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<blockquote data-quote="famousringo" data-source="post: 6867931" data-attributes="member: 6792445"><p>IMO, Defensive Style is a better choice than Duelist. Most of your actions will be spent on beast attacks or spells rather than your own attacks, so +1 AC will modify more enemy attacks than +2 damage will apply to your own. Also, getting hit less means fewer concentration checks on Reduce.</p><p></p><p>Not getting Reduce until 8 won't be that big a deal. Restrained is still a great condition and well worth bringing a frog for. Also, ASIs are nice, but every level of wizard delays Bestial Fury some more. I say wait until you hit level 9 to decide how badly you want that extra feat.</p><p></p><p>Since Reduce and swallow are so important to you, it's worth considering trading gnome and wizard for halfling and sorcerer. Quicken takes a whole round off the Reduce > Bite > Swallow sequence you're building your character around, so it's just as good as Bestial Fury in a way. And Heighten and Twin offer alternative ways to force a save (whichever one of you two fails your save goes into the belly). Finally, if you start with a level of sorcerer, you get Con save proficiency.</p><p></p><p>Edit: I forgot to add that as a sorcerer, stacking Cha will help both your save DC and your Inspiring Leader.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="famousringo, post: 6867931, member: 6792445"] IMO, Defensive Style is a better choice than Duelist. Most of your actions will be spent on beast attacks or spells rather than your own attacks, so +1 AC will modify more enemy attacks than +2 damage will apply to your own. Also, getting hit less means fewer concentration checks on Reduce. Not getting Reduce until 8 won't be that big a deal. Restrained is still a great condition and well worth bringing a frog for. Also, ASIs are nice, but every level of wizard delays Bestial Fury some more. I say wait until you hit level 9 to decide how badly you want that extra feat. Since Reduce and swallow are so important to you, it's worth considering trading gnome and wizard for halfling and sorcerer. Quicken takes a whole round off the Reduce > Bite > Swallow sequence you're building your character around, so it's just as good as Bestial Fury in a way. And Heighten and Twin offer alternative ways to force a save (whichever one of you two fails your save goes into the belly). Finally, if you start with a level of sorcerer, you get Con save proficiency. Edit: I forgot to add that as a sorcerer, stacking Cha will help both your save DC and your Inspiring Leader. [/QUOTE]
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