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Members of this group define themselves by their alignment and their outlook on the world first, their other abilities second. Their strengths reflect their alignment choices, and roleplaying one means putting attitude first. A bad guy designation doesn't mean that every such character is a anti-hero in your campaign.
| Name | Type1 | Description2 | Len- gth3 |
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| Abomination | Combat Focused, Bad Guy | Abominations have been present throughout history, some making themselves well known such as the Frankenstein monster, whilst many have tried to emulate their hideous appearance, it takes a truly twisted and deformed mind to create such a being. Though it takes much more vision to become one as opposed to giving life to one... | 10 | 5 | ||
| Abyssal Alchemist | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | An Abyssal Alchemist is a very very special spellcaster, she is an expert of twisting and transmuting the chaotic primal essence of the demons, lords of the abyss. | 5 | 5 | ||
| Acolyte of Barnabus | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | An Acolyte of Barnabus is a worshipper of the greater deity of fear, Barnabus, and practices the highest art of fear. | 10 | |||
| Anima Apostle | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | An anima apostle is an ur-priest who has learned to bind the vestiges of long dead gods and demons to his will. | 10 | 7 | ||
| Apostate Sovereign | Combat-Focused | The Apostate Sovereign Is a Devout Vessel who has severed ties with their divine patron or leader. These individuals no longer serve a higher power but instead embrace their own strength, ambition, and individuality. | 20 | 0 | ||
| Arcane devotee | Spellcasting with a few cleric tricks | Arcane devotee is a prestige class on Faerûn comprised of arcane spellcasters dedicated to the deity they worship. | 7 | 5 | ||
| Arthroparch | Strong Spellcasting | A master of vermin, with the unique ability to bend them to his will. | 10 | 7 | ||
| Assassin, Creed Variant | <!No Description Present!> Please edit this class and add a description! | 10 | ||||
| Baatorian Arcanovore | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | Special agents of a cryptic and infernal order from the 9 Hells that specialize in the elimination of arcane spellcasters and outsiders. Intended for campaigns that allow Outsider PCs, or as an NPC Outsider class. | 10 | 7 | ||
| Baron of the Grave | Bad Guy, Moderate Spellcasting, Divine Spellcasting | The divine hand of the undead, the royalty and master of the undead, and the blurring of line between life and death. | 10 | 5 | ||
| Barrister of the Nine | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting, Arcane Spellcasting | A contract broker of the Nine Hells; often times, the contract's collateral is one's soul. | 10 | 9 | ||
| Blackguard, Variant | Bad Guy, Moderate Spellcasting | A variant of the SRD Blackguard | 10 | 6 | ||
| Blood Knight | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | Blood knights are servants of vampirekind, prestigious warriors, and powerful vampires. | 10 | 5 | ||
| Blood Mage | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | Despicable minions of the demon Acerbus, these evil spellcasters enjoy spreading pain and terror before them like the flames that wreath their dark masters body. | 10 | 5 | ||
| Blood Soldier | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | Blood Soldier are evil, and they seek to earn a "better" place in their infernal afterlives. They will work for anyone to achieve this end goal, making sure they do not become a nobody in the netherworld. | 5 | 5 | ||
| Bloodmeister | Combat Focused, Bad Guy | The power of blood, which exists in all living things, is an alluring force. Some would call the warriors who harness that power as a physical weapon true visionaries; others would call them madmen. Of course, there is often little difference between the two... | 5 | |||
| Bonespur | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | A fanatical worshipper of Nerull who learns to use his own bones as weapons. | 10 | 7 | ||
| Breathstealer | Bad Guy | Breathstealers kill to satisfy their morbid curiosity and twisted urges. | 20+ | 2 | ||
| Brother of the Dark Assassins | Bad Guy, Combat Focused | Cruel and harsh the Brothers of the Darkness are like their master Salavr | 5 | 11 | ||
| Brother of the Scarred Hand | Good guy, bad guy, minor spellcasting | Ascetics who learn the powers of healing and harming | 10 | 7 | ||
