3.5e Optimized Character Builds
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SRD Rules Only
These optimized character builds use rules only found within the System Reference Document.
| Name | Starting Race | Final Class Progression | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abe *Core Only* blind-fighting Dragon Disciple | |||
| All Stats Are AC | |||
| Battle Blesser | |||
| Best Fortunate Player (no Homebrew) | Halfling | CLOISTERED CLERIC (lvl3); CHURCH INQUISITOR(lvl1); ORDAINED CHAMPION(lvl1); FORTUNE'S FRIEND(lvl5); CONTEMPLATIVE(lvl1); LUCKSTEALER(lvl4); AUSPICIAN(lvl5) | Ready for a bit of luck? the least you need to conquer the metaverse?!? |
| Best Grapple Monk in gargantuam form (no Homebrew) | Illuskan human | monk | The class provides allows you to perform a grapple on any creature of any size, then block it and slaughter it with blows. At level 20, he can annihilate and kill her while holding the grab for 3 turns. |
| Best Mage of magic missile | Human | High Specialist Wizard High Evoker, Golarion Wizard lvl 5 - Force Missile Mage lvl 5 - Argent Savant lvl 3 - War Mage lvl 5 - HOLY SCOURGE lvl 1 - Sacred exorcist lvl 1 | Best wizard of magic missile (no Homebrew) |
| Best Scout -Ranger- (no Homebrew) (8d6+1d8 for arrow) | Vanaras (+2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom, -2 Strength; LEP +0) | SOULKNIFE(lvl2); SCOUT(lvl3); SOULBOW(lvl3); FIGTHER(lvl2); SOLDIER OF LIGHT(lvl1); DRAGON DEVOTEE(lvl4); UNSEEN SEER(lvl1); HAND OF THE
WINGED MASTERS(lvl3); |
Best Archer Build With Skirmish |
| Bro | |||
| Debuff Bard - Dread Necromancer | |||
| Disciple of Yeenoghu | |||
| Echo Fighter | |||
| Epic Griffon rider | |||
| Epic Rogue of Seven Sneak Attacks a Round a Creature | |||
| Fencer of the Kanahebi clan | Lizardfolk | Humanoid 3/Ranger 3/Monk 3/Duelist 10 | A Lizardfolk that can slice people in many fancy ways. Pretty impressive AC bonuses. |
| Frenzied Berserker | |||
| Gestalt /Warrior generic class | |||
| Gnome Loremaster "Divine Scrolls Reader" | Forest Gnome | Bard 2, Wizard 10, Loremaster 8 | A small illusionist that can use Bardic knowledge like abilities, and can read any kind of scrolls thanks to the Use Magic Device skill. |
| Hearty Wizard | Dwarf | Fighter 2/Wizard 5/Eldritch Knight 3 | A wizard with some meat on their bones. |
| High Arcana Double Spelldagger Striker Rogue | Various | Rogue 1/ Wizard 4/ Daggerspell Mage 10/ Unseen Seer 2/ Arcane Trickster 3 | A rogue striker skill monkey how have access to high level caster level, spells and is epic ready |
| High Threat Range | |||
| Lich Tank | |||
| Little Dagger Wielder | Halfling | Rogue 16/ Fighter 2/ Ranger 2 | A backstabbing halfling whose tools of destruction are small daggers. |
| Loadsamoney At 1st Level | |||
| No-One The Mad | |||
| Rogue Ideas | |||
| Rounded Defender | |||
| Scary and Dangerous | |||
| Scroll user - Max UMD like a boss | |||
| Southern Dread Necromancer Incantatrix | |||
| Spiked Chain Freak | |||
| SRD Warlock | Human | Sorcerer 14, Archmage 4 | This Build uses various high arcanas from the archmage prestige class to blast things a lot of times per day (more than you will probably need). who said only warlocks could blow everything up constantly |
| Swashizard | |||
| Swift Disarmer | |||
| Technical Fighter | |||
| The ultimate narcicist | |||
| The Untouchable Monk | |||
| Two-Weapon Crit Specialist | Half-Orc | Ranger 4, Barbarian 11, Fighter 4, Horizon Walker 1 | This is an attempt to optimize critical hits while still giving the character plenty of options and defenses. |
| Ultimate Monk (SRD) | Human | Monk 15/Psionic Fist 11/Psychic Warrior 2/Fighter 2 | This is a hard-hitting, fast-moving monk/psionic fist whose ki (via his psionic abilities) allows him to shapeshift. A cousin of the original Ultimate Monk using SRD rules only. |
| Warforged raging frenzied Juggernaut | |||
| Wildshaping One Punch Man |
WotC Rules Only
These optimized character builds use rules only found within WotC source books.
