I don't see how it wouldn't be mandatory. I'm surprised Terror Mastery isn't rated just as high as Penetrating Fear, it basically doubles your effectiveness in builds that are oriented around terrors (which seems like many). Maybe just make it bigger or throw some asterisks around it or something. The coloring on Penetrating Fear throws me off. Overchannel should probably be at least blue for caster Dreads, it just allows you to do so much more, especially if you need to nova. I'd probably rate Expanded Knowledge sky blue on any psionic character, there's just too many amazing powers from other lists that I don't end up taking it a couple times.
Under Nightmare Veil you say it's not explicitly written anywhere that Frightened/Panicked creatures are Shaken as well, but the SRD (and Bestiary) says otherwise. Added to this, you will typically have anywhere from 3-5What does this line mean? 3-5 fighting styles? It's phrased kind of strange.
Dreads are very feat-hungry, they don’t get that great a variety of bonus feats to support fighting styles in most cases. Any thoughts on this?ĮDIT: Also forgot, I'm about to add the LotN Powers in as well. Quick question: On the feats, I'm thinking of pulling the Metapsionic Feats into a separate section. Thing about it is that we want the level-11 abilities from Dread ASAP, since that doubles the pummel you can put out. Could just do it the old-fashioned way and dip 1-2 levels of Monk, preferably the UnMonk or the MoMF, but still. Not sure if I can afford the feat investment, though, since it'll need eight of its 10-11 just for VMC with the Style path. Looking at building a Dread VMC Monk, using the archetype that subs Wis, to see if I can make it work.
#Pathological fear or dread series#
Once I found the follow-up feats to that, my opinion of the series got MUCH higher. Thank you for the build ideas, and especially for pointing me at Broken Dreams Style.
#Pathological fear or dread update#
Same place let me find the actual Racial AFCB for both the Core and Psionic races, so I can update those soonish. Also found a couple of Powers that changed places, in one case a really solid level-1 turned out to actually be a Talent (which just made me giggle on the inside). I'm working my way through the feats now, and upon cracking open my copy of UP I noticed that the pfsrd is missing quite a few, including several that REALLY help a Dread out.