Character Idea
Tinker Bell meets Sherlock holmes/(Marvel) Bruce Banner/Hulk...I know! hear me out.
So I was thinking of a character concept basically inspired by Tinker Bell in the movie adaptation of Peter Pan, Hook. In this movie, both Peter Pan and Tinker Bell are now adult and Tinker Bell falls in love with Pan. Long-story short, Tinker Bell makes a wish to become Human Size hoping that she could be with Pan, have a sort of romance together... I'm a s*cker for impossible love story anyways. So I was thinking creating a character inspired by this. Well more specifically, a Fairy who would hopefully has the ability to shift into a human size version of herself.
As far as her personality was concerned, I imagined her to be socially awkward, sort of like the TV series Adaptation of Sherlock Holmes with Benedict Cumberbatch. A sort of talent for projection like the Sherlock holmes movie adaptation with Robert Downey Jr. At the start of the story, She would definitely be more on the Mischievous and Evil side (More selfish and a lack of social etiquette or respect for it) but I can see her growing into more of a fierce Mother Bear character who may channel her darker impulse toward her enemies and enjoy hurting those who hurts her friends but not too much but maybe a little.
Lucky me! There is the Sprite Ancestry and I think the Luminous sprite fits my Idea like a glove. About the ability to change size. I Notice that the Druid Wild Shape can be upgraded with two Class feats; Thousand Face (You gain the Humanoid form for your Wild Shape) and Form Control a Meta Magic feat (Increase the duration of wild shape to 1 hour instead of the normal time).
Now for the edgier parts. I wanted her to also be a capable melee combatant. Then, thinking about the changing size again, I thought: Wouldn't it be funny if the smallest creature in our the party became the largest of all them. Like a big hulking beast. Like Bruce Banner from Marvel, she would be an intellectual in her base form and if or should I say, when the proverbial s#!% hits the fan lol! She goes into rage and transform into a enormous monster and trash all her enemies. Lucky again for me, the game actually has the Barbarian Class with the Giant Instinct; At level 6 you can select the class feat Giant's Stature, which makes your character Large Size while raging. Then, at level 12, you can select the class feat Titan's Stature, which makes makes the character Huge size while raging. Which is 100% what I wanted. That's amazing. My DM has given us permission to use the Variant Multiclass rule. So I ended up taking for Background; Detective and Investigator as a primary class and Barbarian as my secondary.
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Now to my problem;
So I would like for my character to have horns that are usuable in combat. What sort of options do I have. Preferably before reaching level 20. But any suggestion would be welcome ?
I plan on asking my DM if I could have a special permission to take Barbarian as a Dedication Feat so that I can take a second instinct. Then choosing the Animal Instinct(Deer) to have Antlers. They also gain another feat Animal Skin which I think would go the this concept greatly. But I doubt this will be possible. But I think I would only have the antlers while raging and I was hoping that she could keep them if only, as a cosmetic thing, adding to that Fae from the first world weirdness and I was imagining her having chains and jewelry hanging between the branches of her antlers.
I thought I might have selected Tiefling as a heritage thinking they would give me horn usuable in combat, but they don't appear to have horn usuable in combat.
Tiefling, or Ifirt can do horns.
Probably Fey Influence Unicorn for a horn would work too. Just use the statistics of a fist and attack with it as you would any body part. In fact you could just claim your Sprite has horns and then just attack with them, as long as it only does the default 1d4 damage it is legitimate.
But if you want to be effective in unarmed combat then you probably want to be Animal Barbarian or Monk.
Tiefling has Form of the Fiend which gives one of several unarmed attacks. None of them are horns, but I wouldn't have a problem with re-describing the jaws attack as horns instead.
I'm not seeing anything from Ifrit though. The closest I find is Lavasoul but that requires a free hand to use. So it would be really hard to describe it as a horn attack.
My DM has given us permission to use the Variant Multiclass rule. So I ended up taking for Background; Detective and Investigator as a primary class and Barbarian as my secondary.
One minor thing I would point out is that Rage and Devise a Strategem don't mix. Not at all by default, and it costs another action to use Moment of Clarity. Doesn't mean that you can't play the character - a lot of the utility of Investigator is out of combat anyway. It just means that you won't be using Devise a Strategem during combat if you are Raging.
I'm not saying they have a listed horn attack. Just that they are described as having horns, so you can just apply the general "fist" weapon to those horns.
Tiefling has Form of the Fiend which gives one of several unarmed attacks. None of them are horns, but I wouldn't have a problem with re-describing the jaws attack as horns instead.
I'm not seeing anything from Ifrit though. The closest I find is Lavasoul but that requires a free hand to use. So it would be really hard to describe it as a horn attack.
My DM has given us permission to use the Variant Multiclass rule. So I ended up taking for Background; Detective and Investigator as a primary class and Barbarian as my secondary.One minor thing I would point out is that Rage and Devise a Strategem don't mix. Not at all by default, and it costs another action to use Moment of Clarity. Doesn't mean that you can't play the character - a lot of the utility of Investigator is out of combat anyway. It just means that you won't be using Devise a Strategem during combat if you are Raging.
I can't use moment of clarity then use stratagem?
I can't use moment of clarity then use stratagem?
Well, you can.
But people complain enough about the extra action cost of Devise a Strategem itself making investigator characters difficult to be relevant in combat. Adding another action to that cost would be really rough.
You only have one action left. What do you plan to do if your Devise roll is low?