The Sorcererous Knight (an Eldritch Knight archetype) - Please Critique

[Volvogg]

Hey All,

I have what is probably the simplest idea for an archetype but wanted to confirm with the folks here that it's not unbalanced in some unforeseen way. The archetype is pretty straightforward; it's a variant eldritch knight which looses the bonus feats as well as replacing the diverse training ability with the following:

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Martial Bloodline: An sorcerous knight adds his level to any levels of fighter he might have for the purpose of meeting the prerequisites for feats (if he has no fighter levels, treat his sorcerous knight levels as levels of fighter). He also adds his level to any levels in an arcane spellcasting class for the purpose of meeting the prerequisites for feats as well as determining what bloodline powers she can use and their effects.

Hopefully this is alright. If not please let me know what your thoughts/suggestions/comments are.

Cheers
Volf

[Bardarok]

You are replacing three combat feats with ten levels of bloodline advancement. This is a significant increase in power over the base eldritch knight class.

I recommend making a modified version of the dragon disciple class for a gish sorcerer focusing on bloodline advancement.

Or you could nerf this down to every two levels in Sorcerous knight count as one level of bloodline advancement.

[LoneKnave]

Well, Eldritch bloodline is basically 3 feats for all the bloodline abilities (except the arcana, but you get that from the sorc already) so this doesn't look that OP.

[Volvogg]

LoneKnave wrote:

Well, Eldritch bloodline is basically 3 feats for all the bloodline abilities (except the arcana, but you get that from the sorc already) so this doesn't look that OP.

That's exactly what I was thinking as well. To me this alternative to the prestige class seems alright. I guess I will play test it a bit to ensure all is alright.

Bardarok wrote:

You are replacing three combat feats with ten levels of bloodline advancement. This is a significant increase in power over the base eldritch knight class.

Ironically that's exactly what I was thinking when I put this together. For the expenditure of 3 feats you can effectively gain 10 levels when it comes to calculating your bloodline.

Thanks for the comments folks, its much appreciated.

Cheers
Volf

[Bardarok]

I still think that ten levels of full bloodline stacking is better than the three eldritch heritage feats (which only gives you three of five abilities) and getting all three of those without needing the skill focus prerequisite is better than three combat feats. Therefore this is more powerful than the vanilla eldritch knight.

Of course the eldritch knight is not really a powerhouse of a class liable to unbalance your game so a bit of a buff shouldn't ruin your game. Assuming of course that the player doesn't have some diabolical powergamy plot a brewin'.