| Name | Starting Race | Final Class Progression | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Epic) Ultimate Dervish | |||
| 9−20 Crit Specialist | Human | Fighter 3/Psychic Warrior 2/Weapon Master (Kensai) 7/Disciple of Dispater 8 | Tired of two weapon fighting builds that still don't do as much damage per round as two handed? |
| Abe *Core Only* blind-fighting Dragon Disciple | |||
| Ability Tank | |||
| Almost 20 levels Mystic Theurge | |||
| Angry Bear Monk | |||
| Another Dancing Build | Human | Fighter 6, Dervish 10, Tempest 4 | A dervish dancing build to obliterate those that stand in your way. |
| Anti-Critter Scout Cannon | |||
| Arcane Archer | Wild Elf | Fighter9/Sorceror1/Arcane Archer10 | A Leathal Arcane Archer. |
| Arcane Tank | Any | Wizard 4/Fighter 2/Spellsword 1 | An arcane tank build. |
| Arcane Tank, Variant | Human | Mage 4/Fighter 1/Spellsword 1 | A tanky mage. |
| Armoured Dwarven Gish - Full arcane casting, Heavy Armour | Draconic Gold Dwarf or some other Dwarven options, see Variants | Sha'ir 4 / Geomancer 4 / Dragonslayer 1 / Runesmith 2 / Abjurant champion 5 / Spell Sword 4 | In the first half of the build, a quasi-prepared pure caster, from the second half you are a rushing metal bulwark of arcane death without losing a single caster level before level 9 spells. |
| Atheist Bard Mystic Theurge | |||
| Awesome Sneak Attack/Skirmish Greater Manyshot Archer | Any | Rogue 5/Scout 4/Ranger 4 | Move and stack Sneak Attack and Skirmish damage to every arrow fired from Greater Manyshot volleys each round! Can get 8 shots per round with the right equipment! |
| Bard Swiftblade of Sublime Chord | Human | Bard 7/ Swiftblade 10 / Sublime Chord 5/ SRD:Paladin 2 | Handsome Fight Bard, good saves and attacks. Using swiftblade class. |
| Basic Combat Rogue Guide | Halfling | Rogue 4 / Swashbuckler 16 | Your basic combat rogue build with many variants to show off the possibilities. |
| Battle Blesser | |||
| Battle Knight Bard of Sublime Chord | Elf | Bard 4/ Paladin 2/ Eldritch Knight 9/ Sublime Chord 1/ Abjurant Champion 4 | Handsome Fight Bard, to show the bard can be useful, and he not only needs to give bonus to your party friends. A good fighter, with nice stats and maximized CHA, and 9th level spell slots, to be epic read. A non-break game build. |
| Berserker | |||
| Best Arcane Tank | Any | Wizard 4/Fighter 2/Spellsword 1 | A tanky mage. |
| Best Fortunate Player (no Homebrew) | Halfling | CLOISTERED CLERIC (lvl3); CHURCH INQUISITOR(lvl1); ORDAINED CHAMPION(lvl1); FORTUNE'S FRIEND(lvl5); CONTEMPLATIVE(lvl1); LUCKSTEALER(lvl4); AUSPICIAN(lvl5) | Ready for a bit of luck? the least you need to conquer the metaverse?!? |
| Best Grapple Monk in gargantuam form (no Homebrew) | Illuskan human | monk | The class provides allows you to perform a grapple on any creature of any size, then block it and slaughter it with blows. At level 20, he can annihilate and kill her while holding the grab for 3 turns. |
| Best Mage of magic missile | Human | High Specialist Wizard High Evoker, Golarion Wizard lvl 5 - Force Missile Mage lvl 5 - Argent Savant lvl 3 - War Mage lvl 5 - HOLY SCOURGE lvl 1 - Sacred exorcist lvl 1 | Best wizard of magic missile (no Homebrew) |
| Best Scout -Ranger- (no Homebrew) (8d6+1d8 for arrow) | Vanaras (+2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom, -2 Strength; LEP +0) | SOULKNIFE(lvl2); SCOUT(lvl3); SOULBOW(lvl3); FIGTHER(lvl2); SOLDIER OF LIGHT(lvl1); DRAGON DEVOTEE(lvl4); UNSEEN SEER(lvl1); HAND OF THE
