Holy Slayer - Paladin/Fist of Raziel/Knight of the Chalice
Requirements:
FoR:
Alignment: Lawful Good.
Feats: Power Attack, Servant of The Heavens.
Skills: Persuade 5 ranks, Lore 5 ranks.
Divine Spellcasting: Can cast 1st level spells.
Base Attack Bonus: 6
Spell: Able to cast Divine Favor
KoC:
Alignment: Lawful Good
Base Attack Bonus: +8
Skills: Lore 10 or more ranks
Divine Spellcasting: Level 1 or higher.
Spells: Ability to cast Protection from Evil
Design:
This build is designed to be a powerful slayer of Undead and/or Demons by focusing on the varying prestige classes of Fist of Raziel and Knight of the Chalice. Variants are entirely possible depending on the module and the relative prevalence of Undead and Demons.
Playing this as an Aasimar is the most logical and fits the mold (mould? which one is which?
, but really anything 'Good' and doesn't impact Charisma would work just fine.
Level Progression:
1. Paladin 1 - *Power Attack
2. Paladin 2
3. Paladin 3 - *Cleave
4. Paladin 4 - CHA +1
5. Paladin 5
6. Paladin 6 - Servant of the Heavens
7. Fist of Raziel 1 - Magic Circle / Smite Evil x1 (Divine)
8. Knight of the Chalice 1 - CHA +1 / Demonslaying 1
9. KoC 2 - *Weapon Focus (any) / Censure Demons
10. KoC 3 - Demonslaying 2
11. FoR 2
12. FoR 3 - CHA +1 / *Improved Critical (any) / Smite Evil x2 (crit)
13. FoR 4
14. FoR 5 - Smite Evil x3 (2d6 Holy Dmg v Evil) / Sanctify Martial Strike
15. FoR 6 - *Great Cleave
16. FoR 7 - CHA +1 / Smite Evil x4 (2d8 Holy Dmg v Evil or Outsider)
17. FoR 8
18. FoR 9 - *(Extra Smiting?) / Smite Evil x5 (All Targets)
19. FoR 10 - Holy Martial Strike
20. KoC 4 - CHA +1 / Censure Demons 2
Epic:
Can either continue with Fist of Raziel levels into epic-hood which grants additional Smite attempts every alternate level; or take some/all of the remaining 6 Knight of the Chalice levels first to increase Demonslaying abilities.
Alternative:
If there is a greater Demon presence than Undead then more Knight of the Chalice levels can be taken instead of Fist of Raziel to accomodate that since the great demonslaying strength would be of more use than the Smites - even though the higher smite powers affect Outsiders as well. This build had more focus on the Undead Slaying (since Undead are typically more prevalent than Demons) and aiming at getting the Holy Martial Strike before the Epic levels.
