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Truth Seeker prestige class
Based on The Splintered Mind: Rebels of the Scarlet Brotherhood, by Jesse Decker, Will McDermott, & Stephen Schubert, published 06/23/2002, originally appeared in Dragon Magazine #281.

   Alignment: Any non-evil.
   Base Attack Bonus: +5.
   Feats: Improved Unarmed Strike, Combat Reflexes.
   Skills: Diplomacy 8 ranks, Sense Motive 4 ranks.

Hit Die: d8

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Power Points Per Day	Powers Known	Maximum Power Level
1	+0	+2	+0	+2	Monk Abilities, Share Mind	1	1	1st
2	+1	+3	+0	+3	Share Mind (AC bonus +1)	3	2	1st
3	+2	+3	+1	+3	Psychoanalyst	6	3	2nd
4	+3	+4	+1	+4	Share Mind (Cannot be flanked)	10	4	2nd
5	+3	+4	+1	+4	Share Mind (AC bonus +2)	15	5	3rd
6	+4	+5	+2	+5	Share Mind (Attack bonus)	23	6	3rd
7	+5	+5	+2	+5	Inquisitor	31	7	4rd
8	+6	+6	+2	+6	Share Mind (Swap initiative)	43	8	4th
9	+6	+6	+3	+6	Share Mind (AC bonus +3)	55	9	5th
10	+7	+7	+3	+7	Share Mind (Grant share mind)	71	10	5th

Class skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Concentration, Diplomacy, Disguise, Forgery, Knowledge (local), Knowledge (nobility and royalty), Knowledge (psionics), Listen, Psicraft, Sense Motive.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: As a truth seeker, you gain no new weapon or armor proficiencies.

Monk Abilities: Your truth seeker class levels stack with your monk levels for the purpose of determining your unarmed damage, or with levels in other classes that grant that ability as a monk. Your class levels do not apply to other monk abilities such as flurry of blows, slow fall, and so on. If you lack any levels in monk or similar classes, you instead gain the unarmed damage of a monk of your truth seeker level.

Power Points/Day: As a truth seeker, your ability to manifest powers is limited by the power points you have available. Your base daily allotment of power points is given on the table above. In addition, you receive bonus power points per day if you have a high Wisdom score (see Table: Ability Modifiers and Bonus Power Points). Your race may also provide bonus power points per day, as may certain feats and items. If you have power points from a different class, those points are pooled together and usable to manifest powers from either class.

Powers Known: As a truth seeker, you learn one power of your choice at 1st level. At every class level after 1st, you unlock the knowledge of new powers.

As a truth seeker, you choose your powers from the psion power list, the psion (seer) power list, and the psion (telepath) power list, but only those of the Clairsentience or Telepathy disciplines. (Exception: The feats Expanded Knowledge and Epic Expanded Knowledge do allow you to learn powers from the lists of other classes and from other disciplines.) You can manifest any power that has a power point cost equal to or lower than your manifester level.

The total number of powers you can manifest in a day is limited only by your daily power points.

You simply know your powers; they are ingrained in your mind. You do not need to prepare them (in the way that some spellcasters prepare their spells), though you must get a good night’s sleep each day to regain all your spent power points.

The Difficulty Class for saving throws against your truth seeker powers is 10 + the power’s level + the your Wisdom modifier.

Maximum Power Level Known: As a 1st level truth seeker, you gain the ability to learn 1st-level powers. As you attain higher levels, you may gain the ability to master more complex powers.

To learn or manifest a power, you must have a Wisdom score of at least 10 + the power’s level.

Share Mind (Ps): Truth seekers have the ability to connect to other minds and share thoughts and senses. Once per class level per day, you can create a lesser mindlink with one willing target. This functions as the mindlink power with a manifester level equal to your truth seeker manifester level, except that it can never be augmented. You can maintain share mind with only one creature at a time.

In addition to the mindlink, you (not your partner) gain some advantages, based on your level:

• At 1st level, you tap into the emotions of your partner's mind. As a result, you gain any morale bonus or penalty that affects your partner.
• At 2nd level, the additional awareness of your partner's mind gives you a +1 insight bonus to AC. This bonus increases to +2 at 5th level and to +3 at 9th level.
• At 4th level, you gain even greater perception of your surroundings and cannot be flanked, provided you and your partner are within line of sight. You can still be flanked by a rogue of four levels higher than your character level.
• At 6th level, by understanding how your partner is moving, you gain a +2 insight bonus to attack rolls against any target that both you and your partner threaten.
• At 8th level, you can communicate to such a degree with your partner's mind that you are able to act when your partner would normally act, or cause your partner to act more quickly. Once during the duration of any share mind, your can swap initiatives with your partner. This must be declared at the beginning of a round, before anyone has acted, and your partner must be willing.
• At 10th level, you can filter information back to your partner, bestowing any of the above abilities onto your partner, who acts as if he had used share mind on you. This ability lasts for 1 minute and can be used once per day. It can be activated as a free action.

You gain these benefits whenever a mindlink is established between you another willing creature, regardless of whether or not it came from your share mind ability or even if it was you who manifested it. If you are already mindlinked with another creature when a new mindlink is established, you must choose whether to maintain your original partner or switch to the new linked creature. You can only have one partner at any given time.

Psychoanalyst (Su): Beginning at 3rd level, you gain a +2 bonus to Diplomacy, Bluff, Intimidate, and Charisma checks (but not other Charisma-based skill checks), but only while you maintain your psionic focus.

Inquisitor: You gain the Inquisitor feat as a bonus feat at 7th level, even if you do not qualify for it.

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Percipient prestige class
Based on The Mind's Eye: The Percipient (Prestige Class), by Scott Brocius and Mark A. Jindra, published 10/24/2003.

   Manifesting: Must be able to manifest 3rd-level or higher powers.
   Feats: Alertness. Must also have any one of the following feats: Burrowing Power, Craft Universal Item, Improved Initiative, Inquisitor, or Opportunity Power.
   Skills: Intimidate 2 ranks, Knowledge (Psionics) 8 ranks, Spot 4 ranks.
   Special: Must perform the Ritual of the Oculist.

Ritual of the Oculist: Individual DMs should tailor the ritual to fit their campaign as far as gold piece expenditures and XP cost (it should have a negligible cost for 5th level characters, if any). It should be a psionic process that allows the character to grow a third eye.

Hit Die: d4

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Manifesting
1	+0	+0	+0	+2	Foresight (-2), Low-Light Vision, Skill Bonus +2, Third Eye	+1 level of existing manifesting class
2	+1	+0	+0	+3	Insightful Precognition, Uncanny Dodge	+1 level of existing manifesting class
3	+1	+1	+1	+3	Skill Bonus +4, Vigilant Sight	+1 level of existing manifesting class
4	+2	+1	+1	+4	Foresight (+0), Mesmerizing Gaze	+1 level of existing manifesting class
5	+2	+1	+1	+4	Darkvision, Focused Eye, Skill Bonus +6	+1 level of existing manifesting class
6	+3	+2	+2	+5	Pain Gaze	+1 level of existing manifesting class
7	+3	+2	+2	+5	Auric Sight, Foresight (+2)  Skill Bonus +8	+1 level of existing manifesting class
8	+4	+2	+2	+6	Improved Uncanny Dodge	+1 level of existing manifesting class
9	+4	+3	+3	+6	Skill Bonus +10, True Sight	+1 level of existing manifesting class
10	+5	+3	+3	+7	Death Gaze, Foresight (+4), Gaze of Many	+1 level of existing manifesting class

Class skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Bluff, Concentration, Craft (all skills, taken individually), Diplomacy, Intimidate, Knowledge (all skills, taken individually), Listen, Profession, Psicraft, Search, Sense Motive, Spot.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: As a percipient, you gain no new weapon or armor proficiencies.

Manifesting: At each level, you gain additional power points per day and access to new powers as if you had also gained a level in whatever manifesting class you belonged to before you added the prestige class. You do not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (bonus feats, metapsionic or item creation feats, psicrystal special abilities, and so on). This essentially means that you add the level of percipient to the level of whatever manifesting class you have, then determine power points per day, powers known, and manifester level accordingly. If you had more than one manifesting class before you became an percipient, you must decide to which class you add the new level of percipient for the purpose of determining power points per day, powers known, and manifester level.

Foresight (Ex): Starting at 1st level, the you add a modifier to your initiative roll. Initially this is a -2 penalty due to the increased amount of information processed by your third eye, which includes occasional glimpses into the immediate future. As you gain levels as a percipient, you gain the ability to better deal with this increased information in tense situations. At 4th level this penalty is negated. At 7th level this becomes a +2 bonus. At 10th level this becomes a +4 bonus.

Low-Light Vision (Su): At 1st level, you gain low-light vision, or have your range tripled instead of doubled if you already possess it. This ability only functions while you maintain your psychic focus.

Skill Bonus (Ex): At 1st level, you gain a +2 bonus on Search and Spot checks. This bonus increases by +2 at every odd percipient level thereafter.

