There is desert themed game session starting near my location, and I want a Arabic knight character who fights foes with scimitar and shield. I want it to be a divine character, but paladin does not seem to have any way to be effective with light armor. Anyone got any ideas for a character like this?
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There is desert themed game session starting near my location, and I want a Arabic knight character who fights foes with scimitar and shield. I want it to be a divine character, but paladin does not seem to have any way to be effective with light armor. Anyone got any ideas for a character like this?
None of the paladin's class features require or improve heavy armor. If your dexterity is higher, you can get the same AC from light armor as you get from heavy armor (plus, a smaller check penalty and faster movement).
A paladin can work just fine with light armor.
There is desert themed game session starting near my location, and I want a Arabic knight character who fights foes with scimitar and shield. I want it to be a divine character, but paladin does not seem to have any way to be effective with light armor. Anyone got any ideas for a character like this?
Warpriest of Sarenrae. Could even go dex based with dervish dance and be all thematic.
A dip in Whirling Dervish Swashbuckler would even be helpful for the Paladin version of this concept. Although I wonder if the upcoming Paths of the Righteous will have a Dervish Paladin archetype so that you won't need the Swashbuckler dip . . . .
Were gonna have a desert themed campaign real soon. We gonna start at level one and I was hoping to make a nomad style paladin. The class however doesn't seem to work well with light armor so I am kinda lost. I would like the character to fight with scimitar and shield, and plus if its a divine character. Does anyone have any ideas?
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A dip in Whirling Dervish Swashbuckler would even be helpful for the Paladin version of this concept. Although I wonder if the upcoming Paths of the Righteous will have a Dervish Paladin archetype so that you won't need the Swashbuckler dip . . . .
No archetypes in that book : Prestige classes and feats almost exclusively
Thanks for the advice. Sry for creating so many threads. I won't make more with a phone anymore.
Warpriest sounds right. If you want to go lightly armored with a finesse-able weapon, you're going to want a big pile of feats (for weapon finesse, slashing grace, etc.) and the Warpriest is the only divine fighter with bonus feats (human warpriest can have 8 feats at level 6).
If you really want to use a shield, can it be a buckler? If you want a dex-based character, the various routes to add your dex mod to your damage instead of your strength mod aren't generally amenable to non-buckler shields (FAQ for slashing grace specifically says it works with bucklers though.)
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It doesn't have to be light armour.
In the real world, Saracens wore mail, lamellar or breastplates.
Look at this picture. In no way is this light armour: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b4/77/78/b47778ba545b8c0f5c246c3b c49f6bef.jpg
Lamelllar armour counts as Eastern in Pathfinder, so you can have a suit of differently styled O Yoroi which is the equivalent of full plate. This would not be for every ordinary soldier of course, but we are talking about a Paladin.
Check this guy: https://dungeonmusings.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/4a9df6679b72ddd57f93834e 273ed041-d4v6fxx.png
Wear what you like, just style it as Arabic looking.
Desert Paladins make perfect sense in Pathfinder. There are several books on Qadira and Katapesh etc. and one of the most important Good deities is Sarenrae who loves her scimitar-wielding Paladins.
a Sha'ir occultist could do scimitar shield and have little genie's floating around it all the time, seems very Arabiany
High-dexterity Sarenite paladins with dervish dance or slashing grace (so they can use bucklers) are definitely an option. If you don't mind not being a divine caster, the Qadiran horselord (cavalier archetype) was made with exactly that image in mind,and with order of the star s/he will be fairly devoted character. Sadly, there is no option for a camel mount. The divine commander warpriest gets a mount, but at the price of blessings, which to me is a pretty big deal (to the point taht I would rather play the core warpriest).
If you use cavalier as your base class, you can multiclass later and keep your animal companion at full strength with the horse master feat. Mind you, pretty much every character in Pathfinder can get a mount with the animal ally feat.
The Dervish Dance feat and a few archetypes and prestige classes with similar themes are based on wielding a scimitar in one hand (exactly what you want) and nothing in the other (not so much).
However, the Armor Master's Handbook does introduce a chain of feats that eventually allow you to treat a shield as an empty hand for feats like Dervish Dance with no penalty, so something along those lines may be worth trying if you are not intent on having full scimitar sword and board capability from level 1.
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Qadiran Horselords may have a different mount at the GM's discretion, and vanilla Cavaliers can pick a camel as standard, almost all GM's will allow one to ride a camel in such a themed campaign.
Even the Ranger version of horselord doesn't have to pick a horse!
There is some fluff in Inner Sea Combat (good book for you, OP) about how they really, really like their horses but they are totally Arabian.
Also, OP, you do not need a Dex build. Scimitars make perfectly good 2-handed weapons for someone like a Paladin. Don't worry about the damage dice, feel the crit range.
paladin of Iroran Paladin gets bonuses when being in light or no armor.
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