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<blockquote data-quote="Visigani" data-source="post: 5598404" data-attributes="member: 6676235">Indeed, the summon shadow.It's an &quot;animal companion&quot; with some seriously funky and potent abilities.However, it differs from the Druids animal companion in that it levels up as the rogue progresses. I can think of no Druid PrC that grants an advancement in Sneak Attack Damage AND Animal Companion level. There's a reason for this.Further, take into account the fact the Shadow is INCORPOREAL. There are all kinds of shenanigans you can get upto with an incorporeal flanking buddy. Then you do something truly wicked... like give your sneak attacks the ability to do strength damage... and suddenly every other mage in the game is dropping dead when your shadow buddy uses their 1d6 str damage attack to slay them.... and nevermind &quot;Dave of Enfeeblement&quot;, a first level spell that saps str... Here's our strategy... I win at Init because I'm a supafast rogue... I cast Frank of Enfeeblement at that pesky mage (which will do an avg of 9.5 str damage per strike at caster level 10 and have my Shadow float on over and touch attack for an average of 3.5 str damage.If that mage didn't start with 14 str or more... on average I'll have killed said mage in a single round, no save.Give the shadow Spring Attack and have a glorious good time with that.Pops up from underground every round to do str damage, and then popping right back down. Good luck targeting it with spells.Tucker Max's Shadows. They pop up, violate you, and go back down and laugh about their shenanigans on whatever passes for the internet on the negative energy plane.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Visigani, post: 5598404, member: 6676235"] Indeed, the summon shadow. It's an "animal companion" with some seriously funky and potent abilities. However, it differs from the Druids animal companion in that it levels up as the rogue progresses. I can think of no Druid PrC that grants an advancement in Sneak Attack Damage AND Animal Companion level. There's a reason for this. Further, take into account the fact the Shadow is INCORPOREAL. There are all kinds of shenanigans you can get upto with an incorporeal flanking buddy. Then you do something truly wicked... like give your sneak attacks the ability to do strength damage... and suddenly every other mage in the game is dropping dead when your shadow buddy uses their 1d6 str damage attack to slay them.... and nevermind "Dave of Enfeeblement", a first level spell that saps str... Here's our strategy... I win at Init because I'm a supafast rogue... I cast Frank of Enfeeblement at that pesky mage (which will do an avg of 9.5 str damage per strike at caster level 10 and have my Shadow float on over and touch attack for an average of 3.5 str damage. If that mage didn't start with 14 str or more... on average I'll have killed said mage in a single round, no save. Give the shadow Spring Attack and have a glorious good time with that. Pops up from underground every round to do str damage, and then popping right back down. Good luck targeting it with spells. Tucker Max's Shadows. They pop up, violate you, and go back down and laugh about their shenanigans on whatever passes for the internet on the negative energy plane. [/QUOTE]

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