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Offline Kr1o5

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Needing to find an interesting Tank
« on: January 08, 2015, 02:45:28 AM »
My friend and i are wading back into D and D after a few disasters. I'm a caster at heart, so i picked up a Shaper Psion and never looked back. He, however, is a Tank, born and raised.

usually, we come up with something fun, BUT. our DM apparently does not trust us (me) with starting gold and the MIC.  we start in prison. only the items he gives us. nothing magical, cause fun is dead, lol.

so, at level seven, what is a good, tanky class, that is not reliant on a particular weapon(cause weapon focus could get real useless real quick if we cant grab whatever he's proficient in.)? my current feel is for warblade, but i thought asking around would help out.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Needing to find an interesting Tank
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2015, 03:15:58 AM »
Warblade would be a great choice, especially since you could still do the Weapon Focus chain, and just change it to whatever you end up getting, due to Weapon Aptitude.

Swordsage could be great, especially if you take the unarmed variant.

Cruasder is also very nice.  Yeah, all 3 ToB classes are great tanks.

Barbarian isn't terrible.

Soulknife is weak, but at least you never want for a weapon.

Psychic Warrior can work, though you need to pick good powers.

Psion can make for a great tank, since you can give yourself lots of psionic feats that help you anyway, plus Psionic Body to gain extra HP from all of them.  Plus there's the Vigor power, then take a psicrystal and double up the Vigor onto it as well, and then slap on Share Pain so that you split damage with it and both of you only lose temporary HP.  And then the other nice defensive powers on top of that ...

If homebrew class rewrites were allowed, I'd just say take a look at my rewrites of Fighter, Paladin, Knight, Soulknife, Swashbuckler, or Battle Dancer.
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Re: Needing to find an interesting Tank
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2015, 08:43:27 AM »
Dragon Shaman (PHB2) makes for a great tank - decent hit dice (d10), medium armor & shieldsa breath weapon ('cos every tank should have a gun attached!), interesting aura's that can complement several approaches (energy shield, resistance, toughness, vigor), bonus AC and immunity to paralysis & sleep.

The touch of vitality ability (which you'll have by level 7) isn't the best healing source but is great for removing troublesome conditions (fatigue etc.)
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Re: Needing to find an interesting Tank
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2015, 11:35:12 AM »
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Re: Needing to find an interesting Tank
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2015, 03:40:30 PM »
Hrmmm.... been working on some notes for Erudite combos. See if any grab you.

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Re: Needing to find an interesting Tank
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2015, 07:02:37 PM »
More Funny Than Serious:

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Re: Needing to find an interesting Tank
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2015, 07:05:18 PM »
Barbarian isn't terrible.
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