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2010-02-05, 02:18 PM
This is essentially a 'divine gish' kind of prestige class, using Fax Celestis' wonderful Librum (http://wiki.faxcelestis.net/./index.php?title=Librum), as with a distinct generic-greyhawk D&D/D20 flavor.
Anyway, PEACH and tell me what you think? I'm a bit nervous about inevitable destruction, but it looks balanced at first glance. I'll kitbash a tektek avatar art for this guy later.
DISCORDIAN LIBRARIAN
"Submit before the wisdom of Hextor, lest I beat it into your foolish mind!"
- Gavyon
A small sect of Hextor's priesthood concerns themselves with chronicling battles as they occur. Being priests of a god with the portfolio of war, a subsect of this sect belive in experiencing these battles first hand for later genuflection upon. It is these hands-on scribes who train in the arts of war who defend the Black Libraries, a temple complex where the Hextorite Order stores its records of every battle on prime material.
The signature mark of the Discordian Librarian is the Librum, an iron-shod tome, swung on a chain much like Hextor's own favored flail. The pages of this book are magic scrolls, which are triggered when the weapon strikes true.
BECOMING A DISCORDIAN LIBRARIAN
The erudite bookishness of the scribe must meet the martial discipline and skill of the warrior and the dedication of the Hextorite priest inside of the candidate if he desires to become a Discordian Librarian. He must learn to wield the deadly librum, and how to fill it with devastating magic for ultimate subjugation of Hextor's enemies and the preservation of the records of battle.
Prerequisites
Alignment: Lawful Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil.
Patron Deity: Hextor.
Base Attack Bonus: +6.
Skills: Knowledge (Religon) 8 ranks, Profession (Scribe) 8 ranks.
Spells: Must be able to cast 2nd level divine spells.
Feats: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Librum), Scribe Scroll.
Class Skills
The Discordian Librarian's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Heal (Wis), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (arcana) (Int), Knowledge (history) (Int), Knowledge (religion) (Int), Knowledge (the planes) (Int), Profession (Wis), and Spellcraft (Int).
Skills Points at Each Level: 2 + Intelligence modifier
Hit Dice: d8
{table=head]Level|Base Attack Bonus|Fort Save|Ref Save|Will Save|Special|Spellcasting
1st|
+1|
+2|
+0|
+2|Librarian's Puissance|
2nd|
+2|
+3|
+0|
+3|Dark Scribe|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
3rd|
+3|
+3|
+1|
+3|Heavy Strikes the Black Gauntlet +1|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
4th|
+4|
+4|
+1|
+4|Shorthand, As The Flail|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
5th|
+5|
+4|
+1|
+4|Dark Judgements
6th|
+6|
+5|
+2|
+5|Heavy Strikes the Black Gauntlet +2|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
7th|
+7|
+5|
+2|
+5|Cleaving Tome|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
8th|
+8|
+6|
+2|
+6|Improved Shorthand, True Scrolls|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
9th|
+9|
+6|
+3|
+6|Heavy Strikes the Black Gauntlet +3|
10th|
+10|
+7|
+3|
+7|Inevitable Destruction|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
[/table]
Weapon Proficiencies: An Discordian Librarian gains no proficiency in either weapons or armor.
Spells per Day/Spells Known: A Discordian Librarian continues advancing in divine spellcasting ability as well as learning the skills of the hospitalers. Thus, when a new hospitaler level is gained (except for 1st, 5th, and 9th levels), the character gains new divine spells per day (and spells known, if applicable) as if she had gained a level in the a divine spellcasting class to which she belonged before adding the prestige class level. She does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (improved chance of controlling or rebuking undead, greater damage with the smite evil ability, and so on). If the character had more than one divine spellcasting class before becoming a hospitaler, the player must decide to which class to add each hospitaler level for the purposes of determining spells per day and spells known.
Librarian's Puissance (Ex): As devotees to the Scourge of Battle, combat practice is a religious act for the Discordian Librarian. Levels of of Discordian Librarian stack with (and count as) levels in the fighter class for purposes of qualifying for fighter-only feats such as weapon specialization and greater weapon focus.
Dark Scribe (Ex): Skilled at penning prayers to Hextor for a manifestation of the Herald of Hell's benevolence (or mavolence to his enemies!), the Librarian is able to create scrolls for 75% of the cost in gp and xp. This ability stacks with the reduction provided by the Magical Artisan feat.