Third Eye (Ex): When you finish the ritual at 1st level, you grow a physical third eye. While this eye provides many benefits, you lose the ability to directly use any third eye psionic items. Instead, by meditating for 1 minute with a third eye item in your possession, you can transfer its enchantments into your own third eye. If you do not have any enchantments already in your third eye, the psionic item becomes a mundane gemstone suitable for re-enchantment into a new third eye item. Otherwise, it gains the enchantments already present in your eye as your eye takes on the item's original abilities. The enchantments in your third eye can be suppressed as a psionic item, but are maintained even if your face item slot is occupied, such as by goggles or a mask.

Insightful Precognition (Ex): Beginning at 2nd level, you gain an insight bonus to your Armor Class equal to one half your percipient level.

Uncanny Dodge (Ex): At 2nd level, you gain the uncanny dodge ability as the 2nd level barbarian ability.

Vigilant Sight (Su): Beginning at 3rd level, you gain blindsense out to 30 feet and blindsight out to 10 feet. These effects are based on your ability to read the psychic auras of your environment, so magical silence does not obstruct it. This ability only functions while you maintain your psychic focus.

Mesmerizing Gaze (Su): At 4th level, you learn the brain lock power as a 2nd level power. When you manifest it against a living creature that can see you, it's save DC increases by 1, it can target and affect any living creature independent of its type and the power's augmentation, and it can affect creatures immune to mind-affecting effects. These benefits only apply against living creatures.

Darkvision (Su): Beginning at 5th level, you gain darkvision out to 60 feet, or add 60 feet to your existing darkvision range. This ability only functions while you maintain your psychic focus.

Focused Eye (Ex): Beginning at 5th level, all powers from the Clairsentience discipline cost 1 less power point to manifest than normal, to a minimum cost of 1 power point.

Pain Gaze (Su): At 6th level, you learn the inflict pain power as a 2nd level power. When you manifest it against a living creature that can see you, it's save DC increases by 2 and it can affect creatures immune to mind-affecting effects. These benefits only apply against living creatures.

Auric Sight (Su): Beginning at 7th level, you can see psionic auras clearly. While you maintain your psychic focus, you are considered to be under the effects of the arcane sight spell.

Improved Uncanny Dodge (Ex): At 8th level, you gain the improved uncanny dodge ability as the 5th level barbarian ability.

True Sight (Ex): At 9th level, you learn the true seeing, psionic power as a 5th level power. It costs 1 less power point to manifest than normal, to a minimum cost of 1 power point. This benefit stacks with the one granted by your Focused Eye ability.

Death Gaze (Su): At 10th level, you learn the recall death power as an 8th level power. When you manifest it against a living creature that can see you, it can affect creatures immune to mind-affecting effects. This benefit only applies against living creatures.

Gaze of Many (Su): Starting at 10th level, your ability to channel certain psionic powers through your third eye increases. Whenever you manifest or concentrate upon brain lock, inflict pain, or recall death as a standard action against a living creature that can see you, you can manifest or concentrate upon one of the above powers (the same or a different one) against a living creature that can see you as a swift action in the same round, instead of as a standard action. You can do this for a number of rounds each day equal to your Wisdom modifier plus one (minimum once per day).

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Grim Psion prestige class
Based on The Mind's Eye: Grim Psion (Prestige Class), by Scott Brocius and Mark A. Jindra, published 06/28/2003.

   Alignment: Any non-good.
   Manifesting: Must be able to manifest 4th-level or higher powers.
   Skills: Knowledge (psionics) 5 ranks, Knowledge (religion) 5 ranks.
   Feats: Imprint Stone.

Hit Die: d4

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Manifesting
1	+0	+2	+0	+2	Psionic Resilience (half), Undeath	--
2	+1	+3	+0	+3	Ability Boost (1st), DR 2/-	+1 level of existing manifesting class
3	+1	+3	+1	+3	Fear Cone, Natural AC +2	+1 level of existing manifesting class
4	+2	+4	+1	+4	DR 3/-, Turn Immunity	+1 level of existing manifesting class
5	+2	+4	+1	+4	Ability Boost (2nd), Tainted Construction	--
6	+3	+5	+2	+5	Ability Boost (3rd), DR 4/-	+1 level of existing manifesting class
7	+3	+5	+2	+5	Cold Immunity	+1 level of existing manifesting class
8	+4	+6	+2	+6	DR 5/-, Natural AC +4	+1 level of existing manifesting class
9	+4	+6	+3	+6	Paralytic Touch	+1 level of existing manifesting class
10	+5	+7	+3	+7	Psionic Resilience (full), Astral Phylactery	+1 level of existing manifesting class

Class skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Bluff, Craft, Concentration, Diplomacy, Knowledge (all skills, taken individually), Listen, Psicraft, Search, Sense Motive, Spot.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: As a grim psion, you gain no new weapon or armor proficiencies.

Manifesting: At each level except 1st and 5th, you gain additional power points per day and access to new powers as if you had also gained a level in whatever manifesting class you belonged to before you added the prestige class. You do not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (bonus feats, metapsionic or item creation feats, psicrystal special abilities, and so on). This essentially means that you add the level of grim psion to the level of whatever manifesting class you have, then determine power points per day, powers known, and manifester level accordingly. If you had more than one manifesting class before you became an grim psion, you must decide to which class you add the new level of grim psion for the purpose of determining power points per day, powers known, and manifester level.

Undeath (Ex): By embracing this path, you become an undead creature. Due to your new creature type, you gain the following traits:

• You gain darkvision with a range of 60 feet.
• You become immune to poison, sleep, paralysis, stunning, disease, and death effects.
• You are not subject to critical hits, nonlethal damage, ability damage to your physical ability scores (Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution), ability drain, or energy drain, nor are you subject to fatigue and exhaustion effects.
• You have no Constitution score and are therefore immune to any effect requiring a Fortitude save (unless it affects objects). This may alter your hit points and your Fortitude save modifier.
• You use your Charisma modifier when making Concentration checks.
• As an undead, you are no longer healed normally. You require negative energy (such as an inflict wounds spell) to heal, rather than positive energy (such as a cure wounds spell). You can still heal damage on your own, however, and fast healing effects work normally.
  
• You are not at risk of death due to massive damage, but you are immediately destroyed if reduced to 0 hit points or less. You can no longer be raised or resurrected. You can be brought back to existence only through use of a wish, reality revision, or other effect capable of reviving undead.
  
• You do not breathe, eat, or sleep. You must still rest as normal to regain your power points each day.
• You can be turned.

In addition, you gain the augmented subtype for your previous type. Unlike most undead, you do not ignore mind-affecting effects.

Psionic Resilience (Ex): As an undead creature sustained physically by your own mental prowess, the source of your resilience and stamina shifts from biological fortitude to mental fortitude. You may use one half of your primary manifesting ability modifier in place of your Constitution modifier to determine the bonus hit points you gain at each level, where beneficial. If multiple ability scores could be considered your primary manifesting ability score (for example, if you are a multiclassed psion/psychic warrior), use the highest one.

At 10th level, this ability improves, allowing you to use your full primary manifesting ability modifier to determine your bonus hit points instead of only half.

Ability Boost (Ex): As you gain levels in this prestige class, your ability scores increase. At 2nd level, one of your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma scores increases by 2. At 5th level, you can choose a second such ability score to also receive this bonus. At 6th level, the third of these ability scores also gains the bonus. You can select each ability score only once. These increases stack with all other adjustments and are gained as if through level advancement.

Damage Reduction (Ex): Beginning at 2nd level, your body toughens, giving you damage reduction of 2/-. This improves to DR 3/- at 4th level, 4/- at 6th level, and to 5/- at 8th level.

Fear Cone (Su): Beginning at 3rd level, you can create a cone of fear 30 feet long as a standard action. Creatures in the cone must make a Will save of DC 10 + your grim psion class level + your Charisma modifier. Those who fail are panicked for 2d6 rounds. This is a mind-affecting fear effect.

Natural Armor (Ex): Due to the increasing toughening of your body, you gain a +2 natural Armor Class bonus starting at 3rd level. This bonus improves to +4 at 8th level.

Turn Immunity (Ex): At 4th level, you become immune to turning effects. You cannot be turned, rebuked, or commanded, but you are still subject to spells and powers that affect undead.

Tainted Construction (Ex): At 5th level, you gain the Tainted Construction feat as a bonus feat even if you do not meet the prerequisites for it. Any construct you manifest will now be of tainted ectoplasm.

Cold Immunity (Ex): At 7th level, you become immune to cold damage.

Paralytic Touch (Su): At 9th level, you complete your connection to the Negative Energy Plane. You gain a touch attack that deals 1d8 points of negative energy damage; a Will save with a DC 10 + your grim psion class level + your Charisma modifier reduces the damage by half. If the target fails this save, it is also paralyzed for 1d3 rounds. Undead and other creatures that are healed by negative energy are neither healed nor harmed by this effect, although they may still become paralyzed. This is a Necromancy effect.

Astral Phylactery (Ps): At 10th level, you gain the ability to use a form of astral seed power at will as a psi-like ability, although with its normal manifesting time of 10 minutes. This astral phylactery functions identically to the astral seed power, except as follows:

• Unlike with an astral seed, you cannot use ectoplasm to grow a new body for yourself. Instead, you must find a corpse of your original size and type (as appropriate to your type from before you entered this class and became undead) that was slain within the past 9 days. Upon making contact with the corpse, you may will the transfer, causing the storage crystal to shatter into dust. You become helpless for 24 hours, as the body decays to match your skeletal state.
  
