Thrune
2005-08-27, 07:20 PM
This was written because of the Blackguard prestige class, the quintessentual villain. However, I feel that the way it is written, diabolists are heavily discouraged due to the fact that the Blackguard won’t improve the use of their class abilities(Spellcasting). Because of this, I designed a modified Blackguard prestige class for Diabolists, mostly Arcane ones.
Prerequisites
Alignment: Any Evil
BaB: +4
Skills:Hide 4 ranks, Knowledge(Religion) 2 ranks, Spellcraft 4 ranks, Knowledge(The Planes) 2 ranks.
Feats:Cleave, Improved Sunder, Power Attack
Ability to cast 2nd level spells.
Special: The character must have made peaceful contact with an outsider.
Hit Die:D8
Class Skills
As blackguard, but no Handle Animal and Spellcraft, Knowledge(Religion), and Knowledge(The Planes) are added.
BaB:As Blackguard
Saves:As Blackguard
Special:As Blackguard, but at 3rd, 6th, 9th levels give -5% arcane spell failure chance.
Spells:No blackguard class spells. Continued spell progression but not at 3rd, 6th, or 9th levels.
The class requires that you be at least 6th level(Divine) or 8th(Arcane) to meet the BaB requirements.
So what does everyone think about it? Overpowered? Please say so if you think so.
Possibilities to modify include: Dark Blessing at 5th level not 2nd, Sneak Attack starts at 7th level not 4th, Detect Good is only 3/day, Aura of Despair is at 4th level not 3rd.
I don’t want to remove any of it’s major class abilities, just spellcasting.
Another option would be to make it just the same as normal, but replace blackguard spellcasting with increasing spells per day every level but 10th or 1st(10th or 1st, not 10th and 1st).
Prerequisites
Alignment: Any Evil
BaB: +4
Skills:Hide 4 ranks, Knowledge(Religion) 2 ranks, Spellcraft 4 ranks, Knowledge(The Planes) 2 ranks.
Feats:Cleave, Improved Sunder, Power Attack
Ability to cast 2nd level spells.
Special: The character must have made peaceful contact with an outsider.
Hit Die:D8
Class Skills
As blackguard, but no Handle Animal and Spellcraft, Knowledge(Religion), and Knowledge(The Planes) are added.
BaB:As Blackguard
Saves:As Blackguard
Special:As Blackguard, but at 3rd, 6th, 9th levels give -5% arcane spell failure chance.
Spells:No blackguard class spells. Continued spell progression but not at 3rd, 6th, or 9th levels.
The class requires that you be at least 6th level(Divine) or 8th(Arcane) to meet the BaB requirements.
So what does everyone think about it? Overpowered? Please say so if you think so.
Possibilities to modify include: Dark Blessing at 5th level not 2nd, Sneak Attack starts at 7th level not 4th, Detect Good is only 3/day, Aura of Despair is at 4th level not 3rd.
I don’t want to remove any of it’s major class abilities, just spellcasting.
Another option would be to make it just the same as normal, but replace blackguard spellcasting with increasing spells per day every level but 10th or 1st(10th or 1st, not 10th and 1st).