I mean literally.
I'm contemplating War for the Crown as the next AP that we do and since it is set in Taldor I was thinking about pitching a particular character concept to a couple of PCs.
Basically they would be siblings who both took up the sword and studied the Rondelero martial arts, but from different directions. One through the Fighter archetype and one through the Swashbuckler archetype.
Ideally they would be friendly rivals, but I'm not sure if one option is clearly superior to the other and I wouldn't want to make the pitch if things were unfair from the start.
I do intend to use Combat Stamina for the fighter, though. It has worked well so far.
My players are likely to be into the flavor of it, but does this seem like a viable set up mechanically?
Fighter will probably outpace the swashbuckler if you allow advanced weapon training options, but it shouldn't be by THAT much in either direction as long as they're both built competently.
That is roughly what I understand, but it is nice to have some confirmation.
The fighter archetype only loses weapon training 1, which means it gets the remaining ones. Which means you can replace all the other ones with Advanced Weapon Training, which means that a competently built fighter will be much better than the Swashbuckler. But not in terms of damage or AC, but in saves and skills the fighter will be better. The fighter will be a better all around character, but the two characters will be similar in terms of damage output and ability to survive non-magical attacks.
That is good stuff to keep in mind, thank you.