the Lorax
First Post
Weeeeeeeelllll.... I don't think that's entirely true. "Caster level 5" leaves the door open to Warlocks, Bards, Battle Sorcerers (an excellent variant) Fighter/Sorcerers, Hexblades, etc. -- much like the Dragon Disciple, it's a Fighter PrC with an arcane spellcaster pre-req.
Dragon Disciples are balanced around ONE level of Sorcerer thrown in to a Fighter or Paladin build. This PrC is not quite Paladin-ready, but otherwise I'd ask that it be rated against the Dragon Disciple rather than a caster-oriented PrC.
Fair enough - I'm not much of a fan of Dragon Disciple, but I suppose as a low-level-caster-mainly-fighter type of character it can work. I was more pointing out that 5 levels of your revised version + 5 levels of Wizard would be worse than 10 levels of the origninal class which isn't all that strong to begin with.
I really think that a revised Thrall of Grazzt should be open to Warlocks and to traditional Grazzt followers like succubi, lamia and mariliths.