| DirtSailor |
Running a party of mostly new players through Rise of the Runelords, and the Fighter has decided that he wants to dual wield shields and work himself up the Shield Master tree. Problem is, he already took Cleave and you can't cleave with a shield. He wants to retrain that and I am all for it, even giving him a +1 Shield of Bashing so he is doing the same damage as he was with his greatsword. Problem? Time.
Without spoilers, the party just finished a small dungeon that boosted them to level 3 but they will be quickly moving on to the next major encounter. An NPC has gone off to scout on the Thistletop Goblins and is about to get in WAY over her head. Time is of the essence and they can't take the 5 days needed to train.
Enter Amontage. A high level Fighter who speaks in a French accent and refers to himself exclusively in the third person. The training won't be cheap, but Amontage can teach a man many many things if a man has coin and strength. Amontage could make a man forget Cleave to learn Improved Shield Bash... but How?
This will end up being a series of skill checks, but I am looking for suggestions to spice it up. Shield Bashing slabs of meat. Jogging around town while tied to a horse, and so on.
Suggestions?
| Federebus |
You could also simply wait a level, since:
At 1st level, and at every even level thereafter, a fighter gains a bonus feat in addition to those gained from normal advancement (meaning that the fighter gains a feat at every level). These bonus feats must be selected from those listed as Combat Feats, sometimes also called “fighter bonus feats.”
Upon reaching 4th level, and every four levels thereafter (8th, 12th, and so on), a fighter can choose to learn a new bonus feat in place of a bonus feat he has already learned. In effect, the fighter loses the bonus feat in exchange for the new one. The old feat cannot be one that was used as a prerequisite for another feat, prestige class, or other ability. A fighter can only change one feat at any given level and must choose whether or not to swap the feat at the time he gains a new bonus feat for the level.
| DirtSailor |
I very well could, but with how easily they handled the last few encounters I am going to stop pulling punches. The party has character knowledge that the next one is going to be a big one and they will need every last trick they have up their sleeve. Every character is getting a special 15 minute mini-session while we level up to give them some sort of buff or whatnot before they go in. This is how he wants to use his.
| IronShihan |
You could have him slam through a series of barriers with increasing hardness/hitpoints. He would have to do sufficient dam. to break each one.
Have his fellow companions form a gauntlet (two lines of opponents that you run between), they roll to hit for nonlethal damage while he makes a series of fort and reflex saves.