:

Role of character:
Tank/Debuffer
Persona:
Sits and listens to people planning, offers suggestions -- but all suggestions are of the type of "how about if we turn into a fox, sneak in, and steal the thing." -- even when the job isn't to steal stuff.

Initial Stats:
Str: 7
Int: 7
Wis: 7
Dex: 18
Con: 14
Char: 16

Current Stats (post-racial, fox shape)
Str: 3
Int: 7
Wis: 7
Dex: 24
Con: 14
Char: 16

Skills:
Stealth
Acrobatics
Climb
Diplomacy -- imagine puppy dog eyes.

Classes / Level
1: Mouser Swashbuckler -- A given, Finesse at level 1, helping allies flank, applying penalties to enemy.
2: Scaled Fist Monk (chained) -- More AC (charisma to AC) -- chose chained for the sweet +2 will save, this was more important than the +1 BAB as this won't care about iterative attacks.
3: Urban Bloodrager : Abyssal -- Urban to allow the rage to apply to Dex. Opens up wand usage when humanoid for things like Mage Armor within UMD.
4: Relic Medium : Champion : +3 damage per attack? +2 will save? Yes please.
5+: Unchained Vexing Dodger Rogue: Applying penalties to the enemy and dealing sweet sweet sneak attack damage.

Feats
Racial: Fox Shape
Swashbuckler: Weapon Finesse
1: Dodge
3: Extra Rage
5: Accomplished Sneak Attacker
Rogue 2: Improved Dirty Trick

Play style:
Level 1-3, tank and be annoying.
... soak up the AoOs, use dirty tricks and combat maneuvers like disarm(nice sword you had) or Steal (nice cloak you had), or even Grapple (the move / reposition actions looks amazing -- mental image of me pulling the pants of the enemy, dragging them along).
Level 4+, As level 1-3 but can also do damage

Level AC Damage
1 21 1d3-4
2 25 1d3-4
3 25 1d3-1 (medium)
4 29/31 1d3+10 (mage armor + Rage, Agile enchantment)
5 29/31 1d3+10+2d6 SA

Key Pieces of Equipment:
1) Amulet of Mighty Fist: Agile: Level 4
2) Boots of Spider Climb: Level 5 -- for the vexing dodger climb ability.

Discarded Ideas:

1) Ranger for Aspect of Beast/ Bloodrager Draconic Bloodline for continuous claws. Reason for discarding, when Fox Shaped (polymorph effect) the claws disappear.
2) Bloodrager Abyssal Bloodline, they grow only when raging, which means they are there for fox shape.
3) Tiny Haramaki (for level 1). Reason for Discarding, the text that tiny armor is only half the armor value, meaning 0. Any other mundane armor cannot keep up with the max dex, so would be less protective.
4) Use wands while fox-shaped. Reason for discarding, no speech, no thumbs, etc. Can swap back-and-forth between forms, but that seems lame.
5) Slashing Grace: Requires WF for bite and claw, and should be ruled that two claws = other hand in use.

[avr]

Why dodge? A feat for +1 AC is not that great, and you don't seem to be using it as a prereq. Dirty fighting would be useful given you flank easily as a mouser, or extra panache since you will seldom regain it given a single attack at 20/x2 with terrible-to-mediocre damage.

[meyerwilliam]

Honestly. The dodge was due to no real interesting feats.

I like the idea of dirty fighting

[Firebug]

Since you are getting unarmed strike from monk, and I don't see any additional natural attacks other then your bite, you may consider some of the unarmed fighting styles like Crane, Snake, Monkey, Panther, Snapping Turtle (grapple is not limited by with/in 1 size category), Wolf (with enough damage to reduce their speed to 0 if they try to leave your square)... lots of options. Kitsune style is probably what you want though since you are focused on dirty trick... except you will still need combat expertise, so maybe not.

[meyerwilliam]

Firebug, sorry, I hadn't spelled it out. Bloodrager gives me two claw attacks while raging.

I thought about kitsune style, but the prerequisite were a killer. With dirty fighting however, might just be doable