How to build the immortal Weapons of Marvel. Looking for ideas.

[Natan Linggod 972]

If you don't know, the Immortal Weapons are a group of the greatest martial artists in the Marvel universe. One from each of the Mystical cities they posses tremendous chi, amazing martial art skills and special abilities. The title Immortal Weapon is actually a post/title that is passed on in various ways.
The weapons names are Fat Cobra, Bride of Nine Spiders, Tigers Beautiful Daughter, Iron Fist, Dog Brother #1 and The Prince of Orphans.
I love their stories and backgrounds. And of course the awesome martial arts in volved.

I'm trying to build them as NPC founders/teachers of special martial arts schools.

The problem one: A three feat martial art tree seems really far too limiting to suit them.

The problem two: How can I give them the special chi powers as part of their title/post without making it over powered for a player? (I want the players to be able to take on the mantel if they so choose. And pass the tests.)

So, any ideas will help. Anything at all. I need something to start the brain juices flowing.

Lets brain storm!

My first idea was that the mantle of Immortal Weapon is a template.

[Nether Saxon]

How about mixing and matching lvels in Monk, Ninja and Oracle for Mysteries, Chi powers, Style feats and ... stuff? Also, don't forget to include specialized equipment, maybe even make them advanced humans and give them extra treasure.
All in the Name of Cool! ;)

[Arkady Zelenka]

Cool, what I'm doing to make my customized npc martial arts master is giving him additional abilities instead of magic items. He's a level 15 monk with some unarmed sneak attack thrown in, I gave him fuse style, bastion stance and a couple of other goodies. I don't have my notes handy right now, I'll get them out tomorrow and help you brainstorm.
I like this concept, it fits with the stuff I'm doing for one of my campaigns.

[Natan Linggod 972]

Some ideas I got from re reading the Immortal Weapons comic series.

Immortal Weapon is an inherited template.
How each is inherited is slightly different depending on city/style.

Effects:
a) Grants huge amount of ki, say +20 ki?

b) Boosts physical and mental ability. Possibly skill bonus or bonus to ability checks.

c) Enhanced martial capability , such as monk ability boost like monks belt.

d) One or two other supernatural or extraordinary ability based on particular style.

E.g. Dog Brother #1 gains a pack of wild dogs who help him fight. They grant him the Solo tactics of the Inquisitor as well as flank and aid him in combat maneuveres. They also help him track and locate enemies with Scent. Any dogs killed in battle are replaced the next day.

Thoughts?

[Aelryinth]

You can probably do a lot just using Qingong and deciding what spells are assigned to each archetype.

Dog Brother gets Summon Monster (dogs) for a chi usage. Iron Fist gets Greater Magic Weapon or Gravity Weapon. Fat Cobra gets Ironskin, etc.

The Iron Fist is probably a Greater Magic Weapon/Vital Strike combination together.

Just decide what spells are exemplified by each archetype.

most of the other benefits seem to come from simply being high level. A 'champion' could certainly have some special benefits, but extra chi with Qingong abilities would be a huge buff all by itself, no?

==Aelryinth

[Natan Linggod 972]

The champions are certainly high level but not always. Dog Brother for e.g. in one of the comics dog brother passed the power on to a child.

I want to keep it as something thats passed on so my pc's have the chance to get it.

What do you think about some of the special abilities like enhancing their martial skill? Or would that just be the ki boost?