WINGED MASTERS(lvl3); |
Best Archer Build With Skirmish |
| Bladesinger | Draconic Human | Bard 3 / Warblade 17 | Boost your whole party's damage to impressive heights using your bardsong while being a formidable foe yourself. |
| Bladestorm Weapon Thrower | |||
| Boomerang Factotum with full spellthief and wizard casting | |||
| Bro | |||
| Champion of the Forest | |||
| Clericzilla | Human | Cleric 7/Radiant Servant of Pelor 10 | a massively powerful character capable of fighting on the front lines at least as well as a typical martial character, and extremely deadly to undead foes. |
| Complete Scoundrel | |||
| Critical Master | |||
| Daggerspell Master | |||
| Damage Reduction Master | |||
| Dancing Samurai | |||
| Daring Outlaw | |||
| Debuff Bard - Dread Necromancer | |||
| Dervish AOO/TWF | |||
| Diplomat | Half-Elf | Marshal 1/Cleric 1/Human Paragon 3/Half-Elf Paragon 3/Dragonfire Adept 2/Exemplar 1 | This build allows for a ridiculously high Diplomacy score early on. |
| Disciple of Yeenoghu | |||
| Dragonfire Ninja | |||
| Druid Touch AC Tank | Elf (Snow) | Druid 16/Divine Oracle 4 | Live forever or die trying! Huge Touch AC, Uncanny Dodge, Evasion, and good Saves... with ALL the healing and defensive spells of a Druid! This variant from Unearthed Arcana effectively combines Monks, Rangers, and Druids, which allows you to add your Wisdom to AC. You'll become virtually invincible with the full arsenal of the Druid spell list behind you. |
| Echo Fighter | |||
| Eldritch Cleaver | Human | Cleric 1/Storm Giant Bloodline 3/Hellfire Warlock 3/Fighter 4/Warlock 9 | A strong striker capable of doing damage to everyone around him while providing some battlefield control. |
| Epic Griffon rider | |||
| Feral Shifter | Swiftwing Shifter | Swordsage 10 / Bloodclaw Master 5 / Weretouched Master 5 | The ultimate in shifter savagery, your twin daggers become a part of your body as you tear through foes. |
| Fiend-Slayer Build | |||
| Fighter/Mage | |||
| Fireball Filled Death | |||
| Frenzied Berserker | |||
| Gestalt /Warrior generic class | |||
| Gestalt Knifefighter | |||
| Gestalt Warlock Artificer Hellfire Warlock | |||
| Ghost Rider, Spirit of Vengeance | Hellbred from Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine | Fighter (exoticist) 1, Warlock 4, Fell Warrior 7, Hellfire Warlock 3, Master of Chains 5 | A build that aims to imitate a Ghost Rider. |
| Glaive of the Dungeon Crasher | Goliath or Human | Ardent 1/Cleric 1/Warlock 1/Crusader 1/Hellfire Warlock 3/Fighter 6/Warmind 7 | Using the Dungeon Crasher variant from Dungeonscape along with the Eldritch Glaive invocation from Dragon Magic and Large and In Charge from Races of the Dragon you can have a great hybrid defender/striker who combines damage with zone control. |
| Glaive of the Hellfire Warlock | Human | Bloodline 3 / Warlock 12 / Hellfire Warlock 3 / Chameleon 2 | Use the eldritch glaive to deal massive damage to foes while locking them in place in addition to great mobility and battlefield control. |
| Goliath Dwarven Defender | |||
| Halfling Hurler | |||
| Healing Personified | |||
| Hearty Wizard | Dwarf | Fighter 2/Wizard 5/Eldritch Knight 3 | A wizard with some meat on their bones. |
| Heckin spoopy half orc | |||
| High Arcana Double Spelldagger Striker Rogue | Various | Rogue 1/ Wizard 4/ Daggerspell Mage 10/ Unseen Seer 2/ Arcane Trickster 3 | A rogue striker skill monkey how have access to high level caster level, spells and is epic ready |
| High Threat Range | |||
