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True Primitive Barbarian.
Anything with more than one pet.
Full BAB TWF/UnMonk/natural attacks.
Full BAB Archer/ZAM.
Literally any build based on AoO shenanigans.
Every round will take several minutes just to wade through all the attacks. The sessions will run out of time at a rate of one combat per session. The campaign will drag on. Players will lose interest. Life will happen, and the campaign will end before it really even began.
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True Primitive Barbarian.
Anything with more than one pet.
Full BAB TWF/UnMonk/natural attacks.
Full BAB Archer/ZAM.
Literally any build based on AoO shenanigans.Every round will take several minutes just to wade through all the attacks. The sessions will run out of time at a rate of one combat per session. The campaign will drag on. Players will lose interest. Life will happen, and the campaign will end before it really even began.
You forgot the Sacred Geometry wizard
Honestly, this thread makes no sense without much more restrictions. I mean, it's super easy to build a disfunctional character.
Type 1: A full caster, especially arcane, with too low ability score to cast spells. For extra fun, Con dumped to 7 on a -2 con race. For example, Samsaran Sorcerer with 5 con, <10 cha, who goes into melee.
Type 2: Brute Vigilante, Rageshaper Shifter, or Wild Rager Barbarian.
For extra "poor compatibility", combine the two.
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Vanilla Fighter with Greatsword
Sorcerer focused on area effect blasts and spells (think glitterdust, black tentacles, colorspray)
Cleric focused on ranged combat
Slayer sniper build, highly focused on stealth and long range
Archeologist Bard, Gnome, focuses on whips in combat
Stalwart Defender
combats go thusly;
Fighter charges into combat trying to tie up the baddies, gets hit from behind by a half dozen area effect spells, lacks the saves, or abilities to negate them, ends up burnt, stunned, blinded, and/or grappled by the sorcerer every combat. Cleric is too far away to help, lacking any sort of ranged healing abilities of sufficient quantity to save the Fighter, doesn't do enough damage in ranged combat to meaningfully contribute to combat, but insists anyways. Slayer can't be seen, and is effective in combat, but because of distance and stealth, the Fighter picks up several more enemies who dogpile on them or move onto the squishy sorcerer. The Archeologist fails at being a bard, providing no buffs for the party, only themselves and focuses on trying to disarm and trip at range. The Stalwart Defender is good for a bit, until they clear the area, but then watch the fight move on without them, or are also caught up in the area damage of the sorcerer. They make it a few levels until the first "real" fight plays up the on the stupid choices of the spellslinger and they meet their end all while yelling at each other for being idiots.
I've seen this play out numerous times, so I feel justified in calling this realistic.
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Instructor Wizard with an Instructor Wizard with an Instructor Wizard with an...
link won't work for me for some reason. I'm missing the awesomely bad or hillariously awful :(
A mist assassin who relies on fog to enable sneak attack, a horse archer or flyer who wears enemies down slowly while staying out of reach, a melee paladin who can strike down one foe but needs allies to watch his back and a witch who specialises in debuffing single targets but who needs a couple of meatshields minimum.
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Paladin
Inquisitor
Necromancer
Witch
Every single encounter almost breaks down into PvP. Players at the table end up arguing about literally everything. Nothing ever gets accomplished.
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Ya gotta include the Misfortune Oracle, making every PC and NPC around them re-roll at least once a day...
VoodistMonk... ahh... I was going to say "not if the Inquisitor and the Paladin are same deity," but then I remembered the Inquisitor embraces the enemies tactics against the enemy itself and realized yea... the PVP and entertaining chaos would be GREATER if they worshipped the same, lol.
Elf barbarian wielding a greataxe
That was Grey Elves, right?
That was Grey Elves, right?
Wild elves. Grey elves had a strength penalty and an intelligence bonus.
Ah the good old days, where most races had a couple of subspecies except for elves. They got 20.
Humans had even more by **** around with everything that moves, so there were Half-Elves, Half-Orcs, Half-Celestials, Half-Fiends, Half-Constructs, Half-Lings, Half-...
Ah the good old days, where most races had a couple of subspecies except for elves. They got 20.Humans had even more by **** around with everything that moves, so there were Half-Elves, Half-Orcs, Half-Celestials, Half-Fiends, Half-Constructs, Half-Lings, Half-...
Centaurs.