I noticed today that the Hellknight PrC was changed from fifteen levels to ten, which is pretty cool. Anyway, I've wanted to make one for every since I saw it, but I can't decide how to go about it, so I'm asking you guys.
The character will start as a fighter, and will transition into hellknight as soon as I can and stick with that until I run out of hellknight levels. The order will be , and it will be for a rise of the runelords game.
What do you suggest, I was thinking either two weapon fighting with a sword and shield or a two handed weapon. Thoughts?
Oh yeah, he's a human.
The two-handed build will do more damage, but the sword and board build will have a more balanced attack, but it is feat and ability score intensive. What point buy are you allowed to use?
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Well since it's Rise of the Runelords, You're in Varsia which would mean that most likely you'd be a Hellknight of the Nail. You could be a Halberd fighter to stick to the order's fluff. Regardless it's not necessary to use the orders favorite weapon.
As a general thought I'd say stick with Two Handed fighting as Sword n' Shield Two-Weapon fighting is feat intensive and Hellknight's don't have the benefit of weapon training/fighter feat progression past level 5 so it starts to get harder to hit.
I'd look into the feat Cornugon Smash as it's very flavorful for a Hellknight.
I decided to go with a halberd, partly because it's something different, and partly because it is the favored weapon of the order he wants to join.
I was thinking I might try and see if I can learn the value of the combat maneuvers. Any thoughts? Trip and sunder sound good, any advice about that?