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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 7797429" data-attributes="member: 4348"> Duskblade is basically the Gish.  Much like the Eldritch Knight, but more balanced one could say.  They do not focus their powers through their blade (so not a bladesinger), but they are much more combat focused than...say the Eldritch Knight in what spells they might cast.  Eldritch Knight would be a Fighter/Wizard...while the Duskblade would specifically be the Warrior with Magic amplification or that uses magic in conjunction with Magic.Another way of saying it would be, while the Eldritch Knight really has the magic increase separately from the way their combat abilities increase, the Duskblade has them increase in conjunction with each other.The way of looking at it is if you look at the 3e classes, the Eldritch Knight really increases it's wizards spells as a separate leveling (eldritch knight levels separately than your wizard or fighter levels).  The Duskblade advances in both continuously and combined.Think Elrond from the Hobbit movies by Jackson.The Factotum on the otherhand is one class that has always been hard to capture.  The first to actually try to do this was the Bard of 2e.  In this, the Bard supposedly could fill in any position as a secondary, but not quite be as good as the original.This would be the Jack of all trades.To replicate this type of archtype you'd probably want a class that ultimately gets 3 attacks (so not quite as powerful as the Fighter's number of attacks, but moreso than other classes that get multiple attacks), advance as the secondary casters (such as the Eldritch Knight for Fighter or the Arcane Trickster for the Thief), have the ability to get expertise in two skills eventually, and also have healing powers that are almost as good, but not quite as good, as the Cleric.The great difficulty with creating a jack of all-trades is the power level.  It is very easy to create a very overpowered class, but at the same time, if you don't make it strong enough it really doesn't fill the niche archtype of jack of all trades.</blockquote>

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