Adventures in Theorycrafting: Champions of Silvanus

[unbongwah]

Do you have a forest master build you tinkered around with.? PDK. Mauls with at least 6 cleric

If you're referring to this build: I haven't revisited the concept since U38 went live. At the time, SSG hadn't yet added Beast Unleashed (allows druid spellcasting while Raged), so I was trying to find a workaround using Destruction domain. That is no longer necessary, but I haven't figured out how I want to do a Forest Master-style build now. The druid trees are heavily weighed in favor of animal forms; a humanoid druid swinging a maul is gonna do a lot less DPS without heavier multiclassing.

Maybe the best "Forest Master" would be PDK ftr 6 / cleric 14 using Animal domain for Feral Charge. Seems counter-intuitive though...

[SpartanKiller13]

If you're referring to this build: I haven't revisited the concept since U38 went live. At the time, SSG hadn't yet added Beast Unleashed (allows druid spellcasting while Raged), so I was trying to find a workaround using Destruction domain. That is no longer necessary, but I haven't figured out how I want to do a Forest Master-style build now. The druid trees are heavily weighed in favor of animal forms; a humanoid druid swinging a maul is gonna do a lot less DPS without heavier multiclassing.

Maybe the best "Forest Master" would be PDK ftr 6 / cleric 14 using Animal domain for Feral Charge. Seems counter-intuitive though...

I've actually been considering that as a build. Maybe missing something, but why is it counter-intuitive? Seems to have a lot of neat synergy lol, like Fort Bypass on a crit focused build.

Something like:

[unbongwah]

Maybe missing something, but why is it counter-intuitive?

Just because of the name: I feel like "Forest Master" should be a druid-centric PrC, even though I don't think that's a pre-req for PnP rules. But otherwise I agree, particularly if going tier-5 Kensei, cleric 14 / ftr 6 makes a lot of sense for a Silvanus / Animal domain split.

[SpartanKiller13]

Just because of the name: I feel like "Forest Master" should be a druid-centric PrC, even though I don't think that's a pre-req for PnP rules. But otherwise I agree, particularly if going tier-5 Kensei, cleric 14 / ftr 6 makes a lot of sense for a Silvanus / Animal domain split.

That makes sense. Thanks!

Yeah, I plan to go T5 Kensei. Not really any other good options for DPS, and if you're not DPS why bother with all the Silvanus shenanigans?