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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy" data-source="post: 150526" data-attributes="member: 4036">Fleet Runner of Ehlonna SmackdownOriginally posted by Black Arrow[subcaption - "Blessed of Gruumsh meets his match"; AKA "Where's Tiamat" smackdown]In honor of Carpe DM's inspiring smackdown series, here's my humble contribution, based on variants of the paladin smackdown... Suggestions are welcome. Seems more like the psychic warrior massacre series than a traditional 200 point smackdown though....For flair, this character can combine both the mounted paladin-ish smackdown (i.e. using heavy lance) with the dungeon crawling shield bashing paladin-ish smackdown. Haste is assumed (and is a free action class skill as a 9th lvl fleet runner of ehlonna). Needed: a mount with modified boots (err, horseshoes?) of speed for haste (or mass haste cast by mage; character could probably also be polymorphed into a centaur to get the 'mounted charge' ability solo if desired...). [A parallel smackdown would involve a warrior-type who focuses on bashing with two shields as weapons [no mount required] - replace hospitaler with cleric; perhaps slip in two levels of psychic warrior for extra feats. ;-) One could also go the route of a wood elf 1st ranger/9th cleric/10th fleet runner if desired for additional archery and self-reliant clerical prowess...(with Elf & War domains for Point Blank Shot, Weapon Focus(Long Composite Bow), True Strike, Cat's Grace).]Human 1st ranger/2nd fighter/2nd barbarian/3rd hospitaler[DOTF]/8th fleet runner of Ehlonna (Dragon #283)Feats Needed:Mounted Combat (1 - human)Ride-by Attack (1 - free)Spirited Charge (2 - fighter)Power Attack (3 - fighter)Dodge (3 - free)Run (6 - free)Mobility (8 - hospitaler)Improved Shield Bash (9 - free)Improved Two Weapon Fighting (12 - free)Shield Charge (15 - free)Power Lunge (18 - free)Divine Might (18 - hospitaler)]Str 18 (+4 stat increase +4 girdle = 26), Cha 18 (+4 cloak +4 shield = 26)Items (could be more powerful...):Shield of Command (+4 Ch) & Bashing w/SPIKES cast by 10th lvl clericRhino hide armor heavy lancePaladin holy sword scroll (readable with hospitaler Glory domain) or Vibrant purple ioun stone with holy swordgirdle of giant strength (+4 St)cloak of charisma (+4 Ch)Tactic:Let's bring the character to 18th level by adding 2 more levels of hospitaler, for two more feats and a BAB of +16. In one round, charge [as a partial action] and charge for the regular action (pushing opponent back 5' away from you with the improved shield bash at the end of the first charge action, combined with a free hasted 5' step backward to prepare to charge the opponent again, if there's anything left;-). Get twelve *charge* attacks while you're at it. Repeatable every round. This is based on the 8th level Fleet runner's Leopard's pounce, namely, "at 8th level, a fleet runner can make a full attack at the end of a charge. This is an extraordinary ability." So at the end of the hasted charge action, the character smacks with 4 lance attacks and 2 SPIKED shield attacks. REPEAT. Since the full attack takes place during a charge action, the resultant attacks gain the myriad of charge bonuses/multipliers, namely:(best case) holy sworded lance: Dmg: 1d8 +16(pwr atk) +<8(St)*2(pwr lunge) = 16> +8(Ch - divine might) +5(enhancement bonus) = (1d8 + 45) *5 (holy sworded*2(v.evil), rhino effect*2, spirited charge*3), or 5d8+225 = 247 damage (avg). [*3 critical could bring this to 346 damage.]shield of bashing: Dmg: 1d8 +16(pwr atk) +<8(St)*2(pwr lunge) = 16> +8(Ch - divine might) +10(SPIKES spell by 10th lvl cleric) +1(enhancement bonus) = (1d8 + 51) *3 (rhino effect and shield charge), or 3d8+153 = 166 damage (avg). [plus possible *2 critical bringing it to 221 damage (avg)].Total avg dmg/round assuming 8 lance hits and 4 shield hits..... a whopping 2640 points of damage!!!!! Enough to take Tiamat out to lunch after she wastes an AoO on the blind kobold you send in first;-) I forgot to include the barbarian rage bonuses among other things. Actually, by replacing the 2 levels of barbarian with 2 levels of psychic warrior, I could add the psionic weapon and deep impact feats. Coupled with a ton of 5pt crystal capacitators, every attack could be a touch attach (the 'perfect' great wyrm-slaughter tactic), which would almost guarantee hitting anything and being able to take the full power attack bonus.</blockquote>

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