Unarmed Dervish

[KerlanRayne]

I was thinking about a Dervish build and wanted some help on how to put it together. So far I was thinking:

Cobra Strike Monk 2 (AU) / Ardent 2 (CPsi) / Swordsage 4 (ToB) / Dervish 10 (CW) / Blood Claw Master 2 (ToB)

I would use Versatile Unarmed Strike (PHB II) and the Shadow Blade feat with the Child of Shadow maneuver. Ardent would use the Freedom and possibly Conflict Mantles. Possible maneuvers would include Burning Blade, Dancing and Raging Mongoose, Wolf Fang Strike, Mighty Throw, and Counter Charge. With two weapon fighting and flurry, I think it would do pretty well.

I'm not sure if there would be any problems with the build and would like advice on which order to take the levels in.

I also considered dropping Monk for some Swashbuckler. I would probably drop Blood Claw Master to fit 3 levels in to get INT to damage. I would have to use Daggers to meet all the requirements. Would that work out better?

KerlanRayne

 

[Leif]

Wow, it's a shame that no one ever responded to your questions here, Kerlan. I hope by now that you've solved the problems, since it's been so long. But I will say that anytime in the future that you have situations like this come up, an excellent person to ask is Scotley. He knows more about all the ins and outs of character builds and D&D rules in general than any one person should be allowed to know!

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

For something like this, you'd probably want to get DM permission for the Unarmed Swordsage variant mentioned in the text (under adaption, iirc).