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Ok so I'm working on a level 9 character for a game I'm in and I would really like some constructive opinions on the idea.

So I'm planning on going Brawler 1/ Ninja(Scout) 8 with the race being Dhampir(with Dayborn). The Stats as rolled with
racial and level bonuses are as such(in case you are wondering about stat placement, they are set as rolled. I can't
shuffle them):

Str:16
Dex:18(20w/Belt of Weasel)
Con:14
Int:13
Wis:15
Cha:14

Init: +11 AC: 21(vs AOP 27) FF:15 Touch: 16

Traits: Reactionary, and Indomitable Faith

Feats:
1)Improved Unarmed Strike(B), Combat Reflexes
2)Combat Trick: Improved Initiative
3)Panther Style
4)Combat Trick: Dodge
5)Panther Claw
6)Combat Trick: Weapon Finesse
7)Panther Parry
8)Vanishing Trick
9)Mobility

The idea should be pretty obvious, use the Scouts ability to get sneak attack damage when they move at least 10ft
in a round and use the Panther Style feats to maximize the number of attacks per round that will benefit from
Sneak Attack. This would mean you wouldn't need to flank or feint to get guaranteed Sneak Attack damage.

For equipment:
Boots of Striding and Springing, Belt of the Weasel, Amulet of Mighty Fists +1, Quick Runners Shirt, Lenses of
Detection, Claws of the Ice Bear/Poisoner's Gloves,Stalker's Mask, Headband of Cha or Wis +2/Headband of Ki Focus,
Pauldrons of the Serpent, Burglar's Bracers

Armor and Weapons:
+1 Minor Shadow Mithral Chain Shirt or Brawling, Adamantine Cestus, and shittons of Shuriken.

Unarmed: +15/+10 Dmg: 1d6+6+4D6 Sneak

Now I'm not really sure how the Bloodrager/Dragon Disciple interaction really work but for the moment I'm assuming they work together. All Gear will be mundane and Hit Point are calculated as average. Please let me know what you think and give any suggestions/pointers.

Bloodrager Dragon Bloodline(Bronze)(Primalist/Rageshaper) 5
Dragon Disciple 8
Favored Class: Bloodrager
Human
Traits: Reactionary & Indomitable Faith

Str 24(14+2+4[DD]+4[ABP9])
Dex 16(15+1)
Con 18(16+2[DD])
Int 09(07+2[DD])
Wis 14(13+1)
Cha 16(15+1)

HP: 154(32BR+52DD+65Con+5FC)
Init:+10(4+2+4)
AC: 25(10 +3Dex +6Breastplate +5Nat +1Dodge)
Resist: Electricity 10

Fort: 12(8+4)
Ref: 7(4+3)
Will: 10(5+2+2+1)

Feats:
1)Skill Focus(Knowledge[Planar]){Human}
1)Two-Weapon Fighting
3)Eldritch Heritage: Abyssal Bloodline(use the Primalist ability to get the Abyssal Bloodline Rage Power & Intimidating Glare)
5)Weapon Focus(Claws)
7)Power Attack(Bloodline)
7)Extra Rage
9)Iron Will
10)Toughness(Bloodline)
11)Improved Eldritch Heritage: Abyssal lvl9(Strength of the Abyss)
13)Improved Initiative(Bloodline)
13)Dodge

Claws: +17/+12/+7/+17 Dmg: 1D8+7+1D6 Elec/(Large)Dmg: 2D6+8+1D6 Elec
-Rage: +19/+14/+9/+19 Dmg: 1D8+9+1D6 Elec/(Large)Dmg: 2D6+10+1D6 Elec
Greatsword: +19/+14/+9 Dmg: 2D6+10/(Large) Dmg: 3D6+12 / 19-20 x2
-Rage: +21/+16/+11 Dmg: 2D6+13/(Large) Dmg: 3D6+15 / 19-20 x2
Optional: Power Attack: -3 to Hit/+6 Damage(2Hand -3/+9)

Comp Longbow: +14/+9/+4 Dmg: 1D8+7 / 20 x3

Gear: Breastplate, Greatsword, Comp Longbow(+7), etc.

