Examining The Angry Little Cleric

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#1

dr_rocktopus

Mar 18, 2009 2:22:22
Or How I learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Blastwave

Druids, clerics, archivists, and their fellow divine casters rock. This is well-known, and generally accepted. Today, we examine a lesser bit of fauna, the low level human divine caster, wet behind the ears and still hiding from mum. So how about a quick contest?

The cap is ECL four, the goal is a non-PunPun battlefield control\blaster build. Points for style as well as exotic or ingenuous builds, and double points for core-or-close-to-core. Low level is better, and no more than two templates are allowed.

Non-human builds are fine, but they compete in a much larger pond full of angry hungry fish. My offering is a low bar to jump, but it is one of the funniest images I could come up with. Without further ado, my Pooh build!


Whinny de'Pooh for 2 point out of 20 possible
1/10 Power for level
1/5 Style
0/5 Ingenuity
Not Core or Close.
Level 1 human Cloistered Cleric
He's in a strange forest, he doesn't know why, and he just wants the world to take him to honey. Failing that, he'll settle for blasting you as best his little hands will let him.

Neutral Evil: He'll do anything to go home or make you leave.
Undeath Domain
Plant Domain
Knowledge Domain

2 flaws
Vulnerable
Inattentive

5 feats at start.

Divine MetaMagic[Explosive Spell]
Extra Turning
Explosive Spell
Animal Devotion
Bonus from Undeath Domain: Extra Turning

At very early levels, most spells will get more damage from explosive spell than empower, and more utility as well. My personal favorite is certainly Explosive Entangle for the image and the battlefield control it affords you. Mostly, though, you'll just cast explosive entangle for hilarity and pain.
#2

carnivore

Mar 18, 2009 5:00:52
try this:

Strongheart Halfling
Patron..... somone with a Thrown weapon(Hammer)

Favored Soul 1

2 flaws
Vulnerable
Inattentive

Feats:
Heighten Spell
Versatile caster
Firey Burst(Reserve)
Touch of Healing(reserve)


unlimited 2d6 Firey Burst
unlimited use of healing(up to 1/2 hp capacity)


:D
#3

Endarire

Mar 19, 2009 16:10:23
Frostburn's ice slick is a pseudo-grease for all Clerics.
#4

dr_rocktopus

Aug 14, 2009 0:56:23
Bump!
#5

meatzombie

Aug 14, 2009 2:02:42
I'll give it a shot.

Human Cleric (Divine Magician Variant)
Undeath domain
Spells taken
1st doesnt matter
2nd Continual flame

One flaw
Inattentive

5 feats
Quicken spell
Sunlight eyes
Divine Metamagic
Extra turning

Round 1 Quick darkness, sunlight eyes, Summon undead II to summon two medium juvenile copper dragons, or one, large adult copper dragon skeleton, watch them tear your opponent limb for limb.
#6

khorus

Aug 14, 2009 13:27:42
Golaith Cleric 3
Sand Domain
Plant Domain
Spells taken
1st Entangle
2nd Black Sand

Feats
Tomb Tainted Soul
Profane Life Leech

Entangle bad guys, make black sand, harass enemy (or hug) while being healed and him slowly wasting away.

I imagine this guy emulating a cactus. Surving the harshness of the desert. Will move into walker in the waste to better embrace the harsh life of desert.
#7

ninjarabbit

Aug 14, 2009 14:58:42
Half-ogre cleric1

Feat: Human Heritage
Domains: Strength and whatever else you want
ACF: Spontaneous Domain: Strength

Since human hertage effectively makes you count as a human for things like spell effects this means that this half-ogre is now a legal target for enlarge person, so now he becomes huge-sized when casting it.