• An astral phylactery counts as an astral seed to determine the total number of astral seeds that you can have in existence at any given time. It also counts as a lich's phylactery for the purposes of powers and other effects.
  
• Additionally, unlike with the astral seed power, you do not suffer any negative levels, level loss, or diminished psionic abilities for using this effect. Your powers known and maximum power points are as they were when you died, instead of when you manifested the power. In addition, you do not suffer an incurable negative level in your crystalline form, and you do not lose a level when you acquire a new body.
  

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Arch Psion prestige class
Based on The Mind's Eye: Arch Psion (Prestige Class), by Mark A. Jindra, published 11/22/2002.

   Manifesting: Must be able to manifest 7th-level or higher powers. Must know 4th-level or higher powers from at least 3 disciplines.
   Feats: Greater Psionic Endowment, Psionic Endowment, Skill Focus (Psicraft).
   Skills: Knowledge (Psionics) 15 ranks, Psicraft 15 ranks.

Hit Die: d4

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Manifesting
1	+0	+0	+0	+2	High Psionics	+1 level of existing manifesting class
2	+1	+0	+0	+3	High Psionics	+1 level of existing manifesting class
3	+1	+1	+1	+3	High Psionics	+1 level of existing manifesting class
4	+2	+1	+1	+4	High Psionics	+1 level of existing manifesting class
5	+2	+1	+1	+4	High Psionics	+1 level of existing manifesting class

Class skills (2 + Int modifier per level): Concentration, Craft (alchemy), Knowledge (all skills, taken individually), Profession, Psicraft.
   An Arch-Psion with a chosen discipline (such as from the Psion class) also treats skills associated with that discipline as class skills.
   Seer (Clairsentience): Gather Information, Listen, Spot.
   Shaper (Metacreativity): Bluff, Craft (all skills, taken individually), Disguise, Use Psionic Device.
   Kineticist (Psychokinesis): Autohypnosis, Disable Device, Intimidate.
   Egoist (Psychometabolism): Autohypnosis, Balance, Heal.
   Nomad (Psychoportation): Climb, Jump, Ride, Survival, Swim.
   Telepath (Telepathy): Bluff, Diplomacy, Gather Information, Sense Motive.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: As an arch psion, you gain no new weapon or armor proficiencies.

Manifesting: At each level, you gain additional power points per day and access to new powers as if you had also gained a level in whatever manifesting class you belonged to before you added the prestige class. You do not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (bonus feats, metapsionic or item creation feats, psicrystal special abilities, and so on). This essentially means that you add the level of arch psion to the level of whatever manifesting class you have, then determine power points per day, powers known, and manifester level accordingly. If you had more than one manifesting class before you became an arch psion, you must decide to which class you add the new level of arch psion for the purpose of determining power points per day, powers known, and manifester level.

High Psionics: An arch psion discovers secrets unknown to lesser psions. You gain the ability to select a special ability from among the following by permanently decreasing your daily power points total. The number of power points that are lost are listed below. At each level of this class, you can permanently select one of the following abilities. Each ability can be selected no more than once, unless otherwise stated.

Extra Power: You gain the Expanded Knowledge feat as a bonus feat. This ability permanently costs a number of power points equal to the normal power point cost to manifest the power learned this way. If the power learned is changed (such as through the psychic reformation power) the number of lost power points changes appropriately. This ability can be selected more than once. Each time, you gain Expanded Knowledge as a bonus feat again and lose an appropriate number of power points.

Innate Psionics (Ps): You gain the ability to manifest any one power you know as a psi-like ability twice per day using your highest manifester level as your manifester level for the psi-like ability. However, the power is only augmented to a total number of power points chosen at the time that this ability is selected (this is an exception to the rule that psi-like abilities are manifested as though augmented with a number of power points equal to their manifester level). This must be at least equal to the normal power point cost of the power and at most equal to your manifester level when selecting this ability. You lose 11 power points, plus a number of power points equal to the chosen power point cost of the selected power. You can reduce the total power points spent to augment the psi-like ability by 6 to be able to use the psi-like ability 4 times per day, or reduce it by 12 to be able to use it 6 times per day (this reduction in augmentation cannot reduce the effective number of power points spent to less that the normal power point cost of the power). This ability can be selected multiple times. Each time, it can apply to a different power, or to the same power. In the latter case, additional uses of that psi-like ability can be gained at different augmentation levels as appropriate to the power points lost each time.

Mastery of Power Negation: If you know the dispel psionics power, you can select to alter it so that it can be used to counter spells and powers as dispel magic. When used this way, the power gains the Counterspell option of the dispel magic spell, except that it can affect both spells and powers. This is an exception to the rule that powers cannot be countered. A spell (but not a power) countered this way is turned back on its caster as though it were affected by a spell turning spell, or is simply countered if it could not normally be affected by spell turning. This ability permanently costs 11 power points.

Power Focus: Your manifester level increases by 1. This ability permanently costs 11 power points. This option can be selected multiple times. It stacks with itself, but each time it is selected it costs 2 more power points than the previous time.

Psionic Energy Discharge: When you manifest a power that allows you to select the type of energy that it deals from among cold, electricity, fire, or sonic energy, you gain an additional option. You can choose to manifest the power using raw psionic energy. A power using such energy gains no special descriptor, deals damage of one die size smaller (1d6 becomes 1d4, 1d8 becomes 1d6, and so on), and deals untyped damage unaffected by resistances or damage reduction. Such a power is unaffected by power resistance. This ability permanently costs 11 power points.

Psionic Reach: You can use touch powers on targets up to 30 feet away. If the power requires a touch attack (melee or ranged), you must make a ranged touch attack. If selected a second time as a special ability, the range increases to 60 feet. This ability permanently costs 11 power points. This ability can be selected up to two times.

Sculpt Power: You can modify an area power by changing the area's shape. The new area must be chosen from the following list: cylinder (10-foot radius, 30 feet high), 40-foot cone, four 10-foot cubes, or a ball (20-foot radius spread). The sculpted power works normally in all respects except for its shape. You can further alter the shape to create spaces within the power's area of effect that are not subject to the power. The minimum dimension for these spaces is a 5-foot cube. This ability permanently costs 9 power points.

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Index

• Discussion and Suggestions
  
• Character Options
  
  • Updated Feats
    
  • Updated Powers
    
• Prestige Classes
  
  • Arch Psion
    
  • Ballisteer
    
  • Grim Psion
    
  • Kineticist
    
  • Percipient
    
  • Shadow Mind
    
  • Truth Seeker
    

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Armored Sage
Level: Swordsage 1st
Replaces: Quick to Act, AC Bonus.
Benefit: Your Swordsage HD increases from d8 to d10 and you gain proficiency with shields (other than tower shields). At 2nd level, you gain proficiency with medium armor, and medium armor counts as light armor when determining your movement and which class features you can use, where beneficial. At 10th level, this also applies to heavy armor.
Special: You cannot combine this alternative class feature with other Swordsage variants and alternative class features that remove your light armor proficiency.

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Ascetic Swordsage
Level: Swordsage 2nd
Replaces: Your AC Bonus ability only applies while you are unarmored, instead of while wearing light armor. You do not gain proficiency with light armor.
Benefit: Your AC Bonus ability grants a +2 armor bonus to your Armor Class in addition to its normal effects. This armor bonus increases by 1 at 4th level and every 4 levels thereafter.
Special: You can combine this alternative class feature with the Unarmed Swordsage variant, despite it also removing your light armor proficiency.

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Battlefield Commander
Level: Warblade 1st
Replaces: You do not gain any of the Battle Clarity, Battle Ardor, Battle Cunning, Battle Skill, and Battle Mastery class features. In addition, you know and can ready one fewer maneuver than normal.
Benefit: You can learn and project auras similar to a marshal of your class level, using your Intelligence modifier in place of your Charisma modifier. You know 2 minor auras at first level and learn a new one at each of 3rd, 7th, 11th, 15th, and 20th level. At 4th level, 10th level, and 16th level, in place of learning a new stance, you can choose to instead learn a major aura of your choice, treating it as a stance aura. Stance auras count as stances (from the White Raven discipline and of a level equal to your aura bonus, if relevant), and count against the number of stances you can be in at once.
Special: You cannot combine this alternative class feature with other Warblade variants and alternative class features that remove your access to the White Raven discipline.
Note: This is designed for use with the auras of my revised marshal as much as with the original Miniatures Handbook marshal.

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Discipline Specialization
Level: Swordsage 1st
Replaces: You lose access to any two Swordsage disciplines of your choice, other than your specialized discipline. In addition, you do not gain the second instances of Discipline Focus (insightful strike and defensive stance) at levels 12 and 16, and the ones at levels 1, 4, and 8 must be with your specialized discipline. Your stance and at least one maneuver at 1st level must come from your specialized discipline, and when you learn a new maneuver from attaining an even Swordsage level, at least one maneuver learned must come from your specialized discipline.
Benefit: Choose a martial discipline available to you as a Swordsage. You specialize in using that discipline's maneuvers. You gain an extra maneuver readied, which must be a maneuver from your specialized discipline, at levels 1, 8, and 16. You gain a +2 bonus on Martial Lore checks related to your specialized discipline. You can recover an expended maneuver of your choice from your specialized discipline as a swift action, or all expended maneuvers from your specialized discipline as a standard action.

