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<blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 1851444" data-attributes="member: 537"><p>Holy crap! Where were you when they were compiling the Sultans of Smack thread? You could have had some fun with that.</p><p></p><p>1) Nice to see that someone is getting some use out of that arcane duelist PrC. 99% of people thought it was useless, but this just proves there's no such thing as a completely lost cause. <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=":)" /></p><p></p><p>2) With that sort of Cha, you definitely don't need Extra Turning. Dump this for Power Attack.</p><p></p><p>3) AC should be 10 + 9 (chain shirt) + 6 (Dex) + 4 (deflection) + 4 (nat armour) + 7 (shield) + 11 (Cha) = 51, I think. The animated shield is iffy, though. Even if Snowflake Wardance worked with it (which IMO it doesn't), what self-respecting samurai uses a shield, even one that floats in front of him? The scabbard seems more in keeping with the schtick, if you want a shield-like item. I wouldn't let Div Shield work with it, though.</p><p></p><p>4) Even with the AC bonus limited to no. of levels in arcane duelist, AC of ~40 is still pretty good. Is 10 levels of iaijutsu master really necessary? I can't remember what the top-level ability is.</p><p></p><p>5) You might want the dusty rose ioun stone for an additional +1 AC.</p><p></p><p>6) Is it supposed to be a wounding katana? What's "collision"?</p><p></p><p>7) Where does the extra +1 save vs Charm spells come from?</p><p></p><p>8) I really like the winged circlet. Oh yes.</p><p></p><p>9) +3 max luck bonus seems fair.</p><p></p><p>10) For a character in actual play, you probably want something to protect against crits/sneak attacks. A few of those can ruin anyone's day. Ditto freedom of movement, to protect against grappling. A teleport/dim door item would also be good, especially if you don't have buddies who can do it for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hong, post: 1851444, member: 537"] Holy crap! Where were you when they were compiling the Sultans of Smack thread? You could have had some fun with that. 1) Nice to see that someone is getting some use out of that arcane duelist PrC. 99% of people thought it was useless, but this just proves there's no such thing as a completely lost cause. :) 2) With that sort of Cha, you definitely don't need Extra Turning. Dump this for Power Attack. 3) AC should be 10 + 9 (chain shirt) + 6 (Dex) + 4 (deflection) + 4 (nat armour) + 7 (shield) + 11 (Cha) = 51, I think. The animated shield is iffy, though. Even if Snowflake Wardance worked with it (which IMO it doesn't), what self-respecting samurai uses a shield, even one that floats in front of him? The scabbard seems more in keeping with the schtick, if you want a shield-like item. I wouldn't let Div Shield work with it, though. 4) Even with the AC bonus limited to no. of levels in arcane duelist, AC of ~40 is still pretty good. Is 10 levels of iaijutsu master really necessary? I can't remember what the top-level ability is. 5) You might want the dusty rose ioun stone for an additional +1 AC. 6) Is it supposed to be a wounding katana? What's "collision"? 7) Where does the extra +1 save vs Charm spells come from? 8) I really like the winged circlet. Oh yes. 9) +3 max luck bonus seems fair. 10) For a character in actual play, you probably want something to protect against crits/sneak attacks. A few of those can ruin anyone's day. Ditto freedom of movement, to protect against grappling. A teleport/dim door item would also be good, especially if you don't have buddies who can do it for you. [/QUOTE]
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