Medium – Base Medium – Pathfinder 1E
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Base Medium
The basic Medium build, your character is a traveling fortuneteller, the free men and women of the road, the birthplace of heroes.
Class
Medium 20
Race
Human, put the floating +2 in Charisma
Ability Scores
Increase Dex to 17 with your lvl 8 increase, but everything else should go in Charisma
15Point-Buy
Str 10/Dex 16/Con 10/Int 10/Wis 10/Cha 16
20Point-Buy
Str 10/Dex 16/Con 10/Int 10/Wis 10/Cha 18
20Point-Buy
Str 10/Dex 16/Con 14/Int 10/Wis 10/Cha 18
Traits
Varisian Tattoo gives us Proficiency in the Starknife which will be our main weapon. Dealer nets you Sleight of Hands as a class skill which we do want.
Favored Class Bonus
Hit Points!
Skills
Aight, we need Sleight of Hands. We also want Bluff, Diplomacy, Use Magic Devices, Sense Motive.
Feats by Level
1-Divine Fighting Style(Way of the Shooting Star)
Human Bonus-Two Weapons Fighting
3-Point-Blank Shot
5-Precise Shot
7-Rapid Shot
9-Quick Draw
11-Divine Fighting Style(Advanced Way of the Shooting Star)
13-Improved Two Weapons Fighting
15-Piranha Strike
17-Clustered Shots
19-Improved Initiative
So you are two weapons fighting with a pair of Starknives, and with Divine Fighting Style you can use your Charisma for attack and Damage which is great! And you can throw them very efficiently via Precise Shot+Rapid Shot+Quick Draw.
Spells Learned by Level
1-Detect Psychic Significance, Detect Magic
2-Dancing Lights
3-Stabilize
4-Psychic Readings, Wizened Appearance
5-Ghost Sounds, Ventriloquism
6-Silent Image
7-Prestidigitation, Augury, Bestow Curse
8-Detect Thoughts
9-Oneiric Horror, Eagle’s Splendor
10-Divination, Dream
11-Scrying
12-Object Reading, Haste, Fly
13-Invoke Deity, True Seeing
14-Thoughtsense
15-Invisibility, Glimpse of Truth, Dream Council
18-Hollow Heroism, Nightmare
Equipment
A few Starknives, a good medium armor(aim for a Breastplate). A Harrow Deck for sheer fun.
Final Thoughts on the Build
So, we focus our build as a Charisma based Thrower. Except that’s just one of our tools in our back pocket. We have some surprisingly great divination spells to prepare and scout areas well before we ever step foot there, we can get great intel rapidly and try to get the Spirit we need for the right job.
Need more resilience? Pick the Guardian or Hierophant Spirit. Need more damage? Go for Champion. A set of specific spells are needed and the Wizard actually doesn’t know them? Go for Archmage. With great intel gathering you can be as batman[1]-like to a situation as you need.
Terms definitions
1. ↑ Vigilante – Base Vigilante – Pathfinder 1E ( batman )
The Base Vigilante
The two main characters I immediately think of when I hear Vigilante are either Zorro or
Batman. Two characters that appear out of nowhere, defeat the villains and retreat back into the
shadows, with a high society and above reproach social guise in the form of Bruce Wayne or
Don Diego De La Vega. This is the general idea we will go for with this build, trying to create the
quintessential Vigilante.
Levels
Vigilante 20
Race
We are two hundred percent going for Human for this build. We will put that floating +2 in
Dexterity.
Ability Scores
Put everything in Dexterity.
15Point-Buy
Str 10/Dex 16/Con 14/Int 10/Wis 10/Cha 14
20Point-Buy
Str 10/Dex 18/Con 14/Int 10/Wis 10/Cha 14
25Point-Buy
Str 10/Dex 18/Con 14/Int 10/Wis 14/Cha 14
Traits
Reactionary for we always need to be on our toes, the second one is really up to you actually for
this build.
Favored Class Bonus
We have plenty of skill points already, so in HP it is.
Skills
This is your oyster. Perception, Acrobatics, Stealth, Sense Motive, Disguise, Diplomacy, Bluff,
pick your poison here.
Vigilante Specialization
We will be a Stalker Vigilante for this build.
Feats by Level
1-Weapon Finesse
Human Bonus-Improved Initiative
3-Piranha Strike
5-Two-Weapons Fighting
7-Weapon Focus(Kukri)
9-Improved Two Weapons Fighting
11-Improved Critical(Kukri)
13-Dirty Fighting
15-Improved Trip
17-Improved Dirty Tricks
19-Greater Two Weapons Fighting
You are a fast combattant, between Weapon Finesse and Piranha Strike, your damage is fairly
decent, doubly so with the Hidden Strike ability, and with the Two Weapons Fighting and the
Improved Critical feats, you can attack up to six times per round with a crit range of 15-20 which
is really, really good.
Social Talents by Level
1-Renown
3-Celebrity Discounts
5-Celebrity Perks
7-Great Renown
9-Triumphant Return
11-Incredible Renown
13-Instant Recognition
15-Quick Change
17-Immediate Change
19-Loyal Aid
Your social identity is of great renown, you are a local celebrity, beloved by the people and you
get many forms of perks, like discounts, fan giving you intel or even eating and staying at Inns
for free, heck, you can straight up avoid paying taxes with this which by default makes you the
strongest character in Pathfinder. Even that damned Master Summoner can’t stand up to the
IRS but you damned can.
Vigilante Talents by Level
2-Armor Skin
4-Perfect Fall
6-Blind Spot
8-Hide in Plain Sight
10-Mighty Ambush
12-Pull into the Shadows14-Shadow’s Sight
16-Rooftop Infiltrator
18-Silent Dispatch
20-Stalker Sense
You can stealth even against creatures with Tremorsense, Blindsight and the like. There isn’t
another class who can even attempt this as is without using some form of magic, and you can
do this starting level 6 which is stupid early. Plus you get Hide in Plain Sight so you can stealth
even when directly observed, you get climb speed, can do a superhero landing and even when
fighting your attacks are muffled to the point that creatures need to make perception checks to
notice your fight. Yeah, you are making the Rogue jelly with this. Plus medium armor doesn’t
reduce your most important skill checks such as Stealth and Acrobatics.
Equipment
Get yourself a pair of Kukris, a good Medium Armor and a Disguise Kit. Make sure to get spares
for your different identities. Get yourself a rapier or something for your social identity and noble
clothes.
Final Thoughts on the Build
Nobleman by day, dangerous vigilante at night who uses a pair of kukris to combat evildoers
and corrupted folk. You excel both in social and in scouting to the point of being better at it than
a bard or a rogue respectively, and that’s before using Magic Items to boost either. You also are
no slouch in combat, capable of dispatching enemies ridiculously fast from the shadows with
your Hidden Strike ability and even in regular combat you can still fulfill the rogue’s job of
destroying targets rapidly with very high damage.
Synonyms:
Base Medium