Build challenge: Melee/Range Thaumaturge

[FlippinFerrets91]

I've always liked the idea of a summoner who fights beside his summons, without the use of (many) offensive spells. The issue is that I'm not sure how to build the character. I thought about multiclassing a wizard/fighter/thaumaturge, but never gave it a shot because I couldn't really make it viable at all.

My challenge is for someone to come up with a good build that utilizes the thaumaturge class and then uses melee or range weapons as main source of damage, other than the summon.

[Taintedglory]

Ranger/Cleric build I would suppose would work, Thaumaturge is cleric viable I think? I'll test it out in the module. If not then Ranger/Sorcerer? It'll take a minute to get there, I'd say 5 levels ranger, 5 levels caster, then 5 levels thaumaturge, then fill up the rest in sorcerer/ranger mixed? Go melee two weapon and use both your summon and your pet.

[Tsidkenu]

In that case you probably want to try some sort of Cleric or FS build. Druid might be nice with spontaneous Creature Summoning and the ability to shapeshift to become a melee heavy-hitter. But they do not have any of the 'calling' line of spells (Planar Binding, Planar Ally etc) to use to gain that useful permanent summon, although a druid's animal companion is probably better than that anyway.

[Valefort]

http://nwn2db.com/build/?221359 Here is one way to do it, it's an autostill gish, it's very solid, it's only issue will be a very moderate amount of spells, you'll buff yourself + your summon but then you won't have a whole lot remaining.

[dzidek1983]

play evil please, the server wont stand another pokemon bear summoner

[Rudolph]

http://nwn2db.com/build/?202177

Here's my own Thaumaturge - didn't play her up to Epic because I had to stop for a while, but she worked quite well early on. This build does rely on spells, but for buffing and not direct damage dealing.