Variant Dread Necromancer (3.5e Alternate Class Feature)

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Variant Dread Necromancer

This variant of the Dread Necromancer remove some of the least useful ability, rework it spell list and it progression to make it better suited for a VH Game. The change include expanding their spell list and granting them significant ability changes.

Class: Dread Necromancer

Level: 1st-20th

Replaces: Spell List, Negative Energy Burst, Scabrous Touch, Craft Wondrous Item (19th)

Benefit: The Dread Necromancer use the following spell list instead of it typical spell list:

0—arcane mark, caltrops^SpC, daze, detect magic, disrupt undead, ghost sound, prestidigitation, resistance, spook, touch of fatigue.

1st—backbiter^SpC, bane, cause fear, chill of the grave^SpC, chill touch, corpse puppet, curse water, doom, dust to dust, inflict light wounds, ghoul light^SpC, grave strike^SpC, paranoia haunt, possessed hand, ray of enfeeblement, smell of fear^SpC, spirit worm^SpC, winter chill^SpC.

2nd—blade of pain and fear^SpC, combust^SpC, curse of ill fortune^SpC, curse of impending blades^SpC, daze monster, death armor^SpC, decomposition^SpC, desecrate, ghoul glyph^SpC, ghoul touch, infernal wounds^SpC, inflict moderate wounds, life bolt^SpC, living undeath^SpC, malevolent touch, phantasmal assailants^SpC, protection from negative energy^SpC, protection from positive energy^SpC, ray of weakness^SpC, rebuke^SpC, scare, shatter, shroud of undeath^SpC, speak with dead, spectral hand, spawn screen^SpC, sterilize, stolen breath^SpC, sudden weakness, vile strike, voodoo doll, wave of grief^SpC, winter's embrace^SpC, wracking touch^SpC.

3rd—bestow curse, clutch of orcus^SpC, cold intolerance, contagion, corpse bomb, corpse candle^SpC, crumble^SpC, curse of cacophonous chorus, death throes^SpC, dehydrate^SpC, divine sacrifice^SpC, gentle repose, ghoul geasture^SpC, greater disrupt undead^SpC, healing touch^SpC, infestation of maggots^SpC, inflict serious wounds, jack-o'-lantern bomb, mass curse of impending blades^SpC, nauseating breath^SpC, phantom steed, ray of exhaustion, rust ray^SpC, sepia snake sigil, skull watch^SpC, spark of life^SpC, undead torch^SpC, unholy storm^SpC, unluck^SpC, vampiric touch, withering glare.

4th—animate dead, assay spell resistance^SpC, bloodstar^SpC, bolt of bones, consumptive field^SpC, contagious touch^SpC, corporeal instability^SpC, crushing despair, curse of qwop, cursed blade^SpC, death ward, delay death^SpC, enervation, exsanguinate, fear, freeze mind, frog touch, greater rebuke^SpC, inflict critical wounds, langour^SpC, life ward^SpC, metal melt^SpC, miasma of entropy^SpC, negative energy aura^SpC, nerve overload, ray of dark sacrifice, revanance^SpC, scrying, undead bane weapon^SpC, wither limb^SpC, wood rot^SpC, wrack^SpC.

5th—baleful polymorph, barghest's feast^SpC, bone shape, cloudkill, contact other plane, curse of misfortune, cryostasis, curse object, darkbolt^SpC, denial, echo skull^SpC, eyebite, freeze blood, ghoul gauntlet^SpC, gravehorde, graymantle^SpC, incorporeal nova^SpC, lich's touch, life's grace^SpC, mass contagion^SpC, mass curse of ill fortune^SpC, memory rot^SpC, mass inflict light wounds, night's caress^SpC, prying eyes, raise dead, revive undead^SpC, sensory deprivation, slay living, spiritwall^SpC, symbol of pain, waves of fatigue.

6th—aura of terror^SpC, belladone's death curse of snakes, circle of death, create undead, deathball, dirge^SpC, flesh to stone, fleshshiver^SpC, harm, haunting death curse, heart ripper^SpC, hunger of the deep, imperious glare^SpC, liliane's stabbing cloudkill, mass inflict moderate wounds, legend lore, ray of entropy^SpC, revive outsider^SpC, revivify^SpC, spectral touch^SpC, symbol of fear, undeath to death.

7th—arrow of bone^SpC, avasculate^SpC, blood jorum, blood to water^SpC, crawl away head, death dragon^SpC, destruction, energy ebb^SpC, ethereal jaunt, evil glare^SpC, field of ghouls^SpC, final rebuke^SpC, finger of death, glass strike^SpC, greater consumptive field^SpC, greater scrying, hiss of sleep^SpC, improved phantasmal killer, mass inflict serious wounds, liliane's ray of death, resurrection, solipsism^SpC, sword of darkness^SpC, symbol of weakness, vision, waves of exhaustion, withering limb^SpC.

8th— avascular mass^SpC, blackfire^SpC, bodak's glare^SpC, create greater undead, crippling blow, death pact^SpC, flensing^SpC, ghostform^SpC, greater bestow curse^SpC, heart of stone^SpC, heat drain^SpC, horrid wilting, mass death ward^SpC, mass critical light wounds, oblivion, ray of darkest desires, steal life, skull cough, steal life, suddenly phantom train, symbol of death, trap the soul, veil of undeath^SpC, wrathful castigation^SpC, zombie apocalypse.

9th—an eternal curse upon thee, black blade of disaster^SpC, cast in stone^SpC, damnation of the earth, deathxtreme!, energy drain, etherealness, evil within, power word kill, reality maelstrom^SpC, sphere of ultimate destruction^SpC, soul bind, true resurrection, undeath's eternal foe^SpC, wail of the banshee, wave of negation, weird.

Craft Wondrous Item: A 3rd level Dread Necromancer gain Craft Wondrous Item as a bonus feat.

Aura of Dread (Su): A 5th level Dread Necromancer radiate a aura of fear and dread, whenever they attack, cast a spell or perform an hostile act, all enemies with a line of sight to her must make a Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 Class Level + Charisma bonus) or become At Bay from her. This last for as long as the dread necromancer is in line of sight and 1 round thereafter, or until the creature deal damage to the dread necromancer. A creature who save is immune for 24 hours, this ability is a [Mind-Affecting] [Fear] effect.

At 9th level this ability bypass immunity to [mind-affecting] and [fear] effect of non-mindless creatures, instead a creature immune to one or both gain a +8 bonus on their will save.

At 18th level those who fail the save must make a Fortitude save with the same DC or become unable to act for 1 round as they are paralyzed by dread.

Undead Mastery (Ex): A 5th level Dread Necromancer receive Corpsecrafter^LM as a bonus feat and may control twice the normal amount of undead as normal.

Pseudo-Paralyzing Touch (Ex): At 6th level, if a Dread Necromancer deal damage with her charnel touch, the target must make a Fortitude (DC 10 + 1/2 Class Level + Charisma bonus) save or become Immobilized and take a -4 penalty to their Dexterity score for 1 round both.

At 19th level this become a Lich's Paralyzing Touch on a failed Fortitude save.

Undo Death (Ex): At 8th level a Dread Necromancer gain a 50% discount of material component when she raise a creature she killed with a necromancy spell or her charnel touch as an undead or restore them to life. At 16th level this increase to 75%.

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