Exemplar brawler, evangelist cleric, sensei monk, martyr paladin, oath of the people's council paladin, storyteller medium, ocean's echo oracle, steel falcon prestige class
Take a peek at Pain Psychic with VMC Paladin. A Pain Psychic gets Live On, which is Lay on Hands at your psychic level -3. It explicitly stacks with lay on hands abilities gained from other sources. A VMC Paladin gains the ability to lay on hands a number of times per day equal to 1/2 her character level, healing as much as a paladin of her character level – 4. A level 20 pain psychic with VMC paladin has 18+cha uses of lay on hands that heal 16d6. That's even more healing than the typical Paladin + VMC Cavalier of the Star build. And you're a full caster.
It frankly bothers me that the game rules might actually permit this without magic while in the presence of a guard who really does give a crap about doing his job (and that job is keeping bows out). Guy at the Gym fallacy spotted. It's fantasy and a game. Why does it bother you so much that a fantasy character who's specialized in skullduggery and takes a specific trait is able to do something cool without magic?
Power of Suggestion trait "You wouldn't deprive a young man of his dapper cane, would you?"
1: Technically no, because the trigger is reducing an enemy to 0 or fewer hp. Nonlethal damage doesn't actually reduce an enemy's HP. "Do not deduct the nonlethal damage number from your current hit points. It is not “real” damage." Ask your GM if they'll allow it to work. If they're already allowing 3pp stuff, they should reasonably allow that. 2: Yes. The prerequisite for higher level maneuvers is to simply know a certain number of that discipline's maneuvers. It doesn't say anything about them having to be known as the same class. 3: Discipline Blade Shapes wouldn't form Empowered Strikes. It shapes an actual weapon. Empowered Strikes is a class feature from a specific class that's used as a weapon, not an actual weapon. If you get Fool's Errand, then yes, you can make any weapon. You can even make firearms!
No need for bard levels. Just go straight paladin with Oath of the People's Council and Warrior of the Holy Light. Now you have full progression bardic performance, a buffing aura instead of spells, all paladin auras minus Aura of Faith, and can wear full plate.
Use Enter the Vortex (Elemental Flux 5) as your stance. It lets you use ranged touch attacks which count as ranged weapons from the thrown weapon group, so you can use strike maneuvers with them. The range increment is 30 feet, but you can throw the blasts further than that, just like a regular ranged weapon.
Air0r, nothing prevents you from learning the same discipline in two different classes. Just remember you can't ready the same particular maneuver more than once at a time regardless of anything. David knott 242, you have an IL for each initiator class you have, just like you have a CL for each caster class you have.
Wracking Rod if you're allowed to use stuff Paizo made in 3.5e.
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If you're fine with universally acclaimed 3pp, try the Medic from Dreamscarred Press. It's a nonmagical Path of War initiator that can do everything an in-combat healer needs to do, quickly and efficiently. Here are the playtest documents if you want to read it before you buy the pdf.
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All 20 disciplines ARE COMPLETE! Next on the chopping block is the sample builds, and I plan to take a look at Unquiet Grave from Lords of the Night, and Chimera Soul from Lords of the Wild.
There are two disciplines that are exclusively for ranged combat, Solar Wind and Tempest Gale. The majority of the other disciplines have strikes that can be used either with melee or ranged weapons. A lot of archetypes of existing PoW classes are meant for ranged combat, like the Hawkguard Warder and Desperado Warlord. There's even a PoW archetype for the Marksman. Out of combat, maneuvers are recovered for free every round. Christopher Bennet said so, and he's one of the developers of Path of War. So it would be pointless for your Scout's maneuver recovery to involve out-of-combat skill checks. My advice to you is to try a Stalker, get the Sniper's Tools stalker art, and focus on Tempest Gale, Solar Wind, and maybe Veiled Moon and Steel Serpent. If you want to be less stealthy and more direct in combat, try a Warlord with Pinhole Gambit.
