Strength of Thousands character

[punkzilla]

I'm in a SoT game currently. It has six players, so I know there's inherently going to be issues with carving a niche and stepping on toes, but I just need thoughts on what direction I could possibly ly take my character.

We have a laughing shadow magus, a bones oracle, a metal kineticist, an archer fighter, and a staff wizard. I'm playing a warprieat of Baalzebuul (so, harm and smite based, spear and shield).

We just have a lot of strikers, I guess (not to mention the fighter who is absolutely loving free save-based damage spells and high attack rolls), but I don't really know what else to do with my guy to give him any sort of role at the table. I built him to be focused mainly on channel smite.

It might just be a case where I have to retire the character, as pe4soanlity wise he's an evil, selfish guy, and I can't see him being a support build, but I'm open to ideas on what to bring to the party.

[Perpdepog]

Why not bring a more skill monkey-ish class, say, a rogue or investigator? Investigator would synergize with the free wizard archetype pretty well.

Then again, it sounds like you've got a lot of arcane focus already.

One of the players in the SoT game I'm running is currently a ruffian rogue, druid archetype, and seems to be doing pretty well. He's not the tankiest, but was able to off-tank for the party until one of our players switched to their Untamed druid.

[Mathmuse]

I am running Strength of Thousands and we are almost through Kindled Magic. That first module has as much problem solving as it does combat, and the second module looks similar.

How good is your warpriest at problem solving? More importantly, since he is a selfish, evil person, does he want to solve problems? Most importantly, why is he enrolled in the Magambya Academy? Perhaps he seeks to add arcane or primal power to his divine magic. Or are his motives more subtle? The Magaambya Academy has a big emphasis on public service, so how will your warpriest react to that?

Stepping on toes should not be a thematic problem. All the PCs are students at the same academy, so naturally they are similar. My own party of seven PCs has an anadi divination wizard with Magaambyan attendant free archetype, an elf starlit-span magus with dragon disciple free archetype, a catfolk fire kineticist with wizard free archetype, a dromaar redeemer champion with magus free archetype, a fleshwarp eldritch trickster (elemental sorcerer) rogue with Gelid Shard free archetype, a tengu enigma bard with druid free archetype, and a ghoran enigma bard with druid free archetype. That is two enigma bards with druid archetype, but the overlap has not caused any problems. Instead, their interaction has been, "I want to move and cast a spell next turn, could you please take over singing the Courageous Anthem?"

[Perpdepog]

I forgot to mention in my original post but I'm in agreement with Mathmuse there. Running evil, selfish characters in Strength of Thousands is doable, in the way that any character is doable if people are willing to bend enough, but it's not a natural fit for the AP by any stretch.

[Leomund "Leo" Velinznrarikovich]

My suggestion is to focus a build around damage mitigation.

The focus spell, Protector's Sphere is useful. Champion reaction, etc..