I'm trying to build something wild that can encompass an assassin character in a particular vision. What I'm working toward is the Veiled Moon Warp in order to shunt someone into incorporeal status so that they are disabled from accessing their weapon of choice, but also because I very much wish to make the Synthesist Summoner's Shadow Blend and Shadow Form a more viable combo.
I've searched for other methods of imposing an incorporeal status on someone, but I've not found any.
I'd like to use the Master of Many Styles to access the Path of War feats, but since there's controversy around the fairness of Path of War, I'm not finding much information on it interacting with rules from anywhere other than its own book.
I would simply play Stalker at high levels and multiclass into Synthesist, but I'm not looking for a 17th level campaign when I can barely find one at all in my area.
Should Master of Many Styles be able to ignore the prerequisites as normal as long as Path of War itself is allowed by the DM? I realize I'd very clearly have to obtain maneuvers for use of Veiled Moon Warp, but I'm looking to accomplish one warp at level 5 in order to assassinate a single target using Stalker1/Summoner2/MoMS2 as a through way to seeing this strategy play out at the lowest possible level for realistic payoff. Grab something to improve DCs, meybe take another level or two of Stalker, and for a little bit of flavor I'd really enjoy playing this and then proceeding with Ninja: Scout Architype for 2 or more levels to finish off the damage output and get some Ninja/Rogue tricks.
Any DMs out there with an opinion on this combo? Is there another method of forcing incorporeality on an opponent so I don't end up trying to obtain Path of War feats? Is there something I overlooked that has the potential to work like MoMS to obtain the style I want fast?
Has anybody else made a Shadow Blend/Shadow Form character that worked out well without needing to be a spell driven archetype? Is the spell driven version really good in ways I should take a closer look at?
