Need help with character for my player

[Biotroll]

Hiho playground. Few days ago my players finished our Eberron campaign and they decided to get a shot to some Oriental Adventures themed game. So while I'm preparing the story I asked them to send me their ideas of what they would like to play. I know what to do with all of my players, but one. So this is why I'm here.

The party in quetion will most likely end like this (they want to go evil):
1) Ninja-like character (he liked ToB stuff when we tried it, so Swordsage is it for him)
2) Crossbow sniper rogue
3) Bard trickster
4) Evil cleric of some sort (going to show him OA shaman, shouldn't be hard)
and
5) Necromant with curses and disease spreading abilities - This is where I'm at lost to be honest. I've never been keen on necromancy or curses/disease so I just don't know where to begin to be honest. I thought maybe give him access to hexer PrC? Just don't know.

Party will start at lvl 2 and will go to like lvl 13. I won't restrict sources, just trying to find ideas. Stats will be rolled (as my players prefer this way) so if you really want stats, try going with 32pt buy.

Houserule you should know:
Extra feat at 1st, 6th, 12th and 18th level.

Thanks for help. :smallsmile:

[eggynack]

Couldn't he just be a necromancer? It seems pretty simple. Wizard necromancers are all about debuffs, as opposed to clerics who are all about reanimating corpses. Starting from level one they already get stuff like cause fear and ray of enfeeblement, and later they get stuff that fits even better like contagion and bestow curse. Here (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=394.msg8076#msg8076) is the part of Treantmonk's guide to wizards that deals with necromancer spell selection. I don't think you can do too much better than a wizard for necromantic debuffs, though it might be worth reflavoring it a little. As a side note, the crossbow sniper rogue might be a bit under-powered compared to the other characters, so if that's a thing you care about, you might want to look into it.

[supervillan]

The maho-tsukai from OA/Rokugan has excellent flavour for an evil wizard type.

[Biotroll]

I guess I will point him toward wizard unless he really wants to get a lot of undeads. I'll take a look at maho-tsukai soon. I'm chewing through the book now, so I will come to it eventualy.

Are there any other PrC I should look for? Master specialist and archmage I know of. Blood magus sounded nice untill I looked closer at it.

Also, just a minor question. Since wizards are not great at making undead army, how good is he at making one big meatshield?

(Btw, I know there was some part for crossbows in archery handbook, so I'll be looking into it later to see what it is about. He wants to use two handcrossbows anyway, so I think he will be fine.)

[iDesu]

The necromancer might like the Dread Necromancer with the Mother Cyst feat. It'd allow him to spread the cyst, poison, control, and eventually explode people with it.

[Biotroll]

Mother cyst looks nice. If not for player, then for me and my apocalypse. :smallbiggrin:

And I think dread necro with some Arcane Disciple feats would be much better then wizard. Not so strong and still good enough. This will also let him control few big undead bodyguards. Thanks for pointing it out. :smallsmile: