Post by Peach on Apr 16, 2007 18:15:30 GMT
From the days of PnP I've been kind of obsessed with rangers, at least I've given up the idea that rangers should be strictly elven and expanded my thinking to include the Minotaur book I bought Friday. I notice that there's no STR ranger+RDD combo in the HGWiki build index, so it probably sucks.
Race: Minotaur is what I've got, there are probably BUR and UR subbies that would be better, but if I had nothing I would try Bugbear or Lizardfolk or something human-based that gives STR without docking WIS.
Starting Stats/ Mino adjusted/ at 40:
STR: 16/ 20/ 43
DEX: 12/ 10/ 10
CON: 16/ 16/ 18
WIS: 12/ 14/ 14
INT: 10/ 10/ 12
CHA: 8/ 4/ 6
Level Progression:
15 Ranger, 1 Bard, 10 RDD, 13 R, 1 Bard
Stat Points: All STR
Feat Progression:
1- Luck of Heroes, Toughness, FE: Animals
3- Armor Proficiency Heavy
5- FE: Undead
6- Weapon Focus: Greataxe
9- Blind Fight
10- FE: Aberrations
12- Improved Critical: Greataxe
15- Iron Will, FE: Outsiders
18- Lightning Reflexes
21- Armor Skin
24- Great STR 1
27- Great STR 2
30- Great STR 3
31- FE: Elementals
33- Great STR 4
34- Bane of Enemies
36- Great STR 5
37- Epic Weapon Focus: Greataxe
39- Great STR 6
Legendary Feats:
Great STR 7-10
Legendary Luck
Legendary Reflexes
Legendary Will
Skills:
Get 8 Lore for RDD ASAP, Max Animal Emp, Discipline, save points for Tumble and UMD dump at 40. I had 30ish points left for whatever in the test chamber, which I put in heal for some of the spell changes
Weapon: I picked Greataxe for the Mino because it's sort of associated with the race and I'm under the impression that the large size will allow using it + a shield. Medium sized races should use a medium sized weapon.
Naked Saves at 40:
28 Fort/ 26 Will/ 21 Reflex
Projected Legendary Saves:
64/ 67/ 62
Comments: I would really like to be able to get 1 or 2 more levels of Ranger, but I can't take less levels of Bard without not going RDD at all or without giving up Tumble dump, although the UMD bump is nice, I'm not sure how useful it will be into LLs. Likewise the bonuses from 10 RDD are hard to give up for 1 bonus feat and 1 more FE.
I didn't actually play this except in the test area because I was having too much fun stoning things with my shifter.
Any insight or advice is certainly welcome... I can readily admit I'm not very solid on building things on my own for this server yet.
-Peach
Edit 4-17: Modified level progression, feat progression, saves
Edit 4-20: Swapped Epic Prowess for epic weapon focus and previous Epic Weapon Focus for Great STR to make room for Legendary Will later.
Race: Minotaur is what I've got, there are probably BUR and UR subbies that would be better, but if I had nothing I would try Bugbear or Lizardfolk or something human-based that gives STR without docking WIS.
Starting Stats/ Mino adjusted/ at 40:
STR: 16/ 20/ 43
DEX: 12/ 10/ 10
CON: 16/ 16/ 18
WIS: 12/ 14/ 14
INT: 10/ 10/ 12
CHA: 8/ 4/ 6
Level Progression:
15 Ranger, 1 Bard, 10 RDD, 13 R, 1 Bard
Stat Points: All STR
Feat Progression:
1- Luck of Heroes, Toughness, FE: Animals
3- Armor Proficiency Heavy
5- FE: Undead
6- Weapon Focus: Greataxe
9- Blind Fight
10- FE: Aberrations
12- Improved Critical: Greataxe
15- Iron Will, FE: Outsiders
18- Lightning Reflexes
21- Armor Skin
24- Great STR 1
27- Great STR 2
30- Great STR 3
31- FE: Elementals
33- Great STR 4
34- Bane of Enemies
36- Great STR 5
37- Epic Weapon Focus: Greataxe
39- Great STR 6
Legendary Feats:
Great STR 7-10
Legendary Luck
Legendary Reflexes
Legendary Will
Skills:
Get 8 Lore for RDD ASAP, Max Animal Emp, Discipline, save points for Tumble and UMD dump at 40. I had 30ish points left for whatever in the test chamber, which I put in heal for some of the spell changes
Weapon: I picked Greataxe for the Mino because it's sort of associated with the race and I'm under the impression that the large size will allow using it + a shield. Medium sized races should use a medium sized weapon.
Naked Saves at 40:
28 Fort/ 26 Will/ 21 Reflex
Projected Legendary Saves:
64/ 67/ 62
Comments: I would really like to be able to get 1 or 2 more levels of Ranger, but I can't take less levels of Bard without not going RDD at all or without giving up Tumble dump, although the UMD bump is nice, I'm not sure how useful it will be into LLs. Likewise the bonuses from 10 RDD are hard to give up for 1 bonus feat and 1 more FE.
I didn't actually play this except in the test area because I was having too much fun stoning things with my shifter.
Any insight or advice is certainly welcome... I can readily admit I'm not very solid on building things on my own for this server yet.
-Peach
Edit 4-17: Modified level progression, feat progression, saves
Edit 4-20: Swapped Epic Prowess for epic weapon focus and previous Epic Weapon Focus for Great STR to make room for Legendary Will later.