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Converting would be purely up to you and your GM. Use the archetypes for non-martial classes as inspiration for your conversion, likely the fighter because it has a lot of bonus feats. There's no precedent for giving something 9th level maneuver progression, so again that would be up to you and your GM. You can join Martial Traditions to exchange disciplines. Note that the Allegiance Benefits are optional and only works if your GM allows it.
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Unbroken Stride, 1st level stance from Sleeping Goddess. I also wrote a highly extensive guide for Zealots, if you're interested!
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Now I have completed the 3 disciplines new to PoW:E that Zealots have native access to. Next, I'll do the other two, Golden Lion and Solar Wind! After that, I'll do the rest of the PoW:E disciplines, and finally I'll do the original PoW disciplines. Hopefully they won't be as depressing to evaluate for Zealots as Piercing Thunder was!
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It turns out that working through those disciplines takes several hours each, and I still have 18 left to go! I'll get to em eventually, don't worry!
Unity and Determination: Castilonium’s guide to the Path of War Zealot Welcome to my first guide! It covers the Zealot class made by Dreamscarred Press and released in Path of War: Expanded. The excellent guides by Path of War designer Elricaltovilla are unfortunately out of date and were written when PoW:E was in beta and undergoing revisions, so the Zealot is quite different from how it was back then. I don't claim to know all the possible tricks a Zealot can pull, but I feel this guide is complete enough to spark discussion on the class. There's even a section that offers advice on how to keep track of the many resources a Zealot needs to handle. Hopefully the community will be able to offer new ideas, correct my embarrassing mistakes, and help in creating an awesome guide for an awesome class! There are two WIP sections: The maneuvers & disciplines section, and the sample builds section. I'll add to them eventually. In the meantime, take a look at this guide by Shawshank for info on disciplines and maneuvers. It focuses on advice for non-initiator archetypes, and it only goes up to 6th level maneuvers, but it’s the most recent and complete guide for PoW:Expanded disciplines. Elricaltovilla has also written guides for all of the disciplines from the original Path of War book, linked above.
Get Throat Slicer and change "tie up" to "coup de grace."
Here's the Brewer's Guide to Undeath link. It'll explain the mechanics of your minion limits. Be a cruoromancer wizard, cleric, juju spirit guide oracle, shaman with human FCB and lore wandering spirit, or gravewalker witch. Important spells are Animate Dead, Desecrate, and Command Undead. Buy a Voidstick. Boost the caster level of your Animate Dead as much as possible with things like the Gifted Adept trait and an orange prism ioun stone. Don't take the Undeath Master feat. Animate bloody skeletons out of large strong monsters, and animate a large (or bigger) fast zombie flying creature to be your mount. Don't cast Create Undead.
Or VMC Cavalier (Order of the Star). It increases the strength of your lay on hands and channel energy by 50%.
May I just say it only takes 2 rounds from a raging barbarian when he crits with a great ax. If the characters are well built enough an AMF is merely a debuff. Archers also can easily kill it in 2 rounds especially with clustered shots. Let's do some more math. Ancient Copper Dragon's stats: DR 15/magic, 39 AC, 310 HP. A level 14 barbarian in an antimagic field would have, at most, 29 strength while raging. With their nonmagical pointy metal stick, they would have an attack bonus of 20 = 14 (BAB) + 9 (strength) + 1 (Weapon Focus) - 4 (Power Attack), and deal 1d12 + 13 (strength) + 12 (Power Attack). Using this online DPR calculator, we can see that he deals 6.93 damage per round, on average, on a full attack against a target with 39 AC. And that's assuming the dragon's DR doesn't function in the AMF. That's 45 rounds of full attacking for this barbarian to kill the dragon. Without using Power Attack, his DPR increases to 8.58, or 37 rounds to kill. Am I missing something obvious?
You can do this with Bushwhack and Throat Slicer.
Death not being scary isn't a problem that can be solved by houserules, because it all depends on the attitude of the players. If there's a heavy penalty to dying, some players will just create a brand new character and effectively suffer no penalty at all, while players who care deeply about their characters will suffer. On the flip side, even if there's very little penalty at all, players who care about their characters will still try hard to avoid dying, while uncaring players will continue not caring. It's up to you to screen your players and decide whether or not their attitudes and gaming philosophies match up with your own so you all can have fun. TL;DR: You can't change your players' attitudes.
