Ok the only stipulation I have for this character is that he has to be a pure swashbuckler. Absolutely no multi classing. The character will be tenth level with 750,000 gold to spend. I need advice on everything, race, traits, feats, and gear. The only thing I know about my opponent is that he is centered around the aldori sword lord PrC, and is pure martial. Also all advice must be PFS legal.
Buy a Goz mask and an eversmoking bottle. Done.
So, If he is a sword lord, and you really have that much gold, get your dex and charisma as high as you can. Get you initiative as high as you can with dex, traits, and improved initiative. Use skill focus and magic aptitude to max your UMD. A trait that makes it a class skill would also be good.
10 ranks
3 class skill
4 magic aptitude
6 skill focus
3 Circlet of persuasion
4 standard charisma score
3 headband of charisma
33 total score. Because rolling 1 is not an automatic failure on skill checks, that is an automatic 7th level sorcerer scroll. If you can up it more ways that I can't come up with off the top of my head, then you get higher level scrolls. The point is target his will save. No one expects the swashbuckler to attack the will save.
Not saying it's the best idea, but it is thinking outside the box.
That had better be a typo. 75k is smack in the middle of the level 10 WBL range, while 750k is in the level 19 range.
with 750 000 gp cavall, he will most likely have a ring of freedom of movement...unless this item is banned in PFS.
I am 100% this is not for PFS. For the record, a Ring of Freedom of Movement isn't banned in PFS either. It'll likely take half of your available wealth from levels 1-12 though.
You could gamble on a successful UMD of a scroll of Winds of Vengeance. Or not gamble and grab overland flight.
Some Powerful Spells: Suffocation (with Extended or Persistent metamagic, maybe), Repel Metal or Stone followed with various save-or-loses (I recommend suffocation), Prediction of Failure, a limited wish scroll used to Geas/Quest him, Power Word Blind/Stun/Kill, Maze, etc.
EDIT: Actually - buy items and take feats to boost initiative into the stratosphere. Buy a scroll of Extended Power Word Stun (3825 GP) and fire it off in the first round. A Goz Mask (8000 GP) and an Eversmoking Bottle, combined with a Toothpick of Pyrotechnics (400 GP) will guarantee you survive. When he's stunned, you take his dropped sword and then beat him to death. Close with a scroll of Power Word Kill (3825 GP)
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with 750 000 gp cavall, he will most likely have a ring of freedom of movement...unless this item is banned in PFS.I am 100% this is not for PFS. For the record, a Ring of Freedom of Movement isn't banned in PFS either. It'll likely take half of your available wealth from levels 1-12 though.
mostly him mentioning this:
Also all advice must be PFS legal.
Which I guess is the guideline their duel.
Change the rules he set that monetary limit for a reason. Accept the challenge with half the starting coin
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buy 30 thousand ioun stones and use them as an impenetrable force field.
Make a pure grappler with all your feats, then waste 40 rounds squeezing him to death as he tries to use a sword in a grapple.
The end.
It won't take 40 rounds. With the Rapid Grappler Feat, you can Grapple as a Swift Action. So,
You initiate a Grapple as a Standard Action
You Pin as a Move Action (Greater Grapple)
You Tie Up your opponent as a Swift Action.
the text in greater grapple seems to suggest that is works in rounds where you maintain your grapple as a standart action. Not in rounds where you initiatet your grapple.
And to the OP. What is the reason for this duel?
Go-Go-Gadget rings of 3 wishes.
Wish yourself to the other side of the planet. Keep wishing your opponent into the negative energy plane until he fails his save. Put as much as you can into boosting your initiative so you go first.
For even more unfair BS try having a sky high UMD and UMDing a scroll of time stop with a Maximize metamagic gem built in.
First round: Disintegrate the ground underneath him with a disintegrate scroll.
Second round: Drop a Prismatic Sphere in the hole that he is suspended over.
Rounds 3 through 5: I don't know. Analyze dweomer I guess, and try to counter anything genuinely surprising that he is pulling.
This might seem like cheating but remember one thing.
Only cheaters prosper.
Seriously though, change the wealth for this. It is stupid.
In fact, set rules on what is allowed for items. The trick I did above with time stop costs under 15K to pull, and is a no-save you lose to almost anything that isn't initially flying. There are probably good ways of dealing with fliers as well (I imagine Wish for Simulacrum for *something* will deal with it). Even just spamming Irresistable Dances until he fails his save and then you toss a couple of Suffocates at him is pretty much a guarenteed win.
EDIT: I am making this way too complicated. UMD a scroll of limited wish duplicating Geas. You win. Congratulations. Go make your new slave buy you a cold one to celebrate.
@OP (Jack of Nothing): should it be 75k or 750k? That's super important - you can't get a definite answer until you tell us.
Make a pure grappler with all your feats, then waste 40 rounds squeezing him to death as he tries to use a sword in a grapple.
The end.
It won't take 40 rounds. With the Rapid Grappler Feat, you can Grapple as a Swift Action. So,
You initiate a Grapple as a Standard Action
You Pin as a Move Action (Greater Grapple)
You Tie Up your opponent as a Swift Action.the text in greater grapple seems to suggest that is works in rounds where you maintain your grapple as a standart action. Not in rounds where you initiatet your grapple.
And to the OP. What is the reason for this duel?
OMG so sorry, that was a typo! only 75,000 gold!