| Champion of Khorne | Bad Guy, Combat Focused | A maniacal beserker who allows his anger to guide his actions and who cares only for slaughter and blood | 10 | 7 | ||
| Corpselight Whisperer | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting, Druidic | Master of decay, and the secrets of the Will-o-Wisps | 10 | 6 | ||
| Creator | strong spellcasting, divine spellcasting | A creator is a divine spellcaster who seeks to attain the most basic power of the gods, the ability to create life itself. | 15 | 10 | ||
| Crossroad Demon | <!No Description Present!> Please edit this class and add a description! | |||||
| Cyst Disciple | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | A divine spellcaster who worships the undead cyst that has taken root in their living flesh. | 10 | |||
| Dark Knight | Good Guy, Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | The Dark Knight was an attempt to duplicate the powers of the Holy and Fell Knights by the Kaladonian Empire. While it failed insofar as that objective, the lost art of the Dark Knight is still something to behold. | 10 | 7 | ||
| Dark Tempest Blade | Bad Guy, Combat Focused, Strong Spellcasting | The Dark Tempest Blade combines arcane spellcasting with martial disciplines like the Jade Phoenix Mage from the Tome of Battle ToB. But it uses electricity spells rather than fire spells, and is a little bit tougher. | 10 | 7 | ||
| Darkfire Guild Thief | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused, Skilled | Cult members dedicated to the demon Acerbus, these foul thieves constantly seek to capture more sacrifices for their everburning lord. Arsonists, murderers, burglars, and worse fill the ranks of the Darkfire Thieves Guild. | 10 | 4 | ||
| Darkfire Guild Wizard | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | Despicable minions of the demon Acerbus, these evil spellcasters enjoy spreading pain and terror before them like the flames that wreath their dark masters body. | 10 | 5 | ||
| Death Disciple | Evil/Neutral Necromancer. Caster Focus. | A dark being who demands and requires the absolute dominion of undead, becoming like one them selves and gaining a familiar before long that is too undead. | 10 | 10 | ||
| Death Knight | Combat-Focused, Bad Guy | Combining undeath with the dark blessings of fiends, the Death Knight wields powers of both flame and death, able to raise undead servants and armies on his own through his spell-like abilities. | 5 | 6 | ||
| Death Priest | Necromancer | Death Priest | 10 | 9 | ||
| Demon Berserker | Bad Guy, Combat Focused | Barbarian meets demon. | 10 | 9 | ||
| Demon Samurai | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | A warrior who's sworn to the service of a fiend, and granted power for it. | 5 | 5 | ||
| Demonbinder | Bad Guy, Moderate Spellcasting | Demonbinder are either the the master or the bane of all fiends, they are able to perform incredible task against or with them.... | 10 | 8 | ||
| Disciple of the Seven Deadly Sins | Moderate Spellcasting, Bad Guys | Those who master the dark arts of their own darkness. | 5 | Variable | ||
| Disciple of the Undying Cold | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | A necromancer who embraces the power of bitter cold, eventually becoming undead himself. | 10 | 7 | ||
| Diva | Bad Guy, Skilled | 10 Levels version of Dirgesinger prestige class from Libris Mortis: The Book of the Dead | 10 | 6 | ||
| Divine Soldier | Good Guy, Bad Guy, Minor Spellcasting, Melee | Pietous warrior with limited spellcasting | 10 | 5 | ||
| Divine Swordsman | <!No Description Present!> Please edit this class and add a description! | |||||
| Dracolichbound | Bad Guy, Transformational, Strong Spellcasting | For a caster-focused template, based on Lichbound, but now for dragons! | 5 | 10 | ||
| Dragonfire Champion | Combat Focused, Good Guy | A powerful force of draconic good, infusing breath weapons with smiting power. | 12 | 5 | ||
| Dread Hunter | Good Guy, Combat-Focused, Bad Guy | The ultimate ranger, the most studied hunter: A Ranger prestige class that grants dreadful and baneful powers that make slaying Favored Enemies simpler than swinging a mace. | 3 | 11 | ||
| Dreadknight | Bad Guy, Combat Focused | The dreadknights are the champions of the lawful evil. | 10 | 10 | ||
| Eldritch Priest | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting, Divine Spellcasting | The eldritch priest is a master of invocations and divinity. | 5 | 9 | ||
