The rest of the party is as follows: Halfling Cavalier//Marshall, Elf Barbarian//Rogue, Half-Elf Fighter//Paladin, Dwarf Inquisitor//Ranger.
I figure optimizing IC is okay, since everyone benefits. My main concern is that Crusader seems to be much more of a Tank class, and I'd rather be more of a damage dealer than a Tank.Īlso, this is a relatively low-op game, so I don't need to be particularly powerful on my own to keep up. Hmmm, I hadn't thought about dipping Warblade while sticking to mostly Crusader. I was thinking of going for Power Attack anyhow, as far as I can tell it works just as well with a Rapier as it does with a one handed Longsword. I'll need to see if my DM is willing to let the latter work on Rapiers - if not I'll definitely go with the Longsword + Power Attack route. If you hit with Ruby Nightmare Blade, you can get some serious damage.I may not need SotWR, but getting IC as a 2 times my Bard level sounds nice, don'cha think? You're right about Weapon Finesse and Snowflake Wardance though. While you will have to wield a longsword in one hand to make Snowflake Wardance work, you can still get a decent damage bonus by burning your attack bonus increases for Power Attack.
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However, that free feat slot for Weapon Finesse can instead go to Power Attack. It will not work with a rapier, so you might have to drop Dexterity and increase your Strength instead. There's a problem with Snowflake Wardance, though: It only works with slashing weapons. Song of the Heart (Eberron Campaign Setting) gives your bard increased bonuses from Inspire Courage. Song of the White Raven isn't really necessary since its use is mostly for stacking Bard and Warblade levels, but you don't need to do so due to gestalt.įocusing on Diamond Mind maneuvers for offense will allow you to multiply your damage from Inspire Courage. Warblade would definitely work better than Crusader.
Also, Power Attack and Deadly Aim let you choose to reduce your to-hit beyond one, instead of forcing you to.Īll books are available, though if something has been officially updated for Pathfinder we're using the Pathfinder version.Įdit: Oh, and we're using a Pathfinder 25 point buy to generate stats. I want to focus my skills on the Acrobatics, Stealth, and Social sets, though it would be nice to have UMD and Knowledges in there too.Īs far as house-rules go, we're using Bardic Music as it was in 3.5, that is, I get one use per Bard level per day, rather than one round of use per Bard level per day. Since we're using the Pathfinder version of the Bard, I think I'd like to get the feat Versatile Performance (from Complete Adventurer) and Versatile Performer (the class ability) to free up a bunch of skill points. Also, I'd like to go the Weapon Finesse route, if possible, for flavor reasons. I could go the lockdown/crackdown route, but I wanted to use Snowflake Wardance which basically limits me to non reach weapons. I'd like to focus on Melee in combat, and on spells and skills out of combat. Apart from that, though, I'm not sure what to do with the build. I was inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac and wanted to go for something simple, so I thought I'd roll a Bard//Crusader or Bard//Warblade combination, using Song of the White Raven to get some serious IC/DFI going. So, a friend of mine mentioned that he wants to try running a gestalt Pathfinder campaign, but he's limiting us to using only base classes.
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