Barbarian - Kensai, is it possible?

Drogo

Hi, my current character is a level 12 Barbarian and I was hoping to go for a prestige class. I was looking at going towards Kensai as I think it would be fun but I see that a Barbarian CAN'T be lawful but a Kensai HAS TO BE lawful. At first glance this would suggest that it is impossible for me to do both but I was wondering if there is anyway around this. If not I can do something else with my character. Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Eudaemonium

It's impossible due to the way the game is coded. Firstly, Barbarian is coded into the game as a Fighter kit, like Kensai, rather than as a separate class. This means you would be dualing from Fighter to Fighter, which the engine doesn't allow. Even if you unlock the dual-class restrictions on Barbarian (as they are locked by default), you could only dual to a valid Fighter Multi-Class combination: Cleric, Druid, Mage, Thief.

Secondly, you cannot dual into a kit at all. However, even with Near Infinity or EE Keeper you won;t be able to do this, because:

The way the game is coded you can only have a single kit active at any time, so even if you could dual from Fighter to Fighter, which you cannot, you would only be able to be a Barbarian OR a Kensai, rather than AND. So, for example, even if you dualed to Thief, you would be a Barbarian/Thief not a Barbarian/Assassin or Swashbuckler. Similarly, if you edited in Assassin or Swashbuckler, you would end up as a Fighter/Assassin or Fighter/Swashbuckler.

Crawley

Err, are we still BG or BG2?

You won't do it, as there are no prestige classes here. You can have a kit, that starts LV1.
So, when dualclassing, you cannot pick a kit, you can only select a general class.

Also, Barbarians do not dual-class at all and it is impossible to dualclass from fighter-type to a fighter-type.

If it is some other game (possibly DD3-based or lead by GM), you can change your character to lawful by performing more lawful-oriented deeds, but this will prevent you from leveling up as a barbarian.
In other words, in DD3 you have to be chaotic to level-up as a barb and lawful as a kensai. If you are lawful, you cannot lv-up as barb, even if you already have some lvs in it. The same goes vice-versa.

smeagolheart

Yeah you are thinking like 3E rules. In 2E there's restrictive dual classing and multiclassing and no prestige classing.