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_m_ 11-12-06, 10:17 PM	What to do with him. I've got leadership, and enough happy big important person points for him to be a 7th level (im 9th) without breaking a sweat. i dont recall his exact stats, but the little dakon fella is, as you buy him, 1wizard with 18 strength. thoughts on direction for said cohort: for extra reference, im an arcane caster myself, i dont want my cohort tobe one.
DuctShuiTengu 11-12-06, 10:35 PM	With his physicals, I wouldn't suggest making him an arcane caster even if you were inclined to do so. It'd be a shame to not give him the weapon proficiency, BAB, and hitpoints needed to engage in make use of that 18 Strength. The main question in my mind is where to head with him to take advantage of that 1 level of Wizard that he's got rather than let it turn into a dead level.
opa 11-12-06, 10:43 PM	mine is wizard 3 monk 1 ranger 1(to max out his climb get favored enemy track to go with his scent, help his saves and BAB), enlightened fist
_m_ 11-12-06, 10:44 PM	With his physicals, I wouldn't suggest making him an arcane caster even if you were inclined to do so. It'd be a shame to not give him the weapon proficiency, BAB, and hitpoints needed to engage in make use of that 18 Strength. The main question in my mind is where to head with him to take advantage of that 1 level of Wizard that he's got rather than let it turn into a dead level. exactly my thoughts. if he had a fighting style first level, it'd be an easy choice, but 1 wizard is just anoying. even more so than 1 sorcerer, which can go places. i especially dont want a cohort with a spell book. way to expensive for the poor thing. i was thinking something like green star adept, but the star metal is anoying. i just have a hard time working out how to make it not a dead level :D
ShinAkuma2 11-12-06, 11:23 PM	Assuming he has no racial bonuses/penalties (I don't know what he is, I've only seen the race on the AR itself), I believe he works out to something like a 42 point buy. He also seems to have a (human?) bonus feat in there. Needless to say, the guy in my group who has him has dubbed him the "brok-hort".
clik_ml 11-13-06, 02:17 AM	What to do with him. I've got leadership, and enough happy big important person points for him to be a 7th level (im 8th) without breaking a sweat. Ehhh, is this a typoe, or some strange aspect of the favor? Normally your cohort can only be as high as 2 levels below the leader. It was a 1 level gap in 3.0, but 3.5 changed that.
Lupo 11-13-06, 05:53 AM	What to do with him. I've got leadership, and enough happy big important person points for him to be a 7th level (im 8th) without breaking a sweat. i dont recall his exact stats, but the little dakon fella is, as you buy him, 1wizard with 18 strength. thoughts on direction for said cohort: for extra reference, im an arcane caster myself, i dont want my cohort tobe one. spellsword is an easy route. enlightened fist is an excelent choice for his high stats. arcane archer might be an option, anything with arcane strike might work. one of my clerics has a dakon mutt, wiz/fighter/barbarian/occult slayer/exotic weapon master. he has gotten some of the swift spells for good use, with some borrowed pearls of power he can use them over and over again :). ciao martin m.
Lomiat 11-13-06, 07:01 AM	Wiz/Ftr/Spellsword/Eldritch Knight Go with Combat Expertise and as many of the follow-up feats as possible: Improved Trip, Improved Disarm, Improved Combat Expertise, etc. A cohort who ends up being lower-level and carries a lower gp-total worth of weaponry and armor can still make a nice tactical fighter. His lower BAB might make Improved Disarm look a little unappealing--until you factor the True Strike into the equation. Just be sure to give him reach weapons and Combat Reflexes, etc.
_m_ 11-13-06, 05:02 PM	Ehhh, is this a typoe, or some strange aspect of the favor? Normally your cohort can only be as high as 2 levels below the leader. It was a 1 level gap in 3.0, but 3.5 changed that. aye, twas a typo, im a 9
_m_ 11-13-06, 05:04 PM	spellsword is an easy route. enlightened fist is an excelent choice for his high stats. arcane archer might be an option, anything with arcane strike might work. one of my clerics has a dakon mutt, wiz/fighter/barbarian/occult slayer/exotic weapon master. he has gotten some of the swift spells for good use, with some borrowed pearls of power he can use them over and over again :). ciao martin m. how do you justify having a wizard occoult slayer? isnt that kind of... backward? like having a half orc darkwood stalker kind of thing... can my cohort use my mains starmetal access to go greenstar adept?
Lupo 11-13-06, 05:36 PM	how do you justify having a wizard occoult slayer? isnt that kind of... backward? like having a half orc darkwood stalker kind of thing... can my cohort use my mains starmetal access to go greenstar adept? yea, the flavor text for occult slayer is problematic, but the dakon truely hates to the extrem members of the scarlet brotherhood, spellcasters in particular. not to strange with the dakon background. ciao martin m. ps: there are some players that are members of the scarlet brotherhood, hm, it will be interesting when we meet such an individual . . . .
Jay_Ibero_911 11-15-06, 09:58 PM	One of my buddies got that cohort prior to conversion and used conversion to make him a cleric/Master of Radiance (he got access to the libris mortis class). Now he is a sunshine zap cannon.
Lupo 11-16-06, 01:12 AM	One of my buddies got that cohort prior to conversion and used conversion to make him a cleric/Master of Radiance (he got access to the libris mortis class). Now he is a sunshine zap cannon. hm, i think special cohorts have to be taken the way they are given. so i am not sure you can get rid of the wiz level. otherwise the dakon would make a tremendous monk :). ciao martin m.
_m_ 11-16-06, 04:50 PM	enlightened fist?
Lupo 11-16-06, 05:22 PM	enlightened fist? no, unless you are sure to never play up with the cohort. enlighened fist is low on the power curve by itself, considering the BAB and spellslots available, it has some unique abilities but looses effectivity when being 4 levels under the APL. ciao martin m. ps: when building my dakon mutt cohort i tried to build an effective enlightened fist, by replaying some recent encounters, just didn't work out well.