ToB and PoW disciplines play together well. But PoW strikes often do more damage than ToB strikes, probably because enemies in 3.5e had less HP compared to PF enemies. You could look at the damage numbers of the PoW strikes to get a ballpark of how much damage they generally do at each maneuver level, and raise the ToB strikes to match.
Other people have already have answered your questions, so I'll just point you to this guide for Iroran Palains in case you're interested.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Big Five personality traits, and most other personality assessments don't cover morality and ethicality at all, which is what you're asking about. You could try basing something off of the Moral Foundations Theory, which has six axes.
This popular list of houserules might be of interest to you. It gives everyone weapon finesse, in addition to a lot of other nice things that reduce the proliferation of tax feats.
Brewer's Guide to Undeath link TLDR: Be a cruoromancer wizard, cleric, juju spirit guide oracle, shaman with human FCB and lore wandering spirit, or gravewalker witch. Important spells are Animate Dead, Desecrate, and Command Undead. Buy a Voidstick. Boost the caster level of your Animate Dead as much as possible with things like the Gifted Adept trait and an orange prism ioun stone. Don't take the Undeath Master feat. Animate bloody skeletons out of large strong monsters, and animate a large (or bigger) fast zombie flying creature to be your mount. Don't cast Create Undead.
Spirit Guide oracles are immensely flexible because they can get a new hex, spirit power, and list of spirit spells known every day. They're not compatible with the Dual Cursed archetype.
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Use the Champion spirit for your everyday needs, and get Spirit Focus ASAP. You will be about as good as a fighter (pre Weapon Master's Guide, at least) at damage per round. None of the other spirits are really suited for everyday adventuring. Use Archmage and Heirophant during downtime for utility. The archetypes have severe flaws that make them impractical. Kami Medium would be phenomenal if not for the fact that you need to be standing in a STORM each day to channel the Champion spirit. Relic Channeler would be nice if not for the fact that you give up all of your flexibility. TLDR: You contribute to combat as well as a fighter, and are a flexible 6th level caster during downtime.
Half orc skald? Here's what you do: Dip 1 level of Bloodrager, any bloodline.
Worship Calistria and get a Wasp Familiar. Give it the Protector Archetype. For the cost of a single feat, you get +50% HP, +2 AC, +4 initiative, the ability to roll twice on all knowledge/sense motive/perception checks, and a flying scout, among other benefits.
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So as far as I understand, to accomplish this, you do the following: Greater Create Demiplane, Bloody Money + Permanency
Did I miss any important details or misunderstand something? Also, as far as I can tell, your caster level should be 26 while buffing. 20 + 4 (karma bead) + 1 (orange prism ioun stone) + 1 (flawed orange prism ioun stone). The durations on Aroden's Spellbane and Magic Jar seem to suggest you have a CL of 28. Where do the last 2 caster levels come from? Where do the Profane bonuses on your ability scores come from? How do you bypass the -2 intelligence penalty the flawed orange prism ioun stone gives you? Thank you for the info and explanations.
Arkalion, Ruler of the Grand Cycle This looks really neat, but I'm hoping people can explain some things to me about this build that I don't understand. Not trying to poke holes in it, I just want to know how it works. How do you constantly have low duration spells active, like Unwilling Shield and Greater Angellic Aspect? How does the Solar cast a personal range spell, Invisibility Purge, on you? What do you use to get Solars, Tzitzimitls, and a Harbringer Daemon? Simulacrum, Greater Planar Binding, or something else? How do you solve the problem that Simulacrums only have half the HD of the real creature? Can you use two Karma Prayer Beads at the same time to get +8 to your caster level? I figured that wouldn't stack because they're the same source.
If you're a witch, a druid, or a Speaker for the Past shaman, pick Idealize to give yourself an extra +2 intelligence and wisdom when casting Threefold Aspect. Extra +4 at level 20.
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