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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 130965" data-attributes="member: 114">For an interesting example of a Deepwood Sniper character in action, take a look at Piratecats storyhour - where a Deepwood Sniper caused the PCs a whole boatload of grief (and it would have been worse if it hadn't been grappled by a Dire Bear...)I think that the Deepwood Sniper is a fine class. At 10th level the once per day truestrike isn't the only thing they get - don't forget concealment reduction 30% which is jolly good.The Blighter is an excellent idea for a class (reminiscent of the defilers from the Dark Sun setting) but I have to say... their spells per day list is atrocious!In order to become a blighter they must have been a 5th level druid - probably casting 4x1st, 3x2nd and 2x3rd level spells per day. Suddenly she gets probably 2x1st and 1x2nd. She actually loses her ability to cast Contagion for a while!A pure druid who reaches 15th level gets 8th level spells (OK, they are mostly rubbish compared to everyone else, but stay with me, huh?) while the druid5/blighter10 only gets a couple of 6th level spells!!Even though some nasty spells are reduced to 6th level for the Blighter, the magic ability of the class seems... strange. I haven't seen a really good example of a spell progression for a magic using prestige class which doesn't relate to the levels of spell casting that they would normally get in one respect or another.OK, I admit that the Blighter thing isn't really a blooper. Bit strange though.A bit of feat wierdness:Favoured Critical. Doubles your threat range against one of your favoured enemies. So far so good. Does not stack with improved critical. Oops. Why ever not? Improved Critical is about using a particular weapon more effectively, favoured critical is knowing where the vitals are on a particular foe type.They should stack.What is the worst case scenario? Keen Rapier with Improved Critical and Favoured Critical would threaten a crit on 9-20 but for dragonslayers he isn't going to be hitting their AC on those low numbers anyway, and for weedy foes he will probably drop them whether he gets a critical or not. (I know that a high level "weapon master" prestige class can get an extra +2 on their range, but it isn't tremendously likely that a weapon master would end up with this feat - and I like to try and judge prestige classes against the basic core books anyhow.)Anyhow, much more likely would be someone with the two feats and a keen axe (crit 17-20) or a sword of some kind (13-20). Still no big deal - if he doesn't come across the particular favoured enemy he doesn't get to use the extra bonus anyway.I can see how they were trying to remain "balanced" here, but I think they have thrown logic out of the window and tried to restrict something that isn't a big issue.Kiss of Death spell.Can you concieve of a circumstance when you could use this spell in combat without provoking an Attack of Opportunity? I sure can't. All you have to do is "make a melee touch attack" to deliver the kiss. Pardon? It is as easy to kiss an armoured person on exposed flesh as it is to touch them with your fingertips?I just don't believe that!As an assassination technique it might be fine, but otherwise no. What they wanted to produce was a "poison" spell with a duration of 1 round per level so you could use it multiple times (and considering it is only two levels higher than "poison", the use of 1 round/level instead of 1 attack seems a vast improvement on the spell. can you imagine a metamagic feat that changed a single touch attack to a one-round per level touch attack being only +2 spell levels? A 3rd level shocking grasp that lasted that long would be pretty cool. A 5th level inflict serious wounds that lasted for your level in rounds (or a 5th level CSW every round for you level in rounds?).So I believe the Kiss of Death spell is flawed in its application and in the manner in which it is derived from the 3rd level Poison spell.Cheers</blockquote>

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