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<blockquote data-quote="Jackinthegreen" data-source="post: 6109612" data-attributes="member: 6678119"><p>Practiced Invoker is a feat I'd certainly allow in any games I'd run. Admittedly though, I'd change some things about the warlock class since it trails behind the Dragonfire Adept a bit.</p><p></p><p>Dodge, assuming it's +1 against everything, is something that's moderately useful enough that making it a feat tax would work.</p><p></p><p>Its power is a bit hard to quantify since it's really only damage stuff. At the moment I'm not of the opinion that straight-up damage is a big deal. That may or may not change as I play more, but if in your experience it is a big thing then the class will work for you guys.</p><p></p><p>Something you might want to think about though: Allowing the essences to have their DC based on the character's Strength mod instead of Charisma if it's a Hideous Blow. That way a character with a mediocre or bad Charisma score can at least get somewhere with the essences instead of having to be multi-attribute dependent. It's actually one of the more commonly proposed racial substitutions for half-orc warlocks, although in that case most don't limit it to Hideous Blow and just make all invocation save DCs based off Str mod.</p><p></p><p>As for the special requirement, one published class that might go along the lines you want is the Invisible Blade from CW. To quote:</p><p>"Special: The candidate must defeat a worthy opponent in single combat using one or more daggers, kukris, or punching daggers in any combination as his only weapons."</p><p>Another one would be the Reaping Mauler: "Special: The candidate must have defeated at least three opponents one size larger than himself with his bare hands."</p><p></p><p>So there's some room for saying something like "Special: The candidate must have defeated at least three worthy opponents using only Hideous Blow to damage the opponents."</p><p></p><p>That in itself might be worthwhile since Hideous Blow doesn't exactly start off well.</p><p></p><p>You might want to add Power Attack to the prereqs perhaps? And then Hideous Swipe would count as Cleave for prerequisites or something because they're pretty much exactly the same thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jackinthegreen, post: 6109612, member: 6678119"] Practiced Invoker is a feat I'd certainly allow in any games I'd run. Admittedly though, I'd change some things about the warlock class since it trails behind the Dragonfire Adept a bit. Dodge, assuming it's +1 against everything, is something that's moderately useful enough that making it a feat tax would work. Its power is a bit hard to quantify since it's really only damage stuff. At the moment I'm not of the opinion that straight-up damage is a big deal. That may or may not change as I play more, but if in your experience it is a big thing then the class will work for you guys. Something you might want to think about though: Allowing the essences to have their DC based on the character's Strength mod instead of Charisma if it's a Hideous Blow. That way a character with a mediocre or bad Charisma score can at least get somewhere with the essences instead of having to be multi-attribute dependent. It's actually one of the more commonly proposed racial substitutions for half-orc warlocks, although in that case most don't limit it to Hideous Blow and just make all invocation save DCs based off Str mod. As for the special requirement, one published class that might go along the lines you want is the Invisible Blade from CW. To quote: "Special: The candidate must defeat a worthy opponent in single combat using one or more daggers, kukris, or punching daggers in any combination as his only weapons." Another one would be the Reaping Mauler: "Special: The candidate must have defeated at least three opponents one size larger than himself with his bare hands." So there's some room for saying something like "Special: The candidate must have defeated at least three worthy opponents using only Hideous Blow to damage the opponents." That in itself might be worthwhile since Hideous Blow doesn't exactly start off well. You might want to add Power Attack to the prereqs perhaps? And then Hideous Swipe would count as Cleave for prerequisites or something because they're pretty much exactly the same thing. [/QUOTE]
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