Character with only one level per class? (PF/3.5)

[Coidzor]

So a friend brought up the idea of making a character with only one level in each class that was a viable and equal contributor to a level 20 party, assuming you weren't counting well-played wizards, druids, or clerics, in Pathfinder.

Now, I recall that with the amount of PrCs and things that scale with character level in 3.5 that you can do some fairly nifty things along these lines in 3.5, but I found it hard to believe of Pathfinder considering the dearth of PrCs for Pathfinder and the active antipathy on the part of the designers of Pathfinder to multiclassing and abilities that scale with character level.

What say you, Playground?

Edit: This (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8lzcOod8dP0em8yMFVqWVdBMUE/edit?pli=1)is what a separate person joining into the conversation whipped up. (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8lzcOod8dP0WDRJWHBHZ2dvYlk/edit?pli=1) I believe it's 3.P due to having both Magus and Vow of Poverty, and Pathfinder's VoP is even more pointless than 3.5's for a character who only has one level of monk.

[vhfforever]

I believe I've seen it done before, and still ended up with 9th level spells. I'll have to look around to see if I can find it again, though.

[Randomguy]

Assuming fractional BAB was used, you could make a character with 20d6 sneak attack that also had a lot of skill points, so that would be a useful skill monkey.

You could also make a decent caster class, with 9th or at least 8th level spells, using either Urpriest or Sublime Chord and many +1 casting prestige classes. You might even be able to pull off both.

And you could make a decent tank by just taking levels in +1BAB classes, maybe with a few levels in casting classes so you could advance them with PrC's like Abjurant Champion.


And in both noncaster builds, a level of swordsage, crusader and warblade near the end will get you access to some neat maneuvers.

[Saidoro]

Well, you NEED fractional BaB if you want to hit anything, there really aren't enough prereq light BaB+1 classes to gain any advantage. The main selection criteria should be whether the class gives a useful passive ability at first level or something useful to do with your swift actions, standard actions, apart from the odd efficient buff, generally won't scale well enough and probably won't interact well with your other features. A jack of all stats and/or ubercharger could be built reasonably well this way. Some good classes: Cloistered Cleric(!!), Fighter, Lion Spirit Totem Barbarian, Factotum, Rogue(Martial or otherwise), Martial Wizard, Any ToB class, Monk, Warlock(Grab an all-day buff), Pathfinder Paladin. That's not getting into prestige classes and I'm sure I've missed quite a few, but it's a start.

[Answerer]

An earlier thread on this subject (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127167), including a build with 9th-level spellcasting on page 2.

[Coidzor]

An earlier thread on this subject (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127167), including a build with 9th-level spellcasting on page 2.

Thank you. I'd seen some earlier but wasn't finding any with my google-fu. x.x