So last night I put together a new Cleric kit, the Scion of Murder. Here's what I've currently got, and I was hoping some of you folks would have some good ideas that would improve my current set up. I'm not 100% satisfied with my current design, especially the granted abilities.
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SCION OF MURDER: Some of the Bhaalspawn discovered their inherited power early in life and, whether they understood its true nature or not, embraced it. Rather than devoting themselves to some existing deity these scions turned their conviction inward, cultivating their own divine spark and reaping the nascent power of their progenitor.
Alignment: Any Chaotic or Evil
Those who both respect the rule of law and the freedom or lives of others simply lack the ethical perspective required to become a living embodiment of murder.
Equipment Restrictions*: Access to all Cleric equipment plus the ability to wield all one handed melee weapons, access to all styles except two-handed. May specialize in daggers, short swords, the single weapon style, and dual wielding (2 points max).
The Bhaalspawn are Scions of murder, not wholesale slaughter. Thus they favor weapons that can be carried casually and quickly thrust between the ribs or skull of an unsuspecting enemy.
Requirements: 9 Str, 9 Dex, 12 Wis
Dual Class Requirement (to dual class out): 12 Str, 12 Dex, 15 Wis
Dual Class Requirement (to Dual Class in)**: 17 Str, 17 Wis
Advantages:
- Invisibility: Once per day. An additional use is granted at level 5 and every 5 levels thereafter
- Hold Person: Once per day at level 4, with an additional use every 4 levels thereafter.
- Power Word Kill: Once per day at level 15, with an additional use every 10 levels thereafter
* The mod this kit is packaged with removes the all-out restriction on priest weapons. While only this kit gets access to non-cleric proficiencies, the restriction in 2nd ed always struck me as idiotically game-ist. Without this mod, the kit can take the proficiencies but never actually wield edged weapons.
** Not currently implemented
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I want powers that feel like murder rather than simply death. Invisibility is the only one I'm 100% on, though if there's a version that is self only that would be even better. Hold Person seems ideal, it's specific to murdering *people* rather than killing monsters, and the hold spells have always struck me as a rather horrific way to be killed. Power word kill is mostly for flavor at this point, as anyone hitting level 15 is so overpowered in BG1 that they can practically "power word kill" with their fists.
Thoughts?
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SCION OF MURDER: Some of the Bhaalspawn discovered their inherited power early in life and, whether they understood its true nature or not, embraced it. Rather than devoting themselves to some existing deity these scions turned their conviction inward, cultivating their own divine spark and reaping the nascent power of their progenitor.
Alignment: Any Chaotic or Evil
Those who both respect the rule of law and the freedom or lives of others simply lack the ethical perspective required to become a living embodiment of murder.
Equipment Restrictions*: Access to all Cleric equipment plus the ability to wield all one handed melee weapons, access to all styles except two-handed. May specialize in daggers, short swords, the single weapon style, and dual wielding (2 points max).
The Bhaalspawn are Scions of murder, not wholesale slaughter. Thus they favor weapons that can be carried casually and quickly thrust between the ribs or skull of an unsuspecting enemy.
Requirements: 9 Str, 9 Dex, 12 Wis
Dual Class Requirement (to dual class out): 12 Str, 12 Dex, 15 Wis
Dual Class Requirement (to Dual Class in)**: 17 Str, 17 Wis
Advantages:
- Invisibility: Once per day. An additional use is granted at level 5 and every 5 levels thereafter
- Hold Person: Once per day at level 4, with an additional use every 4 levels thereafter.
- Power Word Kill: Once per day at level 15, with an additional use every 10 levels thereafter
* The mod this kit is packaged with removes the all-out restriction on priest weapons. While only this kit gets access to non-cleric proficiencies, the restriction in 2nd ed always struck me as idiotically game-ist. Without this mod, the kit can take the proficiencies but never actually wield edged weapons.
** Not currently implemented
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I want powers that feel like murder rather than simply death. Invisibility is the only one I'm 100% on, though if there's a version that is self only that would be even better. Hold Person seems ideal, it's specific to murdering *people* rather than killing monsters, and the hold spells have always struck me as a rather horrific way to be killed. Power word kill is mostly for flavor at this point, as anyone hitting level 15 is so overpowered in BG1 that they can practically "power word kill" with their fists.
Thoughts?