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I'm running into a bit of a crisis of faith, so to speak:

Context: I play a character whose background involves a family weapon inherited from his father.

The DM was starting us off with a significant chunk of money, but the character is, by background, broke. To make these two facts meet, I gave the character extremely meager beginning equipment, save for a masterwork weapon made of an exotic material.

The problem I'm meeting now is that following the game's first major boss fight, the party has come into possession of a magical weapon of the same type. (My character is the only party member who uses this type of weapon.)

The best option for me would be to use this new weapon. However, this severely breaks roleplay and immersion, as the character has a significant attachment to his current weapon.

I asked my DM what he feels would be an appropriate price for transfering the new weapon's magic to his family's axe, though the price given feels rather excessive to me. The GM justified this price (1200 gp) as being cheaper than enchanting this axe from scratch. However, this does not account for the lost magic on the magical weapon obtained, driving the price beyond the original.

I'm hoping to suggest an alternative solution, though I'm having issue finding one.

Has anyone run into this? What was your solution?

My group is currently playing a gestalt take on Skull & Shackles, and I'm hitting a bit of a knot with my build.

My character is a Ratfolk Unchained Rogue/Shaman 4 and uses the Sharpclaw feat and a Tailblade to deliver three attacks per turn, often pumping a touch spell such as Frostbite into the claws.

It's ambiguous whether or not the tailblade could be used for delivering a touch spell as well, because the item's wording is rather unclear about it being a natural attack or not. My group has opted to rule against this, as it is technically a weapon.

Currently, the build holds up fine, but a fellow player has alerted me to a potential issue at higher level:

A rogue's bread and butter is using multiple attacks to deliver multiple sneak attack damage each turn. However, my current build more or less caps out at two claws and a tail attack, which will be rather underwhelming at higher level.

Can anyone recommend feats or other abilities my character could take to make up for this? Is there some way to get iterative with claw attacks, or more attacks in general with my current setup?

The 'obvious' solution here would be to instead use weapons, but I've grown quite fond of the idea of delivering multiple touches of Frostbite per turn.

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Few of her rulers rule for long, and none have lived to a ripe old age, dying instead well before their time. Heirs to the throne are few and far between—in its 300-year history, no king of Korvosa has directly inherited the Crimson Throne from his father. This is the source of much gossip and tale-spinning among the city’s citizens, who speak in hushed tones of what they have come to call the Curse of the Crimson Throne.

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• Rather than account for XP, the party will level up at appropriate moments in the adventure.
  
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