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1 year ago ::
May 10, 2012 - 4:39PM
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I pointed this out in another thread. If you could refluff a pixie, refluff a blink dog and take fey beast tamer.
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T=target of charge
B=blink dog(refluffed)
P=pixie(refluffed)
X=blink dog aura1
Arange that set up. You can teleport to another square in the blink dog aura1 as a move action. You start behind the blink dog then charge. You an either slide the target or just let it stay there. On the next turn, you teleport back to the start, then charge again. Rinse, repeat. The thing about this set up is that you can use some of the teleport trigger items and still charge.
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1 year ago ::
May 10, 2012 - 5:25PM
#12
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Date Joined:
May 10, 2012
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Yes I had noticed that litte Fey Beast tactic and was considering using it. I can refluff the companion to be something Dark Sun. It seemed to be the most DM friendly, rather than relying on a certain set of equips that can be easily taken away and then the character is screwed. I like that you can use teleport items now and the charge stuff, gives you more options.
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1 year ago ::
May 11, 2012 - 5:45AM
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My inital concern, and the DM's concerns as well, is of course how does one add a pixie to Dark Sun?
There is a big dangerous forest, the Forest Ridge, from where the halflings come from in Dark Sun.
The feywild is weak in Athas, but the Forest Ridge is one of the location where the Feywild persists.
You could describe the pixies as predators of the Forest Ridge, generaly more interested in the striker role. You could be an exception.
But if Pixies are considered as having abandoned the Feywild to survive, then Halfling would be more logic than elven as a second language in the Forest Ridge.
Your DM can confirm the Feywild status in the Cosmology page of the campaign setting. So you don't have to limit you to the druid class to legitimate your pixie character 
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1 year ago ::
May 11, 2012 - 6:00AM
#14
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2010
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I pointed this out in another thread. If you could refluff a pixie, refluff a blink dog and take fey beast tamer.
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TXBP
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T=target of charge
B=blink dog(refluffed)
P=pixie(refluffed)
X=blink dog aura1
Arange that set up. You can teleport to another square in the blink dog aura1 as a move action. You start behind the blink dog then charge. You an either slide the target or just let it stay there. On the next turn, you teleport back to the start, then charge again. Rinse, repeat. The thing about this set up is that you can use some of the teleport trigger items and still charge.
There's really no need to fuss about like this with a Pixie Druid. You can guarantee yourself two turns of charge by charging adjacent, shifting back, charging into square, and you should be able to hit, and therefore slide and set up a new charge anyway...
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1 year ago ::
May 11, 2012 - 8:58AM
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Date Joined:
May 10, 2012
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There's really no need to fuss about like this with a Pixie Druid. You can guarantee yourself two turns of charge by charging adjacent, shifting back, charging into square, and you should be able to hit, and therefore slide and set up a new charge anyway...
Man I am going to sound ridiciously stupid, but if you charge and hit with the druid power that slides the 1 and you use the boots of adept charging to shift back the 1, doesn't that leave room for the monster to just charge you on it's turn? It may set you up for another charge, but that's only if the bad guy doesn't come swinging at you, which knowing my DM it would. How do you set up a charge when the bad guy has taken up that room you tried to set up?
I guess that's what is confusing me about the whole charging thing.
I knew I had read somewhere that there were still bits of the FeyWild still in Dark Sun. But wouldn't a rogue pixie wandering around a sorcerer king's city draw some unwanted attention and probably get me killed? That's my problem, it's not a character that can easily just go galavanting around the world, going where ever it wants but as a crow druid it can.
I wish there was another easy way to hide a character's appearence so drastically. The few shape changing themes don't help a pixie out too much. I am missing 3ed's Hat of Disguise!
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1 year ago ::
May 11, 2012 - 9:07AM
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A hat of disguise keeps a pixie tiny. The wererat theme is another solution atlevel 10 and beyond, as you become small.
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1 year ago ::
May 11, 2012 - 9:54AM
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doesn't that leave room for the monster to just charge you on it's turn? It may set you up for another charge, but that's only if the bad guy doesn't come swinging at you, which knowing my DM it would. How do you set up a charge when the bad guy has taken up that room you tried to set up?
If you just charge a lone enemy then yes, they'll probably get in your face on their turn. Instead, use charge, slide, shift, trick on an enemy tied down by your defender.
Badge of berserker is a single item that let you ping pong if such is your desire. Not as good as re-charging a single target but it keeps you charging.
Boots of the Fencing Master will set you up for a re-charge for the price of a minor.
If you're not stuck on the druid idea, certain classes can do this easily. Off the top of my head, thief and monk have no issue with it.
Regarding travelling around as a Pixie, couldn't you just hide in the cloak of another player? I guess it would keep your social interactions / RP limited but it would let you be a Pixie. Could also make for some pretty intense moments if you have to stealth around occasionally to avoid being found out.
And often times a good DM enjoys working character specifics into plot hooks and stories. Having someone 'discover' a Pixie in the SKs city could be ripe story telling.
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1 year ago ::
May 11, 2012 - 10:15AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2010
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Polearm Momentum is, stat-wise, almost designed for a predruid. Buff the slide a bit so you can send it out-and-back, leave it one square away. It cannot charge you unless it has an AP and is willing to burn a standard to stand and move.
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1 year ago ::
May 11, 2012 - 11:54AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 13, 2004
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As a pixie, you can stop flying, hide your wings and max your character Bluff skill to make people believe that you are farther from them than you actually are !
I just think that you will have to max your own Bluff skill to make this awesome trick pass your DM...
"They are making it clear that when modern design and common sense come into conflict with tradition, tradition wins." - thecasualoblivion
"Vancian isn't broken, you just have to set your game to the wizard's clock!" - Oxybe
"In many ways, making a new edition of D&D is alot like trying to sell a car to the Amish." - Dwarfslayer
"Encounters are the heart of the AD&D game" - PHB AD&D 2nd edition.
"you shouldn't even bother trying to become like me." - Gary Gygax (Elfcrusher confirmed)
"Feel free to claim I said anything you like. How's someone going to call you out on it? Are they going to be all like, 'I know all of the things that Gary said, and that's not one of them?'"
- Gary Gygax
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1 year ago ::
May 11, 2012 - 5:44PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 23, 2003
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If you like the druid idea, you can also take stampede and move two squares after a charge. Just make sure you moved your target(savage rend), as it doesn't say that movement doesn't provoke. Also since you are doing savage rend, you can use an earthfall totem, +1d6 damage when you slide. Here is the link to my build, the RP idea is that it is a hawk that adventures with the party. community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
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