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Divine Retribution
Level: Crusader 1st
Replaces: Furious Counterstrike, Indomitable Will, Mettle.
Benefit: You can channel your fury and resolve into divine power. Once per round while you have at least 1 point of damage in your delayed damage pool, you can cast a spell from the cleric spell list as a spell-like ability as a swift action with a caster level equal to your initiator level. This does not provoke attacks of opportunity. This spell must have a casting time of no more than one standard action, and must and can only target an opponent that damaged you within the last 1 round. You must expend a readied and granted maneuver of at least one level higher than the spell's level in order to cast it. You must have at least 5 points of damage in your delayed damage pool for every level of the spell being cast. Like a cleric, you cannot cast spells with alignment descriptors opposed to your or your deity's alignment.

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Favored Nemesis
Level: Ranger 1st
Replaces: Favored Enemy.
Benefit: Instead of choosing a creature type for your favored enemy, you instead choose a category of character classes. You gain your bonuses against any character with at least one level in a class that matches that category. Creatures with racial abilities that both match a category and count as the ability granted by a class that matches that category also count as favored enemies, but not those with similar abilities. For example, a dragon with spellcasting as a Sorcerer would count as an arcane spellcaster class, but a Reth Dekala would not count as a martial adept class because its racial maneuvers do not function as though used by any martial adept class. This ability otherwise functions as and counts as Favored Enemy.

• Arcane Spellcaster: Any class that grants the ability to cast arcane spells, including most shadowcasters.
  
• Divine Spellcaster: Any class that grants the ability to cast divine spells.
  
• Manifester: Any class that grants the ability to manifest powers.
  
• Binder: Any class that grants the Soul Binding ability.
  
• Meldshaper: Any class that grants the ability to shape soulmelds.
  
• Invoker: Any class that grants the ability to cast invocations.
  
• Martial Adept: Any class that grants the ability to initiate martial maneuvers.
  
• Skillful: Any class that grants at least 6 + Int skill points per level.
  
• Warrior: Any class that grants full Base Attack Bonus.
  

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Furious Assault
Level: Crusader 1st
Replaces: Steely Resolve, Furious Counterstrike.
Benefit: You can voluntarily take any amount of damage as part of making an attack to gain a bonus on all attack and weapon damage rolls made as part of that attack. The bonus is equal to the amount of damage you take in this way, to a maximum of 1 + 1 per 4 Crusader levels. You cannot choose to deal more damage to yourself than is necessary to gain the maximum bonus.

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Instinctive Combatant
Level: Warblade 1st
Benefit: Your Battle Clarity, Battle Ardor, Battle Cunning, Battle Skill, and Battle Mastery abilities use your Charisma modifier in place of your Intelligence modifier when determining their effects.

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Redoubled Passion
Level: Crusader 6th
Replaces: Smite.
Benefit: Once per day as a free action, you can recover all of your Crusader maneuvers, determining granted maneuvers anew as though at the start of an encounter. At 18th level, you can use this ability a second time each day.

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Uncanny Warcraft
Level: Warblade 2nd
Replaces: Uncanny Dodge, Improved Uncanny Dodge.
Benefit: Once per day as a free action, you can change one of your readied, unexpended Warblade maneuvers, replacing it with another unreadied Warblade maneuver you know. The new maneuver is unexpended and is available for use immediately, and remains readied until you change it. Starting at 6th level, you can instead use this ability once per encounter.

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Change Log

TODO:
- ACFs summary table.
- Elf Fighter racial subs - http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=243.0;msg=45384

New Spells
Many of the new spells here are designed to enhance a paladin's smiting ability. However, any spellcaster who can cast these spells can use them with any smiting abilities they may have, such as the granted power of the Destruction domain or the smite good ability of a blackguard. These new smite spells share certain things in common. They all have a casting time of 1 swift action, a range of personal, and a target entry of "your smite attack". They affect a single smite attack made immediately after casting.

Sidebar: Smite Spells

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New Blackguard Spells

New Cleric Spells

New Paladin Spells

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Admixtured Smite
Evocation [See Text]
Level: Blackguard 2, Cleric 2, Paladin 2
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. Choose two of the following energy types: cold, electricity, or fire. Your smite's bonus damage applies twice, once as each of the two chosen energy types instead of its normal type. This spell's descriptor is the same as the two types of energy you choose (for example, if you chose both cold and fire, this would be an Evocation [Cold, Fire] spell).

Admixtured smite, elemental smite, and energized smite do not stack with each other. Only the most powerful one applies.

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Anchoring Smite
Abjuration
Level: Blackguard 4, Paladin 5
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. If your smite attack hits a valid subject, the subject's movements, both physical and metaphysical, become impeded. On a failed save, the subject is entangled and held fast and is blocked from extradimensional travel, as per the dimensional anchor spell. On a successful saving throw, the subject is still entangled, but can move at half speed and is not blocked from extradimensional travel.

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Awesome Smite
Transmutation
Level: Blackguard 2, Paladin 2
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
Spell Resistance: No

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. If your smite attack hits a valid subject, the subject must make a saving throw. On a failure, the subject is knocked flying 10 feet in a direction of your choice and falls prone. You can only push the subject in a straight line, and the subject can’t move closer to you than the square it started in. If an obstacle prevents the completion of the subject’s move, the subject and the obstacle each take 1d6 points of damage, and the subject stops in the space adjacent to the obstacle. The subject's movement in this way does not provoke attacks of opportunity from you, although it may from other creatures.

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Banishing Smite
Abjuration
Level: Blackguard 4, Paladin 4
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. If your smite attack hits a valid subject and that subject is an extraplanar creature, it may be sent back to its home plane. The subject must make a special Will save (DC = spell's save DC - subject's HD + your caster level) or be instantly whisked away, as per the dismissal spell. Just like dismissal, there is a 20% chance of actually sending the subject to a plane other than its own.

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Blinding Smite
Necromancy
Level: Blackguard 2, Cleric 3, Paladin 2
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Fort negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. If your smite attack hits a valid subject, the subject is blinded.

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Dazzling Smite
Evocation
Level: Blackguard 1, Cleric 0, Paladin 0
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Fort negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. If your smite attack hits a valid subject, the subject is dazzled.

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Dispelling Smite
Abjuration
Level: Blackguard 3, Cleric 3, Paladin 3
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. If your smite attack hits a valid subject, any magical auras affecting the subject are at risk of being dispelled. This functions as a targeted dispel magic spell against the subject.

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Dispelling Smite, Greater
Level: Cleric 6, Paladin 5

This spell functions as dispelling smite, except that functions as a targeted greater dispel magic spell against the subject instead.

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Disrupting Smite
Necromancy
Level: Cleric 4, Paladin 4
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: No

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. If your smite attack hits a valid subject and that subject is an undead creature, the subject is destroyed on a failed save.

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Distant Smite
Transmutation
Level: Blackguard 1, Cleric 2, Paladin 1
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your melee smite attack

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make as a melee attack. Your reach is tripled.

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Efficient Smite
Evocation
Level: Blackguard 1, Cleric 1, Paladin 1
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. Your smite attempt does not count against your limited daily number of smite attempts. This spell does not apply to forms of smiting that do not have a daily limit.

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Elemental Smite
Evocation [Cold, Electricity, Fire]
Level: Blackguard 4, Paladin 4
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. Your smite's bonus damage applies three times, once as each of cold, electricity, and fire damage.

Admixtured smite, elemental smite, and energized smite do not stack with each other. Only the most powerful one applies.

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Empowered Smite
Evocation
Level: Blackguard 1, Cleric 1, Paladin 1
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. The bonus on your attack roll is increased by +2 and the bonus damage is increased by +50%. These benefits only apply if you attempt to smite a valid subject.

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Energized Smite
Evocation [See Text]
Level: Blackguard 1, Cleric 0, Paladin 0
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. Choose one of the following energy types: cold, electricity, or fire. Your smite's bonus damage is of the chosen energy type, instead of its normal type. This spell's descriptor is the same as the type of energy you choose.

Admixtured smite, elemental smite, and energized smite do not stack with each other. Only the most powerful one applies.

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Extended Smite
Transmutation
Level: Blackguard 3, Paladin 3
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. After resolving your smite attack, each subsequent attack that you make against the same subject to which you could apply your smite ability counts as a smite attack, using the same smite ability as the original, although they do not count against your limited of uses of your smite ability. These benefits only apply if you attempt to smite a valid subject.

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Far Smite
Transmutation
Level: Blackguard 1, Cleric 0, Paladin 0
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. You can smite with a ranged attack, instead of only a melee attack.

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Heal Planar Servant
Conjuration (Healing)
Level: Paladin (Celestial Servant ACF) 4
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Your planar servant touched
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)
This spell functions like heal, but it affects only the caster’s planar servant, and it heals it regardless of whether it is healed or harmed by cure spells and positive energy. This spell even fully affects creatures that normally cannot be healed (such as Constructs) and creatures that normally receive a reduced effect from healing spells (such as creatures with the Living Construct subtype). In addition, the planar servant can lower its spell resistance with respect to this spell and immediately raise it afterwards without an action, even if it is unconscious or unaware or this spell.

