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Wow. A base class submission that is not wildly unbalanced and actually seems broad enough to be a base class. Color me impressed. There is some definate Mearlsian design going on here; have you read the Iron Hero's rules? It's a pretty interesting variant spellcaster. It's got the flexibility thing going on that as psion has, but its not outright broken like the psionic classes. I foresee four problems, two minor, on moderate,...

Sanity check time... Cleave/great cleave/whirlwind attack - none of these allow you to take a step between attacks, so unless the target was in reach at the start of your attack sequence, you can't hit it. Someone point me to the rulebook that has the mob template definition? Found it... DMG2 page 59. And no surprise, there's ambiguity in the rules. They say the mob can't conduct any special attack that requires an action....

I might have missed something in reading, but I don't see a cost for channeling. My guess is 1 point of focus = 1 spell level, not sure though. They have max of 10 focus points at 20th level. Not many spells off of base focus points, but as long as you don't want to do any moving and cast a spell that takes a standard action you can get 2 points back every round. You can also absorb spells cast at you for more focus points that can...

With the negative energy aspect this feels a lot like Necromancy. Also, how would this affect other types of elementals like Taint and Shadow?

There are 48 creatures per mob, so if you hit AC 6 for a mob of humans, you down a creature, if you do 5 hp of damage.

In a system wherein feats represent not only tweaks to the spreadsheet, but entirely new things your character can do - only with a given feat - or, even more commonly, things your character can now do without copping some awful knid of penalty or hampering factor. . . I think it's just as well that there are many, many feats. I realise that some feats could be made class abilities. I see C&C as one of several systems...

Not to mention how does it affect undead, which are powered by the negative energy plance and healed by negative energy. I would argue that this would also heal them.

It isn't homebrew, doesn't have higher BAB, and is a little more complex, but have you tried looking at the pathfinder variant of the monk? The tweeks in that version of the class look pretty good to me, they get a few more feats and have a ki pool to spend on their various special abilities. Monk (Pathfinder_OGC)

Big downside? Not unless something there's something you've not mentioned. What they do? That depends upon why you want to give game mechanics to helmets, and how attractive you want those mechanics to be. Good luck.

Each madness feat is basically equal to 2 regular feats, balanced out by the Wisdom check penalty. Quote: Originally Posted by Chronologist Insane Confidence should still cause the Will save penalty to apply. I was a little unsure about Insane Confidence. As it is, most PCs with a hefty madness score will pick it up regardless of their Charisma, just to escape the Will penalty. However, if I leave the penalty, the feat only barely surpasses...