I'm playing a pixie! What class should I be?

[Dannyalcatraz]

The bullseye lantern idea also gives the pixie an element of surprise, and may let him act as a spy...a living bug, in appearance and actuality.

In desperation, he could also be flung as a grenade...







(The more I think about this, the more I think I need to use it in a bit of short fiction..)

 

[contraserrene]

Better that this would be optically clean grade material from either the quartz* or corundum** family. They both can be fairly dark, do not split light to cause multiple images, would be clear (as opposed to cloudy), and are hard (Moh's hardness 7 for quartz- dead center on the scale- and 9 for corundum) without being too brittle. Not cheap, but worth it.

* Smoky quartz can be a deep, dark grey-brown to chocolate brown; amethyst is a deep, rich purple.

** either ruby or some kind of sapphire- blue or violet.

You are correct, sir. Though thematically it could perhaps be bloodstone. Some kind of... magical translucent bloodstone. One-way bloodstone mirrors!

EDIT: Or blood diamonds!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Or (clever, clever), a 3-lensed lantern: the outer lens would be quartz or corundum (to protect the other lenses, and the other 2 would be in your word's version of Icelandic Spar.

Icelandic Spar is an optical grade form of calcite that is capable of refractive polarization. That means the pixie inside could make the lens appear to go from clear to black depending upon the relative orientations of the 2 inner lenses.

 

[EroGaki]

Alright, so I'm trying to narrow down the choices, and I'm thinking I'd like to focus on one of the more magical classes; being a pixie, it's kind of difficult to imagine him not being mystical.

So far, I'm thinking swordmage, swordmage/wizard hybrid, fey pact warlock, bard, or perhaps one of the psionic classes. I was tempted with vampire, but most of my searches on the class have comfirmed it's rather bad.

BUT, I *love* the lantern ideas, and so I think I'll use one as a mobile shelter for when we camp; once we set up camp, I unshrink it and bamf! I've got a house! Of course, I'll need to make sure it can be opened from the inside...

 

[Ryujin]

Alright, so I'm trying to narrow down the choices, and I'm thinking I'd like to focus on one of the more magical classes; being a pixie, it's kind of difficult to imagine him not being mystical.

So far, I'm thinking swordmage, swordmage/wizard hybrid, fey pact warlock, bard, or perhaps one of the psionic classes. I was tempted with vampire, but most of my searches on the class have comfirmed it's rather bad.

BUT, I *love* the lantern ideas, and so I think I'll use one as a mobile shelter for when we camp; once we set up camp, I unshrink it and bamf! I've got a house! Of course, I'll need to make sure it can be opened from the inside...

Make sure that you've got at least one self-starter teleport power. That way as long as you can see out, you can get out

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Glad to help!

 

[EroGaki]

Does anyone have any experience with hybrid characters? I've never actually used one before and I understand they can be tricky to design. But I've also heard the right combination of classes and feats can produce some pretty interesting characters.

 

[Quickleaf]

Does anyone have any experience with hybrid characters? I've never actually used one before and I understand they can be tricky to design. But I've also heard the right combination of classes and feats can produce some pretty interesting characters.

While that's true, one of the major drawbacks to hybrid PCs is that many of their class features only work with powers from that class. For example a warlock's curse damage only applies to warlock powers, not powers from the other class. Unless you know what you're doing or are copying a build I generally recommend avoiding hybrid characters.

 

[EroGaki]

An update: we seem to have lost our bard, and are thus leaderless. I'll have to step in and fill that spot, so the question now becomes: what leader class should my pixie be?

 

[mneme]

Pixie bards are awesome! Thematically, at least. Paint yourself blue and you can be a Pict Pixie Piper!

Just looking at stat synergy, Pixies are Cha/(Int or Dex). That suggests Bard (again -- Skald or Cunning), or Warlord (lazy build). So if you're not going for something against type -- you want to be a bard.