Soul forged Armaments / soulforger

[aobst128]

A powerhouse archetype at first glance. What the thoughts on this? What are some concepts this would be good for?

[Arklore]

The first one that comes to mind in a way from Fantasy Fiction is Elric with his sword Stormbringer in ways which was sort of the inspiration for the blade bound magus in 1E. Several of Michael Moorcock's heroes/anti-heroes come to mind. Excaliber? Narsil?

Cleric or Champion graced by their diety with an item...just quick thoughts without going back to the book.

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[aobst128]

Getting access to unlimited fast healing would make for a terrifying fighter or barbarian.

[aobst128]

Raging thrower barbarians can throw around a greatsword within 30 feet. Bonus points for giant instinct, just frisbeeing a 7 foot long blade like a destructo disc. Absolute madness.

[Zabraxis]

aobst128 wrote:

Getting access to unlimited fast healing would make for a terrifying fighter or barbarian.

The Soulforged essence abilities are once per day per item. Are there some infinite loop shenanigans I'm missing?

Don't get me wrong, 1/2 level Fast Healing for 1-3 min/day and 1-3 auto heightened Heals are nice but far from infinite and kinda bland if you go all Healing Grace.

[aobst128]

Whoops, yeah it only lasts a minute. Still, pretty handy

[Perpdepog]

A sneaky little benefit of the archetype that I quite like is that you can go from being unarmored to fully decked out in full plate in less than a round, and that's at level 2, long before other such time-reducing options become available.

[Verzen]

aobst128 wrote:

A powerhouse archetype at first glance. What the thoughts on this? What are some concepts this would be good for?

BANKAI!

[Seisho]

Honestly while I find the Archetype very flavourful and see that those abilities are powerful

1/day is barely worth the investment, especially if you want to go for a weapon (with armor it has additional advantages, obviously)

I think it should be at least 1/hour so you have multiple uses over the day but still have to household them

or limit the strength a little and make it a focus spell

[The Raven Black]

Perpdepog wrote:

A sneaky little benefit of the archetype that I quite like is that you can go from being unarmored to fully decked out in full plate in less than a round, and that's at level 2, long before other such time-reducing options become available.

Pretty sure that all the Champions who attend high-society events are Soulforgers.

Also useful for patrolling nudist areas inconspicuously.