
Matt2VK |
Have some questions on if this character is PFS legal and how some of the game mechanics would work.
Race: Wayang
STR 11, DEX 18, CON 12, INT 16, WIS 10, CHA 10 (after racial adjustments)
1) Level 1 Mouser/Swashbuckler Archetype. Class: (1x) Panache point, Swashbuckler finesse, & the Deed: Underfoot Assualt replaces Opportune Parry and Riposte.
Feat: Extra Panache (brings total panache up to (3)
2) Level 1 Kensai/Magus. Class: Spell Combat, Weapon Focus: Katana, other good stuff.
3) Level 2 Kensai/Magus. Class: SpellStrike. Feat: Slashing Grace.
4) Level 3 Kensai/Magus. Class: Arcana-Flamboyant Arcana (gives Derring-Do & Opportune Parry and Riposte deeds)
5) Level 4 Kensai/Magus. Class: Stuff. Feat: Extra Arcana (Arcane Deed-Precise Strike)
6+) Kensai/Magus rest of the levels till character retires.
Now the questions -
(1) Can you stack the Mouser/Swashbuckler Archetype with the Flamboyant Arcana?
Mouser says you loose the Opportune Parry and Riposte deed & the Flamboyant Arcana says you get it back.
(2) Can you use the Arcane Deed-Precise Strike with Spellstrike/Spell combat?
Some confusion here on if casting and using a spell with the Magus free hand and Spellstrike/Spell combat count as a weapon or a 'free hand' for Precise Strike. To use this Precise Strike, a swashbuckler cannot attack with a weapon in her other hand.
(3) Would the Swashbuckler and the Magus levels stack for figuring out the Precise Strike deed precision damage?
Can't find anything that says it does or anything that says it doesn't.
(4) Can I use Panache points (from class, feats, & items) to use the Magus Arcana deeds?
I believe I can from the way I read the description. Just double checking, as it's easier to re-gain Panache then the Magus Arcane Pool points.

Shimesen |

1) yes, you lose it, then get it back. thats how that would work.
2)precise Strike cannot be used with spell combat (although nothing is stopping spellstrike if you are already hold a charge) because no matter what kind of spell you cast, buff, attack, haste, whatever, it counts as an attack being made with your off-hand for the purpose of spell combat, thus also counts as an attack being made with the off hand for precise strike.
3) they would not stack unless you took more levels in swashbuckler and for it from both classes. the magus levels will give you extra damage = you magus level, but it doesn't combine with swashbuckler. if you took more levels in swashbuckler and got the deed normally, you would have extra damage from swashbuckler AND extra damage from magus that would BOTH apply to your total damage with the attack.
4) your arcane pool points do not count or work the same as panache, nor does it work the other way around. therefore, you cannot intermingle them. you will have to specify, before using a deed, weather its coming from your level of swashbuckler, or from magus, and keep track of them separately. if you could do as you want to do, using a high crit chance weapon would create a refueling scenario for the arcane pool tht it not supposed to exist.