| Epic Spell Researcher | Strong Spellcasting, Good Guy, Bad Guy | Headmaster that wants to Research Epic Spells, and so employs a variety of tricks to make them researchable. | 10 | 27 | ||
| Fell Knight | Bad Guy, Combat-focused | A fallen knight who has turned his back on the light of the gods. He leeches the souls of enemies with his Fell Sword. | 10 | 8 | ||
| Feral Assassin | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | Assassins with an affinity for animals. | 6 | 1 | ||
| Fist of the Dragon | <!No Description Present!> Please edit this class and add a description! | |||||
| Flame Crusader | Chaotic, Fire Use, Sphere-focused | When one has been exposed to sufficiently powerful flame for long enough, that flame takes a form within him. He becomes a living advocate for the powers of fire, a curse and blessing that follows him wherever he goes. | 10 | 6 | ||
| Flame Crusader, Tirr | <!No Description Present!> Please edit this class and add a description! | |||||
| Fleshcrafter | Combat-Focused, Bad Guy | A crafter, weaver and stitcher of mort flesh | 10 | 8 | ||
| Godslayer | Skilled, Bad Guy | A Godslayer is a horrific being, bent on slaughtering the divines. | 10 | 20 | ||
| Harrier | Good Guy, Bad Guy, Combat-Focused, Skilled | Harriers are agile specialists who exploit flanking, attacks of opportunity and tripping, taking down their victims with surprise attacks and wolf pack tactics. | 6 | 4 | ||
| Heartless Mage | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting, Arcane Spellcasting | The Heartless Mage pursues a stoic form of immortality | 5 | 9 | ||
| Hellmaster | Bad Guy, Combat Focused, Strong Spellcasting | Hellmasters are those damned souls who dared to deal with the devil. | 5 | 11 | ||
| Herald of the Fourth Horseman | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcaster | The Herald that portends the coming of the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse. He uses pestilence and disease to create undead minions and officially begin Death's reign of power. | 10 | 6 | ||
| Hero of Courage | <!No Description Present!> Please edit this class and add a description! | |||||
| Hooded Pupil | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | This is a Monster Class which allows a PC to acquire the Hooded Pupil template (Libris Mortis) over 4 levels instead of requiring a +4 Level Adjustment. | 4 | |||
| Hybrid Elite, Turbo | Utilizes falling damage, Combat-Focused | A warrior infused with green magic. A paragon of unnatural strength and warfare. | 10 | 8 | ||
| Iaijutsu Master, Variant | Combat-Focused | Iaijutsu is the martial art of drawing a weapon (almost always a katana) and attacking with it in the same fluid motion. It is the foundation of some forms of dueling in Oriental Adventures (see Iaijutsu Duels in Chapter 6: Combat), and its masters are feared and respected throughout Rokugan and other lands where iaijutsu is practiced. Iaijutsu masters harness their ki energy to strike with blinding speed and devastating power. Iaijutsu masters are almost always members of the samurai character class. In Rokugan, they are drawn exclusively from the Crane clan, where they are trained in the Kakita school. NPC iaijutsu masters serve as sensei to the finest samurai in the Empire. | 10 | 3 | ||
| Illusionary Weapons Master | Moderate Spellcasting, Arcane Spellcasting | The illusionary weapons master is a spellcaster who specializes in illusions, and can create illusions so realistic that they actually border on reality. They use this to cast superior illusion spells and create fearsome illusion weapons with which they can vanquish a large array of foes. | 10 | 5 | ||
| Infernal Lich | Bad Buy, Combat-Focused | Infernal Liches are spellcasters who through a a series of intricate lies and bargains have turned a willing Devil into their phylactery, for use in an obscure Lich Transformation ritual. | 5 | 14 | ||
| Killer | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | There are those who fight with honor, against worthy and prepared opponents. And there are those who simply kill, as efficiently as possible, by stealth and treachery. | 10 | 4 | ||
| Legendary Shinobi | Special | What happens when shinobi make themselves known to the world as a hero. | 5 | 15th [Naruto Shinobi] | ||
| Lich | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | This is a monster class which allows a character to aquire the Lich template over 4 levels, instead of requiring the level adjustment of +4. | 4 | 11 | ||
| Lichbound | Bad Guy, Transformational, Strong Spellcasting | For a caster-focused template, Lichdom is caster suicide, only barely passable for, ironically, melee characters. Now gain lichdom without 4 lost levels. | 5 | 10 | ||
