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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beholder Bob" data-source="post: 2098053" data-attributes="member: 12866">By the title, I'm obviously working on a prestige class.  I'm still undecided on the name, let alone the prereqs or powers - suggestions wanted!  WITCHBORNSome people are born under a bad moon or marked as a child by a hag – they are tainted.  These people can fight it, managing a normal life - though one with more then its fair share of unusual and unhappy events, such as hauntings by the dead, spoiled foodstuffs and frequent miscarriages and birth defects in your vicinity, and events you swear happened but no one recollects – strangers met at crossroads, crawling insects gone when you return your gaze, and your reflection showing a different you at times.  There are those, though, that actively embrace it.  Not fey, not fiend, there is something wrong, something dark, that stirs in their breast.  Through the practice of magic, they learn to touch that, shape it, and finally wield it to their benefit.Requirements:Alignment: Any Non-GoodSkill Ranks: Survival 4, Intimidate 6, Profession - Herbalist 4, Spellcraft 4.Feats: Spell Penetration, Spell Focus (Vile, Evil, Transmutation) or Additional HexesSpells: Ability to cast 1st level spellsHD: 5 class HDAttributes:HD: d8Base Attack: As ClericGood Saves: Fort and WillSkill Points: 4+INT modifierClass Skills: Bluff (CHA), Concentration (CON), Craft (INT), Diplomacy (CHA), Handle Animal (WIS), Heal (WIS), Intimidate (CHA), Survival (WIS), Profession (WIS), Spellcraft (INT), and Use Magic Device (CHA)Class Features:Spell Progression: Depends on the spell ability of the class, see below.Full scale casters (spell list goes up to 7th level or higher spells) 3:4 stepMedium scale casters (spell list goes up to 5th level spells or higher) 1:1 stepLow scale caster (spell list goes to 4th level spells or less) 1:1 step1st The Evil Eye 2/day, Witchery2nd Compact 1/day, Familiar3rd Use Poison, Marked - Minor4th The Evil Eye 3/day5th Cauldron, Compact 2/day6th Venomous7th Greater Evil Eye, Marked - Major8th Curses! Compact 3/day9th Broom10th The Evil Eye 4/dayThe Evil Eye: used as a free action, force a single visible target to make a Will DC 13 + (½ your Witchbrood LV + CHA) or else suffer -2 to hit, damage, saves, skill and ability checks for 1 hour.  Once a target resists your evil eye, you may not target that foe again.  (this ability duplicates the ability of a Hexblade Hex ability)Familiar: as wizard/sorcerer.  If you already have a familiar, stack levels for determining the familiars benefit – you do not gain a 2nd familiar.Use Poison: you can apply poison and use it in combat without risking poisoning yourselfMarked – Minor: When dealing with the pure of heart (such as children, devout religious people, etc), you suffer a -4 to bluff, diplomacy, and their initial reaction to you can never be better then Unfriendly.Marked – Major: When dealing with those with good alignments, you suffer a -4 to bluff, diplomacy, and their initial reaction to you can never be better then Unfriendly, while dealing with the pure of heart you suffer a -8 to bluff and diplomacy.Cauldron – As the feat Brew Potion, except you may also make elixirsCompact - spontaneously cast either summon monster or natures ally spell of equal levelVenomous – you gain a +2 save against poison and gain a +4 handle animal when working with venomous animals.Greater Evil Eye: As Evil Eye except the penalty is -4, not -2 (as per greater Hex of the Hexblade).Curses! – Spells listed under Witchery gain +2 DCBroom - able to make a broom or cauldron act as a broom of flying, lasting 10 minutes per level of spell sacrificed.Witchery: The following spells are added to your spell list and you gain an additional spell for every level gained in Witchborn.  ie. a wizard who gained a level in this class would add bane & doom to his class list of spells, and he would automatically add 1 spell for every level gained in this class to his list of spells known.1ST-LEVEL SPELLSBaneDoomCause FearReduce Person2ND-LEVEL SPELLSDelay PoisonHideous LaughterTouch of IdiocyBlindness/DeafnessScareWhispering Wind3RD-LEVEL SPELLSBestow CurseSlow4TH-LEVEL SPELLSConfusionCrushing DespairPhantasmal KillerFearReduce Person, Mass5TH-LEVEL SPELLSBreak EnchantmentFeeblemindNightmareBaleful Polymorph6TH-LEVEL SPELLSEyebiteFlesh to Stone7TH-LEVEL SPELLSSequesterInsanity8TH-LEVEL SPELLSAntipathyIrresistible DanceSympathyEarthquake9TH-LEVEL SPELLSImprisonmentWeirdB<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />B</blockquote>

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