Thank you for reading. I would like some advice for a PFS spiritualist.
This character is heavily concept driven but I still want to be effective. I plan to go with Rule of Cool where visuals are concerned as long as the crunch is RAW. I'm sure that's confusing so maybe this will help.
Gwendolyn Cossette is a 12 year old girl in gothic lolita attire with a tragic background of abuse. Her phantom is a giant dullahan in armor with a greatsword. The phantom will spend most of it's time in her subconscious, only coming out during stressful periods.
Choice 1: Standard or Broken Mind
The dullahan could represent the bitterness and betrayal she feels at having been so wronged and that she has walled away in her subconscious. [Broken Mind]
The dullahan could also represent a rogue psychopomp that has decided to get revenge on her behalf. [Standard]
Both ideas are cool so I have no preference for one over the other.
I would like for her to melee beside the dullahan in combat. However, I am not factoring her age into her crunch whatsoever. This makes her a medium humanoid with standard human stats. I plan to give her a high strength/con, etc to represent a kind of brutal, lunatic power.
Choice 2: Multiclass or Not
I could multiclass her with a martial class to have access to greatsword and giant hammers. This would look really cool on the miniature I am making and would improve her damage. I am certain, however, that I do not want to put her in medium/heavy armor as I don't want to ruin her gothic lolita look. Multi-classes would then need to be something that doesn't rely on armor. [Multiclass]
I could keep her straight spiritualist and use a giant scythe. I don't know if she'd be effective with it, but I could throw the vast majority of my feats at that weapon style. [No Multiclass]
Neither of these questions really affect the character I see in my mind and so are pure crunch. I've no doubt that the character sounds kind of crazy but I'm currently working on her character sketch in Photoshop as well as a custom mini for her. I am very happy where both are going and am certain she will be awesome.
Thank you for your help!
M Campbell
Atlanta, GA
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I'd go with fractured mind. The "rogue psychopomp" angle is really a summoner's domain. (Although you could consider that as an alternative to spiritualist...)
As for multiclassing options... the first one that comes to mind is the vindictive bastard, an ex-paladin archetype. It fits the theme of revenge, you can trigger the smite off of hits taken by your phantom(/eidolon), and both vindictive bastard and fractured mind are Charisma based, so your scores will line up. Meanwhile, the Charisma based AC bonus gained from smite will help your AC. Seems good to me. ^_^
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In addition, this is a good time to plug one of the first things I ever wrote for Paizo: the Phantom Ally feat. Might as well have been custom made for you. ^_^
(It acts like Boon Companion, but for phantoms. So you can take up to four levels of other classes without compromising your phantom's power at all!)
I am excited about this. Thanks so much. I just finished my character pic so I am getting it all together.