Evil classes

[Jmacc]

Starting an evil campaign with some friends. It's a Gestalt starting at level one in Faerun. No book of nine swords except general feats.
I was thinking a Dread Necromancer for one side, and wondering what some of your favorite classes were for evil parties.

 

[frankthedm]

Starting an evil campaign with some friends. It's a Gestalt starting at level one in Faerun. No book of nine swords except general feats.
I was thinking a Dread Necromancer for one side, and wondering what some of your favorite classes were for evil parties.

Warlock. depopulating a town with just your eldritch blast is fun.

 

[Theroc]

If Dread Necromancer is one side, then Marshal, Binder, and Warlock are all good options to give the necromancer options outside of spellcasting, for when he runs out of daily spells.

 

[Jmacc]

Yeah was thinking about warlock for the other class. I play one in another campaign so was thinking about going away from it, but the unlimited eld blasts, plus the fly and other utilities at higher level make me think it makes a lot of sense.

Are there any really cool evil races that dont have a ridiculous CR in Faerun? I dont have that book, only a few FR books .
*edit* I mean LA sorry, LONG day at work lol

 

[Theroc]

CR is irrelevant when making a PC. LA or RHD are what you're concerned about. However, I'm not familiar with Faerun really, so I won't be of much help there.

 

[Ahnehnois]

Cleric is an excellent gestalt for dread necromancer; improves saves and HD and provides great ways of enhancing your undead. Not infititely blasting like a warlock, but a gestalted character with two full caster classes is not going to run out of stuff very often.

Dragon Shaman is another similar choice; the auras enhance any undead allies and are infinite.

In general, you can euther gestalt two similar, synergistic choices or two polar opposites which complement each other. Good opposite classes include ranger and fighter; evil rangers with human favored enemy are a staple.

 

[Shin Okada]

I also vote for Warlock, then Cleric with Trickery domain.

Summon Undead spells are cool. But it takes a round to cast and that is a problem.

Now, if you are invisible, you can cast those spells without breaking your invisibility. Better if you are flying. Fell Flight + Walk Unseen + Summon Undead spells.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Bard (with ahatever feat it is to have music affect the undead) would be a cool gestalt with Dread Necro, if not a super-powerful one...

Dread Necro is a spellcasting class, so in general you'd want something like Warlock or Fighter that gives lots of passive abilities (as far as I'm concerned 24 hr duration invocations are "passive" ) since you'll be using your actions to cast spells. If not that, then something to leave you with significantly better HD, saves, BAB, and/or skill points than Dread Necro could give alone.

Hexblade could be an interesting combo. Fairly evil full BAB class, and the curse ability is a free action to use. I think the shadow companion (the PH2 variant, ALWAYS take this over the familiar) also costs no actions to control. And Mettle is always nice to have.

 

[Jmacc]

I did the template for the Warlock and Dread Necromancer .. Looks good so far. Maybe even at about lvl 3 or 4 really tough. But one thing I was wondering, would a favored soul from Miniatures be a viable 2nd class with the Dread Necro?

 

[kyrand]

The Favored Soul was updated in Complete Divine... not sure of the exact changes though.