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samduke
2019-12-03, 06:14 PM
as the title suggests I am looking for help / advice on a specific build idea.

that idea is for a Harold of the Apocalypse - yes as in the four horsemen of...

Sources any 3.0/3.5 first party, no dragon magazine

my initial thought is to try and cover the basis of the 4 horsemen (Death, Famine, Pestilence, and War) and try to have as high of a base attack bonus as possible by level 20

a cleric could get domains of Death, Hunger (aka Famine), Pestilence, War - with a few other prc's to gain extra domains, but would this give a reasonable representation of a Harold of the Apocalypse?

other classes could work into this is what I am looking for from folks

Biggus
2019-12-03, 06:28 PM
What kind of level are you looking for them to be? Divine Emissary (https://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/prestigeClasses/divineEmissary.htm) seems to fit thematically but is epic-only.

samduke
2019-12-03, 09:50 PM
What kind of level are you looking for them to be? Divine Emissary (https://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/prestigeClasses/divineEmissary.htm) seems to fit thematically but is epic-only.

looking for by level 20 non-epic as epic there are a lot of answers

TheCount
2019-12-03, 10:49 PM
The villian competition had a character for each of the 4 horseman.
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?589107-Villainous-Competition-XXXIII-The-Do-Over/page4

samduke
2019-12-04, 03:27 PM
The villian competition had a character for each of the 4 horseman.
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?589107-Villainous-Competition-XXXIII-The-Do-Over/page4

while useful, i am actually trying to represent all 4 with 1 character

liquidformat
2019-12-04, 05:03 PM
while useful, i am actually trying to represent all 4 with 1 character

actually take a look at the 4 horse men villain competition one of which tries to do all 4 in one build...
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?500829

GrayDeath
2019-12-04, 05:20 PM
Indeed, one did.

Although I did have to penalize him a bit for doing so.

Still, none of them were named Harold, so itll probably not help much. ^^

liquidformat
2019-12-04, 07:29 PM
Still, none of them were named Harold, so itll probably not help much. ^^

HAROLD!!!!!!!!!

Honestly I think going with a walker in the waste/Winterhaunt of Iborighu could actually combine all 4 very well with the correct spell list. Maybe going with a cleric or archivist as the base and choosing your spell list to cover all the four horsemen?

GrayDeath
2019-12-04, 07:44 PM
Or go for a Level 20 Psion Telepath and True Mind Switch into fitting Monsters, one for each Horseman, as needed.

samduke
2019-12-05, 09:14 AM
yeah the telepath thing is less in the flavor of the idea, so the best I have for the moment is cleric into sovereign speaker which will get me the domains the fastest with the least amount of feats and fewest levels.
So with Cleric 5/ Sovereign Speaker 3, I get the 4 domains needed to represent the domains of the horsemen, now what to fill in for the remaining 12 levels both for the flavor of all 4 and to get the highest bab possible?