Hey BG. How have you guys been? In the DND campaign i've been playing my character just died! after 6 months(would have been alot longer than that if I had not died) of playing him, with little or no thoughts of creating a new character. Which is a first for me, I have what MMO players often refer to as altitis. I tend to get bored very quickly(3 months is the longest i've ever played a character prior to this). Which leads me to making tons of new characters! Anyway, I died yesterday evening, TOD was around 3:31 PM.
I was playing a melee cleric (CC5/ODC3/BK5). Recently in the campaign the DM stripped us of all of our magical equipment, and at the time all I had was a +1 prismatic warhammer(that he randomly rolled for, hence the +1 prismatic). Well, I still had my buffs, he basically made a bunch of hextorians seek me out to have my character challenged by their champion. He had alot of nice magic items(like a spell reflecting shield), fire resistance 30, etc. Oh and he was a warblade. So, basically he had like 37 AC, +30 something to hit, and 170 HP. I had (buffed) 19 ac, 24 to hit, and 150 hp.
Other problem was that I wasn't allowed to buff prior to the duel starting. so I was at a huge disadvantage as I needed to cast about 5 buffs to really be able to fight this guy(normally I cast divine power, righteous might, girallons blessing, greater magic weapon/magic vestment) Only had time to get the first three down, and I was hurting alot.
I think I would have beat him but he used some manuevers that denied me my next standard action(which was going to be Heal), so he had me down 100 hp at the 6th round of combat, and I had him down ~120(mostly from blade barrier), problem is he hit like a truck. So at the point where i was down 100 hp, I was planning on casting Heal next round. Nope. Denied me my next standard, so I basically sat there(couldn't really run because of my blade barrier) and waited to die. Next round he full attacked with the lowest of his attacks having +20 to hit or something, so basically He just smashed my face in.
Also, before you ask... I tried doing a save or die(plane shift, best I had with only a will save...), but his will save was over +16, and I know his fort was also ridiculous, oh and his reflex was like +19, it was ridiculous.
Regardless, I died, the end. Goodbye The Demon(as my party members had come to call him, mostly due to his appearance, 4 arms, bone armor, large size, etc), may you battle eternally on the planes of Acaris. Forgot to say that the fight was for keeps and Hextor got to claim my soul if I were to fall to his champion.
So anyway, i just wanted to tell that story before I got into the actual point of my post.
I wanna play a Shadow Sun Ninja.
Originally, I was thinking a rogue-y SSN. With lots of sneak attack damage to compliment the crazy amount of attacks I can get from GFlurry and TWF with unarmed strikes. However given the fact that starting level is 12, and will likely be 12 for quite a while. I don't see a good way to do that and also incorporate as much SSN as possible.
On to the goodies
Stats:
18
16
14
12
10
no particular order
starting level:12
Starting gold:20000
LA races allowed? yes, nothing 'crazy' as my DM would say(IE no feelie fay venerable dragonwrought jungle kobolds)
LA buyoff allowed? No
Books allowed? Pretty much everything. Including dragon magazines. However no third-party books without previous inspection by the DM.
So, a little 'maybe?' build I had come up with.
(if fractional BAB is allowed)
Whisper Gnome
Swordsage1/Monk2/Swordsage1/SSN7/Swordsage1
With this, I'd have a BAB of 9, 6th level manuevers, -0/0 Flurry(however no greater flurry yet), uhh... bunch of bonus feats... SSN stuff.
Yeah, I guess I'd stay in assassins stance for the SA? Not sure if It is worth it.
also, with the correct feats, and if I can convince my DM that the monk unarmed damage increasing things(Monks belt, superior unarmed strike, monks tattoo) all stack, then My damage would also be ...decent, at either 2d8 or 2d10.
Right now my DM says 'no' to monk level unarmed damage increasing abilities, stacking.
Anyway, If you guys could give a hand with this build(either by posting SA heavy/moreroguey type builds, or more monkish builds) I would greatly appreciate it!
quick question as well, I've seen Swordsage and Unarmed Strike variant thrown around alot on these boards. However I can't find mention of it in the TOB. If anyone could clarify this for me that would be great!