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Offline ivanbin

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Help me Decide how to Gestalt Swordsage.
« on: April 22, 2013, 02:57:06 PM »
I want to make a Swordsage for a gestalt game Im joining.
I know one of the suggested ways of doing gestalt it "caster on one side", but I want to focus on fighting, and deiced not to take any casting classes.
I am going for a TWF Swordsage with 2 legacy swords.

We are starting at level 5, and so far here's what I want to take(by level 20):
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Sadly, I cant take BcM before lvl 6, and Legacy Knight before lvl 5. So I am looking for help, deciding how and what to build.
Probably makes sense to start Swordsage 5//Psychic Warrior 2/Something 3

Please help me, I have never used swordsage before.

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Re: Help me Decide how to Gestalt Swordsage.
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2013, 03:29:18 PM »
Factotum 8 for double standard actions and other fun things like sneak attack, limited healing, a few spells. Needs good int to fully abuse though.

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Re: Help me Decide how to Gestalt Swordsage.
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2013, 03:33:09 PM »
So far It seems I have

Level 1 Swordsage  1/Factotum 1
Level 2  Swordsage  2/Spirit Lion Totem Barbarian 1
Level 3 Swordsage  3/??
Level 4 Swordsage  4/??
Level 5 Swordsage  5/??
Level 6 Swordsage  6/??
Level 7 Swordsage  7/??
Level 8 Swordsage  8/??
Level 9 Swordsage  9/??
Level 10 Swordsage  10/??
Level 11 Legacy Champion 1/??
Level 12 Legacy Champion 2/Swordsage 11
Level 13 Legacy Champion 3/??
Level 14 Legacy Champion 4/??
Level 15 Legacy Champion 5/??
Level 16 Legacy Champion 6/??
Level 17 Legacy Champion 7/Swordsage 12
Level 18 Legacy Champion 8/??
Level 19 Legacy Champion 9/??
Level 20 Legacy Champion 10/??

Sadly, my stats rolled badly (no particular order)
14
13
15
12
9
10

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Re: Help me Decide how to Gestalt Swordsage.
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2013, 09:43:31 PM »
Honestly, I feel that Factotum/Warblade does what you want to do better.  Sneaky ability for factotum, hitting ability from Warblade.

Both work well with INT and you can always add Swordsage levels later.

So something like:

Warblade 5/Legacy Champion 10/Warblade 5
Factotum 6/Warblade 1/Factotum 2/Barbarian 1/Swordsage 1/Warblade 1/ Finish more swordsage or psychic warrior.
« Last Edit: April 22, 2013, 09:49:19 PM by Rebel7284 »

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Re: Help me Decide how to Gestalt Swordsage.
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2013, 10:55:06 PM »
You will want to cover the other side with something that has full BAB most likely. Hitting things is one of the main issues with the Swordsage
Im really bad at what I do.
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Re: Help me Decide how to Gestalt Swordsage.
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2013, 09:10:19 PM »
Do you have access to any of Dreamscarred Press' psionic classes? Will your DM allow the PF Soulknife, for example?