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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Haggerty" data-source="post: 1172644" data-attributes="member: 89">Right...  I just haven't gotten around to editing in the latest changes yet.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />That's not a half bad idea...  Let me think about that for minute.Trouble is, you're comparing it to a core class.  By the same respect, compare any arcane PrC with a full spellcaster level progression to the Sorcerer or even the Wizard.  Compare the Sneak to another PrC, and it's not quite that bad.  And losing 4 skill points a level for ten levels is a pretty big drawback in of itself, if you think about it.I had been envisioning this PrC as more of a scout or spy class, than assassin.  I didn't offer a flavor explaination like I did for the other abilities, but I envisioned the sneak attack progression as a last-ditch sort of thing.  Sometimes stealth won't do you any good, sometimes no matter how sneaky you are you still get caught.  In those situations you need to kill quickly and move on.  That's where the sneak attack comes in.Although...  I do see where you are coming from.  For this class, I'd rather have violence be a last resort.This is a pretty good idea.  And it might allow me to add in an ability that I wanted to include, but couldn't because there were already enough good ones.  Let me think about how to do that...I'd actually thought of using Alterness.  Unfortunately, the classes and races that will be using this PrC will have so few feats to go around already (only 3 feats before you begin the PrC, if you go the quickest route), that I didn't want to add a second feat requirement.  I instead settled for ranks in Listen, Spot and Search, and left the feat to Stealthy, which is the primary focus of the PrC.</blockquote>

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