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Battle ready should probably say it is restored to full HP and if the hour can be broken up or not.
In many sections it says, "during any Action that involves a Melee Attack" do you mean charge or that if you move at least 10' and attack that round? I can't think of an abuse off the top of my head but there might be a way to move 10' and full attack.
Dragoon 12 seems oddly worded.
I like the additions!
Looks great, maybe a bit much, but very flavorful!
Erm... How does this give the fighter the versatality of the casters? Most of his skills are still numbers and realted to combat. The fighter doesn't have too much of a problem in combat as far as I know. What hurts is the weak saves, skill points, and only class features being numbers and feats that just can't be as good as class features. Thats my opinion anyway.
4+ skillpoints is nice though. He has 2 weak saves still and is suddenly forced to wear a shield for a class feature. I'm not sure if that should ever happen unless its an archetype made to specialize in something.
Armor Mastery should scale like his other abilities, rather than just 5/- at level 19.
Change #1 to compete with casters: spend feats on more than just DPR
Change #2 to compete with casters: Int is not a dump stat.
Change #3 to compete with casters: think outside the box.
Did you forget Change #4: Acquire spellcasting? Because that's kind of the only way to compete the way things stand now.
Anyway, these fixes are fine, but I don't see how they do anything to help a Fighter's versatility--they're all just combat changes, which is the area in which Fighters are currently best off. They really, desperately, need help in the non-combat realm.
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If all of these things just make the Fighter better at combat, how does it improve utility? Isn't the definition of utility things that DON'T directly relate to hitting things over the head?
Personally I'm content to just give them 4 + Int mod skill points. That and character feats seem to be enough non-combat utility for my players.
You should change things like dragoon from int modifier to int bonus. Class abilities should not make you worse at something.
Another Idea for balancing the fighter with other classes:
Instead of adding so many bonuses to the fighter, most of which increase the combat potential I would give him the following ability:
Versatility:
Fighters learn to adapt to the requirements of a multitude of situations. After some time that allows him to fulfill a great variety of tasks.
Starting at fourth level the fighter gains the ability to simulate other classes' abilities. Once per day, each morning the fighter can spend some time contemplating about the nesseseties of the situation at hand. After that time he can choose any one class abilitiy another class gets at a level of up to half his fighter level that is not spellcasting.
At 8th level the fighter also learns one feat that directly modifies this class ability. The versatility ability can be used to fulfill requirements.
Examples:
A level 4 fighter could gain the smite evil ability as a level 2 paladin.
Or he could gain the alchemist's poison use ability.
I'm still thinking about further reducing the level of ability availiable by ability type. Something like half fighter level for (ex), half fighter level -1 for (su) and half fighter level -2 for (sl).
I do quite like the battle ready ability. That's a good way for a fighter to be less dependent on a caster having mend or make whole available. That really is an example of the kind of solution needed for fighter deficiencies.
As others have said, however, most of the suggestions are pure combat, so I'm not really sure how needed they are. Sure, we can take the track that if the fighter is way over the top in combat, it makes up for their general lack of utility. I'm not really sure that is generally what is seen as the solution.
I'm fully in support of the 4 skill points per level, but without an improvement in the class skill list, it's fairly moot. What I would suggest is something like:
Skills: 4 +(int bonus) per level. In addition to their set class skills, fighters can designate 3 more skills as class skills at first level. These cannot be changed once chosen. <this number can be debated, but 3 seems reasonable, and allows for a lot of flexibility>
The other area I think fighters need help is saves, and while giving them mettle (and evasion) is extremely nice, it may be too nice. Though that can be debated. What I would advocate is that as fighters are the most mundane of all classes, they should have the best saves. This is based on a scale of full casters on one extreme of the scale (where they only get a single strong save) to the other end without casting where you get better saves, HP, BAB, and AC. I would have the fighter with a strong fortitude save, and then allow them to pick one other save to be strong in addition.
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Change #1 to compete with casters: spend feats on more than just DPR
Change #2 to compete with casters: Int is not a dump stat.
Change #3 to compete with casters: think outside the box.
Did you forget Change #4: Acquire spellcasting? Because that's kind of the only way to compete the way things stand now.
Anyway, these fixes are fine, but I don't see how they do anything to help a Fighter's versatility--they're all just combat changes, which is the area in which Fighters are currently best off. They really, desperately, need help in the non-combat realm.
Any class has access to spellcasting if desired.
My straight fighter build performs well both in and out of combat and manages up to 6th level spells of any class without batting an eye.
*I really should update her profile, changing out improved bull rush for skill focus: umd.
Change #1 to compete with casters: spend feats on more than just DPR
Change #2 to compete with casters: Int is not a dump stat.
Change #3 to compete with casters: think outside the box.
Did you forget Change #4: Acquire spellcasting? Because that's kind of the only way to compete the way things stand now.
Anyway, these fixes are fine, but I don't see how they do anything to help a Fighter's versatility--they're all just combat changes, which is the area in which Fighters are currently best off. They really, desperately, need help in the non-combat realm.
Any class has access to spellcasting if desired.
The best fighters are ones that pretend to be weak wizards with wands until you get close to them and then take a warhammer to the skull.
Oh, one other minor thing, the word mettle should be changed to stalwart (assuming you keep that ability). Mettle was the 3.5 term, and it was in closed source books, so never made the OGL iirc. In PF the same ability is granted to the Inquisitor, and is named stalwart.
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