| High-Defense Wizard | Elf (Snow) | Monk 2/Ranger 1/Wizard 2/Divine Oracle 10/Abjurant Champion 5 | This build is intended to maintain maximum caster level while making a Wizard untouchable by anything short of a critical hit. It is the supreme defensive caster build with virtually no dependance on defensive spells. |
| Holy Bearbearian | |||
| Holy Warrior | |||
| Huge Touch AC Cleric | Dwarf (Mountain) | Monk 2/Cleric 3/Divine Oracle 4/Contemplative 1/Soulguard 10 | This optimization is intended to develop a Cleric using Touch AC provided by multi-classing with the Monk class. |
| Hulking Warlord | |||
| Infinite Rage | |||
| Inhuman AoO-er | |||
| Invincible Monk | |||
| Kalashtar Fireknife | |||
| Lich Tank | |||
| Lots and lots of minions | |||
| Lucky Daggersage | |||
| Lycan tank | |||
| Machine Gun Assassin | Halfling | Ninja 15 / Master Thrower 5 | Throw up to 16 shurikens every 6 seconds as touch attacks while adding Sudden Strike to each one. |
| Mage Tank | |||
| Mage-Thief (Without losing any caster levels!) | |||
| Magic Missile Stormer | |||
| Mary Sue (Character Concept) | |||
| Master of Illusion | |||
| Master of the Force | |||
| Max Healing | |||
| Melee Arcanist | |||
| Melee theurge | |||
| Mjolnir Bloodstorm - Thor | Dragonborn Water Orc | Warblade 7 / Crusader 1 / Barbarian 1 / Bloodstorm Blade 4/ Master Thrower 5 | Thor throws his mighty greathammer dealing godly (300 hp) damage. |
| Negative Levels | |||
| Nude Nonlethal Bard/Heartwarder Hippy | |||
| Octoman | |||
| Odd super companion/familiar | |||
| Optimized Saves for Evil | Human | Monk 2 / Paladin of Tyranny 2 / Hexblade 3 / Blackguard 2 | Maximized save bonuses using charisma oriented evil and non-good classes. Strong combat. |
| Orc Smash! | |||
| Orc with Level Drain | |||
| Paladin of Sorrow | |||
| Paladinesque | |||
| Paladinzilla | |||
| Pious Crusader | Lesser Aasimar | Monk 2 / Paladin 5 / Kensai 5 / Pious Templar 8 | This build focuses on trying to build out a melee paladin with better saves and a lot of combat focus. |
| Power Attack/Combat Expertise Combo Tactics Fighter | |||
| Priest of Lyrics and Chords | |||
| Pun-Pun | |||
| Radiant Geo-Paladin | |||
| Random Choice: Cavalier | |||
| Random Choice: Factotum | |||
| Random Choice: Initiate of the Draconic Mysteries | |||
| Ranged Rider (WotC) | Any | Fighter 8 / Beast Heart Adept 10 / Uncanny Trickster 2 | Wanting to make the ultimate ranger character riding a mount with WotC rules |
| Sacrilegious Fist | |||
| Savage Arm | |||
| Saves Man | |||
| Scary and Dangerous | |||
| Scimitar Crit-Hitter | |||
| Scroll user - Max UMD like a boss | |||
| Slashing Fury (TWF Scimitar Build) | |||
| SoulGrappler | Shifter (razorclaws) | Totemist 2/Bear Totem Barbarian 3/WarBlade 5/Totem Rager 10 | Fun tank built with soulmelds. Try to reach grapple as high as possible |
| Soulknife Undead Hunter | |||
| Soultank | Azurin from Magic of Incarnum or Human | Soulborn 20 | Fun tank built with soulmelds. Useful in campaigns when money is an issue. |
| Southern Dread Necromancer Incantatrix | |||
| Spellsword - The Warrior Mage | |||
| Sublime Ur Lyrist | |||
| Sun elf invoker | |||
| Survivor Monk | |||
| Swashbuckler with better-than-rogue Sneak Attack | Human | 5 Swashbuckler/5 Invisible Blade | This is a Swashbuckler build with better than Rogue Sneak Attack and full BAB, and the ability to feint every attack. Until level 9 you operate as a Swashbuckler who two weapon fights. At level 9, you turn into a sneak attack monster. |