| Lord of the Damned | Divine Necromancer, Strong Spellcasting | Student of the forces that create undead | 10 | 6 | ||
| Lord of The Dark Magic | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | A black magic user who delves into evil so thoroughly, they become one with it. | 10 | 5 | ||
| Lord of the Dead | Strong Spellcasting, Arcane Spellcasting, Divine Spellcasting, Bad Guy | Lord of the Deads gains in both Arcane and Divine spell casting power, while also learning to control the power of necromancy | 10 | 8 | ||
| Lurker in the Swarm | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting, Arcane Spellcasting | Undead Beekeeper (no, really) | 10 | 6 | ||
| Master Necromancer | Strong Spellcasting, Bad Guys | Dark spellcaster who studies the black art of necromancy and undeath. | 10 | 8 | ||
| Minddrinker | Psion | A minddriker is a psion who becomes so familiar with the minds of others that they can obtain their memories, siphon their vitality, and even absorb their foe's intelligence. | 5 | 5 | ||
| Monitor | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | The Monitors are nihilistic Monks with their roots in the Kuo-Toa culture | 9 | 6 | ||
| Mummy Lord | Divine Spellcasting, Bad Guy | The Mummy Lords are the top of the Mummies. | 5 | 10 | ||
| Necromancer of Undead Army | Necromancer | Necromancer of Undead Army is a prestige focused on buffing undead you control. | 10 | 8 | ||
| Pact Warlock | Good Guy, Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | A warlock who has made a deal with an other worldly patron in search of even greater power. | 17 | 3 | ||
| Pariah | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | Pariahs are demonkind who have chosen the path of evil and it has damned their souls for all eternity. Pariahs are normally the grunt soldiers of hell; their abilities center around harming others as efficiently as possible. | 10 | 7 | ||
| Possessed | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | A spellcaster who shares a body with a powerful fiend, forming a symbiotic relationship. | 10 | 7 | ||
| Psychic Predator | Good Guy, Bad Guy, Combat-Focused, Moderate Psionics | Psychic Predators are manifesters who have, by blood inheritance, begun a steady alteration into a ferocious psionic beast, blurring the lines of mental might and feral combat. Powerful in the physical and psychic sense, Psychic Predators favor claw and fang above all else, but are equally capable of concealing their primal manifesting by appearing outwardly normal for their race. Exceptionally durable and resilient, these individuals have no particular chink in their armor for their prey (and those who hunt hunters) to exploit easily. | 6 | 6 | ||
| Psychostazi Enforcer | Moderate Spellcasting | A Enforcer of the laws of the underdark. | 10 | 5 | ||
| Pumpkin King | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | Leader of magical pumpkins | 8\10 | 5 | ||
| Raging Hulk | Combat Focused | The Raging Hulk is a barbarian thats anger has reached a point where he actually increases in size when he rages. | 10 | 10 | ||
| Reaper of Nerull | Combat Focused | The Reapers of Nerull are powerful order of soldiers who wield the power of death itself. | 6 | 14 | ||
| Savage Priest | Good Guy, Bad Guy, Combat Focused, Strong Spontaneous Divine Spellcasting | The Savage Priest is a wielder of Divine beast-magics, empowering themselves and their spells to more closely resemble their animal allies. A rarity beyond comprehension, those who are Savage Priests are born to achieve such a destiny tied to the animal soul, and deviate from their clerical or other holy calling to answer their beast ties. | 5 | 5 | ||
| Scrivened Soul | Invoking, Pact-Making | A scrivened soul is a multiclassed binder/warlock who has mastered the power of sigils. | 10 | 5 | ||
| Secret Guardian of the Sacred Flame | <!No Description Present!> Please edit this class and add a description! | |||||
| Sepulchral Patrician (3.5e Epic Prestige Class) | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcaster | Epic-level spellcasting undead class that focuses on the necromantic creation and empowerment of personal guards. | 10 | 20 | ||
| Shadow Assassin | <!No Description Present!> Please edit this class and add a description! | |||||
| Shadowdancer | Bad Guy, Skilled | Shadowdancers are creepy guys and gals who hang out in the shadows. Occasionally, they jump out of those shadows and stab people in the face. Why? You'd have to ask the specific Shadowdancer. | 15 | Rogue 5th | ||
