[Prestige] - Shadowdancers need love, too

[hogarth]

The shadowdancer seems like a pretty sad class. It has its best ability at level 1 (although Hide in Plain Sight is less good now that you can't hide while attacking) and some decent abilities at level 2 and then it seems to go downhill pretty rapidly from there.

The worst is the Shadow Illusion ability. You might as well give him a t-shirt that reads: "I took three feats as prerequisites, and all I got is the ability to cast a 1st level spell once per day."

How about some better shadow-related abilities? Something like a cloaker's Shadow Shift ability would be pretty cool.

[kyrt-ryder]

Well now that I opened this thread I'm not quite as dissappointed that I went ahead and posted mine anyway lol. I laid out some stuff in greater detail over there, but I suppose it doesn't particularily matter where we discuss them, so long as we get shadow dancers into a playable class. (which, in 3.5, they weren't, and everybody else got better in the transition)

[Jason Bulmahn]

To avoid starting two identical threads right at the start, I am going to lock this one and refer discussions to the other. Please repost to that one if you are so inclined.

The other thread is here.

Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing