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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #40 on: January 10, 2011, 06:55:14 PM »
Oh, I have this one community where they think rogues are g00dly, and this one guy said: "no more rogues, I'm going fighter. I'll max my intelligence, for synergy between combat expertise and being able to max my skills (off class, ofcourse)".
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weapon expertise, weapon finesse, two weapon fighting, combat reflexes (cuz you know, it's based on dex).

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #41 on: January 10, 2011, 07:04:10 PM »
I'm sad to say one of the worst I've ever seen was my first character...I was 12 at the time, cut some slack.
Dont remember the exact number, but I was enough Bard to meet the spellcasting req for Mindbender, picked up a level of sorc just because I thought a snake familiar would be cool, and then went full Mindbender. I tried to make up for it by being a really good party face with 24/7 Glibness, but by god, I was WORTHLESS unless we were talking to people.

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #42 on: January 10, 2011, 07:52:10 PM »
I remember seeing a CW Samurai/Monk with weird ability scores (boosted Cha, dumped the rest) out there somewhere, unfortunately this is all I can recall about it. It is far from pretty, however.
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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #43 on: January 10, 2011, 07:54:33 PM »
I'm sad to say one of the worst I've ever seen was my first character...I was 12 at the time, cut some slack.
Dont remember the exact number, but I was enough Bard to meet the spellcasting req for Mindbender, picked up a level of sorc just because I thought a snake familiar would be cool, and then went full Mindbender. I tried to make up for it by being a really good party face with 24/7 Glibness, but by god, I was WORTHLESS unless we were talking to people.
That's actually a salvageable T3 character if you can get good thralls.

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #44 on: January 10, 2011, 08:26:27 PM »
I feel sad that my first character wasn't this level of fail... it was a druid with natural spell...

Yeah, me too, the DM helped me build the character though. So what you want to do is turn into a bear and eat people, after the combat you want to heal your friends, get it?

Playing a druid isn't to hard.
Monks are pretty much the best designed class ever.

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #45 on: January 10, 2011, 08:35:40 PM »
I can't remember the exact build (it wasn't mine) but it was a dex-based monk build that used Flurry of Misses every chance it got. It was basically like if a fighter and a rogue had a baby but during the pregnancy the mother smoked a lot, drank a lot, took a lot of prescription meds, and the mother fell down a lot on her belly.

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #46 on: January 10, 2011, 09:01:05 PM »
I can't remember the exact build (it wasn't mine) but it was a dex-based monk build that used Flurry of Misses every chance it got. It was basically like if a fighter and a rogue had a baby but during the pregnancy the mother smoked a lot, drank a lot, took a lot of prescription meds, and the mother fell down a lot on her belly.
That's a bit unfair to the fetus, isn't it? Even a fetus with aspirations can become an atropal.

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #47 on: January 10, 2011, 09:09:31 PM »
I can't remember the exact build (it wasn't mine) but it was a dex-based monk build that used Flurry of Misses every chance it got. It was basically like if a fighter and a rogue had a baby but during the pregnancy the mother smoked a lot, drank a lot, took a lot of prescription meds, and the mother fell down a lot on her belly.
That's a bit unfair to the fetus, isn't it? Even a fetus with aspirations can become an atropal.
You're thinking of Unholy Scion (?). Only the fetus of a god can become an atropal.


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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #48 on: January 10, 2011, 09:14:22 PM »
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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #49 on: January 10, 2011, 09:23:47 PM »
Fuinjutsu I've seen the same thing oonly crappier.

A friend of mine to this day thinks this was the most broken build evar. Keep in mind this guy thinks monks are more powerful than barbarians.

A rogue/sorcerer. That's it. His feats were never disclosed but he used a longsword if that shows you anything. He evenly divided hislevels between the two and the prestige classed...into shadowdancer. That's right, because, as he would say *ahem* SHADOWDANCER CAN KILL AN ENTIRE. ARMY. IN. ITS. SLEEEEEEP!!!! As he would say in an offended yelling voice. He forgets that not everyone sleeps and he has 160 ft of coup de grace and then he has to get BACK. Oh, at least he gets all the best blasting spells like fireball - I mean seriously, caster level worth of d6s for one spell? And the ability to sneak attack enemies? Broken. Way too broken.

I had to explain that Intelligence was a rogue's best stat, a rogue/wizard would've been infinitely more effective, Shadowdancer sucks, Assasin would have gotten poison use and more SA, summoning a shadow is crap for the sacrifices made, and you could easily just...teleport. To this day he considers evocation to be the most powerful school because Meteor Swarm can do 32d6 damage. Of course I had to show him the 17 hurdles (not counting concealment) that the spell had to go through, but that couldn't convince him.

Just goes to show that not everyone can be convinced with logic. Thus, when his next character, a monk, continually did very little he conveniently never noticed.

His next character was a monk. Just...monk. Well, eventually he became a tattooed monk but he never took any good tattoos (BUT THIS TATTOO MEANS I DON'T NEED TO EAT OR SLEEP EVAR AGAIN!). *cough*Heward'sFortifyingBedroll*cough* As I was saying, he took Improved Grapple. We went up against spellcasters who cast spells exactly 1 normal human move action away from us, BEGGING to be grappled. He never actually used grapple in his character's entire career. But Fist of Iron must be broken because it adds a whole d6 worth of damage! And can be taken over and over!

