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So i am currently playing a druid 11, we started at 3rd and he has advanced through 2 campaigns to his current level. We are restricted to core only, no outside PrCs or feats of any kind (I tried to talk the DM to allow PrCs on a "case-by-case" basis, but he nixed that).
The character concept was based roughly off of some books I have read (think soultaken from the "Malazan" boks for those that are familiar). The druid is from an area similar to the Kashmiri region of India and he is a warrior that wildshapes to a tiger (unless environmental conditions prohibit, say underwater) and fights melee; he actually spends most of his time in tiger shape and acts as the parties scout and tracker. The problem is, unless he has several rounds to buff, he is only moderately effective in melee. His AC is low and his BAB isn't great, although damage is good.
Well long story slightly shorter, he is going to multiclass to monk starting at 12th level, this should aid him greatly in the AC department (wild armor might as well not exist in the campaign and a 22 Wis [20 +2 periapt]) and should increase his fighting abilities. His AC in wildshape will be 29 (dex +2, Wis +6, bracers of armor +3, ring of protection +2, natural armor +3, barkskin +4, and size -1). Instead of ful attack of claw/claw/bite he will have someting like unarmed srike/unarmed strike/unarmed strike/claw/claw/bite (his next feat is multiattack to work towrd this), though the to hit isn't great still.
Anyhoo, the DM and I woked out how he could start multiclassing with as little formal training as possible, but I wanted to run my thoughs on how this might work by the "hive mind" here.
My idea was that instead of much of the formal training a monk might need, he could use his experiences traveling (and sparring, which we did) with the monk that was previously in our group, and almost treat monk as a prestige class. Frm reading the abilities it actually seems a good synergy with what he ahas gained as a druid previously. He woudl eventually gain evasion, which he could have lerned form his animal companion, immunity to disease, an extnsion of his immunity to poison, some minor healing, he can cast cure spells, unarmed strike is an extension of fighting with claw and tooth as a tiger, and the wisdom to AC would be him learning to turn his divine energy inward to halp in his defense.
Basically the idea is similar to using the monk class almost as a prestige class (lets face it, there aren't any good core PrCs for a melee focussed druid).
So the purpose fo this thread is to get ideas on if the two classes synergize well and if it is reasonable to treat a core class almost like a PrC. Aslo, feel free to comment on the charactre concept (since this is rouges gallery) and make core suggestions.
The character concept was based roughly off of some books I have read (think soultaken from the "Malazan" boks for those that are familiar). The druid is from an area similar to the Kashmiri region of India and he is a warrior that wildshapes to a tiger (unless environmental conditions prohibit, say underwater) and fights melee; he actually spends most of his time in tiger shape and acts as the parties scout and tracker. The problem is, unless he has several rounds to buff, he is only moderately effective in melee. His AC is low and his BAB isn't great, although damage is good.
Well long story slightly shorter, he is going to multiclass to monk starting at 12th level, this should aid him greatly in the AC department (wild armor might as well not exist in the campaign and a 22 Wis [20 +2 periapt]) and should increase his fighting abilities. His AC in wildshape will be 29 (dex +2, Wis +6, bracers of armor +3, ring of protection +2, natural armor +3, barkskin +4, and size -1). Instead of ful attack of claw/claw/bite he will have someting like unarmed srike/unarmed strike/unarmed strike/claw/claw/bite (his next feat is multiattack to work towrd this), though the to hit isn't great still.
Anyhoo, the DM and I woked out how he could start multiclassing with as little formal training as possible, but I wanted to run my thoughs on how this might work by the "hive mind" here.
My idea was that instead of much of the formal training a monk might need, he could use his experiences traveling (and sparring, which we did) with the monk that was previously in our group, and almost treat monk as a prestige class. Frm reading the abilities it actually seems a good synergy with what he ahas gained as a druid previously. He woudl eventually gain evasion, which he could have lerned form his animal companion, immunity to disease, an extnsion of his immunity to poison, some minor healing, he can cast cure spells, unarmed strike is an extension of fighting with claw and tooth as a tiger, and the wisdom to AC would be him learning to turn his divine energy inward to halp in his defense.
Basically the idea is similar to using the monk class almost as a prestige class (lets face it, there aren't any good core PrCs for a melee focussed druid).
So the purpose fo this thread is to get ideas on if the two classes synergize well and if it is reasonable to treat a core class almost like a PrC. Aslo, feel free to comment on the charactre concept (since this is rouges gallery) and make core suggestions.
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