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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3566051" data-attributes="member: 13966">Glee! a second time. <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=":)" /> I'll stick with my first concept of Mikken then, I like it.Mikken's Gear Types: Katana (bastard sword) as primary or two-handed weapon, wakizashi (short sword) as off-hand weapon, and ko-dachi (short sword) as an extra primary-hand weapon for use in two-weapon fighting with the wakizashi.  I dunno yet if he'll ever take Exotic proficiency in the bastard sword or not.He'll probably take Two-Weapon Defense at some point as a feat, to use his wakizashi like a shield sometimes, since he'll be going armorless.  Though it'll be used as a weapon as often as not.  So, anyway, his Wakizashi short sword will likely be his "armor" item as well as his off-hand weapon.Having a way to boost the shield bonus from Mikken's wakizashi when using TWD would be nice, but then, with Mikken's low-to-mediocre HP for most of his career, he'll be relying on various sources of AC to avoid harm (since TWD gives +1 shield bonus when using the off-hand weapon for defense, improved to +2 when fighting defensively or taking total defense; which means at least -4 on attack rolls).  He'll rely on the Mage Armor spell for an 'armor' bonus, and maybe a Cat's Grace spell for greater Dex bonus.Other than that.....I guess it'd be kinda neat if Mikken's Ko-Dachi short sword, or his Katana bastard sword, could function as a wand or something (with the usual activation times for wands when used that way), and/or have Spell Storing abilities.I wouldn't mind giving up Mikken's capacity to summon a familiar, to enable something like that stuff.  I like familiars but I don't think Mikken will summon one anyway (the cast of characters is big enough anyway without an unnecessary random moogle or talking cat...*twitch* *grin*).</blockquote>

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