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<blockquote data-quote="Claudius Gaius" data-source="post: 3933068" data-attributes="member: 57946">OverpoweredLike many full spell-progression prestige classes its definitely overpowered. A sixth-level sorcerer (for example) could easily qualify for this - losing a bit of Familiar advancement (not much of a price) in exchange for five levels of d8 hit dice instead of d4 and five useful special abilities. It's even better for someone who took a level or two of fighter or ranger to get some extra hit dice and weapons skills to help them survive at low levels. If a character would have to be foolish not to take it, it's too good. It'd be roughly even to reduce the Hit Die to a d4, make all three saves weak, and give them a base of 0 skill points per level on the theory that they're concentrating utterly on their bow-related effects. Besides, if you want extremely personalized characters, why not just go to a point-buy d20 system like Eclipse (its compatible with 3.0, 3,5, modern, etc)? How many archer-mage prestige classes can a single world support anyway?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Claudius Gaius, post: 3933068, member: 57946"] [b]Overpowered[/b] Like many full spell-progression prestige classes its definitely overpowered. A sixth-level sorcerer (for example) could easily qualify for this - losing a bit of Familiar advancement (not much of a price) in exchange for five levels of d8 hit dice instead of d4 and five useful special abilities. It's even better for someone who took a level or two of fighter or ranger to get some extra hit dice and weapons skills to help them survive at low levels. If a character would have to be foolish not to take it, it's too good. It'd be roughly even to reduce the Hit Die to a d4, make all three saves weak, and give them a base of 0 skill points per level on the theory that they're concentrating utterly on their bow-related effects. Besides, if you want extremely personalized characters, why not just go to a point-buy d20 system like Eclipse (its compatible with 3.0, 3,5, modern, etc)? How many archer-mage prestige classes can a single world support anyway? [/QUOTE]

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