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Picture the scene. The Fighter, but 13 levels to his name, readies his sword. The dragon is too far away; easily 40 feet. A charge would reach her, but then what? One attack? Everyone else is getting off several attacks or maginuclear fireworks at this range. Or both. He feels useless. It's a familiar feeling.
Then the blade begins to vibrate, to speak. The Fighter knows what he must do.
In one fluid motion, he slices through the air, dashing forwards into a gash in reality... a Door of Dimensions. Everyone gasps: the fool! He is not one of the fabled Dimensional Dervishes; he'll surely be unable to act once he goes through!
Yet... somehow, he dives through, slicing and dicing away with all of those feat-powered strikes until the Dragon flees. But fleeing won't save her, not this time.
So how did he do it? Well, he had his Awakened sword, which at Level 9 in the Steelbound Fighter archetype can cast a 3rd-level spell on its own once per day (at 13 it can do it thrice per day), and he had it cast Dimension Door which is a 3rd-level Summoner spell. Since the sword itself was doing the casting, he had no need to fear the inaction after the transportation, or put any feats towards Item Mastery or the Dimensional Dervish line. Sure, it's not quite as good as Dimensional Dervish itself, but it's better than the first two in that chain, and doesn't require you to mess around with Item Mastery.
It seems like a decent way for a Fighter to get a long-range three-use-per-day Pounce, provided that the GM allows it (the class ability specifically mentions that GMs are fully allowed to not allow certain spells, though this one is such a cool aesthetic that anyone interested in building a group story should at least think about it).
So... my question is, would this work? Have I missed anything? Am I way too dramatic with my tabletop roleplay questions?
Eh, the entry I read states that the SLA is usable 3 times per day at 17th level, not 13. Not sure how you arrived at that conclusion.
Other than that, it's pretty reasonable I think.
3 per day kind-of-pounce isn't really a problem. The barbarian had actual pounce at level 10, for any number of times. Though he can't move as far as dimension door, that isn't a huge bonus.
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Wait waaaiiiit, yep you're right. I haven't slept and words are kinda meshing together just now so I didn't notice the bit when it moved onto 17th level.
So once-per-day kinda pounce at 9th level then! Which is pretty cool. Pounce before the Barb, though really most useful if you have one big battle per day.
At 9th level it can dimension door you 30 feet, because that's the limit of it's senses. At 13th level it increases to 120 feet. Still pretty limited, and not worth losing access to advanced weapon training.
Dimension Door has neither LoS nor LoE requirements.
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I agree that it's probably not worth losing access to Advanced Weapon Training, but it's a good way for a fighter to be able to pounce without sinking four feats (Teleportation Mastery and the Dimensional Dervish line) into it for an option that you need to put points in Cha for (and probably a couple more skill feats) in order to make viable.
Thanks for the answers guys!