Okay I keep seeing in the forums something about a "Dervish Dancer". I've been playing Pathfinder for about a year and I feel silly asking because it seems everyone knows about this. I've checked the Core, APG, UC, and UM and found nothing. Is this a Golarion specific thing? (I dont really know anything about Golarion. The people I play with are in a homebrew campaign with Forgotten Realms deities). Somebody please help me out without making me feel like an idiot.
Hi Ponswick,
follow this link and see the light:-)
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/bard/archetypes/paizo---bard-a rchetypes/dervish-dancer
GRU
There's a bard archetype in Ultimate Combat.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/bard/archetypes/paizo---bard-a rchetypes/dervish-dancer
And a feat from The Inner Sea World Guide.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-feats/dervish-dance-combat
There's also the Dawnflower Dervish archetype from Inner Sea Magic.
Searching d20pfsrd.com for "dervish" should help next time. Cheers!
Thanks a lot :)
I know how you feel .. my new forum word nemesis is "gish"
I know how you feel .. my new forum word nemesis is "gish"
BTW, I figured out what is meant by gish but where does the name come from? Is it a short for for something meaningful?
The term originates in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game, where it originally referred to a Githyanki fighter/wizard combination.
1.(role-playing games) A magician, or character that is skilled in both physical combat and the use of magic. Most gish characters use their magical abilities to increase their own personal combat abilities (known as "buffing").
2.(slang) An outsider.
So sayeth the Google Wiki search... so it must be true.
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"Gish" is one of my least favorite pieces of RPG jargon. The word doesn't indicate what it means at all. You just have to know. And for those of us who are only 28 and weren't exactly in a position to learn the word back when it was coined, we only know because somebody told us.
Plus it just sounds cruddy.
Except I doubt its active use is that long, I have no recollection of the word being used by anyone til after 3.5 unearched arcana. Because that book introduced the play two classes without multiclassing rules.
Pretty sure I'd have to explain the word to my friend who only dams ad&d. I think before the internet these sorts of universal terms just spread too slow to ever be universal.
I happen to be older than 28 but I guess it's a term mostly used in D&D and related boards. I never came across it until recently when I started reading this board.
Please please not the origins of the word "gish" let this conversation die right now before somebody...
Wat was so bad about Dragonamedrake quoting what he did about the word's origin?
Now we know that it is just the kind of silly short form we all used back then and it seems it stuck. Now we can go BTT.Thanks.
About the Dervish:
I was very happy recently to see that the cutlass has the same stats as the scimitar. Now you can play a pirate and give him something that looks like a cutlass and call it scimitar (when you don't call it with the name the pc gave it) and smile. :)