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Dimitri: Do you mind giving up the golem?

I'm not trying to start a fight or anything... I just get antsy whenever unofficial things enter D&D and threaten to give too much power to players because they are untested and often ill-conceived. For instance, those Tamo Assassin Daggers are better than every simple weapon, and better than many martial weapons. That is what made me think they are exotic weapons. I still have a problem with the undead "friend" as well. I mean, what kind of creature is Brendon? How many hit dice does he have?

With all that said, I try to be rational whenever possible, so if the DM allows these things, I will abide by that decision and not say anything else, even though I may want to.

I misread the damage of the TAD. If the TAD's damage is 1d3, then it's not overpowered at all. What you have inputted confused me for a minute. You have it saying 1d3+3/1d6+3, which leads me to believe you're wielding two of them and one has greater damage for some reason. Also, if you are wielding 2 of the TAD, your attack bonuses with them would be as follows: -1 for the main hand, and -5 for the off hand. This is because you do not have the Two-Weapon Fighting feat. You'll have the same attack bonus if you fight with both ends of your staff. Also remember you only get 1/2 (rounded down) your strength modifier as a bonus to your off-hand attack.

Now, on to Brendon. This is my major problem with your character. It is my belief that he is overpowered for a familiar.

#1: His ability scores and damage capability are higher than the standard familiars. Most of the familiars have trouble doing 1-2 points of damage and are not even meant for combat at all. The Improved Familiar feat does open up the possibility of damage-capable familiars, but even then, they are not as powerful as your undead is and require a feat, something you do not have for Brendon.

#2: He is undead, which means he is not susceptible to many of the things that a living creature is (i.e. critical hits, poison, disease, ect). Usually being undead is a level adjustment around +3 or so, just because of all the benefits.

#3: His intelligence is higher than your own, when the only thing that can give a skeleton sentience, the awaken undead spell (a 7th level wizard/sorc spell from the Spell Compendium), only gives an undead 1d6+4 intelligence and costs 250 XP. Thus, if a level 13 wizard cannot give a skeleton 20 intelligence, I highly doubt a level 4 one can.

Also, there is one other thing that bothers me. The Etch Rune ability. Is it a feat, or a replacement for Scribe Scroll? And how much does it cost?

One last thing: I really doubt you'd be able to afford an intelligent tin golem, considering we can only spend 1350 gold on any one item, and the cheapest golem i could find (the flesh golem) costs 20,000 gold, and its not even intelligent.

If you take the Two-Weapon fighting feat and you continue wielding a light weapon in the off hand, the penalties will drop from -4/-8 to -2/-2. Thus, your attack bonus if you were to attack with both daggers would be +1/+1.

As for using a dagger with 2 hands to get the 1.5x STR, its not possible. You can't wield light weapons in two hands because their handgrips are too small (or at least that's how I explain it. D&D doesn't give rational explanations for some things)

"I know, huh? That pisses me off sometimes. But I guess they're trying to force you to think either logically or creatively. Or something weird like that..." stare

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