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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reaper Steve" data-source="post: 3812837" data-attributes="member: 51528">Hmmm...On one hand, I love the article. Very creative undead.On the other, I wish they would have used it for a new undead (a martial dude so obsessed with perfecting his weapon technique that his soul transfers to it) and done something else with the Death Knight.I think the martial = Death Knight, arcane = Liche is the good analogy. Even better would be that a Death Knight is an undead Warlord (based on what the collective community has surmised about the martial leader role.)I'm glad they sought to focus the Death Knight's powers, but I would like Death Knights wielding whatever magical weapon I want to give them. When the PCs fight the Death Knight for the Sword of Unimaginable Power, I want the Death Knight to be using it!I can definitely see myself using this creature, just not as a Death Knight. Easy enough to call the Death Knight as written by a different name, but at the same time, had WotC done so then they would win twice:1) cool new weapon-based undead ('Soulsword'?)2) They could then use the new Warlord class to re-envision the Death Knight. THAT would be cool. Give it power over (and maybe ability to create) undead, some flavor of abyssal blast, and rules that would let it crush PCs in social challenges (due to its overwhelming presence), as well as melee. In summary:Good: awesome fluff describing what appears to be equally awesome mechanicsNot so good: Should be a new creature as this does not capture what i view as the essence of a Death Knight.</blockquote>

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