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What!? No freakin' way! I can't believe I won!

Great work to everyone else who entered, and I want to give a special shout-out to negative_energy, I loved your custom made Occult Skill unlock, I thought it was really unique and worked well to simulate what we see happen in the show.

Big congratulations to Jon Cary and Jeffery Swank too!

For an upcoming Kingmaker game, I'm planning on creating an Aldori Swordlord. While I was originally considering rolling with the fighter archetype into the prestige class, I've been considering potentially going either swashbuckler or even a daring champion cavalier, which would go into the prestige class at 6th level.

One thing I'm hung up on is the following...

How does the Aldori dueling sword, specifically this passage, "A dueling sword may be used as a Martial Weapon (in which case it functions as a longsword), but if you have the feat Exotic Weapon Proficiency (dueling sword), you can use the Weapon Finesse feat to apply your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on attack rolls with a dueling sword sized for you, even though it isn't a light weapon." interact with...

Swashbuckler Finesse, "At 1st level, a swashbuckler gains the benefits of the Weapon Finesse feat with light or one-handed piercing melee weapons, and she can use her Charisma score in place of Intelligence as a prerequisite for combat feats. This ability counts as having the Weapon Finesse feat for purposes of meeting feat prerequisites.", and the similar...

Champion's Finesse, "At 1st level, a daring champion gains the benefits of the Weapon Finesse feat with light or one-handed piercing melee weapons, and he can use Charisma in place of Intelligence for the purpose of combat feats prerequisites. A daring champion also counts as having the Weapon Finesse feat for the purpose of meeting feat requirements."?

Upon reading them over, I'm under the impression in order to gain the ability to apply Dexterity to my attacks with the dueling sword, I would need to grab the slashing grace feat. Unfortunately, picking that feels redundant, as the first level of the prestige class grants...

Deft Strike, "A swordlord can add his Dexterity bonus (if any) on damage rolls made with a dueling sword instead of his Strength bonus. This bonus on damage rolls applies whether the swordlord is wielding a dueling sword one-handed or two-handed, though the swordlord does not apply 1-1/2 times his Dexterity bonus on damage rolls while fighting two-handed. A swordlord cannot use this ability if he is wielding a shield or an off-hand weapon, including armor spikes, unarmed strikes, or natural weapons.".

And if, after gaining the prestige class, I chose to drop Slashing Grace through retraining due to the redundancy, I would then lose my ability to finesse the dueling sword.

Or at least this is how I'm reading it. Thoughts and opinions? Or am I stuck with going the fighter archetype?

Also, I'm sure someone is going to want to chime in how much of a trap many of the options for the swordlord is and how it's a second rate archetype/prestige. You needn't bother as that does not concern me. Any other comments are appreciated :)

I am going to be running a game in my group of friends pretty soon, and everyone is pretty well decided on their class save for one person. They're interested in playing someone who is devoted to a singular deity and carries out their will with strength and conviction in the thick of melee.

Paladin is obvious.

Inquisitor is an option.

A reach/control cleric is a possibility, though they've played one before and while they enjoyed themselves, want to play something a bit more hard hitting and powerful.

A bloodrager has been considered, going with the celestial bloodline with absolute faith in their forebears' so called 'blessing'.

And then there is warpriest.

They like warpriest, the feel and style of it, and depending on their god, is much more flexible than a paladin. But it is their and my understanding that warpriests are generally worse off than some of the other options, and now I'm looking into ways to amp the class up some.

My immediate thoughts are to allow them to treat their BAB as equal to their warpriest level when using sacred weapon.

In addition, I've disliked the warpriest's spell progression since their inception. It just feels weak. Taking some inspiration from the hunter class, I thought it could be interesting to change their spellcasting to... "A warpriest casts divine spells drawn from the cleric, antipaladin and paladin spell lists. If a spell appears on both the cleric and the antipaladin/paladin spell lists, the warpriest uses the lower of the two spell levels listed for the spell."

This would grant them some new spells, and I feel pack some more power faster, though obviously with something as significant as changing up an entire spell list, it's hard to tell if this is too over the top.

So what do you think? Too over the top, not enough, or just right? I'd love to hear from you.

Hello!

For an upcoming Iron Gods campaign, my friends and I have been tossing around ideas for characters and really getting into the mind set for play. One of my friends was really struggling, and eventually found inspiration with the Scavenger Rogue archetype and the Galvanic Saboteur Ranger archetype. For a little while he was juggling ideas of how to multiclass them because both appealed to him very thematically, and I proposed creating a Slayer archetype that mixes both (after all, the Slayer is the rogue and ranger combined!)

The following is what I've come up with so far, so I'd love to hear feedback, suggestions, and comments!

Numerian Troubleshooter (Slayer Archetype)