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Weapon of legacy can be imbued with magical spells. They are considered supernatural abilities so they can't be dispelled by a mage. Also, there's the antimagic torc from "Races of the Underdark." The reason why I picked swordsage was because he has maneouvers that can help him out in...

Lol, true. In particular, take Raptorian race and getting Air Heritage feat, combined with the shadow blink maneuver and flyby attack. This lets the SS travel 120 feet as a move action + swift action and then go with the tornado throw maneuver. He gets aground +10 bonus to his initiative for...

Assuming you center an AF around the swordsage using the items described in the splat books or imbuing a weapon of legacy with such properties, how would the SS do against a mage?

Argh my bad. I read the martial arcanist description as stating "your spell caster and caster level" increase depending on BAB instead of "your caster level in your primary spellcasting class" increase. Too bad, I was getting some pretty good ideas too. ;)

Oh, ok. That would prevent this class from being broken. I was surprised, because I initially thought it meant caster level as in level of spell casting class. Where was this clarified?

If you take 5 levels in this class and get the Martial Arcanist feature, does that mean if you have a BAB of 19 you can cast 9th level spells, or just that your caster level for the sake of determining spell penetration and versus dispel checks (not bonus spells of higher levels) is 19?

Would a twentieth level monk taking this feat gain absolutely nothing? It says a monk gets the unarmed attack damage of a monk 4 levels higher, right? With this, improved natural attack, and giant stance, it could help boost the monks damaging abilities to come close to a more melee oriented build.

You should refer to "heroes of battle" rather than "tome of battle."

Wherein lies the problem. If a character decides to invest signficantly in going first by choosing the proper class and line of feats, he should be given the priviledge of getting the first blow in, so to speak. That's what makes this spell broken - a character with a penalty to initiative can...

There are plenty of classes that require a higher dex and can also obtain all the said feats. For example, the swordsage gets +5 iniative as a class feature, and actually requires a moderately high dex in order to max out AC. The wizard isn't invaribaly going first, and hence time stop isn't...

True, but as I showed, the celerity+contigency automatically allows him to cast timestop. That means he can cast all the spells he needs in the first round and then teleport away to safety while waiting the daze off. I showed my DM this and he said that since celerity only activates when the...

I just managed to get a copy of PHBII through alternative means and I noticed that the 4th level celerity spell allows the mage to get an additional standard action. For a level 20 mage, this gets unbelievably broken. If the mage were to put this spell in a contingency and states for it to...

Just wondering, is the ToB shadow blink maneuver subject to the wizard "dimension lock" spell? The spell description states that it blocks all "spell-like" or "psionic" abilities that allow for transport via "extra dimensional" travel. This maneuver doesn't really fit into either category as...

I didn't state that a caster only has a handful of spells. Just that his spells do not grant him a definite advantage against a class that can easily recover expended maneuvers designed to resist those spells. I thought my position was rather clear when I stated that a warblade could stand...

Because he's fighting? Sorry, I don't understand.... It seems, there was mutual confusion. I assumed you were arguing that any level 20 caster could take down any level 20 warblade? Your initial response seemed to imply that much. But how does he afford that movement? Are you assuming he...