Dragon Class and Race

[urmom]

Hello, im trying to make a character based on a dragon like class or something of a dragon knight. im trying to refrain from using homebrew, however if its not to OP i can use it. im trying to find a class that would be good with AC, Attack, with a few other special qualities that might help him take on multiple characters. Also any weapons and or armor to help out.

[Stealth Marmot]

Hello, im trying to make a character based on a dragon like class or something of a dragon knight. im trying to refrain from using homebrew, however if its not to OP i can use it. im trying to find a class that would be good with AC, Attack, with a few other special qualities that might help him take on multiple characters. Also any weapons and or armor to help out.

A lot of this might work as simple flavor text as you run a fighter with a Polearm speciality.

Is there any specific power or ability you want?

[ExLibrisMortis]

Have you considered simply playing a dragon? Take a level in crusader, and prestige into Jade Phoenix Mage (refluff as Jade Dragon Mage, nearly the same).

[John Longarrow]

What level/cr are you looking for?

[Psyren]

RGG made a 3rd-party Dragonrider (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-party-classes/super-genius-games/dragonrider) base class that you might be interested in for this concept.

[urmom]

What level/cr are you looking for?

The Level that the character is going to be is between 15-20 depending on the class

[urmom]

Have you considered simply playing a dragon? Take a level in crusader, and prestige into Jade Phoenix Mage (refluff as Jade Dragon Mage, nearly the same).

i want to choose a knight for the reason of the campaign

[urmom]

A lot of this might work as simple flavor text as you run a fighter with a Polearm speciality.

Is there any specific power or ability you want?

there is no specific powers or abilities and im not familiar with "polearm speciality"

[ExLibrisMortis]

i want to choose a knight for the reason of the campaign
And who says dragons can't be knights? LG dragons are totally more knightly than the knightliest of knights!

Anyhow, crusaders are still good, just play a crusader. To add dragon abilities, look at the dragonborn race, and maybe pick up a dragon ally. Leadership + Dragon Cohort will get you a very young gold dragon at ECL 13, for example, or a young gold at ECL 17.

[John Longarrow]

Dragon Shaman? You get a breath weapon!

[Stealth Marmot]

there is no specific powers or abilities and im not familiar with "polearm speciality"

Weapon Speciality and focus in a polearm such as a guisarm. With a feat that lets you threaten and attack adjacent squares so your range is a 10 feet square. It allows you to attack a lot of different people, and threaten a wide area. Make sure you have Cleave and Great Cleave, and make sure you get Whirlwind attack so you can, as a full attack action, make a single attack against everyone in your range, which is a large area, and you will make it at your highest attack bonus so you can power attack that attack s well and take out a half dozen mooks in one sweep without spending a thing.

[Gnaeus]

Dragon Shaman? You get a breath weapon!

Dragon Shaman is good thematically. But not a fantastic class. Dragonfire Adept is stronger.

[Andezzar]

Weapon Speciality and focus in a polearm such as a guisarm. With a feat that lets you threaten and attack adjacent squares so your range is a 10 feet square. It allows you to attack a lot of different people, and threaten a wide area. Make sure you have Cleave and Great Cleave, and make sure you get Whirlwind attack so you can, as a full attack action, make a single attack against everyone in your range, which is a large area, and you will make it at your highest attack bonus so you can power attack that attack s well and take out a half dozen mooks in one sweep without spending a thing.Short Haft is a pretty bad feat. You can only switch between normal and extended reach on your action, meaning that you only ever threaten as if you had a normal weapon or a reach weapon. You also need Weapon Focus: [Reach Weapon] to qualify for it.

For only one feat (EWP: Spiked Chain) you become proficient with the spiked chain, which allows you to threaten within your natural reach and twice your reach, among other benefits (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/weapons.htm#chainSpiked).

[Ruethgar]

The base 10 dragons have ECL 0 versions that aren't required to go into monster classes. Immunities are nice, but otherwise not very good as far as a race. Awakened Lizards are also ECL 0 and can be avian based as a needletooth if you wanted more of a wyvern. Dragon Touched and Dragon Wings makes you very dragon-like, and what do you know? You get a free bonus feat for that race in addition to Weapon Finesse. Tiny is, however, very restrictive. But, those dragon monster classes I mentioned that you didn't need to take, they have no prerequisites like the SS classes do so if you really wanted to take a hit with the ECL, you could go red to MASSIVELY increase your strength as you work up to wyrmling. +8 Str, +2 Con, -4 Dex for the size change alone and as an Awakened Lizard you offset the +4 LA with your no ECL RHD.

[ExLibrisMortis]

Short Haft is a pretty bad feat. You can only switch between normal and extended reach on your action, meaning that you only ever threaten as if you had a normal weapon or a reach weapon. You also need Weapon Focus: [Reach Weapon] to qualify for it.

For only one feat (EWP: Spiked Chain) you become proficient with the spiked chain, which allows you to threaten within your natural reach and twice your reach, among other benefits (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/weapons.htm#chainSpiked).
This is very true. If you do not like the spiked chain (and it does have its detractors, particularly in the immersion/realism department), Improved Unarmed Strike or a spiked gauntlet can also threaten up-close while you wield a polearm. Nothing like kung-fu kicking stuff that gets too close to run clean through.