High level Slayers are deadly but have a fatal flaw. Their Will Save absolutely sucks. One Heightened (or Persistent) Save or Die spell and they're toast.
If he truly hates magic, I would think he'd have Iron Will, Improved Iron Will, and Mythic Improved Iron Will, as well as Slippery Mind Adv Rogue Talent.
Agreed. He regularly takes hits on casters...he can't pass them up.High level Slayers are deadly but have a fatal flaw. Their Will Save absolutely sucks. One Heightened (or Persistent) Save or Die spell and they're toast.
If he truly hates magic, I would think he'd have Iron Will, Improved Iron Will, and Mythic Improved Iron Will, as well as Slippery Mind Adv Rogue Talent.
Something that he wears that is enchanted with Anti-Magic Field might be in order too. Unless he hates magic so much that he would even refuse to use Anti-magic fields :P
How does he feel about alchemy?
Honestly, then, he won't be super effective. No armor; no magical items; no way to counter magic; poor will saves. This guy will have lots of HD and some cool mythic abilities, but I'm hardly getting an 'ultimate assassin' vibe from that.The vibe I'm getting is chaotic-"neutral" Drizzit.
He hates magic, and he refuses to use it.
I can't speak from personal experience, but I suspect that "top assassins" are coldly rational, and use the very best tools available as ruthlessly and efficiently as possible, because if they didn't, they'd probably already be dead at the hands of someone else who did.
This...roleplaying limitation is just a self-gimp.
Even the muggles in the Harry Potter universe use magical gear when they can.
Honestly, then, he won't be super effective. No armor; no magical items; no way to counter magic; poor will saves.
Flailing against DR/magic, etc.
Would he consider a monks Ki abilities magic? If he is ok with using those monk has a lot of defenses vs magic. All good saves and spell resistance is going to make him very effective vs any kind of caster especially an arcane caster. If magic items are rare in your world he will not have as much problems due to the bar being lower. If magic items are more common use the auto bonus progression rules to keep him closer to normal.
If you are using mythic rules don’t take the tricksters path. Champion or Guardian would be better choices. To survive he needs to do one of two things take out the opposition before they can act or to be able to survive the opponents attacks long enough to kill them. Champion would be better for the first choice, while Guardian works better for the later.
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Honestly, I think if you're going to make this guy as scary and against magic as possible, he really ought to make an exception for the only magic he'll use is anti-magic fields.
welp if it help. i made back then a thread of a slayer10\rogue2 with evasion, 50% auto-save on will checks and 50% concealment almost constant (non magical\darkens\fog\sight based it's from being fast so true sight and such won't help against).
one attack a round with 12d6 damage before added stuff. and a LOT of decoys around (he did use a ring of decoy for more decoys. but not have too.
take a look might work if you twick it a bit. the only semi magical things in this build is the Ankou's Shadows which can be dropped if you don't like them and the ring of decoy. it still work fine without the decoy was just for extra miss attacks and confusions. (also the ability to form a one man conga-line of about 15 people)
The vow of poverty forbade a character from ever owning anything more than one set of clothes, a day's worth of food and a walking stick.
It was also the most broken feat ever made. It was a feat that gave you static bonuses to AC, saves, ability scores, attacks, skills. A feat that gave you more feats.
If you allowed him some basic equipment and toned the "vow" way down, I bet you could get somewhere close.
Off the cuff, I'd give him +4/+6/+6/+2/+4/+2 to ability scores, a +5 to all saves, +15 AC, any weapon in his have is treated as...I dunno. +3 keen wounding bane (spellcaster) speed and smacks them with Greater Dispel Magic on a crit, doesn't need to sleep, constant Endure Elements and Mind Blank, resistance 20 to all energy types, SR-whatever. All due to whatever it is that happened to him.
I will say that, thematically, he strikes me more as a child of destiny than an actual killer-for-hire, if only because such a consuming, irrational hatred doesn't seem in line with a guy who commits murder for cash. The money is just an excuse; this guy's on some kind of sick crusade.
The vow of poverty forbade a character from ever owning anything more than one set of clothes, a day's worth of food and a walking stick.
It was also the most broken feat ever made. It was a feat that gave you static bonuses to AC, saves, ability scores, attacks, skills. A feat that gave you more feats.If you allowed him some basic equipment and toned the "vow" way down, I bet you could get somewhere close.
Off the cuff, I'd give him +4/+6/+6/+2/+4/+2 to ability scores, a +5 to all saves, +15 AC, any weapon in his have is treated as...I dunno. +3 keen wounding bane (spellcaster) speed and smacks them with Greater Dispel Magic on a crit, doesn't need to sleep, constant Endure Elements and Mind Blank, resistance 20 to all energy types, SR-whatever. All due to whatever it is that happened to him.
I will say that, thematically, he strikes me more as a child of destiny than an actual killer-for-hire, if only because such a consuming, irrational hatred doesn't seem in line with a guy who commits murder for cash. The money is just an excuse; this guy's on some kind of sick crusade.
You are thinking of the vow of poverty from the 3.5 book of exalted deeds. Vow of poverty in Pathfinder is an option for monks not a broken feat. Like other Pathfinder vows all it does is to increase the amount of Ki that a monk gains. In the case of vow of poverty they gain 1 extra point of Ki per level. They also can have a single item of significant value.
Vow of poverty in Pathfinder...
I didn't realize it was a thing at all in Pathfinder. Doesn't surprise me, I guess.
But yes, I was referring to the one from the Book of Exalted Deeds (see: past tense). And regardless of where it comes from, I would still consider it a valid option for a character that goes so far outside the normal range of expectations like this.
Pathfinder already has an optional rule for auto bonus progression that would work for this character. It is designed to eliminate the need for the big six magic items by automatically giving the characters appropriate bonuses based on their level. When used a character get half the normal suggested wealth because they no longer need to buy as many magic items. This allows characters to take interesting magic items instead of needing to buy the standard rings, cloaks, belts etc.. This is what I suggested in my earlier post.
Pathfinder already has an optional rule for auto bonus progression that would work for this character.
That's an interesting idea, only using the alternate rule on one character. Not sure how that would play out, but it's not a bad place to look.
It is designed to eliminate the need for the big six magic items by automatically giving the characters appropriate bonuses based on their level. When used a character get half the normal suggested wealth because they no longer need to buy as many magic items. This allows characters to take interesting magic items instead of needing to buy the standard rings, cloaks, belts etc.. This is what I suggested in my earlier post.
I'm aware of what it does, though I've never used it myself.
The whole point of it though--"allowing characters to take interesting magic items"--isn't quite touching on the heart of the matter with this character. You'd still be left with a character that doesn't use half their wealth on any magic items, interesting or otherwise, so they'd still be at a pretty significant disadvantage.Dial up the automatic bonus progression, revamp the old vow of poverty, it all comes down to the same concept: give this dude the benefits of magic items without giving him actual magic items.
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The vow of poverty forbade a character from ever owning anything more than one set of clothes, a day's worth of food and a walking stick.
It was also the most broken feat ever made. It was a feat that gave you static bonuses to AC, saves, ability scores, attacks, skills. A feat that gave you more feats.