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The character looks good except for one slight problem: wearing armour prevents the use of flurry of blows.  However, remeber you can get a reliable +4 AC by riding for cover unless your foe specifically readies to attack while you attack, so that helps your AC as long as you have a way of keeping your horse alive long enough for defense.  On that note, having some backup steeds wouldn't hurt.  As for armour, a potion of mage armour is a cheap +4 to AC.

Aside from that, looks good.  Deflect arrows helps you force melee, as does the mount.  Flurries of attacks for 2d6+4 once shillelaghed can be nasty, and your saves and AC are decent enough, especialy when you consider your good HP.  You also have a mount and decent archery if you need to take on somebody better than you in melee, so playing keep away while shooting with deflect arrows becomes a nice option.  Also, grappling as a side option not only gives you a fighting chance against opposing grapplers, but gives you nice options for foes whose AC's are too high.

Oct 15, 2012 -- 11:09PM, Uknits wrote:

wearing armour prevents the use of flurry of blows

Fuuuu. I thought that was the case in the beginning too, so I read flurry of blows 4 or 5 times to prove to myself it wasn't there. Now I find it buried under proficiencies. :p

Hmm. It's true that right now his AC would be fine if i just took off the armor and used pots of armor as the situation demanded...but if/when she hits about ECL 6 or so I was planning on her having an animated shield and magic armor to passively buff her AC. Going this route though, I'd think she'd need tatoos of force screen and pots of mage armor in addition to the oils...which begins to sound prohibitedly expensive when she already needs pots of pro. evil, resistance vs. elements, see invisibility, tats of synesthete and so forth. Hmm.

Well. I hadn't planned on straying from fighter, so that leaves lots of silliness open from multiclassing human if fighter doesn't count for exp penalties. If I switch in a level of ranger instead of that initial fighter level, I could just wand up resist vs. elements which would free up alot of expendable space...hmm...gives silliness with CLW wands too. I think I like. 

And yeah, more horses might be a good idea. I was planning on having her get a dire bat with handle animal after I got more skill points into it, but the mounts are all rather squishy. Hmm.

Thanks for the ideas

Anyway I have to rewrite the thing into a ranger...anything else while I'm convincing myself to wade back into the html?

I think the ranger makes sense.  There are a couple of minor errors you have from switching over, such as item costs, but it look spretty good now.  As he plays, you can tweak him.  My one bit of advice is that weapon focus may be better than reckless offense.   Reckless offense is +2 for -4, while Focus +1 for no penalty.  However, like I said, you have time to tweak as any changes made during ECL 3 are free to make as long as you post them in the blackmarket, so you get a chance to see what parts work and what parts don't.