Hey Everyone! I've been on a character building spree as I've been trying to build characters based off certain ideas. This idea however is giving me some trouble, and while I think I've finally come to a good place, I was wondering if anyone had any more advice...
For those of you who have watched Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, I'm trying to make a character based off of Fuhrer Bradley. For those of you who have not watched the show, go watch it, and the character is basically this older guy who pretends to be a gentleman, but is in fact a duel sword wielding blur of death.
I basically want to build a character who by the higher levels can move with blinding speed, dual wields swords (preferably long thin swords like rapiers), and focuses on crit. to bleed opponents to death. So basically a kick ass fast sword fighter who just shreds his opponents, and specializes in fighting other humanoids.
Originally I was planning on making Monk, for the bonus speed and flurry of blows. But there aren't really any good archetypes that worked with my idea, and had proficiency in duel wielding blades. Also, Monks are hard to scale well at the higher levels...
Right now, I'm looking at the Dervish Dancer Bard Archetype. While it isn't as good as the Dawn-Dervish at the beginning, I think it scales better and its bonus speed and some of its later level abilities are amazing. The leaf on the wind ability is great for in battle recovery, and the other powers work well with the movement and constant full attacks he should be letting off. He'll start the campaign at a high level (15ish) anyways.
I figure a STR, DEX, and CHA focused build (in that order) should get him into the right place power wise, and If I focus on two weapon fighting, and crit based feats I should have a really good fighter who moves like a blur and gets lots of attacks off. He'll wield a scimitar in his main hand, and a kukri in his other. Any comments?
I should mention that I considered making him a fighter instead, but the dervish dancing advanced abilities and extra speed are so freaking cool... Not sure what's best. :/
He'll be human, and this isn't point buy. My friends and I are rolling the old d6 method, and I literally rolled till I got a nice high starting stats. We agreed we would need high stats for this campaign cause its difficultly level is a little steep. my stats are around 18,17,15,14,13,11, without applying my human bonus yet.
All the books are available, as long as their not 3rd party published.
I'm mainly interested in a dual wielding sword master. That elven magus looks good, but not quite what I'm looking for. I like the Dervish Dancer, except that bards BAB sucks. I figure I can make up for it with the bonuses from the performances... maybe. I'm curious if there is a better alternative, maybe in the fighter class... or something.
I guess I'm curious if the Dervish Dancer is as good as it looks at the higher levels. Has anyone played it and been happy with where they got?