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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 1890196" data-attributes="member: 78">Someone in our group went Swashbuckler 3 for the damage bonus, then stopped.  You don't really get good abilities after that until around the last 5 or so levels of the class.  Instead, they took a few fighter levels for feats then went Duelist.  The class doesn't seem to be designed very well, especially with the duelist around.  Oh boy, single target dodge bonuses!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Our other game has a fighter/hexblade NPC.  He acts like a fighter normally, wearing fullplate armor and using a greatsword; with full BaB and HP, his combat ability doesn't really suffer much.  His first 2 spells were Endure Elements and Alarm; useful spells that aren't really affected by arcane failure.  I don't recall what other spells he picked up.  The curse didn't come into play too often, since it was usually forgotten.  But as a free action, it's still hard to beat.  Still, most of this character's effectiveness stems from his status a strong greatsword guy.  Presumeably, as a PC, the player would be better about using his abilities.Warmage fits the background of one of my characters, but I couldn't deal with loss of all versatility.  A Wizard focused on combat magic is almost as good at it as the Warmage, and poses a serious strategic threat in warfare.  They can scout around with magic, move at high speed in battle, teleport, etc.  That's going to be a lot more dangerous than someone who can just blast away.</blockquote>

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