My character - ranger or spell-less ranger?

[Kae'Yoss]

Quite possibly. I wonder if Unearthed Arcana stuff will be available to me; not knowing the specifics, the Wilderness Rogue might be perfect for this character.

The wilderness rogue just changes his class skill list a little ("city skills" out, "wilderness skills" in) and gets some of the ranger's class abilities as Special abilities.

 

[CCamfield]

The wilderness rogue just changes his class skill list a little ("city skills" out, "wilderness skills" in) and gets some of the ranger's class abilities as Special abilities.

Yeah, well, duplicate abilities aside, that might be good. If I was multiclassing, it'd be nice to be able to keep improving the same skills without spending the extra points for cross-class skills that a rogue doesn't have, like Survival.

 

[CCamfield]

Well, let me pick your brains a bit more...

I decided on ranger with spells, despite my character's low Wisdom, and the loot that we got from our most recent adventure included a necklace giving +2 to Wisdom and a +1 natural armour bonus. The party cleric did really want it, but she was nice enough to let my character have it. So I can start to cast spells now, and am thinking of supplementing my spellcasting by commissioning a small magic item or two. (I think that an item created by a druid casting a 1st level druid/ranger spell once per day would cost 400gp?)

What I'm now contemplating is whether it would be worth aiming for the Human Paragon prestige class in UA. Giving up a point of BAB and 6 skill points over 3 levels and delaying some ranger abilities (meaning a weaker animal companion, unfortunately), I'd get a good bonus to my Will save, a new class skill (quite possibly Tumble), a feat (always good) and a +2 bonus to an attribute - which I could put into Wisdom.

Do you think this would be worth doing? I don't know what the pre-reqs for the prestige class are.

 

[TracerBullet42]

Do you think this would be worth doing? I don't know what the pre-reqs for the prestige class are.

I believe the only prerequisite is that you be of the human race to take the human paragon class. So I think you qualify.