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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 1567321" data-attributes="member: 2785">Oh man, I want to play a falchion fighter in your campaign. Just under normal 3.5 rules he's ungodly powerful, threatening a crit (and usually converting) about 30% of the time. Honestly, P-Cat, having seen my guy in action, when you combine Improved Crit and 3.5 Power Attack with a 2-handed weapon, you have a true beast of a fighter. My guy drops frost giants in two or three hits depending on crits. If you let him stack keen on top of that...I shudder in ecstacy to think about the orgy of damage such a character could inflict. Throw in Resounding Blow from BoED for toppers and you have a true death machine. My guy entered the campaign as an 8th level fighter (WF falchion, WS falchion, Power Attack, Cleave, Great Cleave, Resounding Blow, Improved Crit falchion). 28-point character, +1 falchion, gauntlets of ogre power for a 20 Str. First fight we face frost giants. His opponent closes, having taken about 40 points of damage from arrows. We got bardsong going, haste & elation. I'm the lowest level character in the group. I step up, do a 4-point power attack (2d4 + 22 base damage). First hit for 25, second hit - threat. I convert & graze the frost giant for 57. Giant dies. No sweat.When I think of my falchion fighter at Defenders of Daybreak levels, being allowed to stack Imp Crit & keen...oh man. I don't know the exact math, but that's a crit - what? 40-45% of the time? Verses living foes, assuming moderate wealth for extremely high levels - 200 damage per round, easy. From just me. That's not counting Great Cleave...just normal attacks. What I'm trying to say is that perhaps allowing those to stack with 3.5 PA is not such a good idea. I'm already ga-ga with power just threatening on a 15. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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