Pyromancer999
2011-05-08, 12:44 PM
Background- So, I love Ninjas. And the Monk, even though it's a bit on the weak side. Still, I never thought about what they had in common until I saw the Ninjutsu feats in Dragon 342. Since I was already planning to make some Ninja feats, I came up with a three-fold goal: 1)Turn the Ninja and the Monk into feats, 2) Make it viable for there to be a Ki-based feat chain worth taking out of that, and 3)Add in some more fun Ki feats to that. Here we go!
Ki Disciple[Ki]
Prerequisites: Positive Wisdom modifier
Benefit: You have learned to make use of Ki, the inner energy that dwells inside all beings. You gain two daily uses of Ki, plus one additional daily use per Ki feat you have. Additionally, depending on the path you have chosen, you gain an additional benefit from this feat:
Shinobi: You gain a bonus to Hide and Move Silently checks equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have + 1. You may spend a daily use of Ki to double this bonus for 3 rounds per Ki feat you have.
Ascetic: You gain a bonus to checks for Knowledge(Religion) and one Wis-based skill of your choice equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have + 1. You may spend 1 daily use of Ki in order to double this bonus for 3 rounds.
Taijutsu[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Improved Unarmed Strike
Benefit: You gain the unarmed attack damage of a monk of level equal to 1/2 your HD + the number of Ki feats you have. You may expend one daily use of Ki in order to double this attack damage for for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have.
Special: You may select this feat as a Fighter bonus feat.
Cat's Landing[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, 3rd level
Benefit: You learn how to slow your falling so that it does not affect you as much as it should. You may treat falls as though they were 10 ft per Ki feat shorter than it really is, so long as you are within arm's length reach of a wall. You may expend one daily usage of Ki in order to increase the distanced shortened by 10 ft and remove the arm's length requirement.
Ape's Climb[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Cat's Landing, 6th level
Benefit: You have learned how to climb up as easily as fall down. When climbing, you may climb at your speed with no penalty as a move action. However, you must begin and end movement on a horizontal surface. You may expend a daily usage of Ki in order to remove the requirement of starting and stopping on a horizontal surface, and increase climb speed by 10 ft for the round.
Swift as the Wind[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, 3rd level
Benefit: You gain a bonus to speed equal to the number of Ki feats you have - 1 x 10. By expending one daily use of Ki, you may increase this speed bonus by 20 ft for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have.
Armor of the Inner Self[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, one other Ki feat
Benefit: You learn how to harness your inner energy in order to protect yourself. So long as you are not wearing any armor, you may add your Wisdom modifier + 1/3 the number of Ki feats you have to your AC. This includes touch AC and when you are flat-footed. You may expend a daily useage of Ki to increase this bonus by 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have.
Reflexes of the Awakened[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Swift as the Wind, Ki Disciple, one other Ki feat
Benefit: You learn how to avoid attacks, reacting and moving to avoid them with a speed that only a Ki user can. All attacks against you have a chance of missing equal to the number of Ki feats you have. You may drastically enhance this ability by expending one daily Ki use, changing the miss chance of all attacks granted by this feat to (the number of Ki feats you have - 1) x 10 percent for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have, which cannot be enhanced beyond 80% by any means. Alternately, you can expend one daily Ki use in order to cause any one attack to automatically miss.
Body Repair[Ki]
Prerequsites: Ki Disciple, one other Ki feat, 6th level
Benefit: You may heal yourself by harnessing your Ki. You gain a pool of points equal to your HD + twice the number of Ki feats you have, to heal yourself with. These points need not be spent all at once, and can be spread out amongst multiple uses. You may expend a daily use of Ki in order to add 5 points to the pool.
Thousand Strike[Ki]
Prerequsites: Ki Disciple, Taijutsu, Improved Unarmed Strike
Benefits: You learn how to land more hits than you should. You gain useage of the Flurry of Blows class feature, treating yourself as a Monk of level equal to 1/2 your HD + the number of Ki feats you have. You may spend a daily use of Ki in order to bestow a bonus to the attack or damage rolls(your choice at time of useage) equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have.
Special: You may select this feat as a Fighter bonus feat.
Surprise Strike[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple
Benefit: You gain Sudden Strike +1d6 as per the Ninja class feature, except that should you use this on an enemy that has not acted yet or is not aware of your presence, you deal a bonus amount of damage equal to the number of Ki feats you have. You may expend one daily use of Ki to add dice to a Sudden Strike attack equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have.
Special: You may take this feat again in order to increase your Sudden Strike damage by 1d6.
Spirit Blow[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Surprise Strike +2d6, 6th level
Benefit: As a move action, you may make it so that the next attack you make hits incorporeal and ethereal creatures as though they were corporeal. You may expend one daily use of Ki in order to add 1/2 your Suprise Strike damage to such an attack.
Cloaked Stride[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Hide 4 ranks, Move Silently 4 ranks
Benefit: You may move as though Invisible as per the Invisibility spell for 1 round, at-will. However, you cannot make use of it this way for 5 rounds afterwards. You may expend one daily use of Ki in order to move around as though Invisibility spell for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have. This may be used to extend a useage of the at-will Invisibility granted by this feat.
Unseen Stride[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Cloaked Stride, 6th level
Benefit: You may expend two daily uses of Ki instead of one in order to move around as though under the effect of the Greater Invisibility spell for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have. Upon selection of this feat, you gain a special daily use of Ki for the useage of this feat's effect.
