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What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« on: October 17, 2011, 02:34:04 AM »
I've heard about the Dungeoncrasher alternate class feature.  Since I don't own Dungeonscape I don't know the specifics.

What makes Dungeoncrasher so effective?  From what I've surmised it sounds like the Fighter trades in two bonus feats to get bonuses to damage rolls and bull rush attempts.  I may be wrong though.

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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2011, 03:43:07 AM »
Level: 2nd.
Replaces: If you select this alternative class feature, you do not gain the fighter bonus feats at 2nd level and at 6th level.
Benefit: You excel at overwhelming traps, smashing through doors, and pushing aside your enemies. At 2nd level, you gain a +2 competence bonus on saves and to your Armor Class when attacked by traps. You also gain a +5 bonus on Strength checks to break a door, wall, or similar obstacle.
In addition, you gain a special benefit when making a bull rush. If you force an opponent to move into a wall or other solid object, he stops as normal. However, your momentum crushes him against it, dealing an amount of bludgeoning damage equal to 4d6 points + twice your Strength bonus (if any).
At 6th level, the bonuses when dealing with traps increase to +4, and the bonus on Strength checks to break objects increases to +10. The damage you deal when bull rushing an opponent into a wall increases to 8d6 points + three times your Strength bonus.

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Not much on its own unless you're one of those DMs that thinks fighters aren't allowed to have nice things, in which case it's too much.  It gets better with the Directed Bull Rush maneuver of the Shock Trooper feat, or with flight and dribbling the opponent off the floor like a basketball.
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2011, 06:36:56 AM »
I've heard about the Dungeoncrasher alternate class feature.  Since I don't own Dungeonscape I don't know the specifics.

What makes Dungeoncrasher so effective?  From what I've surmised it sounds like the Fighter trades in two bonus feats to get bonuses to damage rolls and bull rush attempts.  I may be wrong though.
Nothing really. The concept as Weenog mentions is to combine with Shock Trooper to shove them down the length of a wall repeatedly slamming them against it and then following up with your attacks, it is a quick and dirty method for adding another couple hundred damage to an already several thousands worth.

Personally, it's inferior. Lion Totem gives full blown Pounce as a single level dip, or can be paid for with a hair less damage for the weapon base. A Lance of the Neverending Charge let's to puree everything in the range of your movement. Even the ability to Full-Attack by using teleport effects (called shadow pounce) can be obtained as a four level investment. To gain an ability that isn't even remotely as good of those traits and ultimately has problems even working as a six level investment, it just isn't worth it. However, as the only thing the fighter has, people like to bring it up like it's special.
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2011, 10:20:26 AM »
I think the coolest thing I've seen with Dungeoncrasher is combining it with all the weird shield slam/trip/charge feats to smash people with your shield, hitting them into allies, making them take damage and fall prone, then triggering an extra attack via Improved Trip. I don't remember the specifics, but I remember Jaron creating a shield fighter to see if optimized Sword & Board was possible. It ended up really just being Board, since the sword wasn't actually doing much. :p

Other than that, I agree with SorO in that a Pounce charger will already do tons of damage with Whirling Frenzy, Leap Attack, and Power Attack. Add in Frenzied Berserker for more damage, and you likely won't have the levels available to get to Fighter 6 until nearly 20th level.
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2011, 10:36:50 AM »
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2011, 11:14:51 AM »
I'm told if you can fly you can knock people prone by bull rushing them into the ground as you move past.
With that weapon that causes bull rushes brutal surge I think, that gets pretty interesting, as one of the flying races.
You can basically build a hawkman, lite.
All in all its some minor bonuses to an otherwise unsused attack form i.e. "Bullrush", but as weenog say's it's one of those nice things that fighters get. If you can reconcile the cost.
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2011, 02:17:58 PM »
It's just another way of dealing damage with a pseudo-style instead of going all ubercharger again.
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2011, 06:26:23 PM »
Play a Goliath Barbarian with RSL1 Mountain Rage plus Fighter 6.

