VM mercenario wrote:
So, I'm guessing you want a class that specializes in Two Weapon Fight and has special maneuvers that it can use instead of normal standard action attacks.
Before anything else, have you any interest in 3rd party products? Because Path of War by Dreamscarred Press would do exactly what you want. Even has a feat for two weapon fighting with two one handed swords.
Maybe it would be better to use that? Maybe just make a TWF using archetype for whichever class strikes your fancy?
If not then some first glaring issues:
Your blademaster has medium BAB. That means he's worse than the base fighter at being a swordsmaster, no matter how much special abilities he has.
Stop using 'sword-like' that's silly and confusing. Use wapons of the Light Blade and Heavy Blade weapon groups. more words, but actually means something in the rules.
Strikeable. Just, why? There's no fluff reason why a blademaster is easier to hit than a wizard, and there's no balance necessity. Again he is not any more powerful than a regular fighter, much less a barbarian or paladin, or Path of War warlord.
Dual Wield should give the Two Weapon Fighting feat, the diminishing of the penalty and the ability to use one handed weapons as light weapons or use a two handed sword like a one handed sword should be granted separately, over the levels.
Sword identification is a neat idea, but a) Perception is not used to identify, you're thinking of Appraise, b) what is the action to identify an enemy weapon? c) take off the part about close inspection, you can already do that with Appraise, give the blade master the opportunity to use in combat.
Cross Block: What is the action to block? Why can he only do it a small number of times a day, does he forget how his swords work?
Don't add +1 to strenght mod. Add +2 to strenght. Also what's with the dismissive "do you really need more than that?" Hell yeah you need more, you're a 3/4 BAB class with no attack enhancer, you're as bad as a rogue in a fight....
thanks for your input, I like a lot of what you said and I think i'll take some of the ideas that you had.
