Optimizing a Housecat?

[Thereddic]

i don't suppose that anyone's suggested making your cat a ghost (savage progression) and taking master of the unseen hand? as an added bonus, you can use psionics to enter the class as is due to some obscure rules, making for some fun options. claws of the vampire, strength of my enemy, bite of the tiger, psionic lion's charge, just to name a few.

if you want to take it in a silly direction, take the stygian bolt power, one of the jump powers, hustle, and squeeze in one level of the athas soulknife prestige...  glowing mind blade, giant jump, fast move, and black lightning = jedi kitty!

Nobody has, but I'm trying to remain true to housecat flavour here. If I wanted to just build the strongest thing I could, I'd be doing something to exploit my Int score.

so show them your final optimized build as step one, then show them the ghost psion jedi housekitty for the step two: the cat comes back.

you know, you could always make your housekitty a monk with kung-fu genius for shifting all monk abilities to INT from WIS. can you imagine your stunning strike DC? followed by the coup-de-grace attack modified by that one feat that makes it a standard action instead of a full-round action and a "collar of battle".... boost that with some greater mighty wallop (claws are retractable, after all), bloodwind (SpC), superior unarmed strike and a "monk's collar". maybe split monk with psywar and tashalatora with expansion and other fun powers, and you'll be slaying them from 20' away sitting on the fence with the force of your melee attacks traveling through the air....

considering how hard my cats could hit me while we were playing, i'd say monk is within housecat flavor.

or you could just go with the obvious route and take levels of aristocrat. ^^

Wait, that Kung Fu Genius is an actual thing? Where can I find it? Cause if it is... Buyoff Monster of Legend, then go Psywar Tashlatora... its so delicious

[Nanshork]

i don't suppose that anyone's suggested making your cat a ghost (savage progression) and taking master of the unseen hand? as an added bonus, you can use psionics to enter the class as is due to some obscure rules, making for some fun options. claws of the vampire, strength of my enemy, bite of the tiger, psionic lion's charge, just to name a few.

if you want to take it in a silly direction, take the stygian bolt power, one of the jump powers, hustle, and squeeze in one level of the athas soulknife prestige...  glowing mind blade, giant jump, fast move, and black lightning = jedi kitty!

Nobody has, but I'm trying to remain true to housecat flavour here. If I wanted to just build the strongest thing I could, I'd be doing something to exploit my Int score.

so show them your final optimized build as step one, then show them the ghost psion jedi housekitty for the step two: the cat in the hat comes back.

Fixed that for you.   



Seriously, give him a hat.   

[altpersona]

Type: General
Sources: Dragon #319
Dungeon Compendium Vol. 1

Some styles of martial arts require the student to memorize advanced medical texts and anatomical charts. These styles favor the intellectual over the introspective.
Prerequisite: Int 13, must be gained at or before the first level of the monk class is taken.
Benefit: You use your Intelligence modifier rather than Wisdom for all monk special abilities that normally rely on Wisdom.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Cat in the Hat (literal)

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[altpersona]

that seems to less of a cat and more of a pig

[Thereddic]

Looks more like a Guinea pig to me. I'm suddenly less sure about going Tashlatora though, at least if I pursue Psywar as my Manifester of choice. My Int may be obscene, but my Wisdom...well its also pretty high at +6, but it means moving points around... then again, I COULD use to will save boost from doing that. Going Psion makes me too Caster heavy though... bleh, I'm confusing myself too much :/

How would Lurk work with a Monk kitty? Or would it be best to just say nuts to it and go psywar by taking some points out of Con to get my Wis up to 16 or so? Beyond that...I imagine Fist of the Forest would make a great dip, bonus points for being a surprisingly good fit flavour-wise, although I don't know to many other class levels to take to boost unarmed damage

[parinho7]

MM2 - page 213, Monster of Legend Template

[awaken_D_M_golem]

I'm suffering cognitive dissonance.
What if a Housecat also had Flaws?



Shame shame, aDMg shame.

[bhu]

Potential Flaws:

Crazy Hour

I See Dead People

Omnicidal (Siamese only)

Food Beggar

Demanding of Affection

Power Napper

Territorial

Fussy

Nip Addict

Nosy

Compulsive Yowler

[awaken_D_M_golem]

MustrunintothenextroomNOW!!

Toxoplasma Gandhi

Friend Of Dog

My Owner Thinks He's In Charge

Garfieldian Eater

[nijineko]

doorway haunter

compulsive drooler

furniture artiste

obsessive disorder

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Niji said Ghost + Cat ...

I spent a lot of time as a ~sitter for a 6 year old girl.
I told her the story of the Ghost Kitty:
(playing right into the child magic world vs. adults don't tell you the whole story)

It was winter, (edit) and snowy.
The wind was blowing hard.
  ... I saw a kitty carefully picking it's way past my window.
The wind was blowing so hard,
the tracks of the kitty were immediately erased.
Nobody knew the Ghost Kitty had been there.
Except me.

[nijineko]

Niji said Ghost + Cat ...

I spent a lot of time as a ~sitter for a 6 year old girl.
I told her the story of the Ghost Kitty:
(playing right into the child magic world vs. adults don't tell you the whole story)

It was winter.
The wind was blowing hard.
  ... I saw a kitty carefully picking it's way past my window.
The wind was blowing so hard,
the tracks of the kitty were immediately erased.
Nobody knew the Ghost Kitty had been there.
Except me.

very nice.

the nijineko character IS a ghost kitty of sorts... something like a chunk of living light.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Thanks, and it was fun for that while.
I enjoyed being Uncle Awaken D M g(-uh);
they didn't know anything about d&d, so
... for about 1 to 1.5 hours at a time.
Now she luvs her shmartphone more.
 


Housecat + Ghost template 1 = "dangerous".