Plague Master Prestige Class

[Viciousvilla]

Plague Master Prestige Class

REQUIREMENTS:
To qualify to become a Plague Master, a character must fulfill the following criteria :
Alignment : Any chaotic
Skills : knowledge (planes) 12 ranks
Spells : Must be able to cast at least four necromancy spells of third level or higher.
Special : Must know of the existince of the plane of madness and must be a direct family member or trained by a
plague master.

CLASS SKILLS:
Skill points each level : 4+INT Mod

INFECTED FAMILIAR:
A plague master's familiar is now infected and gains the Life Through Death special ability as a feat and +2 to their constitution.


Level BAB Fort Ref Will Special Spells per day/Spells Known.
1 +0 +0 +0 +2 Infect, Control Infected

+1 level of existing Spellcaster Level

2 +1 +0 +0 +3 Plague Missle

+1 level of existing Spellcaster Level

3 +1 +1 +1 +3 Plague Strike, Fireball

+1 level of existing Spellcaster Level

4 +2 +1 +1 +4 Thermal Vision

+1 level of existing Spellcaster Level

5 +2 +1 +1 +4 Inferno Blast

+1 level of existing Spellcaster Level

6 +3 +2 +2 +5 Improved Plague Missle

+1 level of existing Spellcaster Level

7 +3 +2 +2 +5 Improved Plague Strike

+1 level of existing Spellcaster Level

8 +4 +2 +2 +6 Expedious Retreat

+1 level of existing Spellcaster Level

9 +4 +3 +3 +6 Improved Inferno Blast

+1 level of existing Spellcaster Level

10 +5 +3 +3 +7 Life Through Death,

+1 level of existing Spellcaster Level
Infected Sheild

CLASS FEATURES:
Weapon and Armor Proficiency : Proficient with Hellblade (Exotic Weapon)

HD : d4

Special Abilites:

Infect - Any creature with infection algie on them can be infected.

Command Infected - Full telepathic control over an infected within two miles. Using telepathy is a standard action.
A plague master can control as many infected as his charisma modifier.

Plague Missle - Shoots Infection from a wound on the Plague Master's body onto an enemy. Reflex Save 13 dodges.

Improved Plague Missle - Treated as Plague Missle. Damages an enemy for 2d4.

Plague Strike - Covers Weapon in infection causing additional 1d4 damage and can inflect anyone struck. Fortitude
save of 15 required to negate infection. Usable three times a day.

Improved Plague Strike - As plague strike, but 1d6 extra damage. Fortitude save of 20 required to negate infection.
Can be used 5 times per day.

Fireball - Two balls of fire hurl towards enemies, usually used to destroy plague zombie. 2d6 Damage.

Inferno Blast - Area surrounding the Plague Master ingulfs in napalm flame. 2d8 damage and destroys all infection algie. Put out by full immersion in water or by magical means. 1d6 fire damage per round. 30ft radius.

Thermal Vision - At level 4 a Plague Master gains Thermal Vision from the infection slowly destroying his sight.

Expedious Retreat - At level 8 a Plague Master can cast Expedious Retreat on himself or an ally once per day granting 30ft speed bonus. Usually used to outrun opponents and find something or someone to infect.

Improved Inferno Blast - Increases Inferno Blast radius to 60ft and increased damage to 2d10 attack damage and 1d8 fire damage damage per round. Inferno Blast flame is now black.

Life Through Death - At level 10 a Plague Master is considered a local outsider and no longer can sleep, rest, drink, eat, or breathe. Grants ability to ignore 5 points of damage inflicted by any non-magical means by clotting all wounds with infection immediately.

Infection Armor - At level 10 a plague master can teleport an infected zombie in front of them using dimension door once per day as a free action.

Thoughts?

[Debihuman]

Well, there's no need to put it in a spoiler. If you look in the first post, there is a link to creating to posting which also gives you tables to help make it look better.

You've got really tough prerequisites. Are there any standard planes of Madness? This might be an impossible class to join.

