Naga Apostle, an evil Rainbow Servant variant

[PhaedrusXY]

Naga Apostle

The coatl aren't the only powerful extra-planar serpents that grant power to their followers. Fiendish Ha-Naga, aspiring to become demi-gods, sometimes grant mortals a taste of their power in exchange for their worship and service.

Prereqs: Able to cast 3rd level arcane spells, Knowledge (Planes or Dungeoneering) 4, non-good

BAB: medium
Saves: Good Will, Bad Ref and Fort
Skills: 4 per level
Class skills: Bluff, Hide, Move Silently, Disguise, Gather Information, Diplomacy, Use Magic Device, Knowledge (all), Spellcraft, Concentration
Spellcasting: +1 at every level

Naga Apostle 1 Detect Good (at will, as Paladin's Detect Evil), Evil subtype, Immortality
Naga Apostle 2 Attune Domain (Charm)
Naga Apostle 3 Heat Vision (Darkvision 60', or double range if already have it)
Naga Apostle 4 Attune Domain (Travel)
Naga Apostle 5 Forked Tongue (add class level to Bluff as a racial bonus, can take 10 on Bluff)
Naga Apostle 6 Magical Flight (60', perfect)
Naga Apostle 7 Snake in the Grass (add class level to Hide as a racial bonus, can take 10 when hiding)
Naga Apostle 8 Attune Domain (Trickery)
Naga Apostle 9 False Skin (add class level to Disguise as a racial bonus, can take 10 on this skill)
Naga Apostle 10 Cleric Spell Access (as Rainbow Servant)

Snake in the Grass: As the Dark Serpent's powers grow, he gains the ability to manipulate the coloring of his own skin. At 6th level, this allows him to add his class level to Hide checks, and take 10 while hiding (normally impossible as it is an opposed check).

False Skin: At 9th level, his control of his chameleon powers has improved to the point where he can make fine manipulations to aid him in using the Disguise skill. He adds his class level as a racial bonus to Disguise checks, and can take ten on them.

[ubernoob]

Looks fine as a wizard prestige class. A bit too potent as a dread necromancer prestige class IMO (mostly due to attune domain sidestepping tons of dread necromancer spell holes and getting to cast better than clerics at 15th level).

[PhaedrusXY]

Yeah, I know what you're saying. I actually made this for a guy who wanted to play an evil-flavored Warmage/Rainbow Servant in a game I'm running. Since it is a Tome game, I figured I'd try to make it more in line (power- and flavor-wise) with the other Tome caster PrCs.

Being a better cleric than a cleric is a problem brought over from the original Rainbow Servant, but I doubt he'll ever get to the capstone, since it is PbP and it started at 7th. (Although I did let him use early entry cheese).

He is also using Koumei's Warmage rewrite, so he actually has a lot of the travel spells on his list already, and he is giving up decent abilities by progressing in this instead of the base class. So he is basically trading power now for power later (that he might never see). I'm not saying that's a great design paradigm, though.

[ubernoob]

Yeah, I know what you're saying. I actually made this for a guy who wanted to play an evil-flavored Warmage/Rainbow Servant in a game I'm running. Since it is a Tome game, I figured I'd try to make it more in line (power- and flavor-wise) with the other Tome caster PrCs.

Being a better cleric than a cleric is a problem brought over from the original Rainbow Servant, but I doubt he'll ever get to the capstone, since it is PbP and it started at 7th. (Although I did let him use early entry cheese).

He is also using Koumei's Warmage rewrite, so he actually has a lot of the travel spells on his list already, and he is giving up decent abilities by progressing in this instead of the base class. So he is basically trading power now for power later (that he might never see). I'm not saying that's a great design paradigm, though.

Aside from the capstone ability, I don't see anything in this class fucking over your game even with a warmage. Should be fine.

[Surgo]

I don't necessarily think it's bad as a Dread Necromancer PrC either, though. Once you get those Attune Domains, that's it -- you can't take that feat anymore, so I hope you like those domains.