Epic Dragon Disciple

[Glaucozilla]

It's still me! Yes, I know my posts really focus on diverse stuff!


When I made chiara I had in mind to get her to 20 DD levels, for flavor, concept and 'power fantasy' but epic DD really gives nothing to make it worth it.

DDs are picked up by martial classes. You'll surely see barbs and fighters in there. maybe some prc like errant knight, unyielding def, anointed knight etc.

Beside the errant knight (which is ilmited to 5) all of the martials give great advantages compared to going further on DD.

Barbarian gives you better rages, damage reductions, feat, dodge.
Fighter gives you AC and feats.

Epic DD just offers less than what base class do, which is underwhelming because it's a PRC and epic levels.

It stops the phisical transformation effects which is the whole theme of the class, there's few bonus feats, and it improves, slowly, the already awful breath weapon.

Sure, it gives some AC bonus, but fighter does it too with extra feats on the menu. It's just a worse fighter.

My suggestion is to make the ac bonus better, either making it every 3 levels instead of 5. Or by giving armor skin, if not at 11 somewhere in between.

Get some stat increase or adding Great STR, CHA and CON as bonus feats and give a few more bonus feats.

Improved dragon breath that increases its damage and DC at some point

and why not, some flavor to get horns, tail and wing together in the mix.

Some other fun features could be innate SR or a fear aura, impoing the blindsense bonus to +15

Make DD fun. Every time I see at my future plan for epic levels I just can't unsee that by going full fighter i get an insane benefit compared to keeping leveling following the concept and flavor.

Inheritor does not have this kind of problem. Their breath is already far better and they also get more bonus feats.