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Merciful Smite
Abjuration [Good]
Level: Cleric 0, Paladin 0
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. Your smite attack deals all of its damage as nonlethal damage instead of lethal. This includes both the bonus damage from your smite ability, and the normal damage of the attack, including any bonus damage dice such as Sneak Attack or a Flaming weapon. This benefit only applies if you attempt to smite a valid subject.

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Persistent Smite
Transmutation
Level: Paladin 6
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: 24 hours (D)
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. After resolving your smite attack, each subsequent attack that you make against the same subject to which you could apply your smite ability counts as a smite attack, using the same smite ability as the original, although they do not count against your limited of uses of your smite ability. These benefits only apply if you attempt to smite a valid subject.

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Piercing Smite
Transmutation
Level: Blackguard 1, Paladin 1
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. Your smite attack's damage ignores all damage reduction, resistances, and hardness. Immunities still apply normally. This includes both the bonus damage from your smite ability, and the normal damage of the attack, including any bonus damage dice such as Sneak Attack or a Flaming weapon. This benefit only applies if you attempt to smite a valid subject.

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Piercing Smite, Greater
Level: Blackguard 3, Paladin 3

This spell functions as piercing smite, except that your smite's damage also ignores all immunities and regeneration. Effects that have a chance of negating the extra damage from critical hits and precision damage do not apply against your smite attack. Consequently, this may allow you to deal precision damage to creatures that are normally have an immunity that would prevent it, although creatures that are unaffected by precision damage without being specifically immune to it or to critical hits (such as creatures without discernible anatomies) remain unaffected. Immunities still apply to any additional, non-damage effects of your smite attack.

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Punishing Smite
Necromancy
Level: Blackguard 1, Paladin 1
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. If your smite attack hits a valid subject, the subject is sickened.

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Ravaging Smite
Necromancy [Evil]
Level: Blackguard 2
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. If your smite attack hits a valid subject, the subject is infected with a disease, as per the contagion spell. Just like contagion, the disease strikes with no incubation time, dealing its damage immediately.

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Reckoning Smite
Necromancy [Death]
Level: Paladin 6
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. If your smite attack hits a valid subject, the subject dies.

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Seeking Smite
Divination
Level: Blackguard 2, Cleric 2, Paladin 2
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. You gain an additional +20 insight bonus on your attack roll and you ignore the miss chance imposed by any form of concealment. These benefits only apply if you attempt to smite a valid subject.

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Shielding Smite
Abjuration
Level: Cleric 2, Paladin 2
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: None (harmless)
Spell Resistance: No

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. You gain a deflection bonus to your Armor Class equal to the bonus your smite ability granted on your attack roll and you gain DR /- equal to the bonus it granted on your damage roll. These benefits only apply against the attacks of the subject of your smite attack. These benefits only apply if you attempt to smite a valid subject.

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Stunning Smite
Evocation
Level: Blackguard 3, Cleric 4, Paladin 3
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: Fort negates
Spell Resistance: No

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. If your smite attack hits a valid subject, the subject is stunned.

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Twin Smite
Transmutation
Level: Blackguard 3, Paladin 3
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Your smite attack

This spell enhances a smite attack that you make. After resolving your smite attack, you may make an extra attack at the same attack bonus against the same subject using the same weapon. This extra attack also counts as a smite attack, using the same smite ability as the original, although it does not count against your limit of uses of your smite ability. These benefits only apply if you attempt to smite a valid subject.

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Change Log

Paladin base class
A re-envisioning of the original paladin with some fancy new aura features. Many of the class's auras draw conceptually from the Diablo 2 paladin.

Paladin auras are more personal than those of other projectors. The paladin's faith and conviction powers her auras, and while a strong faith can be inspiring to others, the greatest heroics are inspired within the one with the faith itself. The effective radius for most auras is 1/6th the normal radius, rounded up to the nearest multiple of 5 feet. In exchange, paladin auras grant greater benefits to the projector herself, as noted under the "Personal" entry of the aura. A paladin still benefits from the normal benefits of her auras, although the normal and personal benefits of a given aura do not stack; where they both apply to the same statistic or otherwise provide similar benefits, only the strongest applies.

Alignment: Any good

Hit Die: d10

Table: The Paladin

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Auras Known		Spells Per Day
						Minor	Divine	0	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
1	+1	+2	+0	+2	Aura of Good, Detect Evil, Minor Aura, Smite Evil 1/day	2	--	2	--	--	--	--	--	--
2	+2	+3	+0	+3	Lay on Hands	3	--	3	0	--	--	--	--	--
3	+3	+3	+1	+3	Divine Aura +1, Divine Health	3	2	3	1	--	--	--	--	--
4	+4	+4	+1	+4	Turn Undead	4	2	3	2	0	--	--	--	--
5	+5	+4	+1	+4	Smite Evil 2/day, Special Mount	4	3	3	3	1	--	--	--	--
6	+6/+1	+5	+2	+5	Multismite (2 spells), Remove Disease 1/week	4	3	3	3	2	--	--	--	--
7	+7/+2	+5	+2	+5	Dilate Aura (90 feet/15 feet)	5	3	3	3	2	0	--	--	--
8	+8/+3	+6	+2	+6	Divine Aura +2	5	3	3	3	3	1	--	--	--
9	+9/+4	+6	+3	+6	Mettle of Fortitude, Remove Disease 2/week	6	3	3	3	3	2	--	--	--
10	+10/+5	+7	+3	+7	Smite Evil 3/day	6	4	3	3	3	2	0	--	--
11	+11/+6/+1	+7	+3	+7	Multismite (3 spells)	6	4	3	3	3	3	1	--	--
12	+12/+7/+2	+8	+4	+8	Dilate Aura (120 feet/20 feet), Remove Disease 3/week, Share Personal Aura	7	4	3	3	3	3	2	--	--
13	+13/+8/+3	+8	+4	+8	Divine Aura +3	7	4	3	3	3	3	2	0	--
14	+14/+9/+4	+9	+4	+9	Mettle of Will	8	4	4	3	3	3	3	1	--
15	+15/+10/+5	+9	+5	+9	Remove Disease 4/week, Smite Evil 4/day	8	5	4	4	3	3	3	2	--
16	+16/+11/+6/+1	+10	+5	+10	Multismite (4 spells)	8	5	4	4	4	3	3	2	0
17	+17/+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+10	Dilate Aura (150 feet/25 feet)	9	5	4	4	4	4	3	3	1
18	+18/+13/+8/+3	+11	+6	+11	Divine Aura +4, Remove Disease 5/week	9	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	2
19	+19/+14/+9/+4	+11	+6	+11	--	10	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	3
20	+20/+15/+10/+5	+12	+6	+12	Champion of Good, Smite Evil 5/day	10	6	4	4	4	4	4	4	4

Class skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Gather Information, Handle Animal, Heal, Intimidate, Jump, Knowledge (all skills, taken individually), Perform, Profession, Ride, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, and Swim.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: As a paladin, you are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, with all types of armor (heavy, medium, and light), and with shields (except tower shields).

Aura of Good (Ex): The power of your aura of good (see the detect good spell) is equal to your paladin level.

Auras (Su): As a paladin, your faith and conviction power your auras. You can learn to produce different effects, or auras, over the course of your career. You may project one minor aura and (starting at 3rd level) one divine aura at a time. If you possess the ability to project auras from multiple sources, the number of auras of any given type that you can project at once does not stack. For instance, a dragon shaman 2/paladin 3 would be able to project both a divine aura and a draconic aura at the same time, but only a single minor aura.

Activating an aura is a swift action. The aura remains in effect until you use a free action to dismiss it or you activate another aura of the same kind (divine or minor). You can have an aura active continually; thus, an aura can be in effect at the start of a combat encounter even before you take your first turn.

As a paladin, activating an aura is a purely mental action. Unless otherwise noted, your auras affect all allies within 60 feet (including yourself) with line of effect to you. An ally must have an Intelligence score to gain the bonus (mindless creatures cannot benefit from your auras). Your aura is dismissed if you become unconscious or are slain, but otherwise it remains in effect even if you are incapable of acting.

Some auras affect your enemies instead of, or in addition to, your allies. Unless otherwise stated, the save DC of your aura is equal to 10 + 1/2 your class level + your Charisma modifier.

Except where otherwise noted, all modifiers granted by your auras are morale bonuses (or penalties) with a magnitude equal to your aura bonus (bonuses add your aura bonus, penalties subtract it). These morale bonuses and penalties still affect targets immune to mind-affecting effects that are otherwise subject to your aura.

Minor Aura: A minor aura grants allies a bonus to certain rolls equal to your minor aura bonus. Your minor aura bonus is equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum +1). You begin play knowing two minor auras of your choice. As your paladin level increases, you gain access to new auras, as indicated on the table above.

Divine Auras: Beginning at 3rd level, you can project a divine aura in addition to your minor aura. A divine aura grants allies bonuses or harms enemies. The magnitude of the bonus granted by your divine auras is initially +1, and it improves by 1 at 8th level and every 5 levels thereafter. You learn two divine auras of your choice at 3rd level. As your paladin level increases, you gain access to new auras, as indicated on the table above.

Faith powers your divine auras, and while a strong faith may inspire others to better themselves, the greatest changes are in the faithful individual himself. Most divine auras have a personal effect. This personal effect applies to you and only you while you project the aura. You, alongside your allies, still benefit from the normal effects of the aura, but the full effects of the aura are reserved for you and you alone. Where an aura grants the same or similar bonuses for both its normal effect and its personal effect, they do not stack; only the strongest applies to you.