I wonder if he really noticed the game being played? Seriously the number of times his character hit the floor bleeding was staggering. He always ran up to the frontline and expected the druid to heal his as he fought.

Wow, THAT'S Regdar? ...I don't know what to say...

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #50 on: January 10, 2011, 09:24:25 PM »
My deepest shame... I made for a level 17 game ( I joined the group when they were ending the campaign and were kind enough to let me join for the last sessions.

It was a Kalashtar Soul Knife 5/Psion 3/Quori Nightmare 3/Soul Knife +6....

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #51 on: January 10, 2011, 11:28:44 PM »
I can't remember the exact build (it wasn't mine) but it was a dex-based monk build that used Flurry of Misses every chance it got. It was basically like if a fighter and a rogue had a baby but during the pregnancy the mother smoked a lot, drank a lot, took a lot of prescription meds, and the mother fell down a lot on her belly.
That's a bit unfair to the fetus, isn't it? Even a fetus with aspirations can become an atropal.
You're thinking of Unholy Scion (?). Only the fetus of a god can become an atropal.
It was a joke. :P

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #52 on: January 10, 2011, 11:38:25 PM »
I also remember making a Ranger 1/Barbarian X for a 3.0 game, because 1 level of Ranger meant TWF.

I also hated power attack, because I figured that the increased chance of missing was never worth a meager bonus to damage.

Presently, I don't know how I reconciled those two positions...

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #53 on: January 10, 2011, 11:46:02 PM »
campaign set in a dark version of Oz

using a mish mash of Mongooses Conan system with some additional rules pulled from elsewhere

Player makes a Conan system Sorcerer which give you far fewer spells and spell points.  Save DC's are based on Charisma

He takes a Charisma 8

because it will be 'a challenge'

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #54 on: January 11, 2011, 12:01:11 AM »
this is possibly the worst build ive ever played but it was done on purpose.  i wanted to play a commoner or expert and if i had a choice ide never enter combat.  DM said no to the commoner or expert so i picked fighter for the base. 

fighter 25
str 14
dex 14
con 10
int 16
wis 10
cha 16

with mostly homebrew feats to up my craft checks.  and leadership.  i made a blacksmith and had a cohort that could turn everything magical.  we ended up playing till 25th level i believe i ended up with skill checks in the range of 100 to cut the time it took to make weapons/armors and locksmithing tools. 

it was stupid but atleast i had fun.  and the stupid part was kinda tha point not sure if it counts. 

but my first character was a druid never took natural spell but the campaing ended at 5th level, of course ive always been a person for numbers so figuring out the base line of the system wasnt a big deal for me

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #55 on: January 11, 2011, 12:18:21 AM »
I feel sad that my first character wasn't this level of fail... it was a druid with natural spell...

Yeah, me too, the DM helped me build the character though. So what you want to do is turn into a bear and eat people, after the combat you want to heal your friends, get it?

Playing a druid isn't to hard.

Yes, playing a druid shouldn't be hard... but my first time playing D&D (I had DMed D&D once before then (Lasted two sessions), so believed I was more experienced than I was), well, I decided to play a halfling druid and took levels in halfling paragon, thinking losing caster levels would be worth the +1 to all saves, and then the attribute boost would bee actually rather powerful.  After all, attribute boosting magic items are so expensive, hence attributes must be the best thing.  I have since learned my lesson: read online handbooks for a class before considering oneself to know how to play it, as one is always to miss at least one important detail.

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #56 on: January 11, 2011, 07:47:26 AM »
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Also, Regdar.

Human Fighter 8
Feats: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (bastard sword), Weapon Focus (bastard sword), Weapon Specialisation (bastard sword), Weapon Focus (longbow), Weapon Specialisation (longbow), Toughness

Some people at GitP started crying and banging their heads into walls when I pointed out that this is how D&D was playtested.

Can't remember if it was sunic-flames or sinfire titan (I always get these 2 mixed up) who pointed out the core npcs in the book of npcs splatbook. The druid had what...improved crit:scimitar amongst other craptacular feats. Because he is evidently expected to wade into battle without wildshape active. The minotaur had lvs in wizard (which were associated).  ???

I thought the chosen of mystra were also very weak for their cr, because the designers had this fetish for multiclassing them to uselessness. When the simbul is cr36, but has only sorc22 spellcasting (when in the 2ed books, she is a wiz30)  :twitch
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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #57 on: January 11, 2011, 08:30:40 AM »
Early days, wet behind the ears.. We made characters to ECL8.

Half-dragon (+3 LA)/half-fiend (+4 LA)/human monk

I was quite squishy and I remember always being scared to take a hit. I did grapple once a wizard (that was about it) and lucklily after that session we abandoned those characters.

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Re: Worst build you have ever seen?
« Reply #58 on: January 11, 2011, 01:14:12 PM »
I thought the chosen of mystra were also very weak for their cr, because the designers had this fetish for multiclassing them to uselessness. When the simbul is cr36, but has only sorc22 spellcasting (when in the 2ed books, she is a wiz30)  :twitch
To be fair you only really need level 21 spellcasting.  Epic spellcasting progressions are pretty subpar.
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