nolongerchaos
2017-08-28, 03:29 PM
So my wife and I are playing the Kingmaker AP with some friends. Unfortunately, my wife isn't really having much fun with her character, the party Druid, since it isn't mechanically living up to what she had in mind.
Her original concept for the character was a heavily snake-themed druid who serves as a guardian of the forest/emissary to the fey. So strongly snake themed in fact, that her hopes are that by high level, pretty much any time a snake shows up in the kingdom, it is pretty much immediately going to be assumed to be acting on her behalf. She wanted to essentially treat her viper animal companion as a powerful embodiment of her character's soul, but unfortunately snakes are mechanically lackluster in terms of abilities and combat, especially next to the vanilla Summoner's Eidolon.
We recently hit 6th level, where she took her first level of the Green Faith Acolyte PrC (mechanically weak, but the Arch/Great/Grand Druid feature is appealing enough for it to be worth it for her). Our GM is pretty generous with us retraining levels if he can tell we're not satisfied with what the character's doing mechanically, so if you've got any alternate suggestions on how to help make the character perform more in line with the goals, whether spells (like Animal Messenger for fun snake messages), feats, magic items, or even alternate PrCs, since she'd probably be allowed to retrain by the GM (my wife has been playing 3.P for about 10 years, but she's easily the most casual about it in our group, so the GM is relatively rules-light with her).
Additionally, all of our characters are going to be granted Leadership for free at 7th level, I'm contemplating trying to book dive to find a suitable Monstrous Companion for her instead of a cohort, but if you've any suggestions regarding that opportunity I'd appreciate that too.
Thanks.
Her original concept for the character was a heavily snake-themed druid who serves as a guardian of the forest/emissary to the fey. So strongly snake themed in fact, that her hopes are that by high level, pretty much any time a snake shows up in the kingdom, it is pretty much immediately going to be assumed to be acting on her behalf. She wanted to essentially treat her viper animal companion as a powerful embodiment of her character's soul, but unfortunately snakes are mechanically lackluster in terms of abilities and combat, especially next to the vanilla Summoner's Eidolon.
We recently hit 6th level, where she took her first level of the Green Faith Acolyte PrC (mechanically weak, but the Arch/Great/Grand Druid feature is appealing enough for it to be worth it for her). Our GM is pretty generous with us retraining levels if he can tell we're not satisfied with what the character's doing mechanically, so if you've got any alternate suggestions on how to help make the character perform more in line with the goals, whether spells (like Animal Messenger for fun snake messages), feats, magic items, or even alternate PrCs, since she'd probably be allowed to retrain by the GM (my wife has been playing 3.P for about 10 years, but she's easily the most casual about it in our group, so the GM is relatively rules-light with her).
Additionally, all of our characters are going to be granted Leadership for free at 7th level, I'm contemplating trying to book dive to find a suitable Monstrous Companion for her instead of a cohort, but if you've any suggestions regarding that opportunity I'd appreciate that too.
Thanks.