Feat Selection: Half-Orc Cleric

[jrients]

Edit: Oh sure, completely change your focus while I'm typing this monster up.

Sorry 'bout that. :\ It just took going over this idea with some other people to see that my concept was too unfocused. And I'm sorry I didn't make this clear earlier: I'm building a half-orc cleric of Boccob for roleplaying reasons, not because I think it is necessarily a good mechanical idea. Still I would like the character to be built as well as possible, given my crazy RP ideas. I would greatly prefer to start play as a cleric, not as a fighter or barbarian, if for no other reason than because that would mean that Friday night my party would have two half-orc goons and no cleric. And I committed to showing up with a cleric. If I had my druthers I'd play something else, but it's my turn to take one for the team.

Shadeus: Morningstars are totally cool. I'd don't care whether the game mechanics back me up on this or not. I like totally crushifying monsters right in the face with my big spiky metal club. I guess I can give you one mechanical reason why they rock: they are both piercing and bludgeoning weapons at the same time. That ought to count for something, right?

 

[Thanee]

Morningstars are good enough at least.

For a pure cleric you could pick up the same feats, the brb/clr is a bit more combat-focused naturally, but it's not like a cleric would be bad in combat, or anything.

For crushifying your foes, there's little that beats Power Attack and Cleave.

I'd still go with either Str 17 or Wis 15.

Just make sure, that you take only a light shield, so you can actually hold your weapon there to cast spells.

About Boccob and the domains... as a pure cleric those domains are great, only as a clr/wiz they are pretty pointless.

Bye
Thanee

 

[jrients]

I'd still go with either Str 17 or Wis 15.

I guess I don't need the Dex that badly. I can certainly see the advantage of the 15 Wisdom over the long term. I suppose it would grate were I to reach a high level with this guy and not be able to use some spells because of low Wis.

Just make sure, that you take only a light shield, so you can actually hold your weapon there to cast spells.

I was leaning towards buckler anyway and getting a crossbow.