Odds and ends

[Anastasia]

Posted a new set of three substitution levels. Feedback on them welcome.

[Anastasia]

If you're ever curious about how not to design substitution levels, this is it. I knew it was bad almost from the start, so I said fuck it and finished it. Hey, I figured I could purge the shit out of my systems and then work on something better tomorrow.

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Order of the Risen Saint

A group of  fighters who revere Alicia, following her examples and legends.

Requirements

To take a Order of the Risen Saint substitution level, a character must have Alicia as a patron and about to take her 6th, 8th or 12th level of fighter.

Hit Die

d8

Class Skills

The Order of the Risen Saint have the same class skills as a standard fighter, plus Concentration, Knowledge(arcana) and Spellcraft.

Skill Points per Level

2 + intelligence modifier.

6th: Lose bonus feat, gain Arcane Dabblings.
8th: Lose bonus feat, gain Celestial Wings.
12th: Lose bonus feat, gain Sorcery Fire.

Arcane Dabblings (Sp)

In her life Alicia mastered the art of mixing the blade and sorcery. You have studied her techniques, gaining some limited spellcasting of your own.  You may select three spells from the following list. You can cast each one once per day as a spell like ability with a caster level equal to your character level.

Spell list: Detect Poison, Amanuensis, Light, Mage Hand, Mending, Message, Prestidigitation, Caltrops, Stick, Magic Missile, Shield, Feather Fall, Critical Strike, True Strike, Shock and Awe, Light of Lunia.

Celestial Wings (Ex)

At 8th level, you gain white angelic wings, much as Alicia was blessed. You gain a fly speed equal to your land speed.

Sorcery Fire (Su)

You may summon the flames of arcane fire to your weapon, dealing extra damage. Three times per day you may channel arcane fire into your weapon as a swift action, granting you a +2 bonus to attack rolls and an extra 2d4 points of damage. This lasts for one round.

[Anastasia]

Added a houseruled version of the subduing strike(BoED) to houserules. It now works on normal or ranged attacks, as well as any precision damage. If you really want to invest a feat in doing nonlethal damage knock yourself out.

[Anastasia]

Requesting comments on this feat. It's mainly relevant to Eb, though if Andrea ever ends up advancing her paladin spellcasting it could be to her. It's an FR style Initiate feat, adding a few thematically approriate spells for her worshipers. Whirling Blade was an iconic spell for her, giving anyone immediate range when required. Voice of the Archon and Might of the Planetar are in the same position, while Know Vulnerabilities gives her paladins added strategic competency.

Initiate of Alicia [Initiate]
Prerequisite: Cleric or paladin level 4th
Benefit: You gain a +2 sacred bonus to armor class and attack rolls against servants of Shar. In addition, you add the following spells to your cleric or paladin spell list.

2nd: Whirling Blade
4th: Voice of the Archon*, Know Vulnerabilities (Paladin only)
7th: Might of the Planetar*(Cleric only)

*Voice of the Archon is a refluffed Voice of the Dragon from Spell Compendium. It functions identically. Might of the Planetar is an altered Bite of the Wearbear.

Might of the Planetar
Transmutation
Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 7
Components: V,S
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 round/level

With a triumphant cry, your flesh tints a vibrant green and powerful muscle builds under your skin. Your fists clench monetarily, feeling behind them the strength to pulverise any foe.

You gain a +16 enhancement bonus to Strength, a +2 enhancement bonus to Dexterity, a +8 enhancement bonus to Constitution, and a +7 enhancement bonus to Natural Armour. You gain a slam attack that inflicts 2d8 + 1-1/2 your strength modifier. You gain the benefits of the Blind-Fight and Power Attack feats as well.

[Ebiris]

The spells are aces, but the benefit seems a bit too situational compared to what other initiate feats offer. For her I think a better one would be something like the DC to dispel spells placed by the character upon herself is 13 + spell level. Fits with her own fighting style and should be useful for her followers as well.

[Anastasia]

How about this then?

Initiate of Alicia [Initiate]
Prerequisite: Cleric or paladin level 4th
Benefit: Your caster level for magic cast yourself is considered two levels higher, for the sake of dispel magic and similar effects. For example, a caster level 6 cleric's divine favor would be treated as a caster level 8 if a wizard tries to dispel it. This only applies to spells cast on directly on you, not other spells.

2nd: Whirling Blade
3rd: Know Vulnerabilities (Paladin only)
4th: Voice of the Archon*
7th: Might of the Planetar*(Cleric only)

*Voice of the Archon is a refluffed Voice of the Dragon from Spell Compendium. It functions identically. Might of the Planetar is an altered Bite of the Wearbear.

Might of the Planetar
Transmutation
Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 7, Initiate of Alicia 7
Components: V,S
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 round/level

With a triumphant cry, your flesh tints a vibrant green and powerful muscle builds under your skin. Your fists clench monetarily, feeling behind them the strength to pulverise any foe.

You gain a +16 enhancement bonus to Strength, a +2 enhancement bonus to Dexterity, a +8 enhancement bonus to Constitution, and a +7 enhancement bonus to Natural Armour. You gain a slam attack that inflicts 2d8 + 1-1/2 your strength modifier. You gain the benefits of the Blind-Fight and Power Attack feats as well.

[Ebiris]

Sure that works.

[Anastasia]

So we talked about this, but it wasn't really finalized. How would Ilmater's Suffering domain look?

Granted Power (Sp): You can use a pain touch once per day. Make a melee touch attack against a living creature, which bestows on that creature a -2 penalty to Strength and Dexterity for 1 minute on a successful attack. This ability does not affect creatures that have immunity to extra damage from critical hits.

1. Bane
2. Bear's Endurance
3. Bestow Curse
4. Enervation
5. Feeblemind
6. Harm
7. Waves of Exhaustion
8. Horrid Wilting
9. Energy Drain

[Corwin]

Bestow Curse and Pain Touch are cool?

[Anastasia]

They don't have the [Evil] descriptor so they're okay.

To be honest I think this entire domain's spellset pushes the boundaries for Ilmater, but he's a strange divinity about this by any measure.

Edit: If it were up to me, energy drain spells would have the [Evil] descriptor, though I don't care enough to houserule it since a few favorite spells are things like enervation.

[Anastasia]

Added the Initiate of Alicia feat and the revised Suffering Domain to the House Rules. Yuth, were you going to take that mists feat you were interested in? If so I'll add it as well.

[Anastasia]

Yuth, this is from the PM on IRC I sent you. If you see this after you've replied there don't worry about replying here. If not, by all means gimme a line here.

Were you interested in that Elemental Archon class from Faiths and Pantheons? If you were I'll rewrite it for psionics. If not I just don't wanna go to the effort for nothing.

Edit: Also posted a new PrC, feedback welcome as always.

[Ebiris]

It looks like a solid PrC, although I can't help but wonder if Sylica went through some sort of Stalinist purge to write Marie out of the history books considering she's unrepresented while Jessica is.

[Anastasia]

Hahahahhaa. Nah, she just ended up being the odd one out when I thought up concepts for this. I guess I could include her and make it a six level PrC.

[Anastasia]

Posted revised Silverstar. I stayed as close to the original class as possible, only fixing a few stupid points and updating the entire thing.