Heavy Strikes the Black Gauntlet (Ex): Through his career, the Discordian Librarian becomes increasingly adept at striking telling blows with his libram. Starting at 3rd level, the Librarian extends the critical threat range of his libram by one. This occurs after any multiplications of critical threat range, such as by an impact enhancement or by the improved critical feat. The Librarian also gains a +1 bonus to critical confirmation rolls when wielding a libram. The Librarian gains an additional point of critical threat range and bonus to confirmation rolls at 6th and 9th level.
Shorthand (Ex): The Discordian Librarian becomes able to quickly create unholy writs. At 4th level, a Discordian Librarian can create four scrolls in an eight hour period, compared with the one that a creator could typically make. At 8th level, the Librarian can craft eight scrolls in an eight hour period. Scrolls still take the nominal amount of materials, less any discounts (such as the one granted by the Dark Scribe ability).
As The Flail (Ex): At 4th level, the Discordian Librarian learns the tricks practiced by Hextor's templars, who wield his favored weapon, the flail. Being a large weight on a chain, the librum can be used much as a flail can - and the Librarian learns to wield his librum as a flail, gaining a +2 bonus on opposed attack rolls made to disarm an enemy (and the roll to avoid being disarmed if such an attempt fails). Furthermore, the Librarian can use his libram to make trip attacks. If you he is tripped during his own trip attempt, he can drop his libram to avoid being tripped.
Dark Judgements (Su): At 5th level, the Discordian Librarian adds Order's Wrath and Unholy Blight to the spell list of one of his divine spellcasting classes, if he was previously unable to cast them. Furthermore, the Librarian gains a +2 profane bonus to the save DC of any spell with the [Law] or [Evil] descriptors. This bonus extends to spell completion and spell trigger items crafted by the Librarian.
Cleaving Tome (Ex):At 7th level, the Discordian Librarian learns how to follow through on particularly punishing blows with his librum. Any time the librarian confirms a critical hit with his librum, he gets an immediate, extra melee attack against any creature in reach. The librarian can use this ability once per round.
True Scrolls (Ex): At 8th Level, the Discordian Librarian learns how to make a special enhancement to the librum he wields. When the Librarian scores a critical hit with his librum, the librum no longer needs to make a caster level check to activate a scroll.
Inevitable Destruction (Ex): At the apex of his studies of the wielding of the librum, the Discordian Librarian has learned to wield the steel tome with incisive, punishing accuracy, delivering sledgehammer blows with pin-point precison. Whenever a Librarian successfully hits an opponent with his librum without resulting in a critical hit, he extends the critical threat range of his librum by one. This ability will continue to stack until the Librarian scores a successful critical hit against an opponent, whereuppon the critical threat range bonus from Inevitable Destruction resets to zero.
PLAYING A DISCORDIAN LIBRARIAN
A Discordian Librarian is no thug with a strange contrivance of an armament. He is warrior, a scribe, and a priest. His dedication to Hextor, to combat, and to the the exultation of battle drive him forward
Combat: The Discordian Librarian has strong melee pretensions, and cleric spellcasting to boot. As such, the Librarian is a flexible character, able to mix it up in melee and provide spellcasting support. The true power of the Discordian Librarian lays in mixing the two - swinging a book of scrolls on a chain, setting them off when the book strikes true.
Advancement: All Discordian Librarians had training in the arts of channeling the powers of the Champion of Evil at some point before starting the path of the librum. After scaling the capstone of the Discordian Librarian prestige class, most Librarians choose whether to keep advancing as a divine spellcaster, or as a warrior, all for the glory of Hextor.
Resources: As a member of an order of scribes of one of the world's most powerful, organized, religions, the Discordian Librarian has access to most resources already under the plated boot (black gauntlet) of the Church of Hextor. Within his order, there is a trade in books and accounts of battles in the past, and on other planes - from the winner's side and the loser's side - for the continued chronicling of strife. Returning such a book to a higher level Librarian is bound to be good for a Librarian's reputation, if not an outright reward.
DISCORDIAN LIBRARIANS IN THE WORLD
"The Hextorite attack on Burrowfort was horrifying. Well-coordininated and intense, those blasted book-priests crushing skulls. I have spent many days healing wounded gnomes, and I fear I may lose some of them." -Keir Petr, Radiant Servant of Pelor
Discordian Librarians are a less-well-known order in the Church of Hextor, less than the famous Fists of Hextor, for example. The average Librarian spends his time in a barracks chapel, ministering to the troops when not researching the divine records of war or serving alongside them in battle.
