Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6772070" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Real, real quick as I don't have a ton of time.1)  I wanted to get a melee and ranged keyword weapon attack for Ranger with Dex as abmod.  That way you can feat it up with heavy blade support (and possibly axe as it is khopesh...it would have been optimal to go light blade - rapier but I thought the khopesh would be fun and sensible for the genre components of a kensai - either that or scimitar).  Further, without going with Fading Strike, you have no at-will weapon attack with Ranger where you can leverage Hunter's Quarry (and its superior single target damage scaling and feat support) for dueling.2)  Again, as a Kensai, this guy wouldn't be using a bow that much at all.  I basically had to choose a second option to complement Five Storms and his general shtick (the dueling aspect + the mobility + Dex), and that seemed best.That was another option I considered and it would work great.  However, it wouldn't be RAW as you'd need to sub the swashbuckling/duelist CHA build (of which there is awesome support - the Rogue in my last 1-30 game was that build) for WIS.  Also, you've got an issue with the unarmored component.  You're gimping yourself pretty good without using leather armor (and/or using a feat tax for unarmored agility and still not getting monk unarmored AC).  You could hybrid it (considered that), but you'd still need to change the CHA portion of the Rogue support to WIS.After doing the above guy, I still think I like the pure Monk with SM multi-class (for swords as implement proficiency primarily but also getting a mystical armor bonus + Arcana) as the best way to go for a Kensai.</blockquote>

Verification