Its been a few days since I post­ed any­thing. Not a whole lot excit­ing going on at the moment, at least not any­thing I can real­ly talk about. I’ve recent­ly been watch­ing some DC Com­ic movies and shows with Embyr, main­ly fea­tur­ing Harley Quinn. While they can be rather dark, over­all, most of them were pret­ty good. This com­ing week­end has me return­ing to my quar­ter­ly PathFind­er game in the Lega­cy of Fire adven­ture path. I’m quite look­ing for­ward to play­ing Selin­iea again and try­ing out new things she’s gained dur­ing her lev­el up. I’m actu­al­ly still unde­cid­ed on one point and I’ll need to fig­ure that out by Fri­day night. 

You see, Selin­iea just got to lev­el 11, she’s a solar out­er drag­on cus­tom class that is a mix­ture of a Pal­adin and an Ora­cle. She has access to the Ora­cle’s spell lists and the mys­ter­ies, as well as her curse, but for the most part she’s a pal­adin, rather tanky but lack­ing in the dam­age out­put. But oh boy, she can take it. With the Ora­cle’s life link abil­i­ty, and a some extra feats picked up through lev­el­ing she can pas­sive­ly heal up to lev­el tar­gets for 5 HP + 3D6 every round on her turn from range. The catch, she takes 5 dam­age per tar­get healed in this way. Then as a Pal­adin, she can lay on hands her­self for 8D6+17 as a swift action, which means she still has her full turn to react to any­thing going on and can move, attack, use her breath weapon or any­thing else. She can keep the life­link up as long as she is con­cious and do the lay on hands self heal­ing abil­i­ty 14 times a day. She does­n’t have to do it on her­self either but if using it on oth­ers they don’t get +16 bonus and it takes up an action. Beyond that she still has two area of affect heal­ing abil­i­ties she can use the first doing 9D6+1 to a thir­ty foot radius up to 12 times a day and the sec­ond doing 5d6+1 to a thir­ty foot radius up to 6 times a day., Any heal­ing she receives her­self is +2 per dice rolled. Com­bine all this with the fact she’s wear­ing full platemail armour and is just shy of 200 HP. She can take a fair bit of beat­ing and soak up the dam­age from her friends. 

Now as for her lev­el 11 feat I’m lean­ing toward one that would allow me to take a dif­fer­ent ora­cle rev­e­la­tion from any of them avail­able instead of sim­ply being lim­it­ed to the ones nor­mal­ly avail­able for life… Oh boy that’s a tough choice. There are so many good ones to choose from. Do I take one that lets me use my charis­ma bonus instead of my dex bonus for my armour and reflex saves? I’d prob­a­bly need to change my armour if I do that because full plate has a max dex bonus of +3 where as if I grab that rev­e­la­tion my bonus would become +9… Do I real­ly need that? I mean my AC is already 26 (28 with a shield). If I grab that abil­i­ty it would only bump me up to 30. On a side note if I grab that abil­i­ty I’d be at 25 AC if I don’t wear any armour or shield at all. I’ll still be tak­ing dam­age regard­less due to the life link effect with my par­ty and armour won’t offer any­thing for that. Oth­er abil­i­ties I could take would give me a flat armour bonus of +4 that would increase ever few lev­els I think that would put me at +6 if I took it. Anoth­er would let me use my charis­ma stat instead of my intel­li­gence stat for all knowl­edge checks, which cur­rent­ly has no bonus­es so that would be a hell of a bonus to those skills. Anoth­er lets me add that to per­cep­tion and sense motive which cur­rent­ly have a neg­a­tive. Yet anoth­er would allow me to take up to lev­el peo­ple, so my whole par­ty, with me on trips onto the bor­der of the astral plane let­ting us move at a pace of up to 50 MPH, this com­pared to the some­thing like 6 – 9 MPH I can trav­el with fly­ing or like 1 – 2 I can do walk­ing (I’m a tank… a slow mov­ing tank). The oth­er real­ly tempt­ing abil­i­ty would be one that allows me at select lev­els to access to spells I could not ordi­nar­i­ly have access to. If I take that I’d imme­di­ate­ly gain access to one spell on the sor­cer­er list of up to lev­el 3, and a sec­ond of up to lev­el 5. Now that has some fun poten­tial too. While the par­ty does already have a cou­ple of sor­cer­ers and a bard the abil­i­ty to throw down some­thing like a haste would def­i­nite­ly have advan­tages… I could how­ev­er ignore the feat for rev­e­la­tions all togeth­er and grab some­thing more themed to her race. I could work toward being able to gain starflight, I just need two oth­er abil­i­ties and she’d lit­er­al­ly be able to leave the plan­et and take the par­ty with her. I could grab a dra­con­ic abil­i­ty that would boost her charis­ma by 2 points which would put me up to 30 (+10!), or I could grab some­thing that would let me add my charis­ma bonus to the dam­age of any attack I do that does fire dam­age, which, for a lim­it­ed num­ber of times per day could be every attack I do. This would boost her dam­age out­put sig­nif­i­cant­ly when she can make up to six attacks, but her hit chances aren’t that great. So… Where do I go from here? I’ve been strug­gling with the deci­sion for a few days now and asked my par­ty for their opin­ion but no one has replied as of yet. I think all of them have val­ue… I’d wel­come some opinions.

Update: So, after some thought and an exten­sive search of spells I’ve decid­ed on the Eldritch Knowl­edge rev­e­la­tion allow­ing me to pick up a cou­ple of Sor­cer­er spells. I still am open to sug­ges­tions. As I still have a few days to make up my mind.