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This is for 3.5 players with experience with the Tome of Battle Classes and GMs who've had to deal with the headaches from balance issues with those classes.
Being new to GMing Pathfinder and, therefore, naive about the supposed incompatibility of 3.5 with regular Pathfinder, I've given one of my players the right to have certain manoeuvres trees in place of spell casting for his Dhampir Inquisitor. For some reason, there has been a miscommunication about him having some of the class features of the Swordsage on top his Inquisitors class features which includes the addition of Wisdom to his overall AC. I recently told him that I disallowed that at the beginning and told him he should just use the Inquisitor's class features exclusively.
His play of the Inquisitor thus far has created much imbalance in the game so far as he's played the role of party tank/face/skill monkey thus being the one player that has overwhelmed any other possible role in the party. That being said, I like the guy and I want to make sure he can still play the game and have fun at our table without him ragequitting and leaving my table.
Is there a way I can regain balance in my game without it blowing up in my face while finding a way to amend his character to his satisfaction?
I would talk to him. It sounds to me like he didt explain his entire plan to you and that at least the whole swordsage portion of the plan was a ssurprise?
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You made some houserules to suite a player's desires.
It went bad.
Be honest, and remind him that you, and him, are new.
Offer him a rebuild, and have him go regular Inquisitor, or any of the Inquisitor archetypes.
That's what we're doing right now. It looks like that's what we're going to do since we it was very clear we're both new to this sort of thing.
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I would talk to him. It sounds to me like he didt explain his entire plan to you and that at least the whole swordsage portion of the plan was a ssurprise?
It was a miscommunication. He forgot that I said just Inquisitor class features but he took it to mean both Swordsage and Inquisitor. It seems after we spoke to each other about it, he was more than inclined to make certain changes to accommodate the rest of the party.