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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 2951150" data-attributes="member: 35788">I highlighted the important stuff for you.  My brain automatically substitues better flavor text and I'm none-the-wiser!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> No, seriously.  If I were to highlight what I found particularily inspiring it would be:  [My thoughts in Italics]Combining arcane magic with melee prowess, you're prepared in any situation.  Enemies who underestimate you never get a second chance ...The most powerful Duskblades can deul a fighter to a standstill and match a wizard spell for spell - at least for a while.  [I disagree with this, I think the duskblade doesn't have the spell selection to match a wizard, but its BAB might kill the wizard fast enough to make it a moot point]But the hybrid class really comes into its own when you embrace your hybrid nature.  [I just love the feel of that.  In D&D 3.5 we are almost trained to think multiclassing (not counting PrCs) leads to a less effective character.  Hybridization through means other than PrCs is often not wise.  Yet this class thrives on hybridization more than anything else!]A Duskblade can take the fighter's place in the front ranks of a party or ensorcel his foes from a distance like a wizard.  [I think they overstate the spellcasting ability just a bit, but it still sounds like an awesome hybridization.] ... You can change roles on a round by round basis.  [That flexibility simply rocks.]You are the object of envy to sorcerors and of admiration to bards, who sometimes try to emulate your anilities (often with disasterous affects).  [Tell me that doesn't make you want to try that out!  What an awesome RP idea right there - Duskblade with either a bard or a sorcerer gained under the leadership feat.]Among members of the two classes whose portfolios you draw from, fighters and wizards, some view you with disdain and others are fascinated by your unique meld of melee combat and arcane spellcasting.  [Again, the assertion of hybridization as a good thing is not only anti-3.5 but also leading directly into RP aspects.  Perhaps the Duskblade rises to power in the midst of a cadre of fighters like Paul Attreides among the Fremen.  Perhaps the Duskblade is shunned out of the ranks of the city guard on account of his reliance upon magic and not mere melee prowess.  RP ops abound!]You might feel like you have too many options, too many things you can do in a single round.  [Woo-hoo!  Any class you can say that about makes me want to feel that feeling.]The monster that engages you in melee, hoping to get an Attack of Opportunity that spoils your next spell, is in for a big surprise - a surprise of three feet of razor sharp steel.  [Okay, this quote also rocks even though I know that most swords were not sharp, they were bludgeoners.  Sharp ones were really daggers and the like.]You are most effective when you single out and focus upon defeating a single opponent.  [This is begging for that macho one-on-one fight that we all secretly long for, no?]Okay, that's probably enough.  I'm not putting up this list to start an argument, merely to simply demonstrate what I find so inspiring about the Duskblade.  That - and to illustrate that I do truly have an 'elf-alert' that erases from my brain any mention of elf-based mechanics! <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=":)" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />EDIT:  As an aside an proof of how much I like the class, I am currently writing a Story Hour that can be found in my sig.  One of the main characters started out to be a fighter before the PHB II was put out.  He quickly morphed into a Duskblade.  Yet, since he started a fighter much of the first parts were written without him able to cast spells.  In the story .... SPOILER TEXT FOLLOWS: [Spoiler]The character Ischarus is about to find out that he's had hidden arcane talents for some time.  And these arcane talents are not because of some poorly written 'elven heritage' part of the description of the PHBII.  It is because he is Drakontos.  [In my homebrew, Drakontos are the equivalent of Aasimar or Tiefling except with Draconic parentage instead of Outsider.  They are too far removed to be half-dragons but not yet human, either.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> [/Spoiler]</blockquote>

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