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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roland Delacroix" data-source="post: 163436" data-attributes="member: 1753">Second level Bard with 18 Charisma.  Maxed Diplomacy, Sense Motive, Bluff, and take every language you expect to encounter.  Take Skill Focus:  Diplomacy and Duelist (or any feat that gives +2 Diplomacy +x).  Your Diplomacy bonus with all stuff is +17.  On an average roll of 10 you get a 27.  According to DMG table 5-4, Influencing NPC Attitude, this will turn even a Hostile creature Indifferent (many monsters).  It will turn an Unfriendly creature Friendly, an Indifferent creature (most NPC's) Friendly, and a Friendly creature Helpfull. If you can talk to it and it is intelligent, you can charm it.  Many DM's will require some 'Roleplaying' to allow this, but really the Diplomacy roll is it.  Anything on top of that is a 'Live Action' game.  Aside from turning hostile creatures Indifferent, you should drop by the jailhouse and make friends of all the guards.  You can probably convince a few to join you (Indifferent to Helpfull) and kill any non-intelligent stuff you come across.  Sure Warriors arent great, but at 2nd level they're about as good as fighters.Thats your 2nd level Smackdown.  To continue along this vein i'd take at 3rd level Monte Cooks ranger and drop all my points into Animal Empathy and Diplomacy rank 6.  For my 3rd level feat i'd take Cosmopolitan: Diplomacy for an average Diplomacy roll of 30.  You will make everything less than Hostile Friendly, most likely Helpfull.  Keep taking Animal Empathy, Diplomacy, and languages.  At 6th level take Leadership and a Cohort of anything that will buy you time to talk your way out of an ambush.By 6th level you should be able to sweet tounge your way out of any threat by intelligent being, and most of those by animals, beasts, and some magical beasts.  Animal Empathy DCs are generally lower because there are more Indifferent animals that Hostile intelligents. BTW for this to work your DMs should be giving XP for defeating threats, not just killing stuff.</blockquote>

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