Awesome! Except… it is limited to once per day, only provides +2 armor and only lasts a number of rounds equal to your level. The idea is that you may encase yourself in bones forcefully drawn out of any dead bodies in the surrounding area, providing an armor bonus with no arcane spell failure chance of armor check penalty. If you have a bite attack from another source, the blood-drinking is automatic and doesn't appear to take any time at all or have any cost, so a GM may find themselves picking different enemies to counter the tactic if this feat gets overused.īone Armor is a fantastic idea for a necromancer, but falls short mechanically. My only concern with this ability is that the Con damage and all of the bonuses appear to be automatically successful, so long as the actual bite attack connects. As a balancing feature, the initial feat may only be used against a single subtype of (living) humanoids, but this may be expanded to animals, the recently deceased, monstrous humanoids or other humanoid subtypes. Further feats add to these bonuses or otherwise alter the ability to be less restricted.
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One of the core feats (acting as a prerequisite for 7 of the others) in this book is Blood Drinker, which grants a series of abilities related to drinking an enemy's blood, dealing 2 points of Constitution damage to the enemy and granting temporary hitpoints and a bonus to saves based on your own Constitution. Since I do not know for sure what the intent was (and the feat appears to be way too powerful as-written), I would simply ban it as an option. There are multiple abilities that are similar, with the closest being "Death's Touch" for Bones Oracles or Grave Touch for Necromancy Wizards, but it's also possible that the writer inadvertently used a 3.x edition ability name by mistake.
Strangely, it appears to be impossible to actually take the feat, as something called "Death Touch" is listed in the prerequisites, but I can find no Pathfinder source for that ability/feat/trait on any of the usual websites or in my copy of the Shadows of Vathak campaign setting.
I do not believe this is the intent, but as-written, this is an enormously powerful feat.
The first strange feat is Animation by Touch, which appears to grant the ability to cast animate dead as many times as you want for free, with the only limit being that you may only animate one undead creature per turn with a maximum number of undead controlled being 2HD per caster level. I like many of the feats in this book, but several stood out as being strangely written or balanced, with a few missing prerequisites or having conflicting purposes. Most of these feats are thematically appropriate for the Dhampir enhancing senses, social abilities, necromantic powers, vampiric abilities and so on. One of the feats listed within has a prerequisite that references elements of that campaign setting, so you may need to adjust or outright ban it if your adventures take place in another setting. Both are of good quality.ĭhampir Feats: There are 37 feats within this book, specifically for use within the Shadows over Vathak campaign setting. It makes for a fairly poor first impression, but the errors were not serious enough to diminish the overall quality of the book.Īrt: 2 pictures, both of characters, with one in color and one in black and white. I found 17 typographical and grammatical errors total, 11 of which are contained within the introductory text on page 1. Length: 7 pages total: 1 page front cover, credits and introduction 5 pages of content 1 page licensing.įormat: 2-column, easy to read. Dark Talents: Dhampir Feats for Shadows over Vathak
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