Replacement for Iaijutsu Master
It's a little hard to have an oriental setting without throwing a bone to all the Rurouni Kenshin fans out there (and all the other iaido archetypes of Japanese history/mythology), so I thought I'd offer this one--a non-sucky version that doesn't rely on a single skill that's a pain to use. It's not exactly a Tome-specific PrC, but I think it can stand at around the same level as classes such as the Assassin, Thief-Acrobat, and Knight (though doubtful compared to classes like the Wizard, Cleric, or Druid, or Tome-variations of classes like the Fighter or Samurai). Still, with something like the Combat Looting feat to sheathe as a free action, it might be wizard-level. --Ghostwheel 05:09, August 12, 2010 (UTC)
- Awesome! I always enjoyed the idea behind that class, but hated the iaijutsu focus skill(and the blank levels). The balance shouldn't be too much of a problem, since some of the Tome stuff is Rogue level(and if what I've read is correct, winning encounters 50% of the time was the original ideal anyway). --Azya 05:26, August 12, 2010 (UTC)
- Sounds good. For the rogue-level archer-samurai (since I think that samurais were trained in both sword and bow, right?), you might take a look at this class so that not every half-decent archer needs to be a cleric :-P --Ghostwheel 07:01, August 12, 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, samurai were trained in the bow as well (represses the urge to go into a pointless history lesson). The class looks good, the only downside being that it doesn't use Tome feats. I'm probably going to make a PrC for samurai archers, though it'd really be a variant of the Wasp Bounty Hunter from the Rokugan Campaign Setting(not to be confused with the one in the back of OA). But, to be fair, most of the PrC's I have in mind are variants or adaptations of ones in RCS and OA. --Azya 07:42, August 12, 2010 (UTC)