Anyway, PEACH and tell me what you think? I'm a bit nervous about inevitable destruction, but it looks balanced at first glance. I'll kitbash a tektek avatar art for this guy later.
DISCORDIAN LIBRARIAN
"Submit before the wisdom of Hextor, lest I beat it into your foolish mind!"
- Gavyon
A small sect of Hextor's priesthood concerns themselves with chronicling battles as they occur. Being priests of a god with the portfolio of war, a subsect of this sect belive in experiencing these battles first hand for later genuflection upon. It is these hands-on scribes who train in the arts of war who defend the Black Libraries, a temple complex where the Hextorite Order stores its records of every battle on prime material.
The signature mark of the Discordian Librarian is the Librum, an iron-shod tome, swung on a chain much like Hextor's own favored flail. The pages of this book are magic scrolls, which are triggered when the weapon strikes true.
BECOMING A DISCORDIAN LIBRARIAN
The erudite bookishness of the scribe must meet the martial discipline and skill of the warrior and the dedication of the Hextorite priest inside of the candidate if he desires to become a Discordian Librarian. He must learn to wield the deadly librum, and how to fill it with devastating magic for ultimate subjugation of Hextor's enemies and the preservation of the records of battle.
Prerequisites
Alignment: Lawful Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil.
Patron Deity: Hextor.
Base Attack Bonus: +6.
Skills: Knowledge (Religon) 8 ranks, Profession (Scribe) 8 ranks.
Spells: Must be able to cast 2nd level divine spells.
Feats: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Librum), Scribe Scroll.
Class Skills
The Discordian Librarian's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Heal (Wis), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (arcana) (Int), Knowledge (history) (Int), Knowledge (religion) (Int), Knowledge (the planes) (Int), Profession (Wis), and Spellcraft (Int).
Skills Points at Each Level: 2 + Intelligence modifier
Hit Dice: d8
{table=head]Level|Base Attack Bonus|Fort Save|Ref Save|Will Save|Special|Spellcasting
1st|
+1|
+2|
+0|
+2|Librarian's Puissance|
2nd|
+2|
+3|
+0|
+3|Dark Scribe|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
3rd|
+3|
+3|
+1|
+3|Heavy Strikes the Black Gauntlet +1|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
4th|
+4|
+4|
+1|
+4|Shorthand, As The Flail|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
5th|
+5|
+4|
+1|
+4|Dark Judgements
6th|
+6|
+5|
+2|
+5|Heavy Strikes the Black Gauntlet +2|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
7th|
+7|
+5|
+2|
+5|Cleaving Tome|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
8th|
+8|
+6|
+2|
+6|Improved Shorthand, True Scrolls|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
9th|
+9|
+6|
+3|
+6|Heavy Strikes the Black Gauntlet +3|
10th|
+10|
+7|
+3|
+7|Inevitable Destruction|+1 Existing Divine Spellcasting
[/table]
Weapon Proficiencies: An Discordian Librarian gains no proficiency in either weapons or armor.
Spells per Day/Spells Known: A Discordian Librarian continues advancing in divine spellcasting ability as well as learning the skills of the hospitalers. Thus, when a new hospitaler level is gained (except for 1st, 5th, and 9th levels), the character gains new divine spells per day (and spells known, if applicable) as if she had gained a level in the a divine spellcasting class to which she belonged before adding the prestige class level. She does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (improved chance of controlling or rebuking undead, greater damage with the smite evil ability, and so on). If the character had more than one divine spellcasting class before becoming a hospitaler, the player must decide to which class to add each hospitaler level for the purposes of determining spells per day and spells known.
Librarian's Puissance (Ex): As devotees to the Scourge of Battle, combat practice is a religious act for the Discordian Librarian. Levels of of Discordian Librarian stack with (and count as) levels in the fighter class for purposes of qualifying for fighter-only feats such as weapon specialization and greater weapon focus.
Dark Scribe (Ex): Skilled at penning prayers to Hextor for a manifestation of the Herald of Hell's benevolence (or mavolence to his enemies!), the Librarian is able to create scrolls for 75% of the cost in gp and xp. This ability stacks with the reduction provided by the Magical Artisan feat.
