Shadow Dancer is a great class and even better in pathfinder.<br/><br/>Yeah...I was wondering why you went with destined, outside of it's reroll abilities.<br/><br/>As far as Garrett goes...I'm balancing him a bit. One part skill monkey, one part healer, and one part tank. I will likely invest one more feat into the crossbow fighting style and then likely put a few more into melee abilites. Either go for the spring attack, mobile spell caster, shot on the run sort of build. Or put some focus into the two weapon fighting. I haven't thought too much about item creation or metamagic.<br/><br/>Though a level of ranger or paladin would let emerald use wands and scrolls of cure light wounds and help with qualifying for eldrict knight. Though there are other builds and PrC that work too.