It's less about having a melee build more about having something that reflects the character I'm trying to build. A powerful build is great but a powerful build that goes against the character means I need to change the character to suit the build, or ignore the build when playing the character. I'm...

Will details on the summons be released to the players? For example I can currently summon a Mohrg, but given Mohrgs are normally CR12 I am assuming it has been adjusted down somewhat as I'm currently a level 8 character. On the flip side I picked the skeleton summon but have only a limited idea how...

Yeah. Every RDD/Palmaster build I've seen online is a 40 level build, so not quite as useful as I'd like. Thanks for the tip regarding Shadowdancer, I think I remember that from when I was last on Amia... 10 years ago or so. It's been a while. :p

If I didn't go full Palemaster, is there a good build for Bard/RDD/Palemaster? Or Wizard/Palemaster/Shadowdancer? I am not a big fan of bard but I wanted my character to be from Chaulssin, who are shadow dragon drow and I was wondering how well I could reflect that via the build.

It's less about the amount of skill points more the spread on where they can go. So I suppose one level of rogue or bard is fine but it just means a lot of my skill points will be floating until right near the end of the build, so I'll spend a LOT of time without some of the skills I want to RP with...

Darn. That means I have to pick between being a skill-monkey and having a powerful summon. I guess the RP is still the same but still, shame.

Thank you for the response! I'm the guy making the drow PM in question. Right now I'm looking at 3 Rogue, 11 Wiz, 16 PM. 3 Rogue simply because I like having a massive skill pool for RP purposes so I have taken one at level 1 and will take the others at 17 and 27. The feat-list in particular is of m...