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This thread actually helped me out. I'm going the bard route right now, but I might be able to snag a re-build. Does anyone have any additional insights to offer?

I just stepped down as DM in a lv 7 campaign. PC is taking over. I'm going the Witch cartomancer route.

Thanks for NECRO advise!!!!

i certainly hope no clerics heard this conversation before your wizard's cold dead corpse gets dropped in front of their door step...

he might not feel so inclined to help out the 'all powerful god caster'. He just might dig a whole and dump you in it.

The tombstone would say,

Here lies the all powerful wizard.
Dead.
Should have made a few cleric friends.

I would also remove the XP cost. That's no PF. If you REALLY want to make it taxing, just make it do Constitution Burn. (not ability damage or ability drain, but ability burn. This can ONLY be healed with rest, not a simple spell. You can find it in 3.5 or Dreamscarred Press's psionics).

Through a combination of discipline, endurance and martial learning the character is able to call forth this power and use it to devastating effect. The most spectacular of which allows him to shape a weapon composed of his own blood.

so reading this got me all excited. then I started to read the class:

Lvl Special

1 - Gruesome Glyph, Sanguineous Sword, Blood Pool

not exactly an end game ability. You made it sound later in the game then made it level 1. It was a let down for me to go from that cool fluff to the class's game mechanics.

Going just off fluff alone, I'd make this whole ability happen later. Start off with cool blood drawing techniques; extra damage; bleeding attacks; etc, then make the sanguineous sword a 1/day at 8th level + 1/day per 5 levels thereafter. Then you can make it baddass!!! It's comes summoned with whatever special abilities you want (think paladin or anti-paladin sword). You wont need that weird XP draw system.

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but as a side note. I love your fluff and where your oing with it. But if I were building the same thing, I'd just do an archetype for the Magus. Make it blood focused, change several core abilities, even invent a few new spells if needed. You could simplify the whole project by going that way.

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I hope this helps friend!!!

personally, I always found Magic missile, mage armor, grease, enlarge person, etc useful from levels 1 - 20...

I don't think you need to make lower level spells more attractive, I think you just need to open your options to more than just spells that require save DCs.

A well placed ray on enfeeblement (well, before pathfinders lame save for half) always did the trick no matter the level. Even the new, more lame, version has its merits against any physical character. (mixed with wave of exhaustion)

2nd level spells are a veritable jackpot for buffs. Don't need help there.

3rd level has good damage, good buff, great miscellaneous...

not trying to be facetious... but what exactly needs help?

allow me to make a quote here:

If it ain't broke don't fix it

that sounds like it would have been a pretty cool campaign

I am a little confused by the Covenant feat. It basically just seems like the rules for a Coven... so why do you need a feat? The Mother's Gift (Coven Raised) lets you participate in a coven, and once the coven is complete you get the SLA's without needing a feat.

Also, would you let the Mother's Gift (Coven Raised) treat the Changeling as a Hag, or would you still require a real hag to complete the coven?

Mothers gift works like the hex for those without hexes. You'd still need a real Hag. The covenant feat would take away the need of the hag while not breaking the game with its rediculous spells at will.

I like changelings... they just need a smidge more... I personally think this is it.

:)

also:

Mother's Gift
You inherit a special boon from your hag parent.
Prerequisite: Changeling.
Benefit: Your dark legacy manifests in one of the following ways. You choose the manifestation when you choose the feat, and once selected it cannot be changed.
Hag Claws (Ex): You gain a +1 bonus on attack and damage rolls with your claws.
Surprisingly Tough (Ex): Your natural armor bonus increases by +1.
Uncanny Resistance (Su): You gain spell resistance equal to 6 + your character level.
Coven Raised (Su): You gain the Coven hex from the witches hexes.
Special: You can gain this feat up to three times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, you must select a different manifestation.

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Covenant
You are able to call upon ancient power of your ancestors.
Prerequisite: Changeling, Mother's Gift (Coven Raised), Caster Level 13.
Benefit: Whenever all three hags of a particular coven are within 10 feet of one another, all three of them can work together to use any of the following spell-like abilities: animate dead, baleful polymorph (DC 18), blight (DC 17), bestow curse (DC 17), clairaudience/clairvoyance, charm monster (DC 17), ]commune, control weather, dream, forcecage, mind blank, mirage arcana (DC 18), reincarnate, speak with dead, veil (DC 19), vision.

All three hags must take a full-round action to take part in this form of cooperative magic. All coven spell-like abilities function at CL13 (or at the highest CL available to the most powerful caster in the coven). The save DCs are Charisma-based, and function as if with a Charisma score of 16 unless one of the casters has a higher Charisma score, in which case the spell-like ability DCs are adjusted by that caster's Charisma modifier. To properly power the spell, 1 member of the coven must sacrifice a spell of equal or greater value to the spell invoked.

Special: For each extra spell (of the same or greater level to the one invoked), sacrificed by another member of the Coven; the spell gains a +1 DC.

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p.s. all that linkage took FOREVER!!!

Merlin was just Elminster hiding out on our crystal sphere for a bit!!!