As the powers of your auras are focused more heavily into you, they cannot as easily affect your allies. All divine auras with a personal effect have a reduced area of effect. Such auras have only one sixth the normal radius, rounded up to the nearest multiple of 5 feet. Thus, their effective base radius is only 10 feet, and increasing by 5 feet each time your Dilate Aura ability would normally increase your aura radius by 30 feet. Divine auras with no specific additional personal effect and auras of other types still use your full normal aura radius.


Detect Evil (Sp): At will, you can use detect evil, as the spell.

Smite Evil (Su): Once per day, you may attempt to smite evil with one normal melee attack. You add your Charisma bonus (if any) to your attack roll and deal 1 extra point of damage per paladin level. If you accidentally smite a creature that is not evil, the smite has no effect, but the ability is still used up for that day. At 5th level, and at every five levels thereafter, you may smite evil one additional time per day, as indicated on the table above, to a maximum of five times per day at 20th level.

Spells: As a paladin, you gain the ability to cast a small number of divine spells, which are drawn from the paladin spell list. You must choose and prepare your spells in advance.

To prepare or cast a spell, you must have a Wisdom score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against your spell is 10 + the spell level + your Wisdom modifier.

Like other spellcasters, you can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Your base daily spell allotment is given on the table above. In addition, you receive bonus spells per day if you have a high Wisdom score. When the table above indicates that you get 0 spells per day of a given spell level, you gain only the bonus spells you would be entitled to based on your Wisdom score for that spell level.

You prepare and cast spells the way a cleric does, though you cannot lose a prepared spell to spontaneously cast a cure spell in its place. You may prepare and cast any spell on the paladin spell list, provided that you can cast spells of that level, but you must choose which spells to prepare during your daily meditation.

Lay on Hands (Su): Beginning at 2nd level, you can heal wounds (your own or those of others) by touch. Each day you can heal a total number of hit points of damage equal to your paladin level × your Charisma bonus (minimum +1). You may choose to divide your healing among multiple recipients, and you don’t have to use it all at once. Using this ability is a standard action.

Alternatively, you can use any or all of this healing power to deal damage to undead creatures. Using this ability in this way requires a successful melee touch attack and doesn’t provoke an attack of opportunity. You decide how many of your daily allotment of points to use as damage after successfully touching an undead creature.

Divine Health (Ex): At 3rd level, you gain immunity to all diseases, including supernatural and magical diseases.

Turn Undead (Su): When you reach 4th level, you gain the supernatural ability to turn undead. You may use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier (minimum 1/day). You turn undead as a cleric of your level would.

Special Mount (Sp): Upon reaching 5th level, you gain the service of an unusually intelligent, strong, and loyal steed to serve you in your crusade against evil. This mount is usually a heavy warhorse (for a Medium paladin) or a warpony (for a Small paladin).

Once per day, as a full-round action, you may magically call your mount from the celestial realms in which it resides. This ability is the equivalent of a spell of a level equal to one-third your level. The mount immediately appears adjacent to you and remains for 2 hours per paladin level; it may be dismissed at any time as a free action. The mount is the same creature each time it is called, though you may release a particular mount from service.

Each time the mount is called, it appears in full health, regardless of any damage it may have taken previously. The mount also appears wearing or carrying any gear it had when it was last dismissed. Calling a mount is a conjuration (calling) effect.

Should your mount die, it immediately disappears, leaving behind any equipment it was carrying. You may not summon another mount for thirty days or until you gain you level, whichever comes first, even if the mount is somehow returned from the dead. During this thirty-day period, you take a -1 penalty on attack and weapon damage rolls.

Multismite (Ex): Beginning at 6th level, you learn to channel even more power into a single smite attack. You can cast multiple personal smite spells (spells that target your own smite attack) as part of the same action. The casting time becomes equal to the longest casting time of all such spells, and all spells cast must target the same smite attack. If one or more of the spells would provoke an attack of opportunity, you only provoke a single attack of opportunity for this action. The total spell level of the spells you cast this way cannot exceed 1/3 your paladin level. A 0-level spell is considered to have a spell level of 1/2 for the purpose of this calculation.

Starting at 6th level, you can cast up to two spells at once this way. This improves to three spells at 11th level and four spells at 16th level.

Remove Disease (Sp): At 6th level, you can produce a remove disease effect, as the spell, once per week. You can use this ability one additional time per week for every three levels after 6th (twice per week at 9th, three times at 12th, and so forth).

Dilate Aura (Ex): Starting at 7th level, the range of your auras increases by 30 feet (to a total of 90 feet). Their range increases by 30 feet again at each of 12th and 17th level. As the range of most of your divine auras is only 1/6th the normal range, their range effectively only increases by 5 feet at each of these levels.

Mettle of Fortitude (Ex): Starting at 9th level, your faith fortifies your body. Whenever you make a successful Fortitude saving throw against an effect that would normally have a lesser effect on a successful save, you may choose to instead completely negate the effect. If you also possess the mettle of will ability, the two abilities together also count as the mettle ability for the purposes of meeting prerequisites and other options.

Share Personal Aura (Ex): Beginning at 12th level, adjacent allies also gain the personal benefits of the divine aura you project. If you have the ability to project multiple divine auras, you must choose which one aura to share each time you change which divine auras you are projecting.

Mettle of Will (Ex): Starting at 14th level, your faith fortifies your mind. Whenever you make a successful Will saving throw against an effect that would normally have a lesser effect on a successful save, you may choose to instead completely negate the effect. If you also possess the mettle of fortitude ability, the two abilities together also count as the mettle ability for the purposes of meeting prerequisites and other options.

Champion of Good (Ex): Beginning at 20th level, you become one with the concept and power of good. You gain the half-celestial template, even if you would not normally be eligible, and with no level adjustment or challenge rating modification.

Further, your alignment can never unwillingly be changed from good. Effects that would alter your alignment away from good fail to do so. Such effects may still alter your alignment on the lawful to chaotic axis. You cannot be charmed or compelled to commit evil acts, and you automatically recognize any sort of trickery or illusion, be they mundane, magical, or otherwise, intended to convince you to commit an evil act. These protections are effective even against epic-, deity-, or artifact-level effects.

Code of Conduct: A paladin must be of good alignment and loses all class abilities if she ever willingly and intentionally commits an evil act.

Additionally, a paladin’s code requires that she act with honor, help those in need (provided they do not use the help for evil ends or other purposes opposed to the paladin's ideals), and punish those who harm or threaten innocents. What acting with honor means exactly varies from paladin to paladin. For lawful paladins, it frequently involves some variation of not lying, not cheating, not using poison, and so forth. Acting with honor instead might mean holding oneself to higher standards of helping the powerless and downtrodden, holding to one's ideals regardless of social custom, and so forth for chaotic paladins.

Ex-Paladins: A paladin who ceases to be good, who willfully commits an evil act, or who grossly violates her code of conduct loses all paladin spells and class features (including the service of the paladin’s mount, but not weapon, armor, and shield proficiencies). She may not progress any farther in levels as a paladin. She regains her abilities and advancement potential if she atones for her violations (see the atonement spell description), as appropriate.

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The Paladin’s Special Mount

Alternative Special Mounts

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Dragon Shaman base class
A remake of the original dragon shaman with some fancy new aura features that build on what was once touch of vitality's healing pool.

Hit Die: d10

Table: The Dragon Shaman

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Draconic Vitality	Auras Known
							Minor	Draconic
1	+0	+2	+0	+2	Breath Weapon, Dragontouched, Minor Aura, Totem Dragon	10	2	--
2	+1	+3	+0	+3	Bonus Feat, Draconic Aura +1	20	3	3
3	+2	+3	+1	+3	Dilate Aura (90 feet), Draconic Adaptation	30	4	3
4	+3	+4	+1	+4	Draconic Resolve	40	4	3
5	+3	+4	+1	+4	Scales +2	50	5	4
6	+4	+5	+2	+5	Draconic Aura +2	70	5	4
7	+5	+5	+2	+5	Bonus Feat, Dilate Aura (120 feet)	90	6	4
8	+6/+1	+6	+2	+6	Share Draconic Adaptation	110	6	4
9	+6/+1	+6	+3	+6	Totem Immunity	130	7	4
10	+7/+2	+7	+3	+7	Breath Weapon (double range), Draconic Aura +3	150	7	5
11	+8/+3	+7	+3	+7	Dilate Aura (150 feet), Scales +3	180	8	5
12	+9/+4	+8	+4	+8	Extra Aura	210	8	5
13	+9/+4	+8	+4	+8	Bonus Feat	240	9	5
14	+10/+5	+9	+4	+9	Commune with Dragon Spirit, Draconic Aura +4	270	9	5
15	+11/+6/+1	+9	+5	+9	Share Totem Immunity	300	10	6
16	+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+10	Dilate Aura (180 feet), Draconic Longevity	340	10	6
17	+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+10	Draconic Infusion, Scales +4	380	11	6
18	+13/+8/+3	+11	+6	+11	Draconic Aura +5	420	11	6
19	+14/+9/+4	+11	+6	+11	Bonus Feat	460	12	6
20	+15/+10/+5	+12	+6	+12	Breath Weapon (quadruple range), Dragonshape	500	12	7

Class skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Escape Artist, Intimidate, Knowledge (all skills, taken individually), Listen, Profession, Search, Sense Motive, Spot, and Use Magic Device. In addition, a dragon shaman gains access to additional class skills based on her totem dragon (see below).

