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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5639355" data-attributes="member: 35909">Replace X and one of the Fighter levels with Ranger 2 and 3, enter Horizon Walker for a single level by level 7, and then do Dragon Disciple.  You can start at level 7 as a Ranger 3 / Fighter 1 / Sorc 1 / HW 1 / DD 1 (if you stop at 10, you'll never see DD5, but I don't think that's a huge loss anyway).  Of course, if you can just...not be human...you could do a much more simplified build w/o Ranger 3 or Horizon Walker.I have no idea why you think you can't trip while raging, there' feats and alternate Barb class features based around tripping, and nothing in the rage description would lead a reasonable person to think it precludes tripping (which, considering it's a sheer strength check, can be flavored as "no frills" as "I shove him and he falls down" if you want).So assuming Dwarf and that your DM doesn't prevent rage tripping, I'd do Barb 2 / Fighter 2 / Sorc 1 / DD 5.  Really, though, you need STRENGTH and SIZE to be a good tripper, rage once/day with no racial str bonus and at best large size when spell-buffed isn't going to be very good.  But you seem to be against the polymorph wizard idea, so this is the best possible build I suppose, unless lycanthrope is still on the table.  Orc would be a better race, but you seem worried about your MAD, and they net a -2 overall on ability scores.</blockquote>