Mmmm...Libris Mortis.

[Milkman Dan]

Milkman Dan, eh? Red Meat fan?

Vampire Hunter: Detect vampires, immunity to vampires' dominating gaze.

Spurn Death's Touch: Spend a turn attempt to heal 1d4 ability damage, paralysis or a negative level caused by undead.

Indeed I am!

Thanks for the info. These two sound like really good picks.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

to interject (and I think it was mentioned before), in Miniatures Handbook, the Skullclan Hunter gets a power termed "Divine Strike".
"Due to his specialize skill training and connection with the forces of light, a skullclan hunter of 2nd level or higher can make a special attack that is infused with positive energy. Effectively, this ability allows him to deal extra damage to undead as though making a sneak attack. Divine strike damage applies to any sneak attack dice the skullclan hunter has, as well as those gained through advancement in this class."

What do people think of that?

I think it's a wonderful, beautiful thing. It pays for itself by not advancing uncanny dodge, by making you blow a level into cleric and a cross-class skill, and your skill points aren't as good as a normal rogue's. However, you get to smack undead around, and it has a nice progression of abilities. It also lends itself well to an epic progression, since I can easily think of several epic feats for it (one to make your weapon undeadbane, one to make it disrupting, one to make it a sunblade, etc.).

Brad

 

[Klaus]

What the heck is a Quell? It looks like a Githyanki lich (and we all know that [Gandalf voice] there is only one Githyanki lich, and she does not share power![/Gandalf voice])

 

[Nightchilde-2]

Indeed I am!

Thanks for the info. These two sound like really good picks.

I was going to start off with "I hate you Milkman Dan," but I figured in the off chance that you weren't a Red Meat-head, that would come across the wrong way.

Yes, they are good picks, definitely.

I particularly like the "tomb-tainted" feat chain myself.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

What the heck is a Quell? It looks like a Githyanki lich (and we all know that [Gandalf voice] there is only one Githyanki lich, and she does not share power![/Gandalf voice])

Quells are:
"incorporeal creatures of malevolence and hte night. They despise all living things, as well sa the light that nurtures them, but the urge that truly drives them is the hatred of those who serve deities."

They can "turn" divine spellcasters as if clerics up to their HD level (5 for the quell listed in the book; advancement is up to 10HD). The result is the highest level divine spellcaster the quell can cut off from their deity. The turning damage is the max number of HD of divine spellcasters within 60 ft that can be effected.

Normally, those spellcasters affected can't turn undead or cast divine spells for 1 minute, but if the quell has twice as many HD as the spellcaster has divine levels, the spellcaster looses that ability for 24 hours. They can do this a number of times/day equal to 3 + Cha bonus.

Pretty powerful ability, sure, but if the quell attacks the caster or the spellcaster receives an atonement spell, the intercession ends (and they get their gods-granted superpowers back).

 

[Gez]

[Quell] can "turn" divine spellcasters...

Damn you, Nightchilde, now I need that book! The irony of this monster is too great!

 

[Voadam]

when what really needed to be presented were templates for bodaks, mohrgs, and other undead that haven't had templates yet.

There is a mohrg template in the Book of Templates deluxe eidtion.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

Damn you, Nightchilde, now I need that book! The irony of this monster is too great!

And it's only CR 3.

LM has some great undead beasties in it. I also like some of the variants it gives (such as the good lich or the fast zombie or the burning skeleton)..not full-blown templates, but variants complete with how that variant affects CR.

Yeah, it's got some flaws (Revived Fossil CRs, I'm looking at you specifically), but like someone else said, the good far outweighs the bad.

 

[Klaus]

So what can you tell me about the Skyrr (the weird bull-skull-headed mummy thing) and the Bleakborn?

 

[Aaron L]

According to Complete Divine, undead have the soul of the original person bound whithin them. That's why it's evil.


Guess I can live with it, and why its far easier to animate a zombie than create a golem.