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: As a dragon shaman, you are proficient with all simple weapons, with medium and light armor, and with shields (except tower shields).

Languages: As a dragon shaman, you learn to speak Draconic. Draconic is a free language for you; that is, you know it in addition to your regular allotment of languages and it doesn’t take up a language slot.

Totem Dragon: You must choose a totem dragon from among the true dragons listed in the table below. At least one component of your alignment must be the same as your dragon totem's alignment, and no component of your alignment may be opposed to your totem dragon's alignment. For example, a gold dragon shaman (LG) could be lawful good, neutral good, or lawful neutral, while an amethyst dragon shaman (TN) could be neutral good, neutral evil, lawful neutral, chaotic neutral, or true neutral. You gain additional class skills and a particular sort of breath weapon based on the dragon you select as your totem. Your choice of dragon totem also influences the Draconic Adaptation and Totem Immunity abilities you gain at later levels.

Table: Dragon Shaman Totem Dragons

Chromatic Totem Dragons	Dragon Alignment	Class Skills	Breath Weapon Damage Type	Draconic Adaptation	Totem Immunity
Black	CE	Hide, Move Silently, Swim	Acid	Water Breathing	Acid
Blue	LE	Bluff, Hide, Spellcraft	Electricity	Ventriloquism	Electricity
Green	LE	Bluff, Hide, Move Silently	Acid	Water Breathing	Acid
Red	CE	Appraise, Bluff, Jump	Fire	Treasure Seeker	Fire
White	CE	Hide, Move Silently, Swim	Cold	Icewalker	Cold
Metallic Totem Dragons	Dragon Alignment	Class Skills	Breath Weapon Damage Type	Draconic Adaptation	Totem Immunity
Brass	CG	Bluff, Gather Information, Survival	Fire	Wild Boon	Fire
Bronze	LG	Disguise, Survival, Swim	Electricity	Water Breathing	Electricity
Copper	CG	Bluff, Hide, Jump	Acid	Spider Climb	Acid
Gold	LG	Disguise, Heal, Swim	Fire	Water Breathing	Fire
Silver	LG	Bluff, Disguise, Jump	Cold	Cloud Strider	Cold
Gem Totem Dragons	Dragon Alignment	Class Skills	Breath Weapon Damage Type	Draconic Adaptation	Totem Immunity
Amethyst	TN	Bluff, Hide, Move Silently	Nonlethal untyped damage	Body Equilibrium	Immune to poison, +4 bonus on saves against force effects
Crystal	CN	Gather Information, Jump, Swim	Untyped damage from a light effect	Cloud Strider	Cold
Emerald	LN	Gather Information, Hide, Swim	Sonic	Object Reading	Sonic
Sapphire	LN	Climb, Jump, Move Silently	Sonic	Spider Climb	Electricity
Topaz	CN	Hide, Survival, Swim	Untyped	Water Breathing	Cold
Other Totem Dragons	Dragon Alignment	Class Skills	Breath Weapon Damage Type	Draconic Adaptation	Totem Immunity
Ectoplasmic	CN	Disguise, Gather Information, Hide	Fire	Planar Adaptation	Fire
Mercury	CG	Bluff, Disguise, Jump, Sense Motive, Survival	Fire	Brilliance	Fire
Mist	TN	Bluff, Sense Motive, Swim, Survival	Fire	Water Breathing	Acid
Obsidian	NE	Appraise, Gather Information, Survival	Fire	Planar Adaptation	Fire
Steel	LN	Bluff, Craft, Disguise, Profession, Spellcraft	Acid	Minor Change Shape	SR 15 + class level against arcane spells

Draconic Vitality: As a result of your studies and devotion to your dragon totem, you have learned to emulate the enduring magical might of dragons. You gain a pool of draconic vitality points, or DV, that you can spend to enhance some of your dragon shaman abilities. The base size of your pool is based on your class level, as indicated on the table above. If you have a positive Charisma modifier, you also gain additional points equal to 2 x class level x your Charisma bonus (if any). For example, a 7th-level dragon shaman with a Charisma score of 14 (+2 bonus) would have a pool of 118 DV. Whenever you get a full night's rest, you recover all lost or expended draconic vitality, restoring your pool to full.

Changes to the size of your pool also increase or decrease the amount of remaining draconic vitality you have by the same amount. While you cannot spend more draconic vitality than you have remaining in your pool, a reduction to your pool size (such as due to a penalty to your Charisma score) can reduce your remaining draconic vitality to a negative amount.

Some feats and other options also grant you a pool of draconic vitality. Regardless of the source, they all combine into a single pool of draconic vitality that you can expend for all of the abilities that use it.

Auras (Su): As a dragon shaman, you can channel the mighty powers of dragonkind to project auras that grant you and nearby allies special benefits. You can learn to produce different effects, or auras, over the course of your career. You may project one minor aura and (starting at 2nd level) one draconic aura at a time. If you possess the ability to project auras from multiple sources, the number of auras of any given type that you can project at once does not stack. For instance, a dragon shaman 2/marshal 2 would be able to project both a major aura and a draconic aura at the same time, but only a single minor aura.

Activating an aura is a swift action. The aura remains in effect until you use a free action to dismiss it or you activate another aura of the same kind (draconic or minor). You can have an aura active continually; thus, an aura can be in effect at the start of a combat encounter even before you take your first turn.

As a dragon shaman, activating an aura is a purely mental action. Unless otherwise noted, your auras affect all allies within 60 feet (including yourself) with line of effect to you. Unlike the auras of Marshals and Divine Minds, allies need not have an Intelligence score to gain the bonus (mindless creatures can benefit from your dragon shaman auras as much as intelligent creatures). Your aura is dismissed if you become unconscious or are slain, but otherwise it remains in effect even if you are incapable of acting.

Some auras affect your enemies instead of, or in addition to, your allies. Unless otherwise stated, the save DC of your aura is equal to 10 + 1/2 your class level + your Charisma modifier.

Except where otherwise noted, all modifiers granted by your auras are morale bonuses (or penalties) with a magnitude equal to your aura bonus (bonuses add your aura bonus, penalties subtract it). These morale bonuses and penalties still affect targets immune to mind-affecting effects that are otherwise subject to your aura.

Minor Aura: A minor aura grants allies a bonus to certain rolls equal to your minor aura bonus. Your minor aura bonus is equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum +1). You begin play knowing two minor auras of your choice. As your dragon shaman level increases, you gain access to new auras, as indicated on the table above.

Draconic Aura: Beginning at 2nd level, you can project a draconic aura in addition to your minor aura. A draconic aura grants allies bonuses or harms enemies. The magnitude of the bonus granted by your draconic auras is initially +1, and it improves by 1 at 6th level and every 4 levels thereafter. You learn three draconic auras of your choice at 2nd level. As your dragon shaman level increases, you gain access to new auras, as indicated on the table above.

Most draconic auras have a boost effect. As a swift action, you can spend some of your remaining draconic vitality (or DV) to improve the aura's effects temporarily. If you dismiss an aura, its boost's duration immediately ends and the boost effect is lost, even if you activate the aura again before the boost's duration would normally end. In the case of boosts that have a specific target, should the target cease being affected by the aura, the boost effect ends on that target just like you had dismissed the aura.


Breath Weapon (Su): At 1st level, you gain a breath weapon that you can use once per round as a standard action. Each time you use your breath weapon, you can choose whether it takes the form of a 15-foot cone or a 30-foot line. This breath weapon deals 1d6 points of damage of the type corresponding to your dragon totem, plus an additional 1d6 damage for every 2 class levels; a successful Reflex save (DC 10 + 1/2 your class level + your Con modifier) halves the damage. Additionally, whenever you use your breath weapon, you can spend some of your draconic vitality to improve its potency. For every 3 points of draconic vitality (or DV) that you spend, you add an additional 1d6 damage to it, to a maximum number of additional damage dice equal to half your class level, rounded up.

You are immune to the effect of your own breath weapon (but not to other breath weapons that produce similar effects, even those of other dragon shamans).

At 10th level, your cone-shaped breath weapon's range doubles to 30 feet, and your line-shaped breath weapon's range doubles to 60 feet. At 20th level, these ranges double again, to 60 feet and 120 feet, respectively.

Dragontouched: At 1st level, you gain Dragontouched as a bonus feat, even if you don't qualify for it. This grants you the dragonblood subtype, 1 extra hit point, a +1 bonus on Listen, Search, and Spot checks, and a +1 bonus on saving throws against paralysis and sleep effects. In addition, you can select draconic feats as if you were a sorcerer of your character level.

Bonus Feats: At 2nd level, 7th level, and every 6 levels thereafter, you gain a bonus breath, metabreath, or draconic feat of your choice. You can also select the Dragon Wings feat, even though your character level is beyond 1st, or the Improved Dragon Wings, Reinforced Wings, and Heavyweight Wings feats.

Dilate Aura (Ex): Starting at 3rd level, the range of your auras increases by 30 feet (to a total of 90 feet). Their range increases by 30 feet again at each of 7th, 11th, and 16th level.

