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<blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3662352" data-attributes="member: 13966"><p>Frenzied Berserker, Ur-Priest, Radiant Servant of Pelor. Those are the prestige classes that jump immediately to mind.</p><p></p><p>People can willfully try to make them un-broken, but the classes are written to be Barbarian+++ and Cleric+++, so anyone playing them even remotely like they're written to be played will be Uber.</p><p></p><p>Best to just avoid them altogether rather than allow them to be potentially abused, as they're hard not to.</p><p></p><p>Let's see, what else...... FEATS: Divine Metamagic, and Arcane Strike. I would advise banning these. It's harder to only allow them for characters that won't abuse them, as people will at some point insist that they should be able to use them too......and at some point that will lead to use of these for broken combos.</p><p></p><p>ALSO....Exalted feats. And the Vows from Book of Exalted Deeds. There are several really broken things in there, just not worth allowing that book to begin with. Similarly the Book of Vile Darkness, what with the vile damage effects and whatnot; I've never actually looked in the BoVD so I don't know what exactly it has, but from reading posts about some of the problem material in there I would advise against using it; the BoED I did look at briefly, and it was pretty obvious how broken some of the stuff was (Touch of Golden Ice was one such broken feat, IIRC; and Ravages are just plain lame).</p><p></p><p>The Duskblade class, from Player's Handbook II, may also be problematic/broken, but I'm not as certain of that as I didn't take a serious look at it when I skimmed through parts of a gaming friend's copy of PHB2. It's certainly a strong class, but it may or may not be broken, depending on how some of its abilities work (as I recall there's quite some ambiguity in there).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arkhandus, post: 3662352, member: 13966"] Frenzied Berserker, Ur-Priest, Radiant Servant of Pelor. Those are the prestige classes that jump immediately to mind. People can willfully try to make them un-broken, but the classes are written to be Barbarian+++ and Cleric+++, so anyone playing them even remotely like they're written to be played will be Uber. Best to just avoid them altogether rather than allow them to be potentially abused, as they're hard not to. Let's see, what else...... FEATS: Divine Metamagic, and Arcane Strike. I would advise banning these. It's harder to only allow them for characters that won't abuse them, as people will at some point insist that they should be able to use them too......and at some point that will lead to use of these for broken combos. ALSO....Exalted feats. And the Vows from Book of Exalted Deeds. There are several really broken things in there, just not worth allowing that book to begin with. Similarly the Book of Vile Darkness, what with the vile damage effects and whatnot; I've never actually looked in the BoVD so I don't know what exactly it has, but from reading posts about some of the problem material in there I would advise against using it; the BoED I did look at briefly, and it was pretty obvious how broken some of the stuff was (Touch of Golden Ice was one such broken feat, IIRC; and Ravages are just plain lame). The Duskblade class, from Player's Handbook II, may also be problematic/broken, but I'm not as certain of that as I didn't take a serious look at it when I skimmed through parts of a gaming friend's copy of PHB2. It's certainly a strong class, but it may or may not be broken, depending on how some of its abilities work (as I recall there's quite some ambiguity in there). [/QUOTE]
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