Spells:
-LVL 1
Expeditious Retreat
Long Arm
Shield
+2 more

-LVL 2
Scorching Ray
See Invisibility
Spider Climb
+1 more

-LVL 3
Force Punch
Haste
Slow

Yes, I did in fact plan for them to be underlings, but that's not really the part that I'm working on atm. I'm still in the design phase and want to make the players at least partially balanced. I'm trying to decide if i should make them all the same type of undead(was thinking Graveknights) , if I should make it random using all of them, random using the powerful Templates(not Juju or Skele), or JUST Juju or Skele.

This is a rather important point because several of the powerful templates have the ability to come back to unlife after they have been destroyed(though i might remove this ability either way).

So I'm going to be running an undead campaign and I'm looking for advice regarding which Undead Templates would be best to use for the player characters. I'll be using Ghosts, Graveknights, Juju Zombie, Lich, Skeletal Champion, and Vampire. If Juju Zombies or Skeletal Champions get mixed with the more powerful Templates then I would also give them the Advanced Creature Template to compensate for having a weaker Template. The players will probably be have 5 class levels plus the Templates.

Thanks for any advice.

On Kinetic Barrier, I will just say this. DR is a type of damage control. It's like healing but block damage before hand. Now you giving a creature 20 hit points of healing at level 4, no caster can heal that much at level 4 with a level one spell. If you understand what I mean.

I understand what your trying to say, however there is akey difference between DR and a healing spell. With DR there is almost always a way to bypass it while healing just gives you HP back that still has to be run through again. The biggist weakness of the spell is the fact that any type of magic attack will bypass the DR, and at level 4 most parties will be encountering enemy casters with decent DPR and or creatures with some sort of magical ability. Long story short I think your overstating its power.

Magic Archer: not the same as Magic Missile. It's like ray of Frost advance with the scale same as Magic Missile with element of your choice. So you can choose what element you can deal the most damage with and cast them. Work best for draconic sorcerer or anti elemental spell caster.

Kinetic Barrier: I would say it's a level 1 spell and it's a bit too much. You are defending caster from it's weakness with low level spell by giving them damage reduction. At the very least, should tune the duration down to 1 min + 1 min per CL if not round. Also should be DR 1/- + 1 every 2 CL up to 10. So level 10 can get 5/- while you don't get too much DR at level 4. Should make it doesn't stack with other DR so you can be almost invincible at level 10.

Thunderous Gale Form, Minor: Giving a caster two feats and two spells all in one spell is just too much. The 1 hp is nothing when you have lv 5 spells, and spell caster won't have to worry about fatigue after this spell ends. They can just cast other spells to finish the job. Oh, no. By the time you have this spell, you would be level 10. With Haste Spell, the Cats's Grace Spell and the Fly Spell, you don't even need to do anything else. Casting 20 spells in 10 rounds while you can hardly hit your flying, fast dodging target, what can live after fighting that? Dead gaze I guess?

If you want to make this spell works, reduce the duration to 1 + 1 round ever 2 level and take 1d4 damage per caster level. With that you can make sure that the most caster level the caster has, more damage it will take. Means they will have the power of god but could take up almost half their life. Would work best for multi class monk, but 10 level monk and 10 level of wizard wouldn't have much BAB anyway. Or have the caster take 1d3 con damage and fatigue after it. This way, you get your god power while still balance because you are one 1d3 con closer to death.

Ok so what i'm getting is that Magic archer is More or Less fine if i make that one change.

I'm not so sure i agree with your view on Kinetic Barrier though. I capped its DR at 4 because i didn't want it to be overpowered and the long duration is mitigated by the very low damage threshold(ei. 5dmg at level 1, 10dmg at level 2 ect), which you have to admit is pretty easy to burn through. That might equate to 1 or 2 attacks before then Spell drops so all in all i'd have to say that its not as long lived as you think.