Heavy Strikes the Black Gauntlet (Ex): Through his career, the Discordian Librarian becomes increasingly adept at striking telling blows with his libram. Starting at 3rd level, the Librarian extends the critical threat range of his libram by one. This occurs after any multiplications of critical threat range, such as by an impact enhancement or by the improved critical feat. The Librarian also gains a +1 bonus to critical confirmation rolls when wielding a libram. The Librarian gains an additional point of critical threat range and bonus to confirmation rolls at 6th and 9th level.
Shorthand (Ex): The Discordian Librarian becomes able to quickly create unholy writs. At 4th level, a Discordian Librarian can create four scrolls in an eight hour period, compared with the one that a creator could typically make. At 8th level, the Librarian can craft eight scrolls in an eight hour period. Scrolls still take the nominal amount of materials, less any discounts (such as the one granted by the Dark Scribe ability).
As The Flail (Ex): At 4th level, the Discordian Librarian learns the tricks practiced by Hextor's templars, who wield his favored weapon, the flail. Being a large weight on a chain, the librum can be used much as a flail can - and the Librarian learns to wield his librum as a flail, gaining a +2 bonus on opposed attack rolls made to disarm an enemy (and the roll to avoid being disarmed if such an attempt fails). Furthermore, the Librarian can use his libram to make trip attacks. If you he is tripped during his own trip attempt, he can drop his libram to avoid being tripped.
Dark Judgements (Su): At 5th level, the Discordian Librarian adds Order's Wrath and Unholy Blight to the spell list of one of his divine spellcasting classes, if he was previously unable to cast them. Furthermore, the Librarian gains a +2 profane bonus to the save DC of any spell with the [Law] or [Evil] descriptors. This bonus extends to spell completion and spell trigger items crafted by the Librarian.
Cleaving Tome (Ex):At 7th level, the Discordian Librarian learns how to follow through on particularly punishing blows with his librum. Any time the librarian confirms a critical hit with his librum, he gets an immediate, extra melee attack against any creature in reach. The librarian can use this ability once per round.
True Scrolls (Ex): At 8th Level, the Discordian Librarian learns how to make a special enhancement to the librum he wields. When the Librarian scores a critical hit with his librum, the librum no longer needs to make a caster level check to activate a scroll.
Inevitable Destruction (Ex): At the apex of his studies of the wielding of the librum, the Discordian Librarian has learned to wield the steel tome with incisive, punishing accuracy, delivering sledgehammer blows with pin-point precison. Whenever a Librarian successfully hits an opponent with his librum without resulting in a critical hit, he extends the critical threat range of his librum by one. This ability will continue to stack until the Librarian scores a successful critical hit against an opponent, whereuppon the critical threat range bonus from Inevitable Destruction resets to zero.
PLAYING A DISCORDIAN LIBRARIAN
A Discordian Librarian is no thug with a strange contrivance of an armament. He is warrior, a scribe, and a priest. His dedication to Hextor, to combat, and to the the exultation of battle drive him forward
Combat: The Discordian Librarian has strong melee pretensions, and cleric spellcasting to boot. As such, the Librarian is a flexible character, able to mix it up in melee and provide spellcasting support. The true power of the Discordian Librarian lays in mixing the two - swinging a book of scrolls on a chain, setting them off when the book strikes true.
Advancement: All Discordian Librarians had training in the arts of channeling the powers of the Champion of Evil at some point before starting the path of the librum. After scaling the capstone of the Discordian Librarian prestige class, most Librarians choose whether to keep advancing as a divine spellcaster, or as a warrior, all for the glory of Hextor.
Resources: As a member of an order of scribes of one of the world's most powerful, organized, religions, the Discordian Librarian has access to most resources already under the plated boot (black gauntlet) of the Church of Hextor. Within his order, there is a trade in books and accounts of battles in the past, and on other planes - from the winner's side and the loser's side - for the continued chronicling of strife. Returning such a book to a higher level Librarian is bound to be good for a Librarian's reputation, if not an outright reward.
DISCORDIAN LIBRARIANS IN THE WORLD
"The Hextorite attack on Burrowfort was horrifying. Well-coordininated and intense, those blasted book-priests crushing skulls. I have spent many days healing wounded gnomes, and I fear I may lose some of them." -Keir Petr, Radiant Servant of Pelor
Discordian Librarians are a less-well-known order in the Church of Hextor, less than the famous Fists of Hextor, for example. The average Librarian spends his time in a barracks chapel, ministering to the troops when not researching the divine records of war or serving alongside them in battle.