[Zink Whistlefly]

Hmm, I've just put together a build that consists of both Arcane Archer and Red Dragon Disciple, that has both Devastating Critical Long/Short Bow and Devastating Critical Quarterstaff. The bad news is that it will take until
30 character levels to achieve this (at least as far as I can work out!).

Here's the build:

Starting Abilities (Half-Elf):

STR: 14
DEX: 14
CON: 14
INT: 12
WIS: 10
CHA: 14

Starting Abilities (Elf)

STR: 14
DEX: 16
CON: 12
INT: 12
WIS: 10
CHA: 14

Here's the progression:

Bard 1: BAB = 0, Lore=4, (Feat = Weapon Focus :Long/ShortBow), D6 hitdice
Bard 2: BAB = 1, Lore=5, D6 hitdice
Bard 3: BAB = 2, Lore=6, (Feat = Point Blank Shot), D6 hitdice
Bard 4: BAB = 3, Lore=7, (Ability increase +1 DEX), D6 hitdice
Bard 5: BAB = 3, Lore=8, D6 hitdice
RDD 1(6): BAB = 4, (Feat = Power Attack), +1 AC, D6 hitdice
RDD 2(7): BAB = 5, +2 STR, D6 hitdice
RDD 3(8): BAB = 6, Extra attack per round, 2D10 Fire Breath, (Ability increase +1 DEX), D8 hitdice
AA 1(9): BAB = 7, (Feat = Cleave), Enchant Arrow +1, D8 hitdice
RDD 4(10): BAB = 7, +2 sTR, D8 hitdice
AA 2(11): BAB = 8, Fireball Arrows, D8 hitdice
AA 3(12): BAB = 9, Enchant Arrow +2, (Ability increase +1 DEX), (Feat = Improved Critical: Long/ShortBow), D8 hitdice
AA 4(13): BAB = 10, Seeker Arrow, D8 hitdice
RDD 5(14): BAB = 11, Extra Attack per round, +1 AC, D8 hitdice
AA 5 (15): BAB = 12, Enchant Arrow +3, (Feat = Improved Critical: Quarterstaff), D8 hitdice
RDD 6 (16): BAB = 13, (Ability increase +1 STR), D10 hitdice
AA 6 (17): BAB = 14, Seeker Arrow 2, (Ability increase +1 DEX), D8 hitdice
RDD 7 (18): BAB = 15, +2 CON, 4D10 Fire Breath, (Feat = Weapon Focus: Quarterstaff), D10 hitdice
AA 7 (19): BAB = 16, +4 Enchant Arrow, Extra attack per round, D8 hitdice
RDD 8 (20): BAB = 16, +1 AC, (Ability increase +1 STR), D10 hitdice
AA 8 (21): BAB = 17, Hail of Arrows, (Feat = Great Cleave), D8 hitdice
RDD 9 (22): BAB = 18, Wings, +2 INT, D10 hitdice
AA 9 (23): BAB = 19, Enchant Arrow +5, D8 hitdice
RDD 10 (24): BAB = 20, +1 AC, Darkvision, Immunity to Sleep Paralysis and Fire, +4 STR, +2 CHA, 6D10 Fire Breath, (Ability increase +1 STR), (Feat = Overwhelming Critical: Long/ShortBow), D10 hitdice
AA 10 (25): BAB = 21, Extra Attack per rouhd (total 4), Arrow of Death, D8 hitdice
AA 11 (26): BAB = 21, Enchant Arrow +6, Epic Arcane Archer, D8 from here onwards
AA 12 (27): BAB = 22, (Feat = Devastating Critical: Long/ShortBow)
AA 13 (28): BAB = 22, Enchant Arrow +7, (Ability increase +1 DEX)
AA 14 (29): BAB = 23, (Bonus AA Epic Feat = Overwhelming Critical: Quarterstaff)
AA 15 (30): BAB = 23, Enchant Arrow +8, (Feat = Devastating Critical: Quarterstaff)

Suggested finishing stats would therefore be (for Half-Elf):

STR: 25
DEX: 18
CON: 16
INT: 14
WIS: 10
CHA: 16

And for Elf:

STR: 25
DEX: 20
CON: 14
INT: 14
WIS: 10
CHA: 16

In terms of hit dice, this character has (7D6 + 18D8 + 5D10) + CON modifier.

If someone wants to take a look at the progression and comment if I've done it correctly that would be appreciated. I'm not sure if I've got all the BAB accumulation/epic feat progression entirely correct.

30 Levels is certainly pushing it for a SoU -> HotU character (think 28 was my highest finish), although I'm not sure about the OC on 100% XP (Level 25?). This will most likely be a build for EFU by the looks of things, but is still interesting, and will still kick butt up to level 28.

[ 09-06-2005, 09:59 AM: Message edited by: Zink Whistlefly ]