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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 3616335" data-attributes="member: 51942">The dragon shaman does not strike me as a particularly powerful class (compare with the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20030906b" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20030906b</a> Marshal).  If you want to help him, just directly improve the class, and don't introduce must-have feats.  For instance, let the dragon shaman project a second aura at aura bonus -2, and a third at -4 (always, no feat required!).  This is much weaker than his primary aura, and thus unlikely to be overpowering, but gives the player more options (which is always fun), and slightly improves the character.  The DS gains aura bonus +3 (at which point this becomes relevant) at 10th level, and aura bonus +5 at 20th (at which point the -4 becomes relevant).And the metabreath feats are nice indeed!  Since the breath weapon is rather weak anyhow, I'ld not worry about the feats being overpowered as written (rather, the dragon shaman has a far weaker breath than say a spellcaster such as a cleric with flamestrike not to speak of an arcane caster).Alternately, I'm pretty sure you can improve the breath weapon to deal as many damage dice as DS base attack bonus without disrupting balance.  It's all about how much you want to help the dragon shaman.Make sure you're not perceived as biased by helping only a specific player like this, however.  If the players are liable to be jealous, pimp the aura (that helps his allies after all, they can hardly complain about that :-D), and if his allies complain about his uselessness, pimp the breath weapon.I'ld avoid creating situations limiting player choice though (such as must-have feats).  Those are just boring.  My principle is to let the players have as many complex, useful, but not highly powerful abilities as they can deal with, and let the NPC's have the powerful but simple stuff of which I'm not entirely sure it's balanced.  Keeps it simple for me as DM ;-).  And even if a player has a HUGE amount of options, since they're limited to one (or few) actions a round, game balance is maintained as long as those options aren't very strong.These are just my random brainstorming ideas though, I don't know your specific situation of course...</blockquote>

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