Description:
This is the Samurai Class from the Complete Warrior book. Besides this one, there are two other "Samurai" classes available, however the others simply try and use existing skills to make up for the lack of actual samurai abilities. I've actually created various feats to allow for the use of the samurai skill properly.
Since this isn't a final release, there are a couple of bugs, but as is, the class is playable and there shouldn't be anything preventing you form enjoying single player with this alone.
Notes:
To make up for the fact that you can't use intimidate I've made a demoralize feat. It's usable from level 1, the reasoning for this is that the intimidate skill was meant to be used as such. You can technically add it to every class if you wanted, but that would take some work I'm not willing to do.
Known Issues:
The smite ability does not work as a proper smite, it simply adds the bonuses for 1 round, meaning you can actually waste your smite if you're not careful. You also have to cast it.
The Staredown and Frightful Presence feats are actually just the Skill Focus: Intimidate, and War Priest's Fear Aura. However, these "placeholder" feats are very similar to the samurai feats and should do for now. In future updates I will have proper feats for these. Next update will have a proper frightful presence.
Demoralize/Mass Staredown/Improved Staredown work against those immune to fear.
You do not start with a Katana and Wakizashi. I may or may not fix this.
To Do List:
Proper starting packages
Fix various bugs (Of course)
Class icons
Casting Animations.
Update History:
1/6/08
Version 0.1
Initial Release, Samurai Playable.
Hey dude, I was just wondering how you created the feats. (.ncs, .nss files). I've been jacking with this for weeks now, and if you could tell me, that would truly be worthy of a 10.
Ladydesire's pack using existing feats in the game that don't properly emulate the Samurai's feats. I'm not calling her pack inferior. I mean, at least the feats she chose actually WORK exactly as they were intended. Let me outline a few differences. Rather than a proper kiai smite, she gives you smite infidel, which only works on creatures of a different alignment, and calculates bonus damage differently. You are not awarded any "Mass Staredown" Or "Improved staredown" rather you are giving a skill focus in taunt.
From the sounds of it though, she plans to solve these problems in the future, if that is the case, I will move on to some other projects. I'm working on a couple of side projects, but I want to get as much work done for this as possible before I really start concentrating on the other ones.
10 - A Masterpiece, Genuinely Groundbreaking 9 - Outstanding, a Must Have 8 - Excellent, Recommended to Anyone 7 - Very Good, Deserves a Look 6 - Good, Qualified Recommendation 5 - Fair, Solid yet Unremarkable 4 - Some Merit, Requires Improvements 3 - Poor Execution, Potential Unrealized 2 - Very Little Appeal 1 - Not Recommended to Anyone
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