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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 6385801" data-attributes="member: 1165">I've played 7 years of 2e and that trope never really made sense to me. You would need to have spells that make you good in melee and spells that blast/control and weapons skills. Or perhaps you're looking to use spells first, then when you run out use a weapon. That seems a good idea at low levels, but it only really works out when you've got a few levels under your belt, by which point you're not really running out of spells.I looked that up already, but it seemed confusing in 3.0. Apparently you need two levels before you even get +1 Strength out of it. (The 3.5 version immediately gave you a size bonus, for extra damage, and the penalty to hit was canceled out by the bonus to Strength.)Be sure to take Craft Wondrous Item. Available at 3rd-level. If you have a cleric they'll be happy too, as they can cooperate with you to make cleric-only items.Also, an AC of about 17 isn't impressive, not when a 1st-level fighter can have more, all day. You're still going to need those short-term non-AC-boosting defensive buffs.Even big fights don't last long (in terms of rounds), so you should probably focus on very short-term powerful buffs or attack spells after a few levels rather than longer-term buffs. (Simply put, those are worth more than sword swings.)Were you talking ability score buffs, or defensive buffs?No, that's not possible in the rules. A katana is actually a pretty big and heavy weapon anyway.They can still deliver touch spells on you. Too bad True Strike isn't a touch spell, because ... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 6385801, member: 1165"] I've played 7 years of 2e and that trope never really made sense to me. You would need to have spells that make you good in melee and spells that blast/control and weapons skills. Or perhaps you're looking to use spells first, then when you run out use a weapon. That seems a good idea at low levels, but it only really works out when you've got a few levels under your belt, by which point you're not really running out of spells. I looked that up already, but it seemed confusing in 3.0. Apparently you need two levels before you even get +1 Strength out of it. (The 3.5 version immediately gave you a size bonus, for extra damage, and the penalty to hit was canceled out by the bonus to Strength.) Be sure to take Craft Wondrous Item. Available at 3rd-level. If you have a cleric they'll be happy too, as they can cooperate with you to make cleric-only items. Also, an AC of about 17 isn't impressive, not when a 1st-level fighter can have more, all day. You're still going to need those short-term non-AC-boosting defensive buffs. Even big fights don't last long (in terms of rounds), so you should probably focus on very short-term powerful buffs or attack spells after a few levels rather than longer-term buffs. (Simply put, those are worth more than sword swings.) Were you talking ability score buffs, or defensive buffs? No, that's not possible in the rules. A katana is actually a pretty big and heavy weapon anyway. They can still deliver touch spells on you. Too bad True Strike isn't a touch spell, because ... :lol: [/QUOTE]

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