Miniatures Handbook

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1) When I saw Favored Soul, I compared him right away with sorcerer. Well, sorcerer lost in about every abilty and with great difference. Only way to think sorcerer could be on par with FS is if you think arcane spells so very much better than divine. I do not think so though.
Favored soul gets the wings, resistance (20? vs one and 10 vs two others), 3 good saves, better skills, weapon use, can wear armour, and gets to choose much more known spells. That last one is the biggest thing imho. If they are like sorcerer, they should have had the same known spells as sorcerer, ie, 555444333, instead of 666666666 (or about that, don't recall it exactly).

So try comparing a Cleric and a Wizard. Clerics are more powerful in that comparison. They know all spells, can wear heavy armor, get simple weapons, know 2 domains with granted abilities, get double the hitpoints....
I think that the wizard spell list is certainly considered more powerful given that. The cleric-wizard comparison is far more lopsided than the Favored Soul-Sorcerer comparison.

2) IMC, the large half-dragon barb/fighter/wiz/planarchampion likes very much the idea of starting Warhulk from 18th or 19th level and taking all 10 levels during 20th-30th level. Gain same bab as everyone, gain 20 str and hit everyone at reach in the end with his 4 iterative attacks plus haste. Oh, he does love the PrC .

I would be ruling that the Warhulk's lack of a BAB was a class feature (like the lack of social skills) and that they wouldn't get EAB either. That doesn't really fix the problem (BAB is better than EAB) but it helps. Alternatively, in Epic levels, you could just force them to swap their EAB for +2 Str, getting them no EAB and +2 Str every other level instead of every level. That would be closer to balance, and would preserve the concept of the class: Every time you should get a +1 BAB as a fighting class, you instead get +2 Str.
Sure it weakens the class if you are over level 20, but that's the point.

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