Avenger of the Defiled NPC [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Master_Vega

12-10-07, 12:24 AM
For a campaign I'm looking to run sometime soon, I'm going to have a durgesinger (or whatever the necro-bard class was) secondary BBEG. I also wanted to have someone who is after him, who the PCs might run into and help out.

I want this NPC to be an avenger of those who have their bodies stolen from them (people taken over by illithids count, but he mostly avenges those whose bodies have been reanimated for evil purposes and/or by evil people.) He allows the souls of those who wish to take revenge on their defiler to travel with him in a lantern he carries -which constantly glows whenever at least one soul hides inside it-. In exchange for hunting down the targets of their revenge, they protect him until their target has been eliminated (though he cannot simply make a promise and procrastinate, or sooner or later the ghost will catch on and desert him).

Is there any existing class I can use for this NPC, or do I have to make one? I haven't read up on the Binder -I don't own the book it's in-, so I don't know what its capabilities are.

Edit: It'd also be cool if the class had some necromancy ability of it's own for added irony. :P

Thanks!
Orchomenos

12-10-07, 09:27 AM
Divine Shaman? I always thought it was the kind of class for someone able to see spirits other couldn't see, like Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost, the young boy in Sixth Sense, or Melinda Gordon in Ghost Whisperer...
You could rule that Spirit Guide, Blessing of the Spirits and his spells are usable only when he has one spirit with him...