I placed this order on Aug 17 and its still listed as "Pending"
Just wondering if I could get a reason for this (in my opinion) rather large delay.
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I posted before asking about a paladin build I was making. Due to RL stuff the GM for that campaign has to take a break and one of our players is going to start a game based roughly on Dragon-Lance. Our only requirements for the characters in the campaign is that you must be an arcane spell casting class at level 1 and focus on that class (or an arcane prestige).
The theme is that of teamwork, alignments don't matter, races don't matter, classes don't matter. The back-story is that we all went to essentially Hogwarts together and graduated at the same time and we're all good friends or otherwise required to work together. I'm playing a Draconic bloodline Sorc but wanting to take the dragon theme further I asked my GM and he allowed me to add the Half-Dragon template. My question is will I be too powerful? We already have a Noble Drow Wizard and everyone is well aware that all Paizo content is open and available. Any character is allowed as long as the party works.
Our current story-line is coming to a close and for my next character I want to play a paladin. Having never played one and being the person I am I proceeded to read as much as I could about the class and its abilities So I read a few of the guides in the "Guide to the Class Guides" thread and they all seemed to say that Lay on Hands is basically a waste if you use it on anyone but yourself and that you should only take mercies for things that you aren't or will soon be immune too. And that channel energy was basically never to be used I had this idea to play the Hospitaler Archetype which basically halves the amount of uses of Smite Evil you get but adds Channel Energy as its own class feat (instead of burning up Smite Evil uses). Also in the guides they advocated archer paladins or two-handed paladins. Where as I was going to go the route of full-plate + tower shield. Would this just wreck my char and make him a nonviable character as the guides seem to insinuate?
Description (so far): Designed for slaying vampires this sharpened shaft of silver deals damage as a wooden stake of the same size minus 1 (minimum 1). When a vampire is hit with this weapon it deals damage as normal (bypassing DR) and the vampire must make a DC 20 Fortitude save or fall to the ground helpless for 1 round. While the vampire is helpless in this manner, a creature can attempt to use the silver stake to finish off the vampire by driving it through the vampire's heart as a full-round action. Once the debilitating effect of the silver stake has ended, the vampire can pull out the stake as a move action. A vampire slain with a silver stake is subject to the rules and limitations of slaying a vampire with a wooden stake as described under vampire weaknesses. This mirrors the heartstake bolt from ARG I'm currently playing a Dhampir Kinslayer (Inquisitor Archetype) and I'm trying to think of a way to incorporate silver in to the staking mechanic. I've used wooden stakes in melee to finish off helpless vampires before (vamp rendered helpless through magical means then coup de grace with stake). I think this fits the flavor of the vampire hunter fluff this archetype has and was just wondering how balanced this weapon would be. The item has every chance of existing. Iron stakes can be used as wooden ones. (look at the wooden stake's description). This would just be an iron stake cast in silver (cost would be 25 gp per stake) |