Weapon Focus

[Maliki]

I just wanted to use a club(Nobody ever uses a club)

Rapid shot is on my list of feats to pick up, if I live long enough. My character concept for this guy will probably bite the dust in a few weeks, but it will be a fun couple of weeks.

My players(I normally Dm) are starting to irk me with thier min/max of everything, so this guy is a loose cannon. If there is a door, he's kicking it open, a room full of ocrs he's charging. He may not live long, but he will live.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I'd suggest asking if you could use a wooden mace instead of a club. You're going to be in serious need of damage (unless you're a 20-Str half-orc or something).

 

[mr_outsidevoice]

Well another problem is that if you're going the TWF route, you're constantly throwing away your ammo. Plus, at higher levels, you're going to have to buy a lot of magical weapons to keep up.

At Higher levels, one could afford magic daggers with the returning property.

 

[Jdvn1]

At Higher levels, one could afford magic daggers with the returning property.

The returning property isn't that good, though. The teleporting property (XPH) is better, but I think still requires you to not move. And, still, that's spending a lot of money, especially when you have to spend it per dagger.

 

[Coredump]

I just wanted to use a club(Nobody ever uses a club)

Excellent reason. And I just noticed, you can throw a club also. Yeeeeehawww.


The cool thing about rapid shot, (with 6/1 BAB) you can get your two attacks with the club, then the extra (twf) attack with the dagger, and then *throw* one of them with Rapid shot.

Hope you have a great time with him.

 

[Maliki]

The game kicks off tonight so we'll see how things go.

Thanks (Coredump), I never noticed that you could also throw a club, I'll have to remember that.

My whole purpose of running this character how I plan to run him is to show my players that you can have a blast with characters that aren't maxed out, and that the smart thing to do isn't always the most thing. Lately thier characters all think like players, as a DM I don't care what Tim would do when faced with a group of orcs, I want to see what Redgar would do.

 

[Palskane]

Though this would fall under House Rules, it is something that my group seems to like really well.

Instead of just a +1 to hit with that weapon, I let Weapon Focus grant you a +1 BAB with that weapon. Only with that weapon of course, and I feel it helps that feat quite a bit ... giving you your extra attacks with it earlier. I have not found it to be unbalancing, and really lets a character shine if they concentrate or build their character around a specific weapon.

 

[Maliki]

That is an interesting idea(I like it) but, this is the DMs first major attempt at a campaign, so he is going strictly btb, just three core books.

 

[Maliki]

Well thanks for all the feedback on my original question. Just in case anyone cares the players in the group showed more life tonight than I had seen from them in a few months. Maybe it was just time for me to step from behind the screen for a while and let a fresh DM take over.

I started a thread in the the story hour about this character.(Maddog and Company)