Pitch Blade: Too Many Feats?


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Okay, someone help me out here. We're just starting Harsh Reflections, and I'm starting to dig through Champion's Belt in depth. I've see Pitch Blade mentioned a few times on this board, and I see what seems to me to be an error in their stat block. Since I've seen a couple of errata threads for tCB, and the only note for Pitch Blade is their too-fast move speed of 40', I'm going to operate on the assumption that I'm just up to late and my brain is making me stupid.

Pitch Blade: 10th level dwarven barbarians. They should therefore only have four feats, correct? Levels 1, 3, 6, 9. But I'm counting five feats in their stat block:

  • Improved Crit
  • Improved Sunder
  • Exotic Weapon
  • Power Attack
  • Weapon Focus

    So, someone who's looked at this stat block at times further from 3 AM... am I missing something? Or is everyone else who's looked at this stat block in the past two years?

    Won't be too bad if it IS an error - Pitch Blade will just to Dwarven Waraxes.


  • Bump - anyone? Don't make me regret not going with an attention grabbing subject like OMFG PAIZO GETS IT WRONG!!!

    The Exchange

    If the exotic weapon is a dwarven waraxe, they get that as a martial weapon proficiency.


    Don't forget the extra feats everyone gets at levels 1, 3, 6, 9, ect. So perhaps he has too few feats. Plus, a fighter gets 6 feats by lvl 10 just for being a fighter.


    The unscrupulous Dr. Pweent wrote:
    like OMFG PAIZO GETS IT WRONG!!!

    No way?!?


    Sharoth wrote:
    Don't forget the extra feats everyone gets at levels 1, 3, 6, 9, ect. So perhaps he has too few feats. Plus, a fighter gets 6 feats by lvl 10 just for being a fighter.

    Uhh, Sharoth, methinks the OP points out they are barbarians, not fighters. But, a dwarven waraxe is correctly merely a martial weapon. (Or, for dwarves, it might also be a marital weapon ...)


    Nope, they got bastard swords, not waraxes. On the fly, just give 'em a flaw to make up for it (the one that downgrades darkvision to low-light vision is appropriate), or else change their bastard swords to waraxes.

    Or, if you feel like doing work, make them barbarian 6/fighter 4. They lose their DR, but gain 3 feats (one of the ones already shown, Weapon Specialization, and maybe Dodge or something).


    Thanks for the sanity checking, everyone. I'll drop a note in the Errata thread for the Champion's Games. For myself, I'll probably go with the minimum impact fix, giving them Dwarven Waraxes instead of bastard swords, but I'll think about the Barbarian 6 / Fighter 4 plan as well. There's probably something tasty in PHB2 I could give them with that extra feat....

    Sharoth wrote:
    No way?!?

    SRSLY!

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