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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sollir Furryfoot" data-source="post: 3351824" data-attributes="member: 748">First off, good job on the formatting, everything is easy to read and seems to match up the order of a standard class, you definitely took your time on making this look right.Combining all the abilities this class does look a tad bit overpowered, but not as much as one might think.  They cast spells, but only up to 4th level, which isn't terribly powerful.  However, compared to this class with its high HD, two good saves, and good BAB on top of that (plus a cohort) it does seem a good amount better than a fighter of equal level.  That said, I think a quick fix for this class would simply be to tone down the HD to d8 and the BAB to Medium (3/4) progression and it would be much more balanced.Allowing a player to control a dragon is a little more difficult, and I believe the CRs for dragons are calculated as if a party is already aware of the dragon and its abilities, thus coming prepared to fight it.  I'm not sure where I heard this but I believe dragons are 2 CR lower than what they should be.  That said, I don't think the dragon this class gets is too overpowered, if you start getting the dragon at level 6 instead of 5 I think it would be fine (good job on limiting the breath weapon and also doubling the CR 7 spot).  Out of the dragon abilities I think Mental Shield looks overpowering, perhaps simply add the spell Shield Other (Dragon only) on the Dragon Bound's spell list and instead of Mental Shield allow them to cast it as an immediate action 1-3x/day.Cure spells on the spell list does seem a bit overpowered.  If you feel healing is necessary, go a druid-ish route and instead give him heal spells 1 level late, so cure minor wounds at lvl 1, cure light wounds at level 2.  This should make everyone happy <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=":)" />Good job on making the class, you don't have many posts here-is it the first one you've made?</blockquote>

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