Dervish dancer bard archetype originally posted by path of war pdf, page 20 whenever you and another ally that possesses this feat flank a creature, both you and that ally increase the critical threat range of your weapons by 1 so a weapon with a 1920 threat range would increase to 1820. Dervish dancers gain the inspire courage, inspire greatness, and inspire heroics bardic performance types as battle dances, but these only provide benefit to the dervish. Dexterity, weapon finesse, perform dance 2 ranks, proficient with scimitar benefit. Bard, animal speaker, arcane duelist, archaeologist, archivist, celebrity, court bard, daredevil, demagogue, dervish dancer, dervish of dawn, detective. Below ive highlighted a number of revisions to pathfinders feat tree to help ease the situation. Plus, the wakizashi is an excellent weapon, and you can choose ninja tricks and rogue talents as extra feats. While remaining a likely source of lore and aid for a party, a talented bard can focus on types of performance from magic songs to battle dances to glorious epics.
Because of the demonstration, a lot of flashing going on the orignal seance is. You gain a ki pool and access to vanish, plus can use ki to gain extra attacks or acrobatics bonuses, in addition to all of the rogue bonuses. The approach is fairly straightforward in terms of the magus. The dervish dancer 2014 watercolour by art by aashaa.
You treat the scimitar as a onehanded piercing weapon for all feats. Links ffd20 a pathfinder rpg final fantasy adaptation. Steal 1 energy from nearby foes when you lose a dervish enchantment. Heres a sample build that focuses on using a single scimitar and the dervish dance feat mentioned above. Dervish dancer archetype and dervish dance feat actually dont have a tremendous amount of synergy. Dervish dance demonstration recorded after a real dervish seance not allowed to record in cappadocia, turkey. Sufi dancing or dervish dance is a beautiful spiritual practice, a meditation, a mystical journey of spiritual ascent through mind to gods love. When wielding a scimitar with one hand, you can use your dexterity modifier instead of your strength modifier on melee attack and damage rolls. A dervish dancer is trained in the use of the perform skill, especially dance, to create magical effects on himself. You get battle dance, except the bonuses are doubled, and you get dervish dance as a bonus feat at level 1. The comprehensive pathfinder guides guide zenith games.
At 10th level, a dervish dancer can start a battle dance as a swift action instead of a move action. You have learned to turn your speed into power, even with a heavier blade. Click to download a pdf copy of the list of campaign clarifications. Take the dervish dance feat to get lots of hits and reduce your stat dependency, focus on your scimitar and its wonderful crit range to deliver shocking grasps and later intensified shocking grasps that will synergize with magical lineage. Changing a battle dance from one effect to another requires the dawnflower dervish to stop the previous performance and start the new one as a move action. Str, dex 15, con 12 int 10, wis 8, cha 16 feats 1 arcane strike, weapon finesse 3 dervish dance 5 power attack. Dervish dancers gain weapon proficiency with the scimitar and kukri. To qualify to become a horizon walker, a character must fulfill all the following criteria.
It seems like a scimitar with dervish dance is ment to function like a. A guide to the dervish dancer bard pathfinder hobbylark. A dervish dancer cannot perform more than one battle dance at a time. Were working on the other srd sites, and theyll follow shortly. So weve broken the archetype down into its many parts.
Threat pathfinder rpg advanced class guide, persuasive. Like a bard, a dawnflower dervish s performance ends immediately if he is killed, paralyzed, stunned, knocked unconscious, or otherwise prevented from taking a free action each round. You treat the scimitar as a onehanded piercing weapon for all feats and class abilities that require such a weapon such as a duelists precise. Your dervish enchantments recharge 50% faster and deal chaos damage with attacks.