Quasi:Plague Follower

[mrbadexample]

Plague Follower

Backstory:
Devote Monks of Talona and the followers of the Plauge are bringers of death and disease. Talona has given Her Priests the power of the "Chaos Curse" in the form of a posion in which they have daggers dipped into. The Plague Follower is a specially gifted follower who has give his soul to Talona and in return has infused his body with the power of the "Chaos Curse" in which he can strike his foes with ailments the like the world has never seen.

Requirements(by lvl 28):
Monk: 15
PM: 10
Weapon Focus: Unarmed Strike
Greater Spell Focus: Necro
Resist Poison

Benefiets:
Gain Weapon Spec: Unarmed Strike, and Immunity to all posions/disease. The Plague Follower is able to combine the power of their Deathless Mastery Touch into their flurrie of blows All though not the killing strike of a standard Pale Master they instead cause a curse effect lowering random stats by (1d2 + PM lvl) as well as inficting additional Negitive damage on hit based on (PM lvl + LL) if Control Class is PM. Also The Plague Follower become totally dependant on Negative Energy to survive and must use Harm Pots and negative damage to Heal itself.

Spells:
All spells not listed here still follow the standard PM DC/progression on the server the below spells are changed for the quassiclass

Lvl 1:
Ray of Enfeeblement
(Ability decreases are given to the Plague Follower as temp Stat Bonuses, change range to touch)

Lvl 2:
Ghoul Touch
(Change DC to include Monk+PM+LL)
Death Armor
(Increase Duration by 10)

Lvl 3:
Neg Energy Burst
(Centered Around Plague Follower increase in AoE Size)

Lvl 4:
Enervate
(Ability decreases are given to the Plague Follower as temp Bonuses, change range to touch)


Lvl 6:
Circle of Death
(Centered Around the Plague Follower increase in AoE Size increase HitDie effected to 1d6)

Lvl 8:
Horrid Wilting
(Centered around the Plague Follower, double the spell duration)

[Isendur]

I love the idea, funky should have a look, i just cant wait to see if it does make it as a quassi. One of my faviroute so far. Btw is it a dex or a int char?.

[Drake]

I like the base idea but I musst mention that there will be a problem with this quasi:

You have to possess 3 lvls of an arcane casting class the become a pm.
That means you have to take EVERY level until the 28th to become an Plague Follower.

Nice base but you should have another look at this

greetz

Drake

[strakej01]

Cool idea - A plague bareing monk? hell yes. Seems like it has plenty of room to expand on for the devs too.

Would be cool if its onhit would cause all monsters within a uef sized area (small right?) around the PC's target to make a save or contract the disease/curse aswell - Dealing damage/ability decreases/ and/or vulnerablities. Tank monk taking down multiple enemies with AoE attacks = ubuh

[Balduvard]

Nov 10, 2009 19:46:34 GMT strakej01 said:

Would be cool if its onhit would cause all monsters within a uef sized area (small right?) around the PC's target to make a save or contract the disease/curse aswell - Dealing damage/ability decreases/ and/or vulnerablities.

This sounds familiar.

Jan 14, 2009 7:02:30 GMT Balduvard said:

New reworking of the quasi:

Deathless Mastery Touch: Inflicts a contagious disease that will spread from one monster to the next upon death until no more monsters are within the (mystery size) infection distance of the most recent corpse. The next monster will only become infected if it fails its saving throw, but with each kill that the disease lives through it will increase its DC. The effects of the disease are (mystery effects). (10 PM levels/use)

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[li]Taking Spell Foci feats in necromancy will increase the DC of the disease (these feats may not be granted by a tome)[/li][/ul]
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I had previously designed the abilities of a monk/pm quasiclass around AB based on-hits, but this was not an effective approach due to the insufficient AB provided by the class combination. I switched it instead to run off of the class abilities.

[Shakua]

why does it make me think of rabies from diablo 2

[Werehound Silverfang]

Sept 10, 2007 12:02:26 GMT mrbadexample said:

Lvl 8:
Horrid Wilting
(Centered around the Plague Follower, double the spell duration)

Horrid Wilting is instantaneous magic damage. What's there to double?

[strakej01]

That's exactly what I was thinking, shakua Rabies was fun in d2, therefore it would be fun in nwn!

[Shakua]

its not the same spirit..blight druid yes...pm/monk hybrid? no no..

[strakej01]

Quite pessimistic are we?

[Shakua]

Nothing pessimistic about it. why make a class with ability that either dont make sense or balancing issues? and just because something was fun in one game dont make it so in another.

[CataclysmicDeath]

How exactly does this not make sense? Personally I think it make perfect sense.

Tolona is the goddess of disease and poison iirc. Having her most loyal and faithful Monks able to inflict diseases via a touch attack seems quite logical.

The combination of Monk and PM for a Combat orientated quasi class works quite well in this case. Druid would be less realistic from an RP point of view since Tolona was comonly worhsipped by Assassin's, Magic-Users and Clerics not by those who used 'natural' magic.

If anything I would immagine the Assassin would be a better choice than Monk since it would fit into Talona's portfolio better, however requiring two prestige classes to qualify for a quasi would probably be quite painful from a building point of view.

As for the AB issue mentioned by Balduvard one solution could be to give the Quasi Fighter BAB on qualification perhaps?

As for having to take EVERY level to qualify as the quasi doesn't seem to harsh to me.