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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 5245449" data-attributes="member: 4936"><p>He's a tough one! Robust. </p><p></p><p>I am concerned about his Will save. +9 is very low at these levels. For point of comparison, if my sorceror cast Dominate Monster on him, the DC would be 31. You'd need a natural 20 to resist. Of course, I can put a Mind Blank on him, or you could get a 3rd Eye of Concealment...</p><p></p><p>Of more impact, potentially, is his damage output. 1d6+6 base damage is also low. In 3.5, you can't depend on your sneak attack damage. Especially in this group, where you don't have another melee type to reliably flank with (I do have summoning, but it's not always useful). Plus, it's very easy at high levels to be immune to crits, and thus to sneak attacks. My suggestion to this is rather than to rely on an Amulet of Fists or Natural Attacks or whatever, to buy a weapon pair. Then give them both Wounding. Some things will be immune to Wounding too, of course, but anything that isn't will quickly be whittled down from all those Con points drained. The nice thing about Con damage is that it becomes MORE powerful the more hit dice your target has, as opposed to normal damage which becomes less powerful on higher hit dice foes. And with your high rate of attacks, you could land 3 or 4 hits per turn...that's skimming off 2 hit point <em>per hitdice</em> per turn, plus reducing Fort saves and so on...making them easy prey for spells.</p><p></p><p>Finally, I take it from your stats that you're not building to be the 'face' character...though your Disguise is exceptional (as expected from a changeling <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />). You have good trappy skills, and excellent stealth...though your scouting potential is limited by your lack of Spot and Listen. You might check for items that can boost that, since those are (arguably) two of the most important skills in the game.</p><p></p><p>Good stuff! Look forward to seeing the complete version!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 5245449, member: 4936"] He's a tough one! Robust. I am concerned about his Will save. +9 is very low at these levels. For point of comparison, if my sorceror cast Dominate Monster on him, the DC would be 31. You'd need a natural 20 to resist. Of course, I can put a Mind Blank on him, or you could get a 3rd Eye of Concealment... Of more impact, potentially, is his damage output. 1d6+6 base damage is also low. In 3.5, you can't depend on your sneak attack damage. Especially in this group, where you don't have another melee type to reliably flank with (I do have summoning, but it's not always useful). Plus, it's very easy at high levels to be immune to crits, and thus to sneak attacks. My suggestion to this is rather than to rely on an Amulet of Fists or Natural Attacks or whatever, to buy a weapon pair. Then give them both Wounding. Some things will be immune to Wounding too, of course, but anything that isn't will quickly be whittled down from all those Con points drained. The nice thing about Con damage is that it becomes MORE powerful the more hit dice your target has, as opposed to normal damage which becomes less powerful on higher hit dice foes. And with your high rate of attacks, you could land 3 or 4 hits per turn...that's skimming off 2 hit point [i]per hitdice[/i] per turn, plus reducing Fort saves and so on...making them easy prey for spells. Finally, I take it from your stats that you're not building to be the 'face' character...though your Disguise is exceptional (as expected from a changeling :)). You have good trappy skills, and excellent stealth...though your scouting potential is limited by your lack of Spot and Listen. You might check for items that can boost that, since those are (arguably) two of the most important skills in the game. Good stuff! Look forward to seeing the complete version! [/QUOTE]
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