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Message: <blockquote data-quote="italianranma" data-source="post: 1531003" data-attributes="member: 15788">Uhh, I have no experience at all with Dragon PCs or the Draconian or even the DragonLance setting... I know a little about making a finesse fighter though.  In my experiance a finesse fighter needs a lot of help before he's ready to take on that powerattacking tank that most fighters are.  If you're a finesse fighter you have a few stats to worry about instead of just STR and CON.  That being said the way to survive one-on-one fights with big brutes is to not let them hit you.  This is a lot easier than it sounds of course.  Maybe I'm inexperienced, or don't know how to pull it off, but I can't seem to use spring attack in a one-on-one fight, even against heavy armored people.Round 1Finesse: Spring attack move about 30 feet away from the tankTank: Full defense 20' forwardRound 2Finesse: I Spring attack and after that I am 10 feet awayTank: Charge, Power attack, big weapon, +56 str damage, you dieFinesse: crap!I've found that the way to win is to have an incredibly high AC, one that even if not power attacking the big guy couldn't touch.  You can do this through a lot (and I mean A LOT) of feats.  (CW) means it's from the Complete Warrior.I've found that having the following is a great combo (albiet only fighters have enough feats to use it early)two-weapon fightingtwo-weapon defenseImproved two weapon defense [CW]Now you have 2 attacks, and a +2 shield bonus, it's like getting that second attack for free! But wait there's more:Combat ExpertiseImproved Combat Expertise (CW)Now the sky is the limit on that AC.  But of course your attack rolls all suck now.  If only there was a way to get that extra AC for free...Well you can dodge for a +1 but that's not really epic.  You need more: you need to add your INT modifier to your AC.  There are a lot of classes that do this, but most require specific weapons (aka invisible blade) or that you be an elf (blade singer).  The Duelist still works though, (you also have to get weapon finesse and mobility to pick it up though).  I'm sure that there are others that will do this, and if not design your own, make a Dragon Duelist(tm). Finally there is one more technique for you:  Defensive strike: if an opponent attacks you and misses while you are using the total defense action, you can attack that opponent on your next turn with a +4 bonus on your attack roll.If you have all the feats listed above as well as 5 ranks in tumble when you use the total defense action you will get a whopping +10 AC bonus (+6 from Total defense, +4 from improved two weapon fighting).I don't know if this will help you.  If you are already quite the tank I suggest you continuing down that path and try to roll high.</blockquote>

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