Jason Durall said:
Judge Walker said:
Don't really know. I've only had occasion to flip through "Scrolls..." not actualy buy it. What do they have in it?
Prestige classes for:
Lord of the Black Ring
Master of the Black Circle
Sorcerer of the Scarlet Circle
And they were all pretty overpowered, yet still lame. One of them was a prestige class that can only have ONE person in it, the others have no more than a dozen people in them.
We were thinking of doing Monk as a prestige class off of soldier, and then realized that with a couple of small changes to skills, feats and to the "Formation" ability, it was easy enough to make your soldier into a monk
Get rid of medium and heavy armor and shields. Add 2 skill points per level (x4 at 1st level). Use the thief's skills list with heal and all knowledges added. Require Improved unarmed and Brawl at first level. Instead of the "Formation" abilities increase unarmed combat damage by 1 die type. 1d8 at 3rd, 1d10 at 7th, 1d12 at 11th, 2d8 at 15th and 2d10 at 19th levels.
I also let them trade any bonus feats in for 2 skill ranks if they want.
The reason I require the Imp Unarmed and Brawl at first level is that the Monk represents someone who has spent years attaining this level of proficiency in fighting and it removes a lot of time fom their lives. To me, that is well represented with the use of their first level feats (if soldier is a favored class for them, they even gain a favored class bonus feat, it's not that rough!)
At any rate, it isn't a PrC, it's just a very minor variation to what is already in the book. No biggie, but the guy who got to play it has had a blast so far. He doesn't miss the armor and he loves all of the "kewl ninja feats" and the ability to dish out "staff damage without the reach" with his bare hands.
At any rate, take a look around, find a couple of alterations you would like to make. Make them, these are almost like "Kits" from second edition, and just as easy to use. Just make sure it is written down ahead of time, and don't go bonkers.
Later!