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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 3551056" data-attributes="member: 5948">I ran Jack as an NPC in a rather Anno-Dracula-esque game a few years back, in an early d20 adaptation of Masque of the Red Death.  It would depend on his motivations, narrative purpose, and desired power level, really.  I went with human lawyer4/barbarian2 - but that's because IMC Jack was Jonathan Harker driven mad by his experiences in Transylvania, and who was now being used as a tool by a sinister London occult society in order to complete a powerful blood-sacrifice ritual to wake King Arthur from his sleep in the hope he's be able to save England from Dracula.  So that might be a bit specialised!Some ideas: - give him some sort of barbarian level, to reflect his insanity and rage at being cornered.  He's done inhuman things, make sure his behavour reflects it.  Urban ranger with favoured enemy (humans) perhaps?- look into the Item Familiar feat from UA - having his knife get more and more powerful with each kill, and having it eventually gain malign sentience and having him whisper to it at night, is nice and evocative.  Keen, vampiric, wounding, death knell, passwall, and some sort of nondetection power are all good ability choices for the knife.- escape route.  Again, depends on the magic level of your campaign.  At the very least, a ward against basic divinations.  Then, items of teleporting, dimension door, invisibility or etherealness, obscuring mist, gaseous form, etc.</blockquote>

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