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<blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3447032" data-attributes="member: 13966"><p>1) The primarily necromancy spells prerequisite needs to be more specific.</p><p></p><p>2) I don't know yet what to suggest regarding the basic stats, so I won't touch on those right now.</p><p></p><p>3) Since this is a prestige class, and not a 10-level one either, there's really no need to have class features granted in a strict repetitive fashion. The bonus feats and Advanced Learning don't need to be granted in that sort of progression, so you may as well move one of them to the sorta-empty level.</p><p></p><p>4) The Rebuke Undead ability should probably mention that Necroblade levels stack with other levels that grant the ability to rebuke/command undead.</p><p></p><p>5) The Necrotic Strike is fairly powerful, and a bit unclear regarding its usage. I would reccomend having it at least limited to one use per round, applied to only one attack per round. Also, as it stands, it's basically a Rogue's Sneak Attack but with absolutely none of the restrictions (just not as useful for full-attacks, but it applies in more situations to more kinds of enemy, as well as being useful in healing undead and Necroblades themselves). I suggest changing the damage dice to d4s and either restrict the total number of uses per day or explicitly prevent the Necrotic Strike being used to to heal damage.</p><p></p><p>As it stands, with how you have it now, the Necrotic Strike can be used to completely heal the Necroblade and any undead he commands or allies with, just by repeatedly attacking them with Necrotic Strike (probably in combination with an unarmed strike, since nonlethal damage doesn't affect undead, but the negative energy would heal them).</p><p></p><p>6) I have no idea what the Mother Cyst feat is or does; I assume it probably comes from Libris Mortis the Book of Bad Latin, but I don't have that book so I can't comment. I assume Undeath Epitome's benefits have something to do with Libris Mortis as well, so I can't comment on that either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arkhandus, post: 3447032, member: 13966"] 1) The primarily necromancy spells prerequisite needs to be more specific. 2) I don't know yet what to suggest regarding the basic stats, so I won't touch on those right now. 3) Since this is a prestige class, and not a 10-level one either, there's really no need to have class features granted in a strict repetitive fashion. The bonus feats and Advanced Learning don't need to be granted in that sort of progression, so you may as well move one of them to the sorta-empty level. 4) The Rebuke Undead ability should probably mention that Necroblade levels stack with other levels that grant the ability to rebuke/command undead. 5) The Necrotic Strike is fairly powerful, and a bit unclear regarding its usage. I would reccomend having it at least limited to one use per round, applied to only one attack per round. Also, as it stands, it's basically a Rogue's Sneak Attack but with absolutely none of the restrictions (just not as useful for full-attacks, but it applies in more situations to more kinds of enemy, as well as being useful in healing undead and Necroblades themselves). I suggest changing the damage dice to d4s and either restrict the total number of uses per day or explicitly prevent the Necrotic Strike being used to to heal damage. As it stands, with how you have it now, the Necrotic Strike can be used to completely heal the Necroblade and any undead he commands or allies with, just by repeatedly attacking them with Necrotic Strike (probably in combination with an unarmed strike, since nonlethal damage doesn't affect undead, but the negative energy would heal them). 6) I have no idea what the Mother Cyst feat is or does; I assume it probably comes from Libris Mortis the Book of Bad Latin, but I don't have that book so I can't comment. I assume Undeath Epitome's benefits have something to do with Libris Mortis as well, so I can't comment on that either. [/QUOTE]
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