| Swashizard | |||
| Teh Frenzy Powa!!! | |||
| Thasar's Shapechanging Invincible Druid | Human | Druid 20 | Show them all the true power of Nature's Wrath ith this incredibly detailed build! |
| The Agilomancer | |||
| The Arcane Tank that actually works | |||
| The Closest thing to Jesus a player character can get | |||
| The Griffon Knight | Fighter 1/Cleric 4/Prestige Paladin 4/Cavalier 10 | The Griffon Knight is a mounted warrior with a good amount of damage, a health pool and to support himself and allies. The key in the build is that you gain a combined health pool with your mount and both get maximum advantage of charging. | |
| The Lancer | |||
| The Psionic Monk | |||
| The Thing That Goes Bump In The Night | |||
| The ultimate narcicist | |||
| The Untouchable Monk | |||
| The Wish and the Word | |||
| Thri-Kreen Sneak Attacker | |||
| Tinkering Artificer | |||
| Tripper | |||
| Ultimate Area Attacker | |||
| Ultimate Damage Dervish | |||
| Ultimate Huge Divine Battle Sorcerer | |||
| Ultimate Mindhunter | |||
| Ultimate Monk | |||
| Ultimate Monk /Emulating Legendary Martial Arts Techniques | |||
| Ultimate Monk /Metamorphosis Forms | |||
| Ultimate Monk /Monster Classes | |||
| Ultimate Ranged Touch Wizard | Elf (Snow) | Monk 2/Ranger 1/Wizard 2/Divine Oracle 4/Abjurant Champion 5/Rogue 1/Spellwarp Sniper 5 | This build is intended to maintain maximum caster level while making a Wizard untouchable by anything short of a critical hit. It is the supreme defensive caster build with virtually no dependance on defensive spells. Offensively, it focuses on one of the most reliable, consistent forms of damage: Ranged Touch Attacks. |
| Ultimate Undead Hunter | |||
| Untouchable fighter | |||
| Ursa Major | |||
| Vow of Poverty Forsaker | |||
| Wand User Monk | |||
| War Hulking Hurler | |||
| Warblade Dualwield | |||
| Warforged raging frenzied Juggernaut | |||
| Wilderness Encarnate | |||
| Wildshaping One Punch Man | |||
| Wondermount | Celestial human | Druid 14/ranger 2/ranger knight of Furyondy 1/beastmaster 1 with special mount 20/animal companion 21 | There are a number of ways to have a compatriot with your character. The most common are the druid's animal companion, the paladin's special mount, the wizard/sorcerer's familiar, and the Leadership feat's cohort. This build aims to maximize the effectiveness of such a compatriot. |
| Xbow Sniper | |||
| Yet Another Monk Build | Changeling | ranger 4/monk 4/warshaper 1/fist of the forest 3/initiate of the draconic mysteries 8 | Optimize that unarmed damage. |
Third Party Rules
These optimized character builds use any rules; some found within the System Reference Document, WotC source books, third party source books, the internet, and, of course, here on D&D Wiki.
| Name | Starting Race | Final Class Progression | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Impoverished" but Mighty | |||
| Abe *Core Only* blind-fighting Dragon Disciple | |||
| Arcane Light Tank | Any | Bard 6/Battle Howler of Gruumsh 3/Sublime Chord 2/Spellsword 1/Eldritch knight 8 | Everything started trying to bring an Elf Wizard/Fighter from the AD&D to the D&D 3.5. |
| Avengers Iron Man | |||
| Bard Swiftblade of Sublime Chord | Human | Bard 7/ Swiftblade 10 / Sublime Chord 5/ SRD:Paladin 2 | Handsome Fight Bard, good saves and attacks. Using swiftblade class. |
| Battle Blesser | |||
