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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elethiomel" data-source="post: 4926687" data-attributes="member: 49897">The Warlock idea has much merit; Eldricht Blast is a good counterspell on its own. It doesn't cost the warlock much to ready to blast whichever enemy casts a spell first; where an archer or melee fighter would lose out on full attack goodness, the warlock's main attack is a standard action anyway.As for Darkness (and Deeper Darkness), it only provides 50% concealment in 3.5, unless you've houseruled it to work like it did in 3.0.The Tome of Battle idea is excellent, if complicated. Warlocks are simple; all their class abilities are at-will, so they are as simple to keep track of as most physical classes, while the Tome of Battle classes have some (but not all) of the complexity of a caster. Many Shadow Hand maneuvers fit excellently with the Drow theme though (provided your campaign has the standard drow theme) and provides excellent opportunity to take down pesky wood elf archers (provided your campaign has the wood elves = archers theme) through shadow step and its bigger brothers.</blockquote>