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Hi people !

I am setting up to participate in a homebrew campaign and would like to play an inquisitor.

The concept behind the character is to be some sort of Knight Templar, hunting the enemies of his faith be they monsters or heretics.

He'd be Human and we are stating level 3. His deity is Iomedae (the major deity in the empire he lives in).

I've selected the Persistance Inquisition, both for concept (hunting down the enemies and never relenting) and for the Step Up bonus feat, which I just love for wizard hunting (in combo with litany of sloth).

Since I view him as a Knight Templar I am building him with heavy armor in mind. I am losing Stalwart, but indend to have mithral armor at some point to mitigate that.

To have heavy armor there are 2 choices, dip in fighter or blow a feat.

There are 2 build to my character.

Stats (for both)

Str 16
Dex 13
Con 14
Int 12
Wis 14
Cha 10

Feats

Build 1 : Inquisitor 3

1- Heavy Armor
- Antagonize
- Step Up
3- Weapon Focus (Longsword)

Build 2 : Fighter 2/Inquisitor 1 (the idea is to have 4 lvls of Fighter for weapon spec, the 2 other levels would come after inquisitor 5 for bane)

1- Eclectic (to get both favored bonuses)
- Antagonize
-Power Attack
2- Weapon Focus (longsword)
3- Toughness
-Step Up

I am just wondering if the 4 levels of fighter will be worth it in the end. I do not think we will get past lvl 15.

I'm not asking for the perfect optimal min-max build, I just don't want to gimp too much my abilities as an inquisitor.

I've seen on the boards (cant race back where) stated that HP is simply taken into account for objects other than weapons/armor and that for those you use stats provided in the Table Common Armor, Weapon, and Shield Hardness and Hit Points LINK.

Hardness seemed more of a consensus. You have an adamantium sword ? Hardness 20. Alchemical silver sword ? Hardness 8.

But my question arises as this :

Adamantium is noted as giving the property : Objects made of adamantium have 1/3 more hit points (multiple refenreces). But adamantium objects can only be objects that are made of iron first (a sword for example).
Iron has 30hp/inch. Adamantium 40hp/inch. In my sense there is the 1/3 more HP.

Therefore shouldn't we calculated the HP of an alchemical silver sword as 1/3 of it's steel counterpart ? Thus giving a longsword with hardness 8 and 1 hp (rounddown) ?

Thanks in advance for any help !