Ranger 9/Assassin 30/Shadowdancer 1

A Seriously sneaky, evil, ugly, Elf with decent saves, high ac, and devastating Death Attacks. Opens locks pretty well and can use scrolls up to 8th lvl. Just please don't have True Seeing! Relatively weak vs things immune to critical hits and sneak attacks, otherwise it's deadly.

Beginning Stats:
Str: 14
Dex: 18
Con: 12
Int: 12
Wis: 12
Cha: 8

put all stat bonuses into dex

lvl
1. Ranger - Strong Soul(maximize hide and move silently for now, saving leftovers)
2. Ranger
3. Ranger - Dodge
4. Ranger - Dex +1
5. Ranger
6. Assassin - Mobility (put 5 points in tumble) keep adding to hide/move silently and tumble
7. Assassin
8. Shadowdancer - Dex +1
9. Assassin - Great Fortitude
10. Assassin
11. Assassin
12. Assassin - Iron Will, Dex +1
13. Assassin
14. Assassin
15. Assassin - Weapon Finesse
16. Assassin - Dex +1
17. Ranger - (I max out dicipline in these last ranger levels)
18. Ranger - Improved Critical Rapier
19. Ranger
20. Ranger - Dex +1
21. Assassin - Epic Fortitude
22. Assassin
23. Assassin
24. Assassin - Great Dex, Epic Will, Dex +1
25. Assassin
26. Assassin - Great Dex
27. Assassin - Great Dex
28. Assassin - Dex +1
29. Assassin
30. Assassin - Great Dex
31. Assassin
32. Assassin - Great Dex, Dex +1
33. Assassin - Great Dex
34. Assassin
35. Assassin - Great Dex, Improved Initiative
36. Assassin - Dex +1
37. Assassin
38. Assassin - Toughness
39. Assassin
40. Assassin - Great Dex, Dex +1

Ending Stats:
Str: 14
Dex: 36
Con: 12
Int: 12
Wis: 12
Cha: 8

Naked AC 31

Attack rating With two + 0 Rapiers:
+35/+30/+25/+20 (crit 15-20) (12-20 with keen rap)
+35/+30 (crit 15-20) offhand

Saving Throws:
Fort: 27
Reflex: 35
Will: 24

Ended up with (before adding stat bonuses):

40 points in Hide, Move Silently, and Tumble, 25 Listen, UMD 10, 15 Search, and a few points spread in other things like Open Lock, Disable Trap, Heal

I actually played a variation of this through the HoTU campaign and had lots of fun with it, but wanted to make a few changes in feat selection (take more feats to help will/fort saves and emphasize dex more). This is what I came up with. I'm new to making up builds like this and would be interested in any comments or ideas.

Edited By Cinnabar Din on 02/27/08 16:14

nice build, a few changes:
you should take the last level as ranger to max out disc
and also could you add the death attack dc?

Very nice for a rp build, i wouldnt advise it for pvp though unless your looking for a noob harasser - many servers have ts, which is a shame because i like assasins
Quote: Posted 08/07/07 20:01 (GMT) -- 280693joe

nice build, a few changes:
you should take the last level as ranger to max out disc
and also could you add the death attack dc?

Very nice for a rp build, i wouldnt advise it for pvp though unless your looking for a noob harasser - many servers have ts, which is a shame because i like assasins

Keep in mind this build was posted over 3 years ago. That being said:

- saving the last RGR level for a skill dump would be an option, yes, but it would result in you not getting Improved Two Weapon Fighting until very late in the build.

Since the build only takes 1 SD level at all and 10 Assassin pre-epic, you cannot switch that RGR level out anyway (can't take more than 10 levels of a single prestige class pre-epic). You'd need to drop an Assassin level and take a 10 RGR level to do the skill dump, which means losing an Assassin bonus epic feat and 1 on your Death Attack DC, which is no big deal though, as you can use your RGR FE feat in epic to select off the RGR epic bonus feat list. (Besides, there are a few feat choices I'd probably change in this build anyway in epic levels)

- Death Attack DC = 10 + Assassin Level + INT modifier, so: 10 + 30 + 1 = 41.
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