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Eldritch Character Classes: Inquisitor
Publisher: Paizo
by Jay M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 03/23/2022 13:06:38

Prefacing this by saying I'm on mobile right now, so apologies for any typos or wonky formatting. Also this is all my personal opinion, and I am just an internet rando so take everything with a grain of salt please. This is also my first review, so maybe make that two grains of salt.

To start off with there was a lot I enjoyed about this class. Flavor-wise, it's excellent and as someone who would really like to see a bounded Wisdom caster in play this just hit the spot. I think where it works it does a great job of filling in a space between Champion and Cleric with its own unique aesthetic. I liked the setup for the different Inquisitons; they give the class a very nice, flexible feel. Similarly I like that it gives the option to make either Dex or Str your class ability boost. It really feels like the writers took the time to consider different wants and playstyles, which is both impressive and appreciated. The framework for it is also very well done.

What holds me back on this class is that it unfortunately falls into the pitfall of being overpowered. I'm going to point to a few specific instances to make my point. The one that stood out to me on my initial browsing of the class was Tactical Aid. At level four, the ability to get three reactions to Aid plus the drastically lowered chances to fail plus the promised automatic advancement is very, very strong and feels like (again, and I cannot stress this enough, this is just my opinion) it should have been split into about 3 feat between low, mid, and high level play. As A friend pointed out, this one feat may very well be stronger than most of the Bellflower Tiller dedication. Similarly, Judgement quickly outpaces other Focus cantrips especially with its upgrades and might be better off as a sustained Focus 1 spell, and as my friend also brought up Solo Maneuvers (a level 4 feat) is on par with the level 14 rogue feat Instant Opening. I'm going to leave it there for specific examples, but the continuous issue I had was feats that felt like they should be higher level, split into multiple feat, or both and damage numbers that didn't seem to scale with other classes of the same levels (in addition to some strange wordings, but those were significantly less of an issue).

I would like to restate that I enjoyed reading over this class, appreciate the thought and work that went into it, and am very happy with my purchase of it; I'm allowing it at my tables with some edits made for balancing. The criticisms above are not meant to discourage anyone from purchasing this as, again, it's a wonderfully interesting class with some edits needed.



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Eldritch Character Classes: Inquisitor
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