D&D 4E 4e Player Race: Dark Creeper

[Borgar]

I put a lot of time into this so I thought I'd share.

[FONT=Oldstyle HPLHS, monospace]Dark Creeper[/FONT]
[FONT=Oldstyle Italic, cursive]a PC Race for 4e[/FONT]​

Gnomes from the Shadowfell, they are sly, mysterious creatures clad in black garments. They come to the world with sinister schemes, take and learn what they can, and slink back into the gloom.​

Racial Traits​

Average Height: 2' 10" - 3' 8"
Average Weight: 45 - 85
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Ability Scores: +2 Dexterity, +2 Constitution
Size: Small
Speed: 6
Vision: Darkvision
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Languages: Common, Deep Speech
Skill Bonuses: +2 Stealth, +2 Perception​

A dark creeper doesn’t enter combat unless it clearly has something to gain, in which case it uses dark step to move up to an enemy, gain combat advantage, and stab it.​

Dark Step
You can use Dark Step as an encounter power​

Dark Heritage
At character creation choose either +1 to damage with Daggers, OR +1 to damage with spells containing the keywords "cold", or "necrotic". If you choose the spell option you may use daggers as implements for any spells with the "implement" keyword.​

Killing Dark
(when reduced to 0 hit points) Close burst 1; targets enemies; each target is blinded (save ends). When slain, a dark creeper explodes in a spout of darkness.​

Dark Step Dark Creeper Racial Power
In a flurry of shadows the creeper is suddenly upon its quarry...
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Encounter *
Move Action
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Special: The dark creeper moves up to 4 squares, gains a +1 bonus to AC against opportunity attacks, and gains combat advantage against any target that it ends its move adjacent to. If the Dark Creeper does not normally have Sneak Attack, they get +1d6 sneak attack damage to an adjacent enemy they end this move with combat advantage against and hit.​

Physical Qualities
Short and gnome-like but hairless. Pale skin, yellowish to white eyes.
Dark Creeper Characteristics: sly, sneaky, persuasive, shifty, dark​

 

[DanmarLOK]

Killing Dark, while flavorful doesn't seem like much of an advantage to the player since it only happens when he dies... Is the dark creeper actually spewing a physical media that causes the darkness or is it more akin to a darkness spell? if the latter I'd be inclined to make it a zone where you're blind if you end your move in the zone and that it blocks all vision etc.

Dark Step seems significantly better than Fey Step. Bonus to AC, Attack and Damage is quite a boost.

 

[Borgar]

Killing Dark is just for flavor. Per the MM thats what creepers do when they die, so I left it in. It didnt count towards "cool features" imho, just confirms they are a creeper when they die and go "pop"!
As for your comparison to Fey Step, I hadnt thought of it that way, and perhaps I should... I looked at the Move * at-will power of the creeper in MM, made it Move * encounter instead, and said Voila. Maybe I should drop the AC bonus vs Opp Attacks?

 

[Borgar]

Lowered AC and removed "shadow" keyword references, as they were specific to my campaign. Hope this is more agreeable?