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Heathansson, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 10:13 AM

I think the duskblade myself.


houstonderek, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 10:26 AM

Ftr 7/Mu 11/ Elf from 1e. :)


Callous Jack (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 10:28 AM

I've never played a Duskblade but I thought the Hexblade was a lot of fun.


David Fryer, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 10:32 AM

Multiclass Swashbuckler/Sorcerer, or maybe the Battle Sorcerer from UnA with the Battle Caster feat and mithral full plate.


Heathansson, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 10:40 AM

Callous Jack wrote: I've never played a Duskblade but I thought the Hexblade was a lot of fun. Is it pretty elegant?


Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Fiction, Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 10:45 AM

What's the crunch to fluff ratio?


Heathansson, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 10:58 AM

I hate that word fluff. Please don't use it in my thread.


Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Fiction, Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:02 AM

Says the elegant gish....did you post a preferred term?


hazel monday (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Modules Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:05 AM

Gishes are OK. I prefer frumbaggy guzzworglers though. I find them to be more snugglykins puffybaggers than your average run of the mill piggly gulpers. Brump.


Heathansson, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:08 AM

Mairkurion {tm} wrote: Says the elegant gish....did you post a preferred term? this is fluff.


Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Fiction, Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:12 AM

It comes in strawberry too!!!!!! Hold on to your crust, Nilla Waffers!


Heathansson, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:12 AM

You are soooooo full of fail.


Callous Jack (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:13 AM

Heathansson wrote: Callous Jack wrote: I've never played a Duskblade but I thought the Hexblade was a lot of fun. Is it pretty elegant? I was thinking... sumptuous.


Spanky the Leprechaun, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:14 AM

Sword'n'board type sumptness?


Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Fiction, Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:15 AM

Failure never tasted so flnffy...


Spanky the Leprechaun, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:16 AM

Flnffy. that'll work. It's a good woody word.


Callous Jack (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:18 AM

Spanky the Leprechaun wrote: Sword'n'board type sumptness? No. That's a big, tall glass of fail juice.


Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Fiction, Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:22 AM

Spanky the Leprechaun wrote: Flnffy. that'll work. It's a good woody word. [Through flnffy mouthfuls of waffers] You just like it because it's Norwegian.


Callous Jack (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:23 AM

Mairkurion {tm} wrote: You just like it because it's Norwegian. Careful, them's fightn' words for lastknightleft.


Spanky the Leprechaun, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:24 AM

Farferganugin?


Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Fiction, Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:27 AM

Callous Jack wrote: Mairkurion {tm} wrote: You just like it because it's Norwegian. Careful, them's fightn' words for lastknightleft. Why? He's not a Beatles' fan?


Spanky the Leprechaun, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:34 AM

His roommate is.


Kirth Gersen (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Modules Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:38 AM

Abjurant Champion, in all its broken glory. d10 HD, full BAB, full spellcasting, automatic quickened spells, automatic extended spells, improved caster level, improved AC, and a bunch of other abilities besides. And the prerequisites are easier than the ones for Eldritch Knight. About the only thing they don't get is full clerical turning and sneak attack progression. Or anchovies.


lastknightleft (Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:54 AM

Mairkurion {tm} wrote: Spanky the Leprechaun wrote: Flnffy. that'll work. It's a good woody word. [Through flnffy mouthfuls of waffers] You just like it because it's Norwegian. Danged Bloody Norweges trying to make all our words woody all the time, give me a good tinny word any day of the week.


Heathansson's 412th Alias, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:57 AM

I'll make a joke about something I just said again!


Callous Jack (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:59 AM

Heathansson's 412th Alias wrote: I'll make a joke about something I just said again! Wahahahahahahah!


lastknightleft (Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 11:59 AM

Kirth Gersen wrote: Abjurant Champion, in all its broken glory. d10 HD, full BAB, full spellcasting, automatic quickened spells, automatic extended spells, improved caster level, improved AC, and a bunch of other abilities besides. And the prerequisites are easier than the ones for Eldritch Knight. About the only thing they don't get is full clerical turning and sneak attack progression. Or anchovies. the pathfinder version gets anchovies.


Callous Jack (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:03 PM

lastknightleft wrote: the pathfinder version gets anchovies. And bacon.


Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Fiction, Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:05 PM

No thanks...I've got a tummy ache now...


houstonderek, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:07 PM

Kirth Gersen wrote: Abjurant Champion, in all its broken glory. d10 HD, full BAB, full spellcasting, automatic quickened spells, automatic extended spells, improved caster level, improved AC, and a bunch of other abilities besides. And the prerequisites are easier than the ones for Eldritch Knight. About the only thing they don't get is full clerical turning and sneak attack progression. Or anchovies. You're still bitter about the "one anchovy per slice" Papa John's fiasco, aren't you? ;)


houstonderek, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:10 PM

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. The best "gish" class is the one who can recite all of the lyrics from the Smashing Pumpkins album of the same name. Sorry, every time I hear the term "gish", I think of that album or Lilian...


Archade (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Chronicles, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:11 PM

I really prefer the duskblade. I know the flavour text says 'elves' but all the doom and gloom spells, it really says 'githyanki'. I have a watered-down gith race in my homebrew campaign world, and their favoured classes are monk or duskblade ...


Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Fiction, Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:13 PM

houstonderek wrote: Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. The best "gish" class is the one who can recite all of the lyrics from the Smashing Pumpkins album of the same name. Sorry, every time I hear the term "gish", I think of that album or Lilian... Hey HD, I'd already called a soundtrack for this thread...


lastknightleft (Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:15 PM

personally I hate gish classes, the hexblade and spellthiefs were the only ones I liked and that was because they felt more like the paladin and ranger rather than a gish, i.e. their own class with thier own unique abilities, that just got some weaker versions of other class abilities tacked on. Unless you consider the paladin a Gish, in that case, the paladin is my favorite Gish.


Heathansson, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:17 PM

Heathansson's 412th Alias wrote: I'll make a joke about something I just said again! I'm not going to sit for this sockpuppetry in my thread. I know that's you, The Authority.


houstonderek, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:17 PM

Mairkurion {tm} wrote: houstonderek wrote: Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. The best "gish" class is the one who can recite all of the lyrics from the Smashing Pumpkins album of the same name. Sorry, every time I hear the term "gish", I think of that album or Lilian... Hey HD, I'd already called a soundtrack for this thread... Rubber Soul? Really? :)


Spanky the Leprechaun, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:18 PM

That's right!!!


Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Fiction, Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:21 PM

Yep. What did you expect from a Greenman?


Spanky the Leprechaun, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:24 PM

It's my thread, and I don't even know what that is. So I ain't havin it for the soundtrack. It might be too tinny for all I know.


Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Fiction, Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:25 PM

Norwegian Wood, by definition, is not tinny.


Spanky the Leprechaun, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:25 PM

Now let's yammer on about chaotic neutral, since I'm the only one who truly understands it.


Spanky the Leprechaun, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:26 PM

Mairkurion {tm} wrote: Norwegian Wood, by definition, is not tinny. Except for that Ironwood where that Iron Witch was. You need to be up more on your Norse Mythology flnff.


Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Fiction, Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:26 PM

This has been demonstrated. [Takes up position of auditor.] EDIT: Wouldn't that be irony, not tinny?


lastknightleft (Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:28 PM

Mairkurion {tm} wrote: Norwegian Wood, by definition, is not tinny. No but it is by definition aweful


Spanky the Leprechaun, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:29 PM

Auditor. Audit...auditerrrrr...no, too tinny.


lastknightleft (Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:30 PM

Spanky the Leprechaun wrote: You need to be up more on your Norse Mythology flnff. That's like needing to be more up on your horse porn


Curaigh, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:34 PM

Kirth Gersen wrote: Abjurant Champion, in all its broken glory. d10 HD, full BAB, full spellcasting, automatic quickened spells, automatic extended spells, improved caster level, improved AC, and a bunch of other abilities besides. And the prerequisites are easier than the ones for Eldritch Knight. About the only thing they don't get is full clerical turning and sneak attack progression. Or anchovies. There is that CA feat you can take to get a familiar as long as you are a spellcaster. So you can get an anchovi.* Spoiler: *A DM may rule you have to be in an aquatic campaign (or a pizzatic one).


Jam412, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:42 PM

lastknightleft wrote: Spanky the Leprechaun wrote: You need to be up more on your Norse Mythology flnff. That's like needing to be more up on your horse porn I truly regret ever stumbling upon this thread..


Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Fiction, Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:42 PM

lastknightleft wrote: Mairkurion {tm} wrote: Norwegian Wood, by definition, is not tinny. No but it is by definition aweful [Whew] For a minute there, I thought you said awful.


Set, Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 12:43 PM

Kirth Gersen wrote: Abjurant Champion, Can you get into that from Duskblade? Perhaps Duskblade 4 or 5 with a level of Battle Sorcerer? 'Cause that might be hawt. Best core 'gish,' straight Cleric or Druid. For worst core 'gish' I'd say, Bard.