Fhaolan
2008-03-21, 05:27 PM
Hi all,
Out of curiousity, what build advice would you give to someone wanting to create a character who's primary focus is archery off the back of a flying creature?
Personally I've gone over various build ideas, and for some reason I'm fixated on the image of an arabian nights-type character on the back of a dire bat. Don't ask.
The primary focus I'm going for here is a mix of archery, and animal companion boosts. I started with Ranger going to Beastmaster and then to Wild Plains Outrider and the Natural Bond feat, but that meant missing out on a lot of the archery feats.
I tried working out what would happen if I subbed Fighter for Ranger, and while I got a good number of the archery feats, I had a hard time getting into the two PrCs due to the skill requirements and the Fighter's parcity of skill points.
Then I did something weird, and went Ranger/Fighter going up evenly until I got the prereques for Beastmaster and then Wild Plains Outrider. I haven't completely worked this one out, but I'm sure I've done something wrong because this is getting far too complex for my liking. :smallsmile: Just to make it more fun, I decided to make it a Desert Elf from UA for the fluff, and use the Elf Ranger Substitution Level at 1st level for the extra skill points, and there was the temptation to throw in the Planar Ranger Substitution to make the dire bat Celestial or Fiendish or something. Way more complex than my builds normally are...
So, what would *you* do?
Out of curiousity, what build advice would you give to someone wanting to create a character who's primary focus is archery off the back of a flying creature?
Personally I've gone over various build ideas, and for some reason I'm fixated on the image of an arabian nights-type character on the back of a dire bat. Don't ask.
The primary focus I'm going for here is a mix of archery, and animal companion boosts. I started with Ranger going to Beastmaster and then to Wild Plains Outrider and the Natural Bond feat, but that meant missing out on a lot of the archery feats.
I tried working out what would happen if I subbed Fighter for Ranger, and while I got a good number of the archery feats, I had a hard time getting into the two PrCs due to the skill requirements and the Fighter's parcity of skill points.
Then I did something weird, and went Ranger/Fighter going up evenly until I got the prereques for Beastmaster and then Wild Plains Outrider. I haven't completely worked this one out, but I'm sure I've done something wrong because this is getting far too complex for my liking. :smallsmile: Just to make it more fun, I decided to make it a Desert Elf from UA for the fluff, and use the Elf Ranger Substitution Level at 1st level for the extra skill points, and there was the temptation to throw in the Planar Ranger Substitution to make the dire bat Celestial or Fiendish or something. Way more complex than my builds normally are...
So, what would *you* do?