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...who in turn was just Gandalf spending some time out of Middle Earth.

I always liked the idea of a changling daughter of a night hag having abilities based off these powers:

Dream Haunting (Su) A night hag can visit the dreams of chaotic or evil targets by using a special periapt known as a heartstone to become ethereal, then hovering over the creature. Once it does so, it rides on the victim's back until dawn. The sleeper suffers tormenting dreams and takes 1 point of Constitution drain upon awakening. Only another ethereal being can stop these nocturnal intrusions by confronting and defeating the night hag.

Heartstone (Su) All night hags carry a heartstone—a special gemstone worth at least 1,800 gp that is worn as a periapt. A heartstone's magic is fueled by the hag's spirit and proximity—once separated from its owner (or upon the hag's death), a heartstone retains its magic for only 24 hours before becoming a nonmagical gem again. The heartstone instantly cures any disease contracted by the holder. In addition, a heartstone provides a +2 resistance bonus on all saving throws (this bonus is included in the statistics block above). A night hag that loses this charm can no longer use etherealness or soul bind until it finds a replacement gemstone.

Maybe make them racial feats...

Surrogate Heartstone:
You've discovered the ancient ritual of your mother's kin to make a powerful gemstone that contains some of your essence.
Prerequisite: Changeling, able to summon a familiar (or bonded item class feature).
Benefit: When you summon your familiar (or bind to an item) you may instead choose to create a heartstone. A bonded heartstone can be used once per day to cast a spell. The spell is treated like any other spell cast by the changeling, including its casting time, duration, and other effects dependent of the changeling's level. This spell cannot be further modified by metamagic feats or any other ability. As the changeling gains levels, the bonded heartstone gains new spells that the changeling can cast in this way. She can cast any one of these spells once per day using her bonded object, but gains greater flexibility in what spells she can cast, and gains more powerful spells as she gains new levels. The spells associated with the heartstone are as follows:

Heartstone: 2nd—Magic missile; 4th—Invisibility; 6th—Deep Slumber; 8th—Contagion; 10th-Dream; 12th—Monstrous Physique IV; 14th—ethereal jaunt; 16th—Horrid Wilting; 18th—Soul Bind.

Special: if you use an actual Night Hag's heartstone to bind with as per this feat; it grants you a +2 resistance bonus on all saving throws.

Dream Haunting
Your presence in another's dreams drains your victims to their very core.
Prerequisite: Changeling, Surrogate Heartstone, Dream Possession class feature
Benefit: A Dreamweaver can visit the dreams of chaotic or evil targets by focusing on their heartstone while casting Dream or using their Dream Possession ability, then entering the dreams of the creature. Once it does so, it rides on the victim's back until dawn. The sleeper suffers tormenting dreams and takes 1 point of Constitution drain upon awakening. Only another creature possesing or casting Dream on the same creature, can stop these nocturnal intrusions by confronting and defeating the changeling.

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Night Hags are TOO COOL to not have options ;)

Thoughts?

Thread RPG?

I haven't done that since I was in high school. I remember doing RP chat rooms back in the 90s too!

now I just run tabletop games at my house. with the exception of using digital character sheets and soon a 3d virtual tabletop, we do everything pretty analog.

no virtual dice allowed in my games, none of us like them. We are Puritans when it comes to chance.

Yes, two faces actually. I'm the high Int, and we'v a fighter as well.

I thought fox(animal) form was a feat and their natural formal was kinda like a werefox in appearance.

Unfortunately you are correct.

I think the OP should list general points instead of trying to find certain spells. Then we can handle each case specifically instead of jumping around just looking at every feat or spell.

Good point, but after having read this whole forum, I'm wondering if this person is truly having a hard time understand the points that I believe are clearly laid out (in which case I someone here can explain in a way he/she finds to be clearly laid out)

OR

they are deliberately 'trolling' for their own amusement...

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Either way, I'm not one for forcing my view on others, so I'm done with this forum. Best of luck to the rest of you!!! And whether it be a Fireball or an Energy Burst, I hope you lay your enemies low!!!

To the OP.

Long story short, you believe that the psion is a better caster for a one shot combat, right?

Obviously it can go this way or that based on circumstance, but yeah... they're pretty awesome for one shot combats at level 20 with no preparations whatsoever!!!

But as people have stated, they don't have an unlimited supply of PP. They run out VERY quickly to be that awesome. Any they cannot buy a bunch of 25gp items to replenish themselves (I read the whole forum and you never seemed to concede to that point). When they're out, they're out.

...sure there are power stones... there are scrolls too
...sure there are cognizance crystals... there are pearls of power too

remember that you may only use one at a time, not a whole handful.

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one of my favorite examples that you keep giving and not understanding is the 'spend +2pp for a +1DC' which is exactly like Highten Spell. I mean sure they don't need the feat, and sure they don't need to prepare it beforehand (and that's AWESOME!!), but now they're used up their psionic focus and just screwed the action economy pooch.

and yes yes yes, you can have a psi-crystal that carries your backup focus... for 2 feats...

PoisonToast sees it the same as I, (just conveyed his message more elegantly).