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<blockquote data-quote="Kilroy" data-source="post: 1949308" data-attributes="member: 5299">The class looks weak.&nbsp; Every D&amp;D game I've ever been in has a fair bit of combat, and this character has no ability there.&nbsp; It would take a very special player to play this class in most games, it seems more like an NPC class, on par with an Expert/Adept multiclass.It looks like all the melee power of a wizard, half the spells of a bard.&nbsp; Are the skills this character has worth the massive tradeoff in spell power compared to playing, say, a Loremaster?&nbsp; Just about every other character class can customize based on the style of the game - hack-n-slash or chatty-social.&nbsp; This class can't.In most games I've played in, only a couple Knowledge skills come up nearly every session, and many don't come up ever in the campaign.&nbsp; What's the point of playing a character who's only good at one thing when the thing he's good at may not ever come up?Something this specialized may work better as a prestige class.&nbsp; Consider reworking it as a Loremaster variant, with full spell casting progression but entry requirements that don't include previous spellcasting levels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kilroy, post: 1949308, member: 5299"] The class looks weak. Every D&D game I've ever been in has a fair bit of combat, and this character has no ability there. It would take a very special player to play this class in most games, it seems more like an NPC class, on par with an Expert/Adept multiclass. It looks like all the melee power of a wizard, half the spells of a bard. Are the skills this character has worth the massive tradeoff in spell power compared to playing, say, a Loremaster? Just about every other character class can customize based on the style of the game - hack-n-slash or chatty-social. This class can't. In most games I've played in, only a couple Knowledge skills come up nearly every session, and many don't come up ever in the campaign. What's the point of playing a character who's only good at one thing when the thing he's good at may not ever come up? Something this specialized may work better as a prestige class. Consider reworking it as a Loremaster variant, with full spell casting progression but entry requirements that don't include previous spellcasting levels. [/QUOTE]

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