My wife is playing an Oread Monk and she told me, her Monk is reluctant to fight and intimidating.
So i was thinking how to integrate that into the build of the character:
LvL1 Feat (Weapon Focus)/ Bonus feat (Dodge)
LvL2 Bonus feat (?)
LvL3 Feat (Enforcer)
LvL4
LvL5 Feat (Dazzling Display)
LvL6 Bonus feat (?)
LvL7 Feat (Shattering Defense)
LvL8
LvL9 Feat (Dragon Style)
LvL10 Bonus feat (Medusas Wrath)
LvL11 Feat (Dragon Ferocity)
LvL12
LvL13 Feat (Dragon Roar)
Basicly using the Enforcer, to intimidate, which should make the target flat-footed and therefore viable for Medusas Wrath.
Or is that just to complicated or pointless?
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That’s a perfectly fine way to build a monk, but keep in mind she will be encountering plenty of creatures either immune to mind-affecting or fear effects or they’re immune to non lethal damage. Plenty of enemies are susceptible to both but make sure she has options for encounters that she can’t use that tactic.
Just a thought, but there's a variant of the oread in the plane-hopper's handbook which gets a bonus to Cha, and scaled fist monks use Cha instead of Wis. Scaled fist would let her move the first 2 dragon feats down to levels 2 & 6 too.
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Oh if you’re not doing this already, go unchained monk. First off, it’s way easier to build and play. Second, unchained monk can get flying kick, which is pseudo-pounce and is amazing for utilizing full-attacks right off the bat in the first round.
I also second going the Gemsoul subrace for the Str/cha bonus, and taking Scaled Fist. With the dragon style feats as your bonus feats you have room to pick up power attack, which will help with damage. And your other free feat might be iron will to make up for the lost wis bonus you would have with a normal monk.
Get her a cruel Amulet of Mighty Fists as soon as possible, to stack on those penalties when you Intimidate.
One last thought: i would recommend against Dragon Roar as the damage isn’t fantastic and your DC will be relatively low. And it prevents you from full attacking. Leave area effect damage to the spellcasters. If you take avr and my recommendation with Scaled Fist, the DC will be even lower unless you pick it as a bonus feat (only your bonus feats scale off of Cha instead of Wis with that archetype. If you pick up Dragon Roar as a normal feat the DC would still scale off of Wis)
Yeah, Gemsoul Scaled Fist is a bit out of the question.
My wive specifically likes the "I am a rock. I am an intimidating rock"-part of the Oread race. After all this game is a role playing game.
Besides: The rest of the party is an Oracle, a Paladin, a Bard and a UCRogue - so most of them are CHA-based and we are a bit weak on the WIL-side. In our first session it was her perception checks that saved the day (and my 20 dice roll on a use magic device roll).
However, your thoughts are very appreciated and i will remove the Dragon roar from the list.