Ok I kinda like the idea of taking a Con Damage after the spell ends, since this is supposed to be like a "Finisher Spell" or a "Last Ditch Spell" so it would make sense that the cost should be on the high end. So how about 1D4 Con Damage when the spell ends? As for the initial blood sacrifice(1 damage),what if i changed that to 1 point of damage per caster level?

Magic Archer: I see your point about the missile per level issue and will make that change.

kinetic Barrier : I cant remember exactly why I went with a level max DR of 4. I guess I just figured 5 would be too much but 4 would be just right....so I guess DR5 it is.

Thunderous Gale Form, minor: Ok, so i figured that this one would be the sticking point. I really want to figure out a way to make something like this work. Any constructive ideas?

Anyway ill probably be posting at least a few mored spell ideas in the near future but please feel free to post any of your own here as well. Thanks for the help.

I've always enjoyed messing with game mechanics and such so I got really excited when Ultimate Magic came out and gave me some guidelines to work with on spells. That being said, Im not to sure how balanced some of my spells are and thats where you all come in. I would like for this to be a review of any and all custom spells, so dont be shy, blast away.

Here are a few of the ones that im going to try and run in my current game(gm allowing):

Custom Spells

Magic Archer
- School: Evocation(Acid, Cold, Electric or Fire)
- Level: Wizard 1
- Casting time: Standar Action
- Components: V, S
- Range: Medium (100ft + 10ft/Level)
- Targets: Up to 5, no two of which may be more than 15ft apart.
- Duration: Instantaneous
- Saving Throw: None
- Spell Resistance: Yes

* A missile of elemental energy(type chosen at time of casting) shoots forth from your hand to strike at its target(must succeed at a Ranged Touch attack for each missile), dealing 1D6 points of Acid, Cold, Electric, or Fire Damage.

For every two caster levels, you generate an additional missile(two at 2nd level, three at 4th level, and the maximum of five at 6th level or higher). If you shoot multiple missiles, you can have them strike a single target or several targets.A single missile can only strike one target. You must designate targets before you check for Spell Resistance or roll damage.

Kinetic Barrier
- School: Abjuration (Force)
- Level: Wizard 1
- Casting Time: Standard Action
- Components: V, S, focus(small glass/crystal orb)
- Range: Touch
- Target: Touched creature
- Duration: 1 hour/level or until discharged
- Saving Throw: Will Negates(harmless)
- Spell Resistance: No

* An Invisible but tangible barrier surrounds the target of Kinetic Barrier which reduces the damage from incoming physical attacks. The target of this spell gains a damage reduction of 1/Magic per Caster level to a maximum of 4/Magic. This lasts until the duration ends or until the spell has absorbed 5 points of damage per Caster level to a maximum
of 20 at which point the spell ends.

Thunderous Gale Form, Minor
- Schoool: Transmutation(Electric, Air)
- Level: Wizard 5
- Casting Time: 1 Full Round Action
- Components: V, S, M(Drop of caster's blood)
- Range: Personal
- Target: You
- Duration: 1 round per Caster Level
- Saving Throw: None
- SR: No

* This spell calls upon the Elemental Plane of Air and channels its properties into you for a short time giving you great power but causing great stress on your body after the effects wear off. During the casting process the caster takes 1 point of damage that is not preventable. This spell grants the caster the effects of the Haste Spell, the Cats's Grace Spell, the Fly Spell and any melee attacks(Armed or Unarmed) made by the caster while the spell is active deal an additional 1D6 Electric damage and are considered to be magic for purposes of DR. This Spell can be dismissed as a Swift Action. However when the spell ends the caster becomes Fatigued for a number of rounds equal to twice the number of rounds the spell was active. This spell cannot be cast if the caster is Fatigued.