Debby

[Viciousvilla]

It's more of a class you would make your character based around.

[Athaniar]

Is the Plane of Madness the same thing as the Far Realm? Also, what is "algie"? Algae?

And you should really use tables.

[Debihuman]

Prestige classes should not be designed around a specific character or there's no point to sharing it with the rest of us. While this prestige class might work in your campaign, it probably wouldn't work in anyone else's because of the prerequisites you list.

However, if the Far Realms is sufficient for a "Plane of Madness" then it becomes a slightly broader choice for the rest of us.

You can have tough requirements, but for homebrewing it helps to use standard requirements.

Debby

[Viciousvilla]

You could completely exclude the prerequisites if you used it. The class isn't in any way set in stone.

[Viciousvilla]

Is the Plane of Madness the same thing as the Far Realm? Also, use tables

Something like that. It's most likely where Cthulhu is from and other creatures of the like. As far as tables goes, to be honest I don't know how.

[Debihuman]

That's okay. Since you are new here I'll help with the table. It does make things a lot easier to read.

You can copy the table now that I'm done and put it in your post by quoting my post, copying the table and closing my post (you aren't actually responding just opening it to copy the text) and then go back to your original post, edit and copy my table into it.

Also, now that I'm in full editing mode, what books are you using? If you are using Call of Cthulhu D20 that would be helpful to know. It's out of print but there was a lot of cool stuff in there. You can still find copies on Amazon.com from their sellers not from Amazon directly though.


Plague Master Prestige Class
{table=head]Level|BAB|Fort Save|Ref Save|Will Save|Special|Spells

1st|

+0

|

+0

|

+0

|

+2

|Infect, Control Infected|+1 level of existing spellcasting class

2nd|

+1

|

+0

|

+0

|

+3

|Plague Missile|+1 level of existing spellcasting class

3rd|

+1

|

+1

|

+1

|

+3

|Plague Strike, Fireball|+1 level of existing spellcasting class

4th|

+2

|

+1

|

+1

|

+4

|Thermal Vision|+1 level of existing spellcasting class

5th|

+2

|

+1

|

+1

|

+4

|Inferno Blast|+1 level of existing spellcasting class

6th|

+3

|

+2

|

+2

|

+5

|Improved Plague Missile|+1 level of existing spellcasting class

7th|

+3

|

+2

|

+2

|

+5

|Improved Plague Strike|+1 level of existing spellcasting class

8th|

+4

|

+2

|

+2

|

+6

|Expeditious Retreat|+1 level of existing spellcasting class

9th|

+4

|

+3

|

+3

|

+6

|Improved Inferno Blast|+1 level of existing spellcasting class

10th|

+5

|

+3

|

+3

|

+7

|Life Through Death, Infected Shield|+1 level of existing spellcasting class [/table]


Debby

[DragoonWraith]

Also, a requirement of four 3rd level Necromancy spells screws over Sorcerers unnecessarily. For Wizards, it's a nonissue; at worst it wastes 1,200 gp. For Sorcerers, they can't do it until 9th, and they need to spend all three of their 3rd level spells known on Necro spells - and 3rd level is not a good level for Necro spells, at least in the SRD. Ray of Exhaustion's OK, but not great, Halt Undead's only useful in extremely undead-heavy campaigns, Gentle Repose is a utility spell that will rarely see use, and Vampiric Touch means going into melee. Four not-very-good options, and you can't take Fly, Haste, GMW, Dispel Magic, Major Image, etc etc.

[Debihuman]

I agree that it is not a good prestige class for a sorcerer to take. As the original poster previously noted, it is a prestige class that is suppose to have a narrow focus. I've no objection to it on those grounds. Prestige classes can be designed for a specific campaign in mind or even for a particular character. That said, it's not a bad prestige class for an NPC villain. It could be useful for some specialist necromancer with the Heighten Spell feat.

I do like the idea of the connection with the Far Realms. You could certainly add a connection to the Cthulhu Mythos as well.

Alas, we may never know what infection algae is, what it does, or where it comes from.

Debby