| Battle Knight Bard of Sublime Chord | Elf | Bard 4/ Paladin 2/ Eldritch Knight 9/ Sublime Chord 1/ Abjurant Champion 4 | Handsome Fight Bard, to show the bard can be useful, and he not only needs to give bonus to your party friends. A good fighter, with nice stats and maximized CHA, and 9th level spell slots, to be epic read. A non-break game build. |
| Best Grapple Monk in gargantuam form (no Homebrew) | Illuskan human | monk | The class provides allows you to perform a grapple on any creature of any size, then block it and slaughter it with blows. At level 20, he can annihilate and kill her while holding the grab for 3 turns. |
| Boomerang Factotum with full spellthief and wizard casting | |||
| Bro | |||
| Critical Master | |||
| Daggerspell Master | |||
| Damage Reduction Master | |||
| Dark Summoner, Variant | |||
| Debuff Bard - Dread Necromancer | |||
| Diplomacy and Blackmail Gestalt | |||
| Disciple of Yeenoghu | |||
| Dragonfire Ninja | |||
| Echo Fighter | |||
| Elementalist | |||
| Epic Griffon rider | |||
| Fighter AoO'er | |||
| Firearm Focus | |||
| Frenzied Berserker | |||
| Functotom | Any | Factotum 8/ Swiftblade 7 | Fun build that combines Factotum with SwiftBlade |
| Gestalt /Warrior generic class | |||
| Gestalt Warlock Artificer Hellfire Warlock | |||
| Ghost Rider, Spirit of Vengeance | Hellbred from Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine | Fighter (exoticist) 1, Warlock 4, Fell Warrior 7, Hellfire Warlock 3, Master of Chains 5 | A build that aims to imitate a Ghost Rider. |
| Goliath Dwarven Defender | |||
| High Arcana Double Spelldagger Striker Rogue | Various | Rogue 1/ Wizard 4/ Daggerspell Mage 10/ Unseen Seer 2/ Arcane Trickster 3 | A rogue striker skill monkey how have access to high level caster level, spells and is epic ready |
| High Threat Range | |||
| Insightful Strikers | The Races of War Aasimar | Paladin 6/Celestial Beacon 10 | Focused on the Insightful Strike feat maximization. |
| Level 10 Gargantuan Swordsman | |||
| Lich Tank | |||
| Lycan tank | |||
| Mage-Thief (Without losing any caster levels!) | |||
| Massive Damage Striker | |||
| Master of Illusion | |||
| Mega-Cleric | |||
| Niten Master | |||
| Nude Nonlethal Bard/Heartwarder Hippy | |||
| Orc with Level Drain | |||
| Ranged Rider | Any | Ranger 4 / Prestige Ranger 6 / Easy Rider 10 | Wanting to make the ultimate ranger character riding a mount. |
| Sacred Fist of the Silver Flame | Elan | Monk 2 / Paladin 4 / Shiba Protector 1 / War Mind 5 / Argent Fist 8 | Combining the Monk and Paladin with a hint of psionics for a wisdom-based character. |
| Scary and Dangerous | |||
| Scroll user - Max UMD like a boss | |||
| Southern Dread Necromancer Incantatrix | |||
| Staff Tripper | Human | Monk 2 / Warblade 4 | As good as a chain tripper! |
| Swashizard | |||
| Teef, the Toothy Half Ogre | |||
| Teh Frenzy Powa!!! | |||
| Thasar's Psionic Nuker | |||
| The Forever Mage | |||
| The Ultimate Munchkin | |||
| The ultimate narcicist | |||
| The Untouchable Monk | |||
| The Wisdomancer | |||
| Thri-kreen Dervish | |||
| Ultimate Undead Hunter | |||
| Ursa Major | |||
| Warforged raging frenzied Juggernaut | |||
| WD-54-10-4 "Murphy" Warforged Warblade Juggernaut | |||
| Werebear Monk | |||
| Wildshaping One Punch Man |
Half-Optimizations
These optimized builds are too short to be considered full optimizations, however they encompass useful and interesting tricks can be added to certain characters in a matter of levels. These use any rules; some found within the System Reference Document, WotC source books, third party source books, the internet, and, of course, here on D&D Wiki.
| Name | Starting Race | Final Class Progression | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropomorphic Baleen Whale, Feral | |||
| Arcane Gish Chassis | Any | Sha'ir 4 / Geomancer 4 / Dragon Slayer 1 | Arcane Cleric: Same BAB at level 9, full arcane casting, proficiency with all the fighter weapons and armour. |
| Assassin of Shar | |||
| Battle Priest | |||
| Best Fortunate Player (no Homebrew) | Halfling | CLOISTERED CLERIC (lvl3); CHURCH INQUISITOR(lvl1); ORDAINED CHAMPION(lvl1); FORTUNE'S FRIEND(lvl5); CONTEMPLATIVE(lvl1); LUCKSTEALER(lvl4); AUSPICIAN(lvl5) | Ready for a bit of luck? the least you need to conquer the metaverse?!? |
| Best Grapple Monk in gargantuam form (no Homebrew) | Illuskan human | monk | The class provides allows you to perform a grapple on any creature of any size, then block it and slaughter it with blows. At level 20, he can annihilate and kill her while holding the grab for 3 turns. |
| Best Scout -Ranger- (no Homebrew) (8d6+1d8 for arrow) | Vanaras (+2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom, -2 Strength; LEP +0) | SOULKNIFE(lvl2); SCOUT(lvl3); SOULBOW(lvl3); FIGTHER(lvl2); SOLDIER OF LIGHT(lvl1); DRAGON DEVOTEE(lvl4); UNSEEN SEER(lvl1); HAND OF THE
WINGED MASTERS(lvl3); |
Best Archer Build With Skirmish |
| Foundling Monk | |||
| Grapplemancer | Human | Wizard 3 | A wizard that's so much better at grappling than any "traditional" grappler it blows them out of the water. |
| Low Level Nova | Human | Duskblade 3 | An example of a low-level nova-er, dealing 11d6+12 damage at level 3. |
| Lycanthrope Melee Optimization | |||
| Monk Ease Use | |||
| Nonhero-necromancer | |||
| Persist Time Stop | |||
| Politico | |||
| Quick and Dirty Soul Eater | Warforged | Fighter 5/Soul Eater 1 | Bestowing negative levels before 4th-level spells? Sure, why not? |
| Summon Zombies at Level One | |||
| Swashbuckler-Artificer | |||
| The Ultimate Duelist | |||
| Transmuter Gish | |||
| True Battle Sorcerer | |||
| Undead Controller |
Flavorful Optimizations
These builds aren't really optimized too much as far as mechanics goes, instead attempting to come as close as possible to certain concepts, flavors, or gimmicks.
| Name | Starting Race | Final Class Progression | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armoured Dwarven Gish - Full arcane casting, Heavy Armour | Draconic Gold Dwarf or some other Dwarven options, see Variants | Sha'ir 4 / Geomancer 4 / Dragonslayer 1 / Runesmith 2 / Abjurant champion 5 / Spell Sword 4 | In the first half of the build, a quasi-prepared pure caster, from the second half you are a rushing metal bulwark of arcane death without losing a single caster level before level 9 spells. |
| Best Fortunate Player (no Homebrew) | Halfling | CLOISTERED CLERIC (lvl3); CHURCH INQUISITOR(lvl1); ORDAINED CHAMPION(lvl1); FORTUNE'S FRIEND(lvl5); CONTEMPLATIVE(lvl1); LUCKSTEALER(lvl4); AUSPICIAN(lvl5) | Ready for a bit of luck? the least you need to conquer the metaverse?!? |
| Best Grapple Monk in gargantuam form (no Homebrew) | Illuskan human | monk | The class provides allows you to perform a grapple on any creature of any size, then block it and slaughter it with blows. At level 20, he can annihilate and kill her while holding the grab for 3 turns. |
| Best Scout -Ranger- (no Homebrew) (8d6+1d8 for arrow) | Vanaras (+2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom, -2 Strength; LEP +0) | SOULKNIFE(lvl2); SCOUT(lvl3); SOULBOW(lvl3); FIGTHER(lvl2); SOLDIER OF LIGHT(lvl1); DRAGON DEVOTEE(lvl4); UNSEEN SEER(lvl1); HAND OF THE
WINGED MASTERS(lvl3); |
Best Archer Build With Skirmish |
| Ghost Rider, Spirit of Vengeance | Hellbred from Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine | Fighter (exoticist) 1, Warlock 4, Fell Warrior 7, Hellfire Warlock 3, Master of Chains 5 | A build that aims to imitate a Ghost Rider. |
Class Guides
Class Guides deal with the ins and outs of a certain class, showing what their strengths and weaknesses are. The rules they use depend on the class they outline.
- A Player's Guide to Roles in the Party
- Artificer Player's Guide
- Best Fortunate Player (no Homebrew)
- Best Grapple Monk in gargantuam form (no Homebrew)
- Best Mage of magic missile
- Best Scout -Ranger- (no Homebrew) (8d6+1d8 for arrow)
- Player Guide to Crafting
Incomplete Optimized Character Builds
Optimized Character Builds with one or many improving, reviewing, or removing templates present. Please help work on the problem presented on the template.