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Is this build overpowered?
« on: August 11, 2015, 02:16:38 PM »


I need to know for research purposes.

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Re: Is this build overpowered?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2015, 02:56:48 PM »
Yes.  Anything with Wolverine-style claws is OP. 

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Re: Is this build overpowered?
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2015, 03:08:05 PM »
Does it cast 9th level spells?
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Re: Is this build overpowered?
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2015, 03:37:04 PM »
Totally overpowered.  He's wearing two bucklers!
Could be worse though, it could have 4th level spells like a Paladin.

I need to revise my opinion.  He doesn't have a familiar.  Therefore, not OP.   :D
« Last Edit: August 11, 2015, 03:40:10 PM by Keldar »

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Re: Is this build overpowered?
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2015, 04:00:34 PM »
Totally overpowered.  He's wearing two bucklers!
Could be worse though, it could have 4th level spells like a Paladin.

I need to revise my opinion.  He doesn't have a familiar.  Therefore, not OP.   :D

No familiar, so seems legit.

EDIT: Swordsaged...

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Re: Is this build overpowered?
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2015, 04:44:31 PM »
Not to ruin the fun, by taking it seriously for a moment ...
5e does a lot of this stuff already and
3e level 4 spells outrun this ; except for the:

+10 to Awesome ... is either a skill check to compensate for the Cha 4, or it's epic
optional Lifepath rules ... isn't that what we're doing here anyways? Oooh drat metagaming.

Ogrish Claymores ... I want it , I MUST CAN HAZ IT !!
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Re: Is this build overpowered?
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2015, 09:45:24 PM »
This build totally sucks!

Gladiator and Shademaster have terrible synergy. You can't be in the shadows and in broad daylight at the same time!

Other than that, it could be nice... if he took the Badass ACF for the Rogue from The Manual of Exotic Knowledge*, which lets you add your awesomeness to your AC as a perfection bonus.

It also gives you access to Perform (Bitchin' Air Guitar), which (if you refer to page 134 of the Book of Spurious Skills†) gives you a 60ft cone of Face Melting Goodness, which the Sage did say counts as an attack for the purposes of Sneak Attack.

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Re: Is this build overpowered?
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2015, 10:21:44 PM »
I did some analysis of xXKillStealr69Xx, and determined that it's not really overpowered.

A half-dark elf and half-human would be a half-elf.  Half-ogre is its own base race, so barring cheating I assume that the ogrekin template is applied.

As for the leather armor, it does not specify if the +2 AC is due to magical enhancement, or a base increase (which would put it on par with a chain shirt).  The 1d4 damage in a grapple isn't that much, especially due to the fact that he'll need to use at least one hand to grapple an opponent and thus sacrificing his dagger/slicer gauntlet/claymore attack.

As for bucklers, shield bonuses to AC do not stack, meaning that at most he'll gain a +1 AC.

Now, the real talent lies in bonus Sneak Attack.  Two daggers, plus two ogre claymores, plus two slicer gauntlets effectively applies the SA die six times, a good combination.  But as far as I can tell, xXKillStealr69Xx has no means of moving and full attacking, meaning that he'll need to be within reach of an opponent who must be flat-footed, or he must be concealed within shadows.

So fighting in darkness, there's the real kicker.  Only bad part is, neither the half-elf nor ogrekin has darkvision unless he gains the Bulging Eye Deformity, which is achieved via a random 1d10 mutation roll.  And there's no mention of what mutations he has.

There's some potential in this build, but otherwise it's restricted to a glass cannon role, and a cannon which can only fire when circumstances are just right.