Well the challenge was issued when my PFS group was making small talk before the game started and I made the claim that I felt a swashbuckler could take any fighter. Turns out one of the dudes has a martial character specifically tailored for one on one duels and wanted me to make a swashbuckler to take on his character. However, my statement was slightly misunderstood as I could've worded it better, I meant a straight swashbuckler could take any straight fighter,but I decided to take the challenge anyway.
Halfling with adabtable luck alternate racial trait and Fates favored trait. Scimitar and slashing grace, weapon focus, weapon spec, greater weapon focus, toughness, combat reflexes and Dodge. Would be my thinking Best stat in dex, con, cha, str=wis and dump int to the max.
Alternatly make a flying blade and take flere with every feat and just keep throwing and running:)
1. Buy a ring of 3 wishes
2. Take Improved initiative 5 times
3. You win.
He only have 75000 and improved i initiative dosent stack:(
Are archetypes allowed, or is it base Swashbuckler only? Do you at least know the race of your opponent? If you know he will be medium, you could build against that as a halfling.
The Swordlord is based around using intimidate. It'd be nice if you could find a way to just shut that down. I'm having trouble finding good options though.
Halfling with adabtable luck alternate racial trait and Fates favored trait. Scimitar and slashing grace, weapon focus, weapon spec, greater weapon focus, toughness, combat reflexes and Dodge. Would be my thinking Best stat in dex, con, cha, str=wis and dump int to the max.
Alternatly make a flying blade and take flere with every feat and just keep throwing and running:)
And spend the extra gold on adamantine scimitar and locked gauntlet in case he is a disarm, sunder specialist. And see if you Can find room for blade of mercy and enforcer.
I'm really concerned that this guy's build is focused around abusing demoralize somehow, perhaps legally or perhaps not. So, no matter what you build it may not matter unless you can somehow counter it.
Are Androids Pathfinder society legal?
They could shut down his Intimidate stuff quite fine.
Honestly I wouldn't rely on buggy rules or special items that much. Just build a min maxed swashbuckler and see how it plays out.
If he fights you straight on, you should be able to beat him. If he uses some kind of broken trick/weird gear, than he isn't relying on being a fighter anyway.
The Swordlord is based around using intimidate. It'd be nice if you could find a way to just shut that down. I'm having trouble finding good options though.
Are you the OP on another account? It gets confusing if you use different accounts in a conversation.
Melkiador is not me. Just saying. :)
I was planning on a locked gauntlet to avoid disarm, plus the adamantine weapon could be helpful for sunder unless his weapon is adamantine? Idk not familiar with high level play.
Was thinking of a katana for weapon choice?
I'm also unsure of the rules for demoralize, how do I build to combat it?
UMD a scroll of greater heroism, it grants immunity to fear effects and on account of the clarification in a recent FAQ, it would make you immune to demoralize aspects of intimidate.
All that should be doable. I'm unsure however if that would be frowned upon, I will get some clarification on any rules my opponent would like to put in place in regards to what I'm allowed to do. I won't mention anything specific but I don't want to go about this in a way he feels is unfair as his character was made by going through society games, mine is simply made to thwart him so that is already a little unfair. :/
Get a Blue Scarf Swordmaster's Flair.
Use the Lunge Feat.
Attack from 15 ft away.
When he moves in, use Dodging Panache to move 5ft back and possibly block his attack (parry if you have to).
5ft step back on your turn and continue to full attack.
Rinse and Repeat.
With the above, he should only be getting 1 attack on you every round, while you get 2 (3 with Boots of Speed, for Haste). If you've maximized your DEX and CHA, and have Dex to Damage, then you should be doing decent damage each turn while he struggles to hit you at all. If you wanted, you could even take Osyluth's guile to get your CHA to AC again. Both it and Dodging Panache are Dodge bonuses, and those explicitly always stack.
Aldori sword lords can't do much without their Aldori swords; I'd think about doing something with a sunder-focused build.
They also can't do much without full attacks/full round actions, which the extended reach will help you counter.
It seems like your opponent is also going to have some pretty crazy AC though, so you're going to need ways to reduce that. If you can deny his Dex without loosing too much in terms of effectiveness, you should be able to do well. Swasbuckler Deeds such as Superior Feint and even Targeted Strike (works for disarming, and your opponent will have to suffer Attacks of Opportunity to retrieve said items) work really well for this point, as they don't require any special investment on your behalf.
Basically, just get your attack bonus up as high as you can. Weapon Focus. Greater Weapon Focus. Gloves of Marking if Gloves of Dueling aren't allowed. A Swashbuckler's Rapier also works. You'll hemorrhage through your panache, but hopefully, the battle isn't a long one.
Has the OP favored us with his opponent's character build?I think the OP was referring to building a character that specifically targets the other player's weaknesses, and defends against the other player's strengths.
It's a little unfair if the other person has a general PFS build, even if that build is optimized, instead of an anti-swashbuckler build.
He dosent know.
Melkiador is not me. Just saying. :)
I was planning on a locked gauntlet to avoid disarm, plus the adamantine weapon could be helpful for sunder unless his weapon is adamantine? Idk not familiar with high level play.
Was thinking of a katana for weapon choice?
I'm also unsure of the rules for demoralize, how do I build to combat it?
but are you the OP on a different account then?
Couldnt he just have his character be deaf to avoid the demoralize?