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3.5e Rogue/Swashbuckler/Master Thrower?
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<blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5468294" data-attributes="member: 35909"><p>Just remember that by tripping them, you're giving yourself a -4 to hit from range them until they get up. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> It's still nice to help the fighter, as you said, or to simply keep your distance and make it take longer for an enemy to close with you.</p><p></p><p>My feelings on Craven are that it's definitely overpowered compared to any other similar feat options by level 7ish, so much so that there's basically no reason not to take it if you qualify after some levels. However, Rogue is a weak class, sneak attack is very limited, and the game is FULL of no-brainer build options (the grand-daddy of them all being Natural Spell for Druids, of course), so it doesn't bother me and I allow it.</p><p></p><p>I've only skimmed DotU, but it's definitely not only for drow. The item I refer to it all the time for, Imperious Command feat, has nothing to do with race and is just a really awesome intimidate buff. You mentioned the hit and run fighter, there's also a fear-based armor enhancement to trigger even more demoralizing, and so on. So the book probably has stuff for lots of classes and characters.</p><p></p><p>(Another book, btw, that you'd probably never consider to look at but is actually really cool is Lords of Madness, the book on Aberrations. It has a feat to let you use hide and move silently to foil blindsight and other super-senses that many consider essential for anyone who plans to focus on being sneaky. Less related to you but still cool, it has a feat called Mindsight to use telepathy to instantly detect sentient creatures within your telepathy range, like a sort of sonar, a feat to reroll a failed save against stunning or daze (clearly geared towards Mind FLayers' mind blast, but useful in general), and a metamagic feat to shoot spells as laser beams out of your eyes! And the actual meat of the book describing the alien-like aberrant races is a great read, also.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StreamOfTheSky, post: 5468294, member: 35909"] Just remember that by tripping them, you're giving yourself a -4 to hit from range them until they get up. :) It's still nice to help the fighter, as you said, or to simply keep your distance and make it take longer for an enemy to close with you. My feelings on Craven are that it's definitely overpowered compared to any other similar feat options by level 7ish, so much so that there's basically no reason not to take it if you qualify after some levels. However, Rogue is a weak class, sneak attack is very limited, and the game is FULL of no-brainer build options (the grand-daddy of them all being Natural Spell for Druids, of course), so it doesn't bother me and I allow it. I've only skimmed DotU, but it's definitely not only for drow. The item I refer to it all the time for, Imperious Command feat, has nothing to do with race and is just a really awesome intimidate buff. You mentioned the hit and run fighter, there's also a fear-based armor enhancement to trigger even more demoralizing, and so on. So the book probably has stuff for lots of classes and characters. (Another book, btw, that you'd probably never consider to look at but is actually really cool is Lords of Madness, the book on Aberrations. It has a feat to let you use hide and move silently to foil blindsight and other super-senses that many consider essential for anyone who plans to focus on being sneaky. Less related to you but still cool, it has a feat called Mindsight to use telepathy to instantly detect sentient creatures within your telepathy range, like a sort of sonar, a feat to reroll a failed save against stunning or daze (clearly geared towards Mind FLayers' mind blast, but useful in general), and a metamagic feat to shoot spells as laser beams out of your eyes! And the actual meat of the book describing the alien-like aberrant races is a great read, also.) [/QUOTE]
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