Hi all, got a campaign coming up and struggling to make my character work.
Based heavy off Asta from Black Clover. For those who don't watch the show, he is a magicless kid in a world where magic is kinda an ever day thing. Everyone can use magic even if only a little. But Asta can't use any at all.
But soon he gets a Grimore (Think that's the spelling) where he can pull a huge black sword from it and the blade has antimagic properties and spell reflective ones as well. Later he can pull a second smaller blade from the book as well.
While I'm aware anime into pathfinder doesn't mix well, I'm happy to alter some things to make builds easy. His big sword is more sized to a greatsword but he weilds it one handed at times, so maybe I use a Basterd sword instead. And his smaller sword is like a long sword, so I'll use a short sword instead. The biggest issue is the spell reflect AND the anti-magic of the blades.
The campaign starts at lv1 and may finish at lv10 but the dm said we may proceed past that if the party wants to continue.
Any ideas? Thx in advance guys.
The main problem is that antimagic from Pathfinder is a higher level ability. Best I can suggest is barbarian with the Superstitious rage powers, working to the Cut From the Air feats to be able to bat lightning bolts from the air.
Actually, upon reading a little about the character, maybe build him as a Magus with a 10 in his casting stat. He'll be weak, of course, but you might use it as a bargaining chip with your GM to be able to find two special swords. His first sword, the Magic Cleaving Sword, can have the Dispel Magic ability of a Holy Avenger, while the Magic Eating Sword can be a sword with a Rod of Absorption built into the hilt, taking in the spells and allowing your generally spell-less Magus to power his spells.
Living Grimoire Inquisitor archetype is where I would start.
I don't know, Living Grimoire is a little spell heavy for a character who can't use magic. The only thing his book seems to be used for is holding his swords, so maybe a reflavored Bag of Holding.
Was looking at the Superstitious barbarian and also the bloodrager of arcane blood line but multiclass before he gets magic.
Also had thought about the bag of holding. Can't hold items or anyone else's weapons but functions like a scabbard for him.
Never thought of the magus idea, sounds cool.
But the anti magic part is only on his swords, he can't cast Antimagic circle or anything like that.
Dip one level of Living Grimoire just for the book, as it is part of his character. The Living Grimoire Inquisitor archetype sucks, but meets a good part of the story. You could take the Spellkiller Inquisition, for Disruptive at level 1.
Then, yes, I was thinking Superstitious Invulnerable Rager. But having Disruptive from your Inquisition may be redundant as you probably still need the rage power for prerequisites of other rage powers.
I would imagine the barbarian would be the best way to make up for the low base damage of the book via rage bonuses.
How about Ki? Would you feel okay about that? Right now I'm thinking of some sort of Fighter Monk. Maybe take a Vow of Poverty for even more Ki and an excuse not to have much in the way of magic items. The 3.5 D&D Vow of Poverty Feat was perfect for a totally nonmagic character.
Anybody can take Master Craftsman and then Craft Magic Arms and Armor or Craft Wondrous Item. Another Feat that would be perfect for this would be the 3.5 Feat Ancestral Relic. Both 3.5 Feats I mentioned came from the Book of Exalted Deeds The Ancestral Relic Feat gives you a magic item that you can invest in to make it grow in power as you gain levels. There was a Prestige Class that went with AR: the Annointed Knight.
There are Pathfinder Rules for customizing magic items and partial enchantment of magic items.
Truth be told, more into the reflecting spells back at the caster. Thing its cool and especially if you can do it to save a ally. Understandingly, Antimagic is a high end ability.
And prefer to keep things non-third party. Dm is a noobie so I'd like to keep things to the core books.
Resurrecting this to continue the build discussion. Mostly because Asta has a second form created by syphoning power from the sword to make him a half fiend.
15th Magus (Bladebound, Spellblade, Hexbreaker)
Dispelling Strike, Disruptive, Reflection and Spellbreaker Arcana.
Summoner (Synthesist)
Flight Evolution
And for the whole "magicless" part (not 100% right, his antimagic seems to be more like a corrupted form of magic), just do buff spells with a range of personal.
So not a caster and uses a huge sword that is antimagic?
Sounds a lot like a barbarian using the Spell Sunder rage power which is available at level 6. But transforming probably means Primalist bloodrager, although I'm not sure how you'd get spell reflection.
Also, for the spell-eating sword. One option that's available regardless of class is to fuse a normal sword with a Rod of Cancellation using permanencied Aroden's Spellsword.
You can hire almost any spellcaster to do that for you and from then on you have a permanently antimagical sword. Bonus points because since the sword now acts as a rod of cancellation, it itself cannot be dispelled by anything other than a sphere of annihilation.
The spell warrior skald may be a pretty good fit. It's a combat type that has a lot of the counterspelling options. You have spell slots, but they could all be used only for counterspells. You also have rage powers, so can pick up Spell Sunder.
And really saying Asta can't use "magic" is more of an academic point. His "antimagic" can achieve a lot of things that are basically magic. And he still uses a grimoire like every other magic user. And Asta is the only person in that known world that can't use "magic", which is already much different than any Pathfinder setting where most people can't use magic.
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