The higher their corruption and depravity, the more powerful they become. Tainted ScholarВ : An arcane spellcaster who gains power from forbidden knowledge.To qualify the character must be able to turn undead. Purifier of the Hallowed DoctrineВ : A divine spellcaster who specializes in purifying the world of taint.It is easiest for a sorcerer to qualify for this class and is one of the best prestige classes for a sorcerer. Fiend-BloodedВ : A spellcaster who draws power from their fiendish ancestry.To qualify for this class, the character must have failed a saving throw against a fear effect. Dread WitchВ : A spellcaster who specializes in causing fear and powering themselves up using their own fear.Notable in that it's one of the few ways for good-aligned characters to rebuke undead. To qualify for this class, the character must have had a near death experience. At tenth level, the character gains the ability to cheat death exactly 9 times. The character gains divine spells and abilities mainly relating to death. Death DelverВ : One who has developed a fascination with death.To qualify for this class, the character must have moderate taint. If the corrupted avenger is a fallen paladin, they get some extra abilities depending on how many paladin levels they have. The higher their corruption, they more powerful spells they gain from this class. Corrupt AvengerВ : One who has become obsessed with vengeance against a specific organization or creature type.Dread necro isn't broken without effort to do so, but when paired up with the Ur-priest and True Necromancer prestige classes, it becomes a thing of unholy beauty. These two classes alone made Heroes of Horror a pretty decent purchase, and introduced the optimization boards to months of fun stuff. Dread Necromancer is objectively the best 'true' necromancer type class in 3rd Edition, and possibly of any other edition as well. Archivist is one of the rare few Tier 0 classes, and basically is a 'divine-oriented wizard', including the need of a prayerbook (aka divine spellbook) to keep up with their spells. There were only two new basic classes introduced here, but holy shit, did they end up finding a niche. It also has optional rules for how characters may react to horrifying scenes or situations. It's largely based on the taint mechanic found in the 3rd Edition Oriental Adventures that's largely there to recreate the one found in Legend of the Five Rings. Physical taint is represented by the corruption score, and mental taint is represented by the depravity score. One of theses new mechanics is taint, which represents evil as a force that warps places and living things. The book adds several new optional rules for running horror games. There are so many other gods in D&D that are a lot scarier and this was all they could come up with? The book introduces Cas, the moose-headed demigod of spite.

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