Draconic Adaptation: At 3rd level, you take on an aspect of your totem dragon. Some adaptations are extraordinary or supernatural abilities that are always active; others are spell-like abilities that you can activate at will. Spell-like abilities have a caster level equal to your class level and a save DC equal to 10 + spell level + Cha modifier. Psi-like abilities have a manifester level equal to your class level and a save DC equal to 10 + power level + Cha modifier.

• Body Equilibrium (Su): You gain the benefits of the body equilibrium power, allowing you to adjust your body’s equilibrium to correspond with any solid or liquid that you stand on, and halving the damage you take from falling.
  
• Brilliance (Su): You can create a light as bright as a daylight spell in a cone-shaped emanation up to 60 feet long. Each round, you can turn the light in a new area. Activating or suppressing this ability is a standard action.
  
• Cloud Strider (Su): You can tread on clouds or fog as though on solid ground. Additionally, you fall slowly, as per the feather fall spell. Either or both of these effects can be suppressed or resumed as a free action.
  
• Icewalker (Ex): You are constantly protected from extreme cold (although not extreme heat), as per the endure elements spell. You can walk across icy surfaces without reducing your speed or making Balance checks. Further, you can cling to and walk upon sheer surfaces, as per the spider climb spell, as long as they are icy.
  
• Minor Change Shape (Su): As the changeling racial ability. You can alter your appearance as though using a disguise self spell that affects your body but not your possessions. This ability is not an illusory effect, but a minor physical alteration of your facial features, skin color and texture, and size, within the limits described for the spell. You can use this ability at will, and the alteration lasts until you change shape again. You revert to your natural form when killed. A true seeing spell reveals your natural form. When using this ability to create a disguise, you receive a +10 circumstance bonus on Disguise checks. Using this ability is a full-round action.
  
• Object Reading (Ps): As the power, usable at will.
  
• Planar Adaptation (Su): You are at ease on other planes. You can ignore the effects of most extraplanar environments, as per the avoid planar effects spell.
  
• Spider Climb (Su): You can cling to and walk along sheer surfaces, as per the spider climb spell.
  
• Treasure Seeker (Sp): You can use the detect magic and identify spells at will. You need not provide expensive material components for identify, but the casting time is the same as when cast as a spell.
  
• Ventriloquism (Sp): As the spell, usable at will. You can also use this spell-like ability to mimic any voice or sound you have heard. Listeners are automatically allowed a disbelief save to detect the ruse when you use it this way.
  
• Water Breathing (Ex): You can breathe underwater indefinitely and can freely use spells and other abilities underwater.
  
• Wild Boon (Su): You are constantly protected from extreme temperatures, as per the endure elements spell. Additionally, you can comprehend and communicate with animals, as per the speak with animals spell.
  

Draconic Resolve (Ex): At 4th level, you gain immunity to paralysis and sleep effects. You also become immune to the frightful presence of dragons.

Scales (Ex): As your devotion to your dragon totem grows, your skin thickens, developing faint scales. Beginning at 5th level, you gain a +2 natural armor bonus to your Armor Class. If you already have a natural armor bonus from other sources, instead increase your existing bonus by this amount. This bonus increases by 1 for every 6 levels beyond 5th level, for a total bonus of +4 at level 17.

Share Draconic Adaptation (Su): Beginning at 8th level, you can have any ally affected by your draconic auras also gain the effects of your draconic adaptation.

Totem Immunity (Ex): Beginning at 9th level, you become immune to your dragon totem's associated energy type. Some totems grant a different benefit instead of immunity to an energy type, as noted in their descriptions.

Extra Aura: At 12th level, you gain Extra Aura (draconic aura) as a bonus feat, allowing you to project one more draconic aura at once than normal (for a total of 2). You must activate or dismiss your auras separately.

Commune with Dragon Spirit (Sp): At 14th level, you gain the ability to contact your dragon totem directly to ask questions of it. This is the equivalent of casting a commune spell, except that it has no material component, focus, or XP cost and allows only one question per three class levels. After using this ability, you cannot use it again for seven days.

Share Totem Immunity (Su): Beginning at 15th level, you can have any ally affected by your draconic auras also gain the effects of your totem immunity.

Draconic Longevity (Ex): At 16th level and onward, you no longer take penalties to your ability scores for aging and cannot be magically aged. Any such penalties that you have already taken, however, remain in place. Bonuses still accrue, and you still die of old age when your time is up. However, like your draconic patron, you become extraordinarily long-lived. Your maximum age is double normal.

Draconic Infusion (Su): When you reach 17th level, choose a single draconic aura you know and can project. Once selected, this cannot be changed. You continuously project that aura with a personal range; it affects you and only you at any and all times that you can project a draconic aura. Your ability to project this aura in this way is in addition to your normal ability to project draconic auras; it does not count against the number of draconic aura your can project at once. Further, you can still project this aura normally, counting against the number of draconic auras you can project at once but affecting more than just yourself like a normal aura. When you do so, you treat its aura bonus a +2 higher than normal with respect to yourself.

Dragonshape (Su): Beginning at 20th level, you can take on the full might of your dragon totem for a short while. You assume the form of a typical mature adult dragon of your dragon totem's type. Your type and subtype (if applicable) change to match the new form. You gain the Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores of the new form but retain your own Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also gain all special abilities possessed by the form (such as blindsense, breath weapon, crush, damage reduction, frightful presence, keen senses, spell resistance, tail sweep, and spell-like abilities) but do not gain the spellcasting or manifesting ability of your new form. Limitations on the use of abilities gained through this transformation remain regardless of how many times you switch between normal and draconic form.

You retain all supernatural and spell-like abilities of your normal form, except for those requiring a body part that the new form does not have, if any. You keep all extraordinary abilities derived from class levels, but you lose any benefits of the racial traits of your normal form. If you have a template, special abilities it provides are likewise not retained.

You acquire the physical qualities of the new form while retaining your own mind. Physical qualities include natural size, mundane movement capabilities (such as burrowing, climbing, walking, swimming, and flight with wings), natural armor bonus, natural weapons (such as claw, bite, wing, and tail slap attacks), racial bonuses on skill checks, racial bonus feats, and any anatomical qualities (presence or absence of wings, number of extremities, and so forth).

You can freely designate the new form’s minor physical qualities (such as scale color, scale texture, and eye color) within the normal ranges for a creature of that type. The new form’s significant physical qualities (such as height, weight, and gender) are also under your control, but they must fall within the norms for the new form’s species. You are effectively disguised as an average member of the new form’s race. If you use this ability to create a disguise, you get a +10 bonus on your Disguise check.

When the change occurs, your equipment either remains worn or held by the new form (if it is capable of wearing or holding the item in question) or melds into the new form and becomes nonfunctional. When you revert to your normal form, any objects previously melded into the new form reappear in the same location on your body they previously occupied and are once again functional. Any new items you wore in the assumed form and can’t wear in your normal form fall off and land at your feet; any that you could wear in either form or carry in a body part common to both forms (mouth, hands, or the like) at the time of reversion are still held in the same way. Any part of the body or piece of equipment that is separated from the whole reverts to its normal form.

While under this effect, your remaining draconic vitality directly bolsters your life force, functioning similarly to temporary hit points. Any damage you take is subtracted from your remaining draconic vitality before your normal hit points, but after temporary hit points. Just like real temporary hit points, you add your draconic vitality to your hit point total to determine the effects of hit point-dependent effects, such as nonlethal damage and power word spells.

If you are slain while under the effect of this ability, you revert to your original form, though you remain dead.

You can activate this ability as a swift action and deactivate it as a free action. You must spend 5 DV each round that this ability remains in effect, starting when you activate it. If you cannot or choose not to, the effects end and the ability is deactivated. As long as you continue to spend draconic vitality, there is no limit to the amount of time you can spend in dragon form.

Ex-Dragon Shamans: If your alignment changes such that it is now inappropriate for your totem dragon, you temporarily lose access to your breath weapon, draconic adaptation, share draconic adaptation, totem immunity, share totem immunity, commune with dragon spirit, and dragonshape abilities. You regain the use of those abilities should your alignment change back to an appropriate alignment for your totem. Alternatively, you can switch your dragon totem.

Changing Dragon Totems: While most dragon shamans remain devoted to a single dragon totem for the entirety of their careers, it is not unheard of for a shaman to change their spiritual inclinations. Through a process of ritual meditation and fasting lasting for 24 hours, you can select a new dragon totem. Your alignment must be appropriate for your new totem. The effects of your breath weapon, draconic adaptation, totem immunity, and dragonshape class features change in accordance with your new dragon totem. However, your additional class skills remain the same until you gain a new character level, at which point you must retrain (PHB2) any skill points that you have invested in your former dragon shaman class skills that are not granted by your new totem. Additionally, the spirit of your new dragon totem may ask a quest of you, one appropriate to your talents and abilities, to prove your new devotion. Failure to undertake the quest within a reasonable time frame (partially dependent on the importance and urgency of your current quests) will result of the revocation of your totem-granted abilities, as described under the ex-dragon shamans heading above. Dragon shamans who repeatedly change which dragon totem they are devoted to may find that the dragon totems' quests become more dangerous and petty as the spirits express their disdain for such fickle devotion.

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