I agree. In my recent playthrough my frontline was Amiri, Regongar and Valerie and as expected none of them had paladin levels. But if you want high defenses and you are already a LG character might dip paladin as well for Divine Grace.
Absolutely. If I want to add something extra to any builds with I wrote above I would remove third level of Paladin without a heartbeat. For example
You can do Scaled Fist 2/ Paladin 2/ THF 16 here and get an extra feat (a spot opened by grabbing blindfight from monk 2). But I like the idea of disease and fear immunity, and I was glad having that when boggards were terrifying everyone on my frontline but my Paladin.
Unless you have a Monk that gives Int bonuses to his abilities, you might be better off with a Sorc to dovetail with the Cha-based Monk.
Yes. However, the way XP was structured in AD&D meant that you are actually only about 2-3 levels behind at most, so gestalt is closer to it than the rest of 3.x.
Yes. 3.5 Gestalt is a little bit different though. Everyone in the party plays gestalt characters (There is not really a choice to stay single class and boost your exp gain) and you don't really divide exp.
I played gestalt characters before. Trust me, get a character that don't have MAD, even with stat boosting gear. My Wiz/Sorc hurt with the Int and Cha requirements.
If that is the case, just mod NWN2 and make Dragon Disciple into a full casting, full BAB class that you can get into using any base class at level 2. Do the same for Warpriest and Eldritch Knight, and you are set.
Damn. Oh well. Thanks for the info.
Picture from my old post.
On Hard +20 and more is possible on endgame enemies.
IMHO, relying on initiative to avoid flat-footed on tank is really bad strategy - enemy's huge bonuses to Initiative from the stats are too high to reliably keep up with them as game progress.
This combination changes any slashing one-handed weapon to finessable one (even if it is not finessable) in this game. You can go for longswords, bastard swords or falcatas also. It would be best for you to go falcata though. Not many weapon beats Lion's Claw for crit fishing.
Don't. Even if you fall for spellstrike meme you will strike with two hand most of the time.
Piranha strike lacks this line from power attack and it is inferior. Grab power attack with help of a stat item.Power Attack said:
Not really different than STR variant, you just pay 2 feat tax to become dex based.
You are a magus, you are not really bound by weapon progression. Also, you will get Lion's Claw right after dealing with Vordakai iirc, it is a 18-20/x3 weapon. You won't be needing any weapon after that.
Game adds 1.5 times your damage stat modifier if you are striking with two hand. Yes, this works for slashing grace for some reason. All your need is an empty hand. Prime eurojank, but I have a suspicion that these divergence from pnp ruleset are actually intended. If there were, congrats Owlcat on sensible changes.
Even if you dump STR, a stat item fixes it. Even if you have 7 STR you will get an +6 stat belt sooner or later. Before stacking to hit modifiers I wouldn't rely on Power Attack anyways. However, if you equip the belt, get the feat, and later remove the belt you won't be able to use the feat. You will still qualify for things that require Power Attack though.
Slashing Grace is completely separate thing from Power Attack.
Power attack is something independent from STR and DEX. It doesn't matter if you are DEX or STR or (CHA, see Desna's Shooting Star) based . It is also prereq for some neat stuff (Cornugon Smash, Dreadful Carnage if you want to that route) compared to completely irrelevant Piranha Style.
If you cheese your path to Lonely Barrow Boss fight you can get Bloodhound. I assume he is talking about it
