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    Are you using the Complete Warrior Samurai Variant? I've never liked it. 'Cause it's really not that good.

    I tend to avoid dipping into multiple classes. I like playing characters straight through, or possibly with a nice prestige class to round them off. With the Tome of Battle and PHBII out, I really want to play a straight fighter, since all the new feats give them so much more options and let them compete with full casters at the higher levels.

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    No, straight samurai, as far as I know. i only have 2 levels of it, i think. It's been a while since I played her.

    She's actually my only multiclassed chara right now. everyone elses pretty basic.

    you know, we should do duels or something. that would be FUNNY.
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    duels?

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    Duels could be interesting. And as far as samurai goes, there are two samurai base classes I know of.

    The first (and my personal favorite) is the Oriental Adventures samurai, that gets a few less feats than the fighter, but some extra skill points, a better save, and the ancestral daisho they can enchant up at the first level.

    The other one from Complete Warrior is just crap. Heavy-Armored Two-Weapon Fighter with nothing else really noteworthy aside an eventual intimidate as a free action.

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    and supreme cleave

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    Supreme Cleave is cool for cinematic chopping-down-entire-armies, but really, in a situation where you could be using it the enemies are obviously way too weak to be a threat.

    Unless you have a DM who's smart enough to judiciously employ the Aid Another action.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Behold the Void View Post
    Duels could be interesting. And as far as samurai goes, there are two samurai base classes I know of.

    The first (and my personal favorite) is the Oriental Adventures samurai, that gets a few less feats than the fighter, but some extra skill points, a better save, and the ancestral daisho they can enchant up at the first level.
    That's the one. But I'm doing Dragon Devotee from Races of Dragon. I just LOVE that class. :P

    Some day I'll finish Ninja out for her, too, but I may be, like, lever 30 by that point. :X

    DUELS!!!
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    uhh...yeah....i'm still new but i will learn...i have committed most things in the PHB to memory, and i can see that the level progression is pretty high powered, your character's relative strength doubles form 1st to second level

    are there any good online communities like this one that i can join with that are solely for D&D, aside from the obvious one on the wizards of the coast website?

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    I learn a lot at the Order of the Stick boards, they tend to have a lot of D&D players there who know how to make some monster builds.

    And power increase by level really depends on what class you are. Magic items also play a major role in it as well, and a character can't be effective at higher levels without a bounty of magical items, unless you use certain variants that make them more physically capable.

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    http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/...e+-in%3Ascraps

    My ninja, if anyone wants to see her. :P
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    yah someone was telling me you NEED magic items or the challenge rating system doesn't work and the monsters become quite dangerous quite quickly

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    http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/...e+-in%3Ascraps

    My ninja, if anyone wants to see her. :P
    thats cool...i can't draw...need to get someone to draw my character someday

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    XD

    I'm going to start my own game here eventually...but it's a LOT of work, isn't it?
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    doesn't seem like it...but i love writing and the mechanics seem like a lot of fun...my DM said it all depends on the kind of group you play with, what they want from the game, and how much effort is needed...he said he wings it a lot and that seems to work pretty well

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    So do my DM'S...all 6 of them :P
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    pshaw...6 dms...i don't have 6 friends hahah

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