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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dscrank" data-source="post: 122859" data-attributes="member: 3017">Well, should Pedron reform his ways and decide he'd rather catch thieves than be one, he might become a thief-taker.  Meanwhile, he has no intention of becoming a soldier (armsman), but he has nothing against spending time alone in the woods (woodsman).  He's done a bit of that already on his way to Caemlyn.As for Blademaster, that's a tough one.  I guess I view the Blademaster as sort of a specialist, the type who'd take feats like Weapon Focus, Weapon Specialization, Improved Critical, and Weapon Finesse (if available) all with his sword.  Stack onto that Superior Weapon Focus (+1 Attack) and the Superior Weapon Specialization I've seen on some player-made PrC's (+1 Attack, +1 Damage), and you have someone who's absolutely deadly with a single weapon type.  Granted, Yuri has more strength than dexterity, so he probably wouldn't want finesse.  (As a side not, it'd be nice if finesse had a follow-up feat, something to represent the speed of light weapons, like Rapid Shot for melee weapons.)  I suppose I would expect a Blademaster to have some of the other Combat feats as well, like Combat Expertise, Combat Reflexes, Whirlwind.  I think most of those are already prereqs for the class.  And the class grants a lot of the specialization feats as well.  It's things like the 30x a day Parting the Silk that I find questionable.</blockquote>