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. Plus, the wakizashi is an excellent weapon, and you can choose ninja tricks and rogue talents as extra feats. It seems like a scimitar with dervish dance is ment to function like a. Bard, animal speaker, arcane duelist, archaeologist, archivist, celebrity, court bard, daredevil, demagogue, dervish dancer, dervish of dawn, detective.
A dervish dancer is trained in the use of the perform skill, especially dance, to create magical effects on himself. Dervish dance demonstration recorded after a real dervish seance not allowed to record in cappadocia, turkey. At 10th level, a dervish dancer can start a battle dance as a swift action instead of a move action. 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. Your dervish enchantments recharge 50% faster and deal chaos damage with attacks. 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. Dervish dancer archetype and dervish dance feat actually dont have a tremendous amount of synergy. The approach is fairly straightforward in terms of the magus. Links ffd20 a pathfinder rpg final fantasy adaptation. Dexterity, weapon finesse, perform dance 2 ranks, proficient with scimitar benefit.
When wielding a scimitar with one hand, you can use your dexterity modifier instead of your strength modifier on melee attack and damage rolls. Steal 1 energy from nearby foes when you lose a dervish enchantment. 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. You get battle dance, except the bonuses are doubled, and you get dervish dance as a bonus feat at level 1.
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. The comprehensive pathfinder guides guide zenith games. 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. Sufi dancing or dervish dance is a beautiful spiritual practice, a meditation, a mystical journey of spiritual ascent through mind to gods love. Heres a sample build that focuses on using a single scimitar and the dervish dance feat mentioned above. Str, dex 15, con 12 int 10, wis 8, cha 16 feats 1 arcane strike, weapon finesse 3 dervish dance 5 power attack. Click to download a pdf copy of the list of campaign clarifications. Threat pathfinder rpg advanced class guide, persuasive. 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. A dervish dancer cannot perform more than one battle dance at a time. You treat the scimitar as a onehanded piercing weapon for all feats. Because of the demonstration, a lot of flashing going on the orignal seance is. 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. So weve broken the archetype down into its many parts.