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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3433578" data-attributes="member: 13966">With that kinda composition, the DM is quite obviously out to maul your PCs and just keep you all following along for maximum sufferage before he finally looses the TPK bomb.....Seriously, with that much healing being expended in so few levels, in a 4-person group that is half clerics, your DM is out to get you all.  And does not intend for you to ever complete the adventure unless it is at the end of a grueling 5-year struggle involving the repeated death and replacement of the entire party, all concluding the adventure with about 5 copper pieces and barely 4 loin cloths left between them by the very end.  Then they'll die of starvation and chill before any rescue party can reach them in the finally-cleared-out villain's den.But I dunno much 'bout Shackled City, so maybe you'll all get ripped apart even sooner. -_-Of course your DM will frown on any high-AC characters and try to gank them sooner than normal; he wants you all to suffer and struggle miserably, like half-a-hit-die kobolds vying for scraps from their cackling yuan-ti overlords!If not for the harsh restrictions he's imposing, I'd suggest you make a dwarven Dragon Shaman with max Con and max Cha, focused on being the party's lifeboat and damage-soaker; everyone would at least be healed a bit for free during combat, and restored to half max HP +1 or so after each fight (technically the Vigor aura functions as long as the subject is at or below half max HP, so at half HP it'll still heal them one more time before it goes quiescent).Hrrm.  Go for an 18-Strength human fighter with spiked chain and full trippy/disarmy/cleavy goodness, mayhap.  Dunno what kinda critters you've faced, so I dunno if disarming or tripping are particularly useful tactics (no humanoids would mean little opportunity for disarming, while a bunch of quadrupeds or vermin would mean little chance of tripping).  Lessee.....  17 Str base, up to 18 from the 4th-level ability increase, and 13 Int (there's 18 points spent; put the last 10 into a 14 Con, a 10 Dex, and a 10 Wis; focus on Str later for better attack, damage, and power-attack/combat expertise bonuses).  Suit up in full plate and be the walking tank of super-trippy Hits McGee the Tripster from Tripsville, Tripsylvania.Feats: EWP (Spiked Chain), C. Expertise, Imp. Trip, P. Attack, Cleave, and Great Cleave.  Proceed to trip everything and anything like nobody's business, following up with normal attacks against the prone targets, and when they die cleave on through to the next foe.  Trip with AoOs, then hit 'em while their down and cleave to the next poor sap.  Oh, and technically, you'll get a cleave attack every time you drop a foe; so tripping them will give you a free cleave.At 6th-level fighter, take Improved Disarm (maybe, if you face lotsa armed opposition) and either Improved Initiative or Iron Will (depending on whether or not you expect to be ganked by a caster, instead of a half-dragon vampiric frost giant of legend that the DM sends to take out his frustrations at your trippy-ness).  Then go for the usual Weapon Focus/Spec/etc. chain after that, along with Imp. Crit and maybe, just maybe, some archery feats ('cept those with a Dex prerequisite of course) for when you have to rely on shootin' a beastie instead of wailin' on it up-close and personal-like.Always use the chain as a reach weapon for maximum AoO-wnage and tripping.  Unfortunately, you can't get any use out of Combat Reflexes unless you wanna sacrifice some Strength for a 14 Dex and 14 Int or something.  Of course, even if you do go that route at the start, you'll have to give up a feat like Great Cleave until reaching 6th-level.  Mounted combat feats would likely be a waste since you can barely keep your group alive un the killer DM, let alone some horse with lower HP and AC than yourself.The DM obviously wants you all dead and making a third cleric for the group won't save ya, so you may as well try having fun with it by knocking every baddie on his arse while beating 'em bloody and cackling, in a whirling frenzy of trips and chain-lashings against everything in reach.  Your PC is probably doomed anyway.  :\   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /></blockquote>

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