My DM won't let me be a Thri-keen.
I think I have a good start on what I want to play, but I've only planned up to level 8 because I haven't ever played a high level character. Someone in our group has a schedule problem and we never get around it or someone quits out of boredom. I would like to use Five Shadow Creeping Enervation Strike and Girallon Windmill Flesh Rip as higher level maneuvers. I also want to take a couple of levels of Warblade for Iron Heart Surge. Here is what I have so far:
1 Lion Totem Barbarian - Battle Jump, Pounce, Rage 1/day
2 Fighter - TWF
3 Swordsage - Shadow Blade, Quick to Act +1, Weapon Focus (Shadow Hand)
4 Swordsage - AC Bonus
5 Swordsage -
6 Swordsage - Adaptive Style, Insightful Strike (Tiger Claw)
7 Bloodclaw Master - Shift 1/day, Claws of the Beast
8 Bloodclaw Master - Superior TWF, Tiger Claw Synergy
Maneuvers
3 - Child of Shadow, Burning Blade, Counter Charge, Clinging Shadow Strike,
Shadow Blade Technique, Sudden Leap, Wolf Fang Strike
4 - Island of Blades, Claw at the Moon
5 - Cloak of Deception
6 - Feigned Opening, Shadow Blade Technique->Death Mark
7 - Soaring Raptor Strike
8 -
I still want Weapon Finesse and Leap of the Heavens as feats, if I was Human I could get one of them. If I am Xeph, I can get a +4 Jump bonus with the speed boost, is this better or worse than one of the feats though?
Do all of the Tiger Claw maneuvers that require a jump check trigger Battle Jump?