Ridiculously fun characters to play even without a lot of power?


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I've played very powerful characters and weak ones. Casters, healers, fighters - paladins and hunters, warpriests, etc.

I have to say though, one of my current ones is turning out to be incredibly fun without hardly any combat power to them.

Presently they're a Bard(Negotiator) 2 / Swashbuckler (Inspired Blade) 1.

Feats and traits are dedicated to being charismatic as heck.

Str 12 / Dex 14 / Con 10 / Int 16 / Wis 8 / Cha 18

Feats are:
Skill Focus: Intimidate
Skill Focus: Bluff
Persuasive
From the Inspired Blade, I have Weapon Finesse and Weapon Focus with a rapier

Traits are:
Well-Provisioned Adventurer
Trap Finder
Extremely Fashionable
(Drawback: Attached - to their masterwork instrument)

Racial traits:
Silver Tongued
Focused Study

Rogue talent (from Negotiator):
Canny Observer (though I may change this one, as it is not yet set in stone - we haven't had a session since we leveled to 3rd)

Because I've been trying to be able to try most anything, I have a single rank in most skills except Perception, Linguistics, Intimidate, Disable Device, Stealth, and Perform: Dance (they have three different Perform skills).

I love that this character can practically talk their way out of most situations. Knowledgeable, sure - a high int means nearly every knowledge skill has a rank anyway - but really at their best charming the pants off of people.
(As the trap finder in the party, I did take Timely Inspiration as one of my first level spells).

What characters do you remember fondly, that might not have been able to kill dragons with their pinkies, but instead were just flat out fun?

Jon Brazer Enterprises

How about a Fighter with a 6 Con. They rush into battle ... and they're down. Again.


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Dale McCoy Jr wrote:
How about a Fighter with a 6 Con. They rush into battle ... and they're down. Again.

Or especially a Paladin, thanks to that immunity to fear.

"For the love of Moradin!"

Whole party:

"No, please stop. PLEASE STOP... and he's down."


Wimp Lo, "I'm bleeding, that makes me the victor!"


I wasn't particularly "powerful" as people name it but it was a ridiculously fun build that helped the party project power.

I played a twin, to an evil cleric, who went down the devoted defender prestige class in 3.5. She was a bad touch cleric so we'd wade in, she'd be untouchable because of devoted defender abilities + cleric, and i was too hard to drop with a pocket healer. I never did much damage per round but i could absolutely grind almost anything to the ground and when the party would coalesce around me like a phalanx we just sort of pac manned our way through things.

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