Chant
Adam Hattrell
2009/08/01 21:26

Table of Contents
Chant 	 # 
Build notes 	 # 
Wandering Duelist 	 # 
Ability Scores 	 # 
Defences 	 # 
Trained Skills 	 # 
Feats 	 # 
Future feats 	 # 
Powers 	 # 
Items 	 # 
Character Sheet 	 # 

Chant
Chant, level 2
Tiefling, Swordmage
Swordmage Aegis: Aegis of Assault
Background: Wandering Duelist

Build notes
Request was for a Tiefling Swordmage, with a background of wandering stranger. Tieflings get Int and Cha bonuses, which helps as Int is a primary stat. Str is secondary; dex is required for the Heavy Blade feat tree. Wandering Duelist background fits rather nicely with your Ronin feeling. It provides a healthy boost to Intimidation, which is the only skill your face couldn’t manage.
As a minor action you can “mark” a target within 2 squares of you. If the target attacks someone other than you, then you teleport to their side and hit them. You can only make a basic melee attack, which makes the feat Intellegent Blademaster rather useful. Booming blade allows you to tie up a second enemy in addition to the one you can mark normally. Sword burst allows you to attack everyone adjacent to you, should you be too successful at attracting attention. It may be worth buying toughness (bonus hp) and Durable (extra healing surges) in order to increase your resilience.
Chant L3

Wandering Duelist
”I am a student of the True Blade. Perhaps you’d like to match yours against mine? I guarantee we’ll both learn something.”
You are an itinerant warrior; sometimes a conscript, sometimes a mercenary, but often just a wanderer with a sharp sword and an empty coin-purse. How did you learn your initial training in the combat arts? Why haven’t you resorted to out-and-out banditry? What places have you visited in your wandering? What would it take for you to settle down?

Ability Scores
Str 15
Con 11
Dex 14
Int 18
Wis 8
Cha 12

Defences
AC: 21 Fort: 13 Reflex: 15 Will: 14
HP: 32 Surges: 8 Surge Value: 8

Trained Skills
Arcana +10
Athletics +8
History +10
Intimidate +10
Untrained Skills
Acrobatics +3, Bluff +4, Diplomacy +2, Dungeoneering, Endurance +1,
Heal, Insight, Nature, Perception, Religion +5, Stealth +5,
Streetwise +2, Thievery +3

Feats
Level 1: Intelligent Blademaster
Level 2: Improved Swordmage Warding

Future feats
Hellfire Blood
Blade Opportunist (lvl 11)
Toughness
Weapon Focus
Weapon Proficiency (Bastard Sword)

Powers
Swordmage at-will 1: Booming Blade
Swordmage at-will 1: Sword Burst
Swordmage encounter 1: Flame Cyclone
Swordmage daily 1: Frost Backlash
Swordmage utility 2: Host of Shields

Items
Leather Armor
Adventurer’s Kit
Broadsword
Javelin (4)

Character Sheet
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