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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anabstercorian" data-source="post: 1132694" data-attributes="member: 2550">Remember those creepy guys?  That prestige class I designed so long ago?  Well, I'm redoing them now that I have more design experience under my belt.  I need help determining, however, appropriate thematic abilities for the eight Paths of Mutilation.  Yes, eight.  I've been evil today.Tell me what dark powers you imagine being linked to these rituals of unimaginable profanity.Path of the Grid: At 4th level, you use a razor to incise a grid of thin lines across the entirety of your face to divide it in to squares, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.  At 8th level, you remove half the squares to create a checkerboard pattern, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.Path of the Third Eye: At 4th level, you use dark magic to peel back the skin on your forehead to the skull in an eye-like pattern, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.  At 8th level, you remove a 'pupil' from that 'eye' in such a fashion as to expose the brain, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.Path of the Predator: At 4th level, you peel away your lips and much of your cheeks so that your teeth and gums are constantly exposed, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.  At 8th level, you use a bone saw and magical rituals to split your jawbone down the middle to turn your mouth in to a set of gnashing mandibles, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.Path of the Skull: At 4th level, you strip off the flesh of your nose to expose the bones and give yourself a skull-like visage, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.  At 8th level, you dig out your eyes with your own sharpened fingernails and replace them with magical sensors like those of the undead, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.Path of Red Iron: At 4th level, you horribly burn the skin of your face until it's twisted by scars and a horrid reddish color by heating your mask to impossible temperature while you're wearing it, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.  At 8th level, you use a set of branding irons to burn profane symbols of evil in to the skin of your face, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.Path of Two Masks: At 4th level, you seal up and unmake your mouth as though it were never there without leaving a trace, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.  At 8th level, you similarly seal up and remove your eyes, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.Path of Bloody Teeth: At 4th level, you use a set of clamps to crush your teeth to shards in your mouth, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.  At 8th level, you use a pick to pierce several holes through the bottom of your jaw to your mouth, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.Path of Black Tears: At 4th level, you use a red-hot iron to burn away your eyelids and tearducts, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.  At 8th level, you cover your eyes with boiling tar until they melt and merge with the tar in a dark ritual, granting you the feat X, with the penalty X.</blockquote>

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