All in Prestige and Prowess
That brings us to one of our last example characters for the Leader (at least for now), a hybrid druid / leader character that’s built around the druid’s ability to activate Leader powers even while in wild shape, by growling, grunting, roaring, or something else, leading both the Packleader’s PC allies and the beasts that they summon with their druid spells. The Packleader is a level 11 character, with 6 levels in Druid and 5 levels in Leader. With just an 11 in Charisma, the Wisdom-focused Packleader should have no issues meeting the ability score prerequisites for the prestige class. So how is the Packleader built?
Today from Legends of Prestige and Prowess we have two new abjuration spells modeled after the basic 1st-level shield spell. Shield is one of the most powerful 1st-level spells available to sorcerers and wizards and perhaps one of the most powerful spells relative to its spell level in general. Even though these spells are already at a higher cost than the shield spell due to their higher slot level, they also only grant +4 to AC instead of +5 out of bounded accuracy concerns resulting from being able to grant the shield bonus much more easily to clerics, paladins, fighters, etc. who typically achieve higher ACs than a sorcerer or wizard does.
Sometimes you don’t want to hurt someone — you just want to catch them. Of course if you’re not careful on your hunt, you may just fall into their trap. Today we have two closely related subclasses from Legends of Prestige and Prowess. Both of these subclasses feature new special weapons, and both are distinctly nonmagical.
