Warshaper - Reach Weapons and Natural Weapons

Then Warshaper's great for that. Just finished playing a Changeling Warshaper. I was going for more of a scary freak of nature, with wicked looking natural weapons popping out of appalling locations and such, but just the flavor of the class alone is excellent. I stll remember the first time s/he was "crit" and I described the spear as thrusting deep into the chest where the heart should be, only plunge deeply into a sickenly empty, gaping hole. Fun stuff.
 

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To be honest, I just want to play a warshaper that doesn't have to deal with polymorph/wildshape nonesense. I'd like to incorporate some small spellcasting/blade magic in order to do something besides /full-attack all day.

Do you perhaps have any dairy-free ways to use warshaper?

I usually tend to want to marry it to a Lycanthrope. I do sympathize with the wanting to avoid Polymorph/wildshaping... I wanted to do a Doppleganger druid/Wildshaper when I very first started, asked for help building one here. The first advice I was given was, "Don't." :P

Dairy free: Shifter. Their shifting is rather like barbarian rages(and could in fact be used simultaneously, and you can use warshaper while shifting). You'd have a limited number of uses for it, but you could.

For Reed Richards, Warshaper would work well, you'd simply either amp the monk unarmed strike, or produce a 'slam' natural weapon for ranged punches and the like.
 

Should also mention, for Reed Richards, look into the Lords of Madness feats. Take Abberant Blood or whatever it's called (the grapple bonus for bendable limbs is probably the most appropriate) and then you qualify for Abberant Reach. Another +5 ft reach, at the cost of a permanent -1 to attacks. There's also some sort of willing deformity to do the same thing in Book of Vile Darkness, but that has a much more evil taint to it. Abberant feats don't have to be evil, just weird.

Maybe you could go Warblade and get the level 5 Iron Heart Stance that extends your reach 5 ft (only during your turn, not for AoOs and such, though), too. It's flavored as using superior balance to get the reach without falling over, but you could always re-flavor. Really a subpar stance, IMO, but if you really want to run with the concept, worth a thought.
 

Thanks, I've never really looked at lords of madness since I assumes it was Cthulu meets psionics.

About the warblade stance, that's pretty cool, i guess that I can pretend it has a different flavor. It's actually very cool since i've wanted to play ToB classes for a while now.
 

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