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I considered something like that. More along the lines of the Rogue Abilities though, where they aren't exactly feats. The only Issue I'm seeing is that there is a varying power level between different vampire powers. the Mist form is worth LA+1, for example. Dominate is worth LA+0.5, and Children of the Night and Spiderwalk are equivalent to feats (LA+0.2). That's why I was thinking that it could be a better Idea to have the...

While I find it to be a facinating idea, I find that it has three problems: 1. Its boring. No player in my group would ever sacrifice their skill bonuses for lower skill bonuses, except maybe the newest. 2. BAB and saves are considered in character class power balances, so making them into skills makes characters like the monk (good BAB+all good saves) a poorer choice. 3. On the above topic (#2), who wants to give the wizard just as much BAB...

The note for level 10 references a class level 12. Minor point but I'm trying to be helpful. You'll also want to revisit the Final Thoughts section now that it is a 10 level class. The class looks pretty good. Plenty of abilities for each level (excepting 9 and 10) and plenty of power per level (excepting 9) without being too strong. It's a touch bland, but balancing a template often is. Conceptually, I really like the options...

Sylrae, Concerning Vampire Variety... What about feats that a vampire could take to gain some of the alternate abilities that you mention? Maybe the vampire gains access to Vampiric Feats and can select one of them every so many levels or choose them when they would otherwise gain other feats?

Don't forget the base bonus. It adds 1/2 your level to ALL skills. Thus, you can have effectively a full BAB in Melee and 1/2 BAB in Marksmanship, for example. Base bonus adds to AC as well, and I have a Swashbuckler fighting style for the fighter class (each fighter gains a style at 1st class level; "attribute" below is actually "ability modifier" in the usual 3.x sense): Swashbuckler Your wit is your...

Is it going to sparkle in the sunlight? In full disclosure, I played Vampire: the Masquerade for several years.

. To all who are interested, the OP has been updated.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tequila Sunrise First thing I'd like to point out is that there's generally no meaningful difference between racial traits, feats, class abilities and prestige class abilities. Most of the game's abilities are arbitrarily dropped into one of those four bags based on game tradition and the designers' personal preconceptions. So naturally, I don't see any problem with putting an ability in...

Quote: Originally Posted by nonsi256 The psionic classes and psionics in general weren't invented to cover folklore archetypes. The origin of psionics is actually AD&D 2e's attempt to embody the sorcerer-kings presented in the Darksun novels (hardly worthy to be categorized as folklore). With 3.5e's RAW plus the "complete" series and a handfull of inginuitive spells, you could do that easiy without...

I haven't really gotten around to an in-depth reading of what you've posted, here. But I just wanted to say that I too, like pie.