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D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder / Re: Pathfinder Cleric help
« on: August 21, 2021, 03:04:56 PM »
I don't see why evangelist is bad for full casters aside from the Spell progression, which the DM has ruled prestigious caster can work itself around. Its a 2 feat tax though so I know that can get a bit much.

My ideal here would be Sword and Shield Cleric with an animal companion. Focusing on lightning as a favored element for blasting but otherwise going to town in melee.

The current level is 3 with standard wealth but DM doesn't plan on capping the game at a certain level, we will play until were all dead, its no longer fun, or covid is over and we can move onto our Abberant game.

Things I am married to, in order of importance:
Cleric Class
Aasimar race
None-evil alignment (required for the campaign).
Leadership
An Animal Companion
Shield and weapon melee, preferred slashing weapons but piecing is fine too.
Lightning elemental magic.
Channel energy (for healing and/or dmg)

Everything else is up for grabs. Oh and I only have 1 trait open as DM has a variant Noble trait I have to take as an Aasimar in his setting as they all come from a noble house hold.

I like your stuff on the Spell Focus/specialization leaning.
I LOVE the fact that with Hei Feng you can prepare lightning bolt as a 3rd level spell, even if I generally personally prefer more Neutral or lawful deities, mechanics beat fluff.

With your basis of Exotic heritage + Eldritch heritage + Boon companion I see other class options open up. Though, with the way its worded, wouldn't you gain an animal companion at Druid lvl - 5 due to Eldritch Heritage lowering your sorcerer lvl by -2 and the Sylvan Bloodline giving it to you at Sorcerer lvl -3?

What is your opinion on the Grey Warden? https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/prestige-classes/other-paizo/e-h/gray-warden/

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D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder / Re: Pathfinder Cleric help
« on: August 14, 2021, 02:43:50 PM »
I mistakenly substituted Hawk for Feather in my initial post, I meant [Feather] and would select a Roc to start but Mechanically speaking, Gryphons are better stat wise so I did not even mention the Roc which would soon be replaced by a Gryphon.

I am playing an Aasimar
Stats are set to: 17,16,15,14,13,12 before racial adjustments.

As to what is allowed:
Per DM, only Pathfinder 1E, no D&D 3.5, no Pathfinder 3rd party without express permission.

As for what I want to do with my character:
I plan on making him a military leader, going for leadership at lvl 7. (think the Templars)
Combat wise, I plan to go back and forth between spells and melee.
I wanted to have an animal companion and a cohort to be able to have my own personal little army when I roll into battle so I can back up my party in whatever way they need.

It has been suggested to me that I should go Evangelist as a prestige as there really is no reason not to considering the boost in skills and progression of cleric class features, the problem is finding the right deity which offers the most bang for the buck.
Right now I'm heavily leaning towards Sarenrae just due to the plethora of content designed towards her and the power of Way of the Merciful: https://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-feats/divine-fighting-technique-combat/ (being able to smack people to heal is amazing!)

I would ideally like to be able to shoot lightning (my preferred elemental flavor) and have an animal companion along with a weapon that doesn't suck, hence my love of Horus. Alas, Bird Daddy does not have any deific obedience.

I am firm about staying Cleric as the base class but want animal companion(s).
The Feather Subdomain would be what I would take if I have he Animal Domain and would be selecting a Roc as an animal companion.

I find the idea of using the Animal Domain and Chivalry Inquisition to have 2 mounts utterly hilarious, though that would take away any and all blasting capability with domain spells so I would probably want to avoid that.

The plan currently is:
Cleric (Divine Paragon) (Choose Sentinel or Exalted boons)
Choose 1 actual domain, choose 1 sacrificial domain with good spells.
Prestige into Evangelist (double the boons, double the fun!)



An idea I had using the feedback here:
Cleric of Sarenrae (Divine Paragon)
Domains: Fire, Healing Domain (Sacrifice features of one of these for Exhalted/Sentinal Boons)
Feats: Nature Soul, Animal Ally (Wolf), Boon Companion, Way of the Merciful.
Prestige into Evangelist

Or

Cleric of Sarenrae (Divine Paragon)
Domains: Fire, Chivalry Inquisition (Sacrifice features of Fire Domain for Exalted or Sentinel Boons)
Feats: Way of the Merciful, Monstrous Mount. Monstrous Mount Mastery.
Prestige into Evangelist

I am completely open to any way to make this build better or completely changing it so long as I can melee, spell cast, and have an flying animal companion.

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D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder / Pathfinder Cleric help
« on: July 24, 2021, 05:02:12 PM »
I am starting a game where I will be playing a cleric but want to do something fun with it and not be a heal bot.
I have 2 ideas currently:

Idea 1: straight NG Cleric of Horus,
Domains: Animal Domain [Hawk], Lightning domain
The ultimate goal would be to take the feats to allow me to gain a Gryphon companion.
This would require me to take the Boon Companion Feat: https://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/boon-companion
And take the feats: Monstrous Mount https://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/monstrous-mount/
and Monstrous Mount Mastery to make it really good: https://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/monstrous-mount-mastery/
to get a Gryphon animal companion and rain down lightning and spells from my noble steed.

Idea 2: Neutral Cleric prestiging into Grey Gardiner prestige class
Take Prestigious Caster Feat: https://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/prestigious-spellcaster/
to make up for missing spell casting and just focus down fools with Channel Smite, Sneak attack, and spells

I would love to combine these two ideas but unfortunately I can't seem to find a way to continue gaining Domains while taking a prestige class. :(

Any advice on these would be great.


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D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder / Max Manifester level [Pathfinder]
« on: May 18, 2019, 04:53:43 PM »
What i'm looking for:

Best ways to permanently raise your manifester level.   

Caster level would be good too but as I'm building a tactician, that is my focus.

Looking for ways to make it permanent so that you can qualify for feats/classes earlier.

Feel free to list temp ones too, as they will be good for when I go bodysnatcher.

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