You actually become large when raging, that's more reach and a little extra Str.

Use Knockdown and Power attack to initiate Bullrush attempts with your weapon. Knock enemies into a wall.

If you're using a large Spiked Chain you deal 2d6+1.5str + 8d6+3x Str if they hit a solid object.

Once the enemy is against a solid object it's just a brutal bonus damage beat down.

Shocktrooper lets you push the enemy off at an angle if that makes it easier to hit a wall.

20' reach + Combat reflexes = enough said.

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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2011, 09:34:39 PM »
I think the coolest thing I've seen with Dungeoncrasher is combining it with all the weird shield slam/trip/charge feats to smash people with your shield, hitting them into allies, making them take damage and fall prone, then triggering an extra attack via Improved Trip. I don't remember the specifics, but I remember Jaron creating a shield fighter to see if optimized Sword & Board was possible. It ended up really just being Board, since the sword wasn't actually doing much. :p

The sword was really important!  It looks sexy in its sheath on your back, you can use it to spit a pig and cook it at night...

Okay, yeah, it was pretty much just a "smash with shield" build.  But it certainly worked.  Knockback ensured that anyone who didn't die immediately would be in position to be charged next round, and the Dungeoncrasher bit just meant a lot more damage hit home.

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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2011, 01:27:46 AM »
Is there a psionic power that lets you create a "wall"? Because I remember thinking I'd like to create a half-giant psionic dungeoncrasher who made sure there was always a "wall" to smack people into.
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2011, 04:04:46 AM »
Is there a psionic power that lets you create a "wall"? Because I remember thinking I'd like to create a half-giant psionic dungeoncrasher who made sure there was always a "wall" to smack people into.
Wall of Ectoplasm. 'might not do, I guess.
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2011, 08:06:52 AM »
A one-level dip into Focused Conjurer, for Abrupt Jaunt and the Blockade spell? That's a dip that's nice on any kind of melee build, anyway.

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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2011, 10:10:08 AM »
A one-level dip into Focused Conjurer, for Abrupt Jaunt and the Blockade spell? That's a dip that's nice on any kind of melee build, anyway.
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2011, 10:12:35 AM »
A one-level dip into Focused Conjurer, for Abrupt Jaunt and the Blockade spell? That's a dip that's nice on any kind of melee build, anyway.
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2011, 10:39:50 AM »
Reminds me of the good times I had playing a Smite-din in Diablo 2. Until you get to physical immune... :fu That game should never have had immunities(most glaringly obvious with a single-element Sorceress).

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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2011, 01:01:34 PM »
Reminds me of the good times I had playing a Smite-din in Diablo 2. Until you get to physical immune... :fu That game should never have had immunities(most glaringly obvious with a single-element Sorceress).

I always figured if you can't do substantial quantities of at least 3 kinds of damage, you're not cut out for Hell and its dual-immune enemies.  And if you're not cut out for Hell, there's not much point playing.
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #16 on: October 20, 2011, 07:50:03 PM »
Is there a psionic power that lets you create a "wall"? Because I remember thinking I'd like to create a half-giant psionic dungeoncrasher who made sure there was always a "wall" to smack people into.
There's Wall of Ectoplasm (as has been stated), and you might use the Foxhole power from Untapped Potential for something similar.

The thing to do is to Link a Wall of Ectoplasm (or a Foxhole) to an Energy Wall (or just manifest an Energy Wall in front of a normal wall) and keep the Energy Wall a foot or so away from the solid wall. Then dungeoncrash through the Energy Wall into the actual wall, and they'll take quite a bit of energy damage in addition to the attack and dungeoncrash damage.
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #17 on: October 20, 2011, 11:01:41 PM »
^There is no kill like overkill..?
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« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2011, 11:07:46 PM »
^There is no kill like overkill..?
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Re: What does the Dungeoncrasher Fighter do?
« Reply #19 on: October 20, 2011, 11:15:44 PM »
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