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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Diirk" data-source="post: 2136611" data-attributes="member: 14476">So I was looking at this Shifter PrC and it sounded kinda nifty, but then I noticed a couple of things. Firstly, the Alternate Form ability you get at level 5 in the PrC isn't shifting... now while the Frightful Shifting ability you get at 4th specifies 'a weretouched master gains an unsettling presence when he uses his shifting ability or his alternate form ability' nothing else related to shifting has similar qualifications. Therefore I'm forced to conclude that in order to transform into an animal or hybrid, you're giving up the use of almost every single class ability and shifting related feat (at least 3) which you've gained throughout your career!.Now as shifting uses per day is 1 + 1/2 per shifting feat, all of a sudden you've got a bunch of already limited feats that suddenly do even less. Now, I like the fact that alternate form becomes an alternative to, but not a replacement for shifting... but the cost seems awfully high.On a side note I'd prefer it if the alternate forms were a little more balanced, too. Tiger and Bear are the clear winners there, it makes me feel almost too guilty to take either of them ;/PS. Hybrid form is really poorly defined. I guess you could extrapolate it from the lycanthrope section from the MM, but would it have killed them to spell it out under the class description? To make things worse, their sample character (a 5th level weretouched master) isn't even listed as having the Alternate Form ability, so thats no help either !</blockquote>

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