| Skindancer | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | A unique type of assassin who wears the skins of his victims | 10 | 7 | ||
| Smiting Avenger | Good Guy, Combat Focused | A powerful, martial champion of the gods, smiting enemies down | 10 | 6 | ||
| Sorrow Blade | Antagonist, Combat-Focused, Optional spell casting, Heavy RP element | The result of losing someone special can leave a wound, the Sorrow Blade's wounds of loss are so deep they change his very being draining out any joy in his heart In so becoming a personification of Pain Torment and Hate. | 10 | 5 | ||
| Soul Collector | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | Not to be confused with a grim reaper working for the sake of the natural cycle, soul collectors actually gather souls for their own use, drawing power from them. | 10 | 17 | ||
| Soul Merchant | Strong Spellcasting | An arbitrator and salesman in the business of souls | 8 | 9 | ||
| Soul Reaver | Vengeful, Good/Bad Guy, Transformed. | An unholy warrior whom was betrayed by those he trusted and killed as a result of jealousy or some other emotion. Now raised, they serve a new master in death, and in the process seek revenge, and are permitted to do so, as long as during and after they continue to serve. | 10 | 10 | ||
| Sphere Minion, Extended | Transformational | Humans who worship the Great Mother sometimes become more than you bargain for. Human -> Beholder. | 5 | |||
| StormLord | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused, Divine Spellcasting | Stormlords often live as brigands, indulging their personal desires for wealth, food, luxury items, and wanton behavior as they crave random, spectacular acts of violence. | 10 | 3rd level divine spells | ||
| Stranger with the Burning Eyes | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting, Spontaneous Spellcasting | Living a parasitic existence, the Stranger occupies bodies of others in a twisted form of immortality | 10 | 9 | ||
| Tainted Disciple | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting, Divine Spellcasting, Prepared Spellcasting | The tainted disciple is a master of divine magic and dark invocations. | 10 | 5 | ||
| Tattooed Monk (3.5e Class) | <!No Description Present!> Please edit this class and add a description! | |||||
| Team-Killing F*cktard | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | The most hated of all warriors; the kind that kills their own teammates and are too stupid to do anything about it. | 3 | 5th | ||
| Terminator | Combat Focused | An unstoppable warrior who specializes in killing those who would be prepared for ordinary assassins. | 10 | 6 | ||
| The Barbed Hand of Loviatar | Combat focused | A heavily scarred priestess of Loviatar (FRCS-specific) | 5 | 7 | ||
| Thief of Souls | Bad Guy, Skilled, Arcane Spellcasting, Strong Spellcasting | A thief after the most treasured possessions of all | 10 | 6 | ||
| Thrall of Yeenoghu | Combat focused, bad guy | A gnoll dedicated to Yeenoghu, the Demon Prince of Gnolls | 10 | 4 | ||
| Tideturner | Good Guy, Bad Guy, Combat-oriented | A class of adventurers who turns the tide of war, for good or ill. | 5 | 10 | ||
| Twisted Visage | Bad Guy, Combat-Focused | Twisted visages are creatures with magical ability that suffer from fear related mental illness. They learn to use the fear they feel as a weapon, focusing it on others to alleviate there own terror. | 10 | 5 | ||
| Undead Priest | Necromancer | Undead Priest | 10 | 9 | ||
| Uthgardt Totem Berseker | Meele Combat, Wild Life | Uthgardt Barbarian dedicated to his tribe way of life | 10 | 4 | ||
| Vengeance Sworn | Combat Focused, | The vengeance sworn are relentless, implacable foes, hurling themselves against their draconic enemies armed only with steel weapons and bitter fury. | 10 | |||
| Vizard Shinigami | <!No Description Present!> Please edit this class and add a description! | |||||
| Voidwalker | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting, | A warlock whose eldritch studies has led them to discover the void and the power it holds. | 10 | 6 | ||
| Widow Queen | Bad Guy, Strong Spellcasting | A necromancer with vampiric powers, with a web of ensnared minions | 10 | 6 | ||
| Winterborn | Combat-Focused, Good Guy | A Winterborn is the ultimate defensive character, willing to lay down his life for his allies. | 10 | 10 | ||
| Word of Undeath | Bad Guy, Combat Focused, Moderate Spellcasting | The Word of Undeath uses word magic for evil and necromantic purposes. | 3 | 5 | ||
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