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Mennenth 07-09-05, 01:49 PM	In a campaign that my dm is still setting up, I have decided to play a character that, in my eyes, is quite interesting. I want him to be a Psychic Warrior/Dervish/Weapon Master. When I first thought of him he was just going to be aq psychic warrior, but after some research my DM decided that he was going to be a bit too powerful in the beggining of the campaign. Not wanting to take my character away, he placed a "Jinxed Choker" on him, one that is inherited by the eldest son/daughter when the father dies. It reduces the number of power points available to use by half, and every 5 years of the characters life it drains away 1 point of constitution. When that happened I decided that the whole psionics stuff would be used mainly for support, things like healing and bonuses to AC and stuff. I then decided that like that, he would be really weak at the beggining of the game, so I looked through the Complete Warrior and found the Dervish, and thats when I felt like he should be kind of an oriental character, using the whole Chinese fighting style with the curved Broad Sword. Slashing and kicking ones opponent while dancing around them. I felt that he would also need to be uniquely specialized with that style of weapon since I couldnt find it outlined anywhere. (the closest I could get was either the scimitar or falchion in the PHB) Thats when I remembered I had looked through the oriental adventures and found the Weapon Master in there; a potent weapon specialist. So with that in mind, the full idea of the character is this: A master swordsman weilding a Chinese Curved Broadsword in a technique that emphasizes dancing and weaving around ones enemies. Also uses limited psionic abilities to support him in times of need. What is the opinion of the masses on such a character? Any ideas for progression or anything else? Any thing that should be changed/compromised? I want to keep it as close to the original idea as possible, but since I'm still somewhat new to DnD (2nd level DnD player) I dont really know how such a character would work out, and therefore I welcome suggestions for the character.
Torack 07-09-05, 04:20 PM	Is this a 3.0 or a 3.5 game? Psionics has undergone some major revisions in the transition and any DM worth their salt should know better then to consider a psychic character overpowered in v3.5. The quickest way would be a Psychic Warrior 5/Dervish 10/Weapon Master 5 Any race'll do. Unfortunately Psychic Warriors get screwed in their skill points and the Dervish requires two cross-class skills(Perform and Tumble). Your power-points a day aren't going to be great(2nd level, 7+ wisdom, 5 known). Even so I think it's doable and the story sounds neat enough. Go for it, it'll be a tight fit but it should be fun.
Valefor Arkshan 07-09-05, 05:12 PM	It's 3.5. I'm the DM of said game. heh. The classes are fine, what you need to do is work more on backstory. The Jinxed Choker is a good story hook, and with the recent events happening, you should have plenty to do besides just hack stuff down. And I need more than "He's helping them with their problems when we start." And I don't really think that statis stuff really fits the character concept. -_- Edit - and no, I don't think the Psychic warrior is overpowered. But I'm not a fan of psionics, so I've put limmits on it. His is a great character concept, in my oppinion.
Mennenth 07-09-05, 05:13 PM	The campaign is 3.5 hmm I guess I am still too new at this. the quickest way I found to achieve my goal was 7 levels in PW and then 5 levels in Dervish before I could take the first level in Weapon Master. But then some of the feats I took were psionic, and some of the skills I've invested points in have been psionic skills. I did take the Open Minded feat, without it my character would be 8th level PW before ataining the first level of Dervish.