DarkJester
First Post
Attached is an outline of a character I wanted to play but never got around to. I made it when the Bo9S first came out. You can take a look at it for some ideas.
Help feat out a Swordsage
- Thread starter Angerland
- Start date
Nightfall
Sage of the Scarred Lands
Anger,
Well if you don't want to dip that's fine, but honestly more skills based/good Reflex saves are extremely helpful for a Swordsage. Whatever you choose is fine, but if you don't like Shadow Sun Ninja, I guess there's no accounting for tastes. But that's me.
Well if you don't want to dip that's fine, but honestly more skills based/good Reflex saves are extremely helpful for a Swordsage. Whatever you choose is fine, but if you don't like Shadow Sun Ninja, I guess there's no accounting for tastes. But that's me.
BASHMAN
Basic Action Games
EWP- Spiked Chain. This gives you reach. It is also a Shadowhand Weapon, meaning it works with your Shadowblade Feat.
Combat Reflexes- Lets you get optimum use of said chain to do lots of AOOs.
Power Attack- Mostly taking it so you can get....
Cleave- Even MORE attacks this round! Even on an AOO! Don't get great-cleave though. That one's for suckers-- it rarely comes up enough to waist a precious feat slot on. However, adding Mighty Cleaving to your Spiked Chain would be worth it.
Improved Trip- Free attack if you trip an opponent, and chain can be used to trip, AND a lot of Setting Sun maneuvers utilize trips (and give bonuses)
Items to use-
Potions of Enlarge Person (or have someone cast it). Extends reach of the chain to 20', giving you LOTS of potential AOOs.
My Monk 15/Swordsage1 had this feat combo, and got 5 attacks/round on his turn, and 4/round when it was not his turn from getting so many AOOs and the occasional cleave.
Combat Reflexes- Lets you get optimum use of said chain to do lots of AOOs.
Power Attack- Mostly taking it so you can get....
Cleave- Even MORE attacks this round! Even on an AOO! Don't get great-cleave though. That one's for suckers-- it rarely comes up enough to waist a precious feat slot on. However, adding Mighty Cleaving to your Spiked Chain would be worth it.
Improved Trip- Free attack if you trip an opponent, and chain can be used to trip, AND a lot of Setting Sun maneuvers utilize trips (and give bonuses)
Items to use-
Potions of Enlarge Person (or have someone cast it). Extends reach of the chain to 20', giving you LOTS of potential AOOs.
My Monk 15/Swordsage1 had this feat combo, and got 5 attacks/round on his turn, and 4/round when it was not his turn from getting so many AOOs and the occasional cleave.
BASHMAN
Basic Action Games
Angerland said:
No love for the Shadow Sun Ninja?
It was by far my favorite in the Book, and I did get to level 1 in it by campaign's end. Their 1st level ability is so friggin' good (Make a touch attack that does negative energy damage). I was level 17 with a monk's belt, and enlarged, with 18 WIS. So I did 4d8+4 (ave 22) negative energy damage with a touch. May not seem like such a big deal, but when you consider there were a lot of enemies with UNHITABLE ACs that we were facing, it really made a difference. The ability to heal yourself or a nearby ally immediately after that (maybe even as a swift action, allowing you to unload a full attack on your opponent) was a nice touch too. Unfortunately, the end of our campaign was on the Plane of Negative Energy, where Positive Energy of any kind cannot be channeled. This was good and bad for me-- it made it so that I could use the negative energy touch EVERY round... but could never use the healing aspect of it...
And let's face it, Shadow Sun Ninja is darn close to being a Naruto type ninja of sorts. RigaMortus2
First Post
Check out the Beshadowed Blade build for inspiration. It does go the TWF route. Since you are going Elf, it won't work 100% for you, but hopefully will give you some good ideas.
