Guide to the One-Handed Swordsman


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I made a guide: Guide to the One-Handed Swordsman


nice start of a guide, but lacking.
what class to play ? rank them - you mostly wrote about dipping not the core class.
missing full build options, and there are a few....

1) str build
2) dex build (need agile weapon or fencing \ dervish feats), mostly halflings for the risky striker addon damage.
3)partly magical build - bard and magus are here.

for example, lore warden X \ maneuver master 2, dirty trick and trip freely while crane style defenc and high dex. int for skills.

lore warden X \ thug rogue 3 :
attack with enforcer, intimidate make foe running away.
free sicken, shaken etc.

monk X \ cleric 1 - flurry with high dex and wis. great saves - decent damage cause of number of attacks.

classic magus with scimitar or rapier, dex build. add kensai for critical feat masytering.

bard, i like the least.

swashbuckeler i have no experiance with.


I don't like your golden, it's too similar to orange.

I really suggest a brief paragraph for the races saying what you're looking at for your ratings cause Nagaji work really well for a str based swash or other charisma class.

I agree with 666bender, I feel all your talking about is how good of a Dip the class it. While I feel that guides should usually be looking at classes as if you're going all or most in one and at most like 2 levels into something else.

Bloodrager has an Urban option just like Barbarian. Why does it get red while Barb gets blue? Plus you can trade your first power for a familiar which is like getting a free feat that stacks with other feats.

How is daring cavalier black and swash Golden?

I feel inquisitor is at least black, getting scaling damage and being able to add bane really helps with the damage of not going two-handed. Or you can get a full animal companion and a free belt with the bane.

a warpriest I feel is again at least black with it's sacred weapon letting the damage scale up, you get the better die while only needing one hand.


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Isn't pirahna strike only for light weapons, not usable on any finessable 1H+?


Chess Pwn wrote:

I don't like your golden, it's too similar to orange.

I really suggest a brief paragraph for the races saying what you're looking at for your ratings cause Nagaji work really well for a str based swash or other charisma class.

I agree with 666bender, I feel all your talking about is how good of a Dip the class it. While I feel that guides should usually be looking at classes as if you're going all or most in one and at most like 2 levels into something else.

Bloodrager has an Urban option just like Barbarian. Why does it get red while Barb gets blue? Plus you can trade your first power for a familiar which is like getting a free feat that stacks with other feats.

How is daring cavalier black and swash Golden?

I feel inquisitor is at least black, getting scaling damage and being able to add bane really helps with the damage of not going two-handed. Or you can get a full animal companion and a free belt with the bane.

a warpriest I feel is again at least black with it's sacred weapon letting the damage scale up, you get the better die while only needing one hand.

Thanks for the input, most of those are going into the guide over the weekend.

Urban Bloodrager didn't get rated because d20pfsrd.com is slow to update tables and I don't have Heroes of the Streets internalized yet.
Daring Champion is black, so far, because it doesn't have OPaR.


I'd recommend using blue in place of "golden" and add green to the color pallet in place of where green used to be. If that isn't to your liking.


so something to note, D20pfsrd will add archetypes to the list before it's on the table. If you check you'll see that Urban Bloodrager is already on the site.


Squirrel_Dude wrote:
I'd recommend using blue in place of "golden" and add green to the color pallet in place of where green used to be. If that isn't to your liking.

Or purple. That's used for super awesome in some guides.


The entry for Elven Battle Style reads "very nice, for an Int-focused finesse character" which implies that an INT-focused finesse character is a valid option, so I would say the "Stay away from the archetypes" clause for the Swashbuckler should at least acknowledge that Inspired Blade is an okay choice.

Inspired Blade gives up:
- Choice of weapon (but Rapier is a fine option here)
- Panache for kills
- Bleeding Wound

Inspired Blade gets:
- Free weapon focus
- Applying both your INT and your CHA to your panache pool
- A deed that's less good than Bleeding Wound, but either way it's a level 11 deed.
- An extra point of damage for their class weapon training (which is either way, not weapon training for AWT purposes)

The only thing that really hurts in the swap is that it's incompatible with concepts that use non-rapiers (but again, the Rapier is a fine weapon for this) and the kills to panache. But since you'll be threatening a crit on 15+ for much of your career, you'll be getting a lot of panache from crits anyway, which balances out with your deeper panache pool. It's more or less a well-balanced archetype and an even swap (and a better dip for investigators than the vanilla swashbuckler.)

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