thoughts on villains

[blelliot]

I'm looking for opinions on prestige classes that work as villains, but not really as pc classes. Thanks! So abilities that are very situational, or unnecessary in everyday play. Thanks everyone!

[prufock]

Foe Hunter, from Masters of the Wild (3.0, never updated afaik). Generally too specialized for PCs, unless they're in a very homogenous world as far as creature types go. However, if you have a party of mostly the same creature type, it makes a good challenge. Caveat: If using Stalker of Kharash or Acane Hunter on your ranger, it can actually be a decent low-tier damage dealer for PCs (depending on how you interpret the Foe Hunter's favoured enemy... technically it says creature type, but it also says it's one of your favoured enemies).

Soul Eater, Lifedrinker, etc from Book of Vile Deeds. Not that they can't work as PC classes, but require the evil tag which often doesn't fly in group play.