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That's one very decked out character.

Anyways, interest check. It's me.

Kerrus, of course.

Pixies. I'd forgotten about pixies.

EDIT: Here's my character-in-progress. Still need to pick maneuvers, stances, and spells. Other then that, he's nearly done.

http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=124450

For me, I'm not going for a legacy weapon, as my character is effectively an arcane caster without spells- and there's nothing that really supports it in the good ole' book.

Here's by current build-ish.

Ramu
Male LE Pixie Dragonfire Adept 6//Pixie LA 4/ Arcane Swordsage 2
Level 6//4/2
Init +2
HP 72/72
DR 10/Cold Iron, 2/Magic
Speed 30 land / 80 fly (Good)
AC 16
Touch 13
Flat-footed 15
Fort +9, Ref +3, Will +6
Base Attack Bonus +4
Standard action, no recharge time Breath Weapon (4d6 Fire or 4d6 cold or 4d6 fire + slow effect )
(+1 Dex, +1 Size, +3 Natural, +1 Misc)
Abilities Str 13, Dex 13, Con 18, Int 20, Wis 12, Cha 25
Condition None



@Kaelic: Just a note, but as per the MMI errata, Pixies get Weapon Finesse and Alertness as bonus feats in addition to Dodge.

I can't take metabreath feats, outside of DM fiat, because my breath weapon doesn't have a 'recharge time expressed in rounds'

Specifically it doesn't have a recharge time. If you're willing to fiat it as 'recharge time = 0 rounds' then I can take metabreath feats. Until then, outside of tremendous cheese, it's not going to happen.

///EDITED OUT FOR TOO MUCH HASSLE///

I'll see about finding a base class I can just slap on.

EDIT: Would Favoured Soul work? or is divine magic out too?

///EDIT///

So. I apologize for the confusion I've called, but I've gone over the requirements take metabreath feats, and the 'you must have a breath weapon with a recharge time expressed in rounds' isn't actually a requirement.

by RAW, it says that you can only take them if the time before you can breath again takes rounds- NOT that you have to have a recharge time. Since dragonfire adepts don't have a recharge time, the time before they can breath again is automatically the minimum value of time units- 0 rounds.

So the answer from all this textwall is that I can take metabreath feats and I don't need to do anything funky to take them.

Now that that's aside, I've got a simple solution for my side 2 class choice- and a nice little thematic tie-in. Dragon Shaman (from PHBII). Provides some neat stuff later on, and the auras can help the party in neat ways. Also synergizes neatly.

I'm really not trying to abuse semantics at all- if I have one failing, (well, two, three, four) it's that I think way, way, too much and end up obsessing over little details and crap.

Basically my I tend to take things as I've been told they are- and then revise my view as new (or old) information becomes available, and THEN when I go and look at the original source material as I really ought to have done in the first place, my view changes further.

Thus, I look a bit jittery or schemish- but I assure you that isn't the case.

As for the dragon shaman, mostly it's my unfamiliarity with some of these classes, and that I lack the confidence in my ability to run a proper gestalt, and would rather have something with less effort to manage.

As for metabreath feats- if I'm using them (and I've only got one) they won't be every round. By their very nature, they increment the amount of time I have to wait before breathing again- I was merely confused because everywhere on CO, folks use the 'recharge time expressed in rounds' wording, but that isn't actually what the draconomicon says. As I said, I get caught up on little details. I'll stop rambling.

Dragon Shaman- as you said- doesn't really give you anything very interesting from the outset. Auras are kind of bleh, the healing is kind of useful, but you don't get that right away. Gives you a breath weapon, but not until 4th level. It's a very... static effect class. Lots of little things that buff and the like but are otherwise always on.

That said, I think I want to try it anyways- see how I do in the environment. If it proves untenable then by all means I'll find something else. But for now I think I'd like to try this.