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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CCamfield" data-source="post: 936302" data-attributes="member: 8123">I was looking over AEG's Guerilla class (in Mercenaries) and decided to plug it into the Prestige & Core Class Design Kit at Thirdedition.net (<a href="http://www.thirdedition.net/articles/article.html?id=258" target="_blank">http://www.thirdedition.net/articles/article.html?id=258</a>).  If you don't know it, you could just skip to my revised version at the end of this article to see if you think it's a balanced class.This is what I came up with as an analysis of the class.  If anyone's familiar with the system and sees errors I've made, please point em out!D10 hit dice (2)Fighter BAB (4)Saves - one good, two bad (0)Skills - 6+level (4)Skill list - 26 skills (5)Simple weapons (2)Martial weapons (3)One exotic weapon proficiency (2)Light armor (2)Shields (2)5 bonus feats, chosen from a restricted list, still some choice though (5x4)Ambush attack, up to +6d4 like sneak attack (6x2)Track at level 1 (4)Hated enemy (2)Trap master (this is +4 on craft: trapmaking) (2)Ambush (+4 to hide/move silently in setting ambushes) (2)Evasion (3)Survivalist (survive with little to no food/water, +4 to foraging) (2)Opportunist (3)Improved evasion (3)Woodland stride (1)Trackless step (1)Total: 81This obviously is way overpowered, as the system evaluates the base classes to values in the 60s.Changes:  get rid of the exotic weapon profiency (which doesn't really fit), the 3rd level bonus feat (which doesn't match the progression of every 5 levels), Opportunist, Improved Evasion (both of these are a bit much, particularly since they're normally rogue-only abilities).  That's 12 points, which should pretty much do it.So the class is left with:d10 hit diceFighter BAB and saves6+Int skills/levelA very good skill listSimple & martial weaponsLight armor and shieldsHated enemy, basically a single +2 ranger favored enemy (at lvl 1)Bonus feat every 5 levels (4 total)Ambush attack (2d4 at level 4, up to 6d4 at level 20)Trap master, +4 bonus to setting traps (at lvl 2)Ambush, +4 bonus to ambushes (at 7)Evasion (at 9)Survivalist (at 11)Woodland stride (at 18)Trackless step (at 19)There's a bit of a gap with no special abilities for levels 13 or 14, so maybe Woodland stride could be moved to level 14.</blockquote>

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