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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 3456049" data-attributes="member: 6562">Just for <s>spite</s> fun, I decided to make an Elf Warblade who's focused on archery from the get-go. This assumes no XP penalty for multi-classing. If there is a penalty, just make it a Human and let the Fighter levels cover Longbow proficiency -- we just won't take anything Bow-specific until after we have Fighter levels. (Humans obviously get another bonus Feat at 1st level -- prolly Adaptive Style.)Level / Class -- [Bonus] Feat(s); Maneuver(s); Stance1/ Warblade 1 -- Weapon Finesse; Moment of Perfect Mind, Sudden Leap, Douse the Flames; Blood in the Water2/ Warblade 2 -- Steel Wind3/ Warblade 3 -- Point Blank Shot -- Wall of Blades4/ Fighter 1 -- Rapid Shot5/ Fighter 2 -- Weapon Focus (Longbow)6/ Warblade 4 -- Weapon Specialization (Longbow); <s>Steel Wind</s> -> White Raven Tactics; Absolute Steel Stance7/ Warblade 5 -- [Improved Initiative]; Lion's Roar8/ Warblade 6 -- <s>Wall of Blades</s> -> Mind Over Body9/ Warblade 7 -- Ranged Weapon Mastery (Piercing); Iron Heart Surge10/ Warblade 8 -- <s>Douse the Flames</s> -> Disrupting Blow11/ Warblade 9 -- [Blade Meditation (Diamond Mind)]; Iron Heart Focus12/ Warblade 10 -- Adaptive Style; Hearing the Air13/ Warblade 11 -- Iron Heart Endurance14/ Warblade 12 -- 15/ Warblade 13 -- [White Raven Defense], Improved Critical (Longbow); Quicksilver Motion16/ Warblade 14 -- 17/ Warblade 15 -- Lightning Throw18/ Warblade 16 -- Martial Stance (Leading the Charge); Stance of Alacrity19/ Warblade 17 -- [Blind-Fight]; Time Stands Still20/ Warblade 18 -- He will fight with a longbow (duh) and a pair of spiked gauntlets, which he will use to smack opponents who come too close. This smacking will generally attempt to disable the opponent with a standard action Diamond Mind strike, so the Warblade can run away.He will use most of his class abilities defensively.There are a lot of White Raven area or ally maneuvers which he can use to "direct battle" from relative safety; in particular, Lion's Roar allows him to initiate it when he drops an opponent by any means, at any range (as opposed to Fountain of Blood, which requires that the dropped foe be within your threatened area). The rest of his maneuvers are geared towards mobility and self-preservation.Leading the Charge is taken mostly for irony value. The stance will benefit his party, but he won't be leading anything. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />This looks like it could be a fairly effective character, even though he's ignoring the intent of most of his class features. He's not someone you want to run up to and attack, but neither is he someone you can safely ignore. If you sunder his bow, he'll take a round to Adaptive Style himself his few melee maneuvers, and then you will be in trouble. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There are a bunch of levels where he could swap out old maneuvers for new ones; I didn't bother, but he could easily have Diamond Nightmare Blade by sacrificing... something. I dunno.Anyway, IMHO this would be viable (albeit sub-optimal) with the schools out there right now. So an archery school should do better.So, anyone want to play this? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Cheers, -- N</blockquote>

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