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Offline Rasengan2theface

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Pathfinder/Ravenloft Wood Oracle Help
« on: August 26, 2014, 04:16:04 AM »
Currently I am working on a concept for a backup character for a newly started Ravenloft Campaign. I'm thinking that he used to be a wood carver and one day his wife and daughter were murdered and he's out to find the killer. His only lead being that the killer had two left hands. He's probably going to be a frontline melee fighter type, mostly because I have grown tired of playing primarily casters. My only limitations are that I can only use Pathfinder material, no 3rd party and no 3.5 Here is the build as I have it thus far and any suggestions for improvement are appreciated.

Starting Level 1

Race Human

Point Buy 20

Str: 18 (+2 From Human)
Dex: 10
Con: 12
Int: 10
Wis: 8
Cha: 16

Traits Eyes and Ears of the City, Reactionary

Feat Progression

Extra Revelation Human
Power Attack 1
Furious Focus 3
Skill Focus - Knowledge Nature 5
Eldrtich Heritage - Verdent Bloodline 7
9
Improved Eldritch Heritage - Verdent Bloodline11
13
15
Greater Eldritch Heritage - Verdent Bloodline 17
19

Curse

Clouded Vision
1st Level - No Sight beyond 30', Darkvision 30'
5th Level - Vision increased to 60'
10th Level - Blindsense 30'
15th Level - Blind Sight 15'

Revelations

Wood Bond 1
Wood Armor Bonus
Wood Weapon 3
 7
Speak with Wood 11
 15
 19
 20


This is everything I have set up as I have researched thus far. Any opinion in terms of the build is greatly appreciated and thank you for taking a look at this potentially interesting character.

As an aside, what weapons would be viewed as summonable by the Wood Weapon ability in total?

I would also like to note that I have not begun to select spells as of yet. Any help with that would also be appreciated.
« Last Edit: August 26, 2014, 06:25:58 AM by Rasengan2theface »

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Re: Pathfinder/Ravenloft Wood Oracle Help
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2014, 06:42:14 AM »
If you haven't considered it yet, I strongly suggest considering Spirit Guide:
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/oracle/archetypes/paizo---oracle-archetypes/spirit-guide
You'd basically get the wandering hex feature of the Shaman in exchange for 3 revelations.

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Re: Pathfinder/Ravenloft Wood Oracle Help
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2014, 09:25:54 PM »
If you haven't considered it yet, I strongly suggest considering Spirit Guide:
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/oracle/archetypes/paizo---oracle-archetypes/spirit-guide
You'd basically get the wandering hex feature of the Shaman in exchange for 3 revelations.
I've been working on an oracle for a game, and am going with this and the Lore mystery. It's kind of crazy how much of a "know-it-all" he will be, with Divination (and Commune next level) 1x/day, and the ability to add +20 to an Int based skill his charisma mod times per day. Plus if you go with the Lore spirit (from Spirit Guide archetype) and the Arcane Enlightenment hex, you get to add a bunch of sorcerer/wizard spells to your list.

I'm going for a pure "caster" in combat, though. So I used both of my feats on Extra Revelation. I've been thinking that with the Sidestep Secret there's really little reason to pump Dex at all, though. So I might swap it up a bit, so I can melee as well.

Edit: You know... in a Ravenloft game, I think I'd probably be tempted to go with the Lunar mystery... since the Mantle of Moonlight revelation makes you immune to lycanthropy and gives you some other powers over lycanthropes. Hmm... might not be worth it, since the active abilities are only a handful of times per day.
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Re: Pathfinder/Ravenloft Wood Oracle Help
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2014, 01:32:27 AM »
ah, my apologies, but I should have thought to mention that we aren't allowed any 'Hybrid' classes...they're just a little too much cheese for our DM's taste. I have brought dishonor on myself, dishonor on my family, and dishonor on my cow.

I would consider Lunar if I were wanting a bit more of a caster oracle, but probably only if it were not a Ravenloft game. Animal Companions just seem set up to screw you over at the worst of times and being a shape changer is just...painful...