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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 338279" data-attributes="member: 5890">Crothian - I agree that it's good for a prestige class to have a good concept. I also agree that power isn't everything. HOWEVER I have a problem with a prestige class which significantly reduces the power of someone who takes it (compare with blackguard, the only other PrC I know of requiring you to be an Ex-something), and furthermore does not add anything new.Everything which a blighter can do can be done by another class.Bad guys do one of two things (and usually both of them):a) Make messes that the PC's must clean up.The blighter's powers all do this. Unfortunately the powers of almost any spellcasting class are sufficient for this, and the powers of most of them surpass him.b) Face up to the PC's.The blighter fails on this one. He's got 5 levels wasted on being a druid, which gives him powers he can no longer use, and which he recieves no recompense for. Furthermore the class abilities gained do not compare favourably with those that a comparable spellcaster would have. At the level that the party will be when they meet a blighter (6th+ IIRC), skeletons are not scary, nor is 5d4 damage.The blighter was a nice concept, but it needs to be useful and worthwhile at the same time. Changing the undead animal/undead form stats would be a good starting point (replace them with animals with the skeleton template from WoTC's website for instance). Giving some recompense for the wasted druid levels would be another (either by giving him the casting ability for those levels back, or somehow allowing it to stack with his own).</blockquote>

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