Lion Blade Prestige Class 2016 - please explain prereqs


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Sovereign Court

Alignment: Any neutral.
Feats: Deceitful, Improved Initiative,
Skill Focus (Perform).
Skills: Bluff 3 ranks, Disguise 5
ranks, Stealth 5 ranks, either Perform
(sing) or Perform (act) 3 ranks.
Special: Inspire competence bardic
performance, servant of Taldor or the
Sovereign Court affiliation, sneak attack
+2d6.

Do you need all 3 to qualify:
1- inspire competence; and
2- servant of taldor [b]OR/b] sovereign court affiliation (what's that by the way?); and
3- sneak attack 2d6.

Assuming you need all three, is there even a way to qualify for all this by level 6? (ranks prereqs are achieved at 5th...)

Seems like the earliest might be level 7 since you need bard3/rog3...

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Bard 3/rogue or ninja 1/snakebite brawler 1 will get you the prereqs.

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You need 1, 2 (either version), and 3.

Sovereign Court is a PFS thing. The New World Order for Golarion, basically.

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Cory Stafford 29 wrote:
Bard 3/rogue or ninja 1/snakebite brawler 1 will get you the prereqs.

That's amazing thanks!

It also occurs to me that if you use unchained rogue you get dex to damage with the bard3/rog3 build... hmmm...

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deusvult wrote:

You need 1, 2 (either version), and 3.

Sovereign Court is a PFS thing. The New World Order for Golarion, basically.

servant of taldor: is this a feat/trait? (not playing PFS...)

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Basically, it means your character is a loyal servant of Taldor or the Sovereign Court. The Lion Blades are secret police/spies for an organization. You have to a member of that organization to serve it as a Lion Blade.

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Is 'Servant of Taldor' just a fluff requirement, or is this some kind of trait, feat, etc. requirement I'm not aware of?


In this case it would be 'fluff', in that there are no mechanics - but that you literally are a servant in the service of Taldor. They own you.

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Yep, a fluff requirement. Akin to an Eagle Knight being a servant of Andoran or a Stormtrooper being a servant of the Empire/First Order.

Given the nature of the prestige class, perhaps a more apt analogy would be that in order to play a KGB agent in a Cold War espionage rpg, your character must be a Soviet (to continue taking levels in the prestige class...)

Of course former Lion Blades can get away without needing to loyally serve Taldor/The Sovereign Court since the prestige class (iirc) doesn't have a paladin-like rule about losing class abilities if you stray from the party line. A former Lion Blade may not be able to keep taking levels, but there shouldn't be any reason they can't keep their existing abilities. (The "Finn" effect...)

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deusvult wrote:

Yep, a fluff requirement. Akin to an Eagle Knight being a servant of Andoran or a Stormtrooper being a servant of the Empire/First Order.

Given the nature of the prestige class, perhaps a more apt analogy would be that in order to play a KGB agent in a Cold War espionage rpg, your character must be a Soviet (to continue taking levels in the prestige class...)

Of course former Lion Blades can get away without needing to loyally serve Taldor/The Sovereign Court since the prestige class (iirc) doesn't have a paladin-like rule about losing class abilities if you stray from the party line. A former Lion Blade may not be able to keep taking levels, but there shouldn't be any reason they can't keep their existing abilities. (The "Finn" effect...)

Yep, would just have to worry about Taldor sending hits out on you, like most renegade government spies.

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