Tasslehoff's Evil Twin - 18 Rogue/6 Fighter/16 WM

[shadowspawn]

Well I've been on HG for about 7 months now and after playing some of the excellent builds posted here, I thought I would try my hand at building my own. The inspiration for this build comes from my favourite character of the Dragonlance series - Tasslehoff Burrfoot. Ever since I found out that Kender was a subrace here, I've wanted to see what I could do with it. This build is somewhat similar to Yue's Halfling Death, but differs in that it uses quite a few more WM levels and is designed to have Epic Dodge AND Self Conceal.

Race:
"Kender" (secret subrace) - requires Halfling
+5 disable trap, +5 open lock, +5 pick pocket, +5 search, +5 set trap, +5 taunt, free feat: Aura of Courage, free feat: Stealthy

Starting stats:
STR 6
DEX 18 (32 Pre-LL)
CON 16
WIS 8
INT 16
CHA 8

Level Progression:
1 Rogue/6 Fighter/10 Weapon Master(WM)/13 Rogue/3 WM/3 Rogue/3 WM/1 Rogue

Stats:
All DEX

Skills:
-put 4 points into intimidate at 1st level
-put 30 into hide as soon as possible
-put 20 into pick pocket as soon as possible
-max out Tumble, Open Lock, Disable Trap, Search, UMD, and Discipline when they are class skills
-spend the rest on what you want (I chose Set Trap, but I've heard that Apppraise can be equally as useful)

Feat Progression:
Dodge
Weapon Proficiency: Exotic
Weapon Focus: Kukri
Mobility
Spring Attack
Expertise
Whirlwind Attack
Weapon Finesse
Blind Fight
Improved Critical: Kukri
Toughness
Great Dex 1
Great Dex 2
Improved Evasion
Great Dex 3
Defensive Roll
Epic Dodge
Great Dex 4
Armor Skin
Self Conceal 1
Self Conceal 2
Self Conceal 3
Epic Weapon Focus: Kukri

At level 40, with no armor and +0 kukri, this build has,
AC: 31
HP: 426
Base Attack: 29
AB: 46/41/36/31
Critical Range: 13-20 x3
Saving Throws,
Fortitude: 23
Reflex: 23
Will: 16

So far I have this build at level 41 and it has performed reasonably well, although I'm sure some improvements can be made. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

SS

[dragonlance007]

First of all I would like to say " Hooray for Kender!!" I have been wanting to make something with that subrace as well. I am glad you did.

Now about your build ( which I like a lot). Only thing that catches my eye is that you take weapon finnese as your 8th feat?!? Thats a long time to go using your 6 points of STR to determine your AB.

I guess you would suggest using a bow and arrow combo for those first 12-15 lvls??

Other than that. Good job!

-DragonLance_007

[shadowspawn]

Yes, that is one of the cons, but because of the feats that fighters get you only have to wait till level 9 to get finesse. It's the fastest way I could find to get to weapon master and because they get their bonus feat and +1 to attack for every 3 epic levels (i.e. 13, 16, etc..) I wanted to get it as high as possible while keeping rogue as the control class.

Being as it starts out rogue, you'll get leveled to 3 to start. That leaves 6 levels with a poor AB. I suggest during that time, you drown your sorrows at the bar. There a couple of especially fine brews there which helped me out during those trying times (*hint, hint*).

SS

[dragonlance007]

Aahh yes the bar. I almost forgot about that. I rarely make use of the drinks there except for of course the cosmics.

Will all the rest of the drinks there work for non-dwarven races?

I have an item that lets me drink like a dwarf but is it needed for all the others besides cosmics or only certain dwarven drinks??

thanks

DragonLance_007