Hello all,

I'm planning on playing through SoU and HotU again, and I'm interested in trying something different, since I usually just play pure fighters or paladins. So, I was wondering if you smart builders could help me plan a character. I'm willing to use the PRC. Here's my wish list:

Ability to open locks and remove traps
Stealthy
Hide in Plain Sight
Keen Sense
DEX-based Dual-wield, hopefully with kukris
Animal Empathy, so I can talk to the animals in Chapter 1 of SoU.

I'd hope to get as many of these as possible. Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance for your help!

Laughing Coyote
Quote: Posted 05/31/06 14:34:56 (GMT) -- Laughing Coyote

Hello all,

I'm planning on playing through SoU and HotU again, and I'm interested in trying something different, since I usually just play pure fighters or paladins. So, I was wondering if you smart builders could help me plan a character. I'm willing to use the PRC. Here's my wish list:

Ability to open locks and remove traps
Stealthy
Hide in Plain Sight
Keen Sense
DEX-based Dual-wield, hopefully with kukris
Animal Empathy, so I can talk to the animals in Chapter 1 of SoU.

I'd hope to get as many of these as possible. Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance for your help!

Laughing Coyote

Fairly easy to manage all of that:

Take Rogue for Locks/ Disable & Set Traps/ Search/ UMD
Take ShadowDancer for HIPS
Take Elf for Keen Sense
Take Ranger for Animal Empathy and Dual Wield (1st level) and ITWF at 9th level.
All classes have Hide and Move Silently as class skills
Make sure to take Epic Dodge - needing Improved Evasion, Defensive Roll, Dex 25 and Tumble 25.
Weapon Proficiency Exotic for Kukris.

The question is which class you want to dominate:

Ranger for Favored Enemy bonuses, which increment every 5 Ranger levels. This combined with Bane of Enemies (at 21st Ranger level) would give an adequate damage output for some enemies being DEX based.

More Rogue gives you more skills, more sneak attacks and more Rogue bonus feats available at 10th, 13th, 16th, and so on Rogue levels

More Shadowdancer improves your Shadow Evade feat

Up to you really This character is what I used through HotU. CoT was for helping the saves. Fighter would/could be better. Just switch the race for Elf, it should still have the same starting abilities, the same feats, everything.

I had a few problems in HotU, especially the Valsharess, but had I more experience back then some Spell-mantle scrolls would have saved my day. But most of the time high AC and ED at lvl 21 +HiPS sure saves your behinds.
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