Spirit Stride[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Unseen Stride, Cloaked Stride, 9th level
Benefit: Your at-will invisibility movement granted by Cloaked Stride may now treat you as though under the effect of Greater Invisibility, which, should you choose to do so, extends the number of rounds before you can use it again by 2. Also, the Greater Invisibility movement granted by Unseen Stride now only costs 1 daily use of Ki, displacing the regular Invisibilty Ki use effect, although you lose the special daily use of Ki for this purpose. Lastly, you may expend two daily uses of Ki in order to move around as though under the effect of Etheral Jaunt for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have.
Focused Eye of the Shinobi[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Surprise Strike +4d6, Spirit Blow, 15th level
Benefit: You may see invisible and ethereal creatures as easily as normal visible and corporeal creatures. Also, effects like Blur that give you a miss chance only have a (100-number of Ki feats x 10) % chance of working. You may expend one daily use of Ki in order to give all your attacks the benefits of the True Strike Spell for one round. You cannot expend daily uses of Ki in this manner should you be making use of the daily Ki use effect of Thousand Strike.
Ninjutsu[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Knowledge(Religion or Arcana) 4 ranks
Benefit: You learn how to turn Ki into magical effects. Select one spell list. This is the spell list you will draw from for Ninjutsu effects. Choose any one spell from that list from the Evocation, Illusion, Transmutation, and one other school selected when this feat is, that is of level up to the highest level spell a sorcerer of level equal to 1/2 your HD + the number of Ki feats you have could cast. This becomes a Ninjutsu effect. Your caster level is treated as equal to 1/2 your level + the number of Ki feats you have for all non-duration effects. Your caster level for all duration-based effects is equal to 1 + 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have. Ninjutsu costs Ki use as on the table below:
{table]Spell Level|Number of Ki Uses
1-3|1
4-6|2
7-9|3
[/table]
This feat grants you an additional daily Ki use for Ninjutsu every time it is taken.
Special: You may select this feat multiple times, selecting a new spell each time.
Enhanced Ninjutsu[Ki]
Prerequsites: Ki Disciple, Ninjutsu, Knowledge(Religion or Arcana) 9 ranks, 6th level
Benefit: Choose one metamagic feat, provided you meet the caster level prerequisites(using your caster level for Ninjutsu). You may enhance your Ninjutsu with the metamagic feat's effect, expending one additional daily Ki use per two additional spell levels it adds, rounded up.
Special: You may select this feat again, choosing another metamagic feat to apply.
Art of the Doppleganger[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Knowledge(Religion or Arcana) 4 ranks
Benefit: You have learned the Art of the Doppleganger, and can activate it by spending one Ki use as a standard action. Dopplegangers are used in place of images in this feat. This acts as the Mirror Image spell, with the following exceptions:
Dopplegangers are 10% per Ki feat real
Dopplegangers can only deliver unarmed attacks, which, upon success, deal 1 damage per Ki feat.
Dopplegangers get their own turns, each after yours, but can only use one action per turn.
You get one Doppleganger per Ki feat you have
You may make use of Ki feats through your Dopplegangers
Dopplegangers do not need to mimic your actions
You cannot merge with Dopplegangers
Dopplegangers have hit points equal to twice the number of Ki feats you have, and once they reach 0, disappear
This effect lasts for 1 minute/HD + 1 minute per two Ki feats you have.
Modifications to Existing Ki Feats in Dragon #342
-Hidden Kingdom, River Eel, and Rabbit Prince each last for a number of rounds equal to the number of Ki feats you have.
-Thousand Faces now lasts for 2 minutes per Ki feat you have, and by expending two daily Ki uses may also be used to allow your new form to either be of any type of creature, so long as it is the same size, or to allow your new form to be one size larger or smaller than you, but of the same type as you.
-Wind Oxen Jutsu's bonus to the bull rush attack now equals Wisdom modifier + the number of Ki feats you have + 1.
Well, that's all for now. Please comment/PEACH.
Ki Disciple[Ki]
Prerequisites: Positive Wisdom modifier
Benefit: You have learned to make use of Ki, the inner energy that dwells inside all beings. You gain two daily uses of Ki, plus one additional daily use per Ki feat you have. Additionally, depending on the path you have chosen, you gain an additional benefit from this feat:
Shinobi: You gain a bonus to Hide and Move Silently checks equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have + 1. You may spend a daily use of Ki to double this bonus for 3 rounds per Ki feat you have.
Ascetic: You gain a bonus to checks for Knowledge(Religion) and one Wis-based skill of your choice equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have + 1. You may spend 1 daily use of Ki in order to double this bonus for 3 rounds.
Taijutsu[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Improved Unarmed Strike
Benefit: You gain the unarmed attack damage of a monk of level equal to 1/2 your HD + the number of Ki feats you have. You may expend one daily use of Ki in order to double this attack damage for for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have.
Special: You may select this feat as a Fighter bonus feat.
Cat's Landing[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, 3rd level
Benefit: You learn how to slow your falling so that it does not affect you as much as it should. You may treat falls as though they were 10 ft per Ki feat shorter than it really is, so long as you are within arm's length reach of a wall. You may expend one daily usage of Ki in order to increase the distanced shortened by 10 ft and remove the arm's length requirement.
Ape's Climb[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Cat's Landing, 6th level
Benefit: You have learned how to climb up as easily as fall down. When climbing, you may climb at your speed with no penalty as a move action. However, you must begin and end movement on a horizontal surface. You may expend a daily usage of Ki in order to remove the requirement of starting and stopping on a horizontal surface, and increase climb speed by 10 ft for the round.
Swift as the Wind[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, 3rd level
Benefit: You gain a bonus to speed equal to the number of Ki feats you have - 1 x 10. By expending one daily use of Ki, you may increase this speed bonus by 20 ft for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have.
Armor of the Inner Self[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, one other Ki feat
Benefit: You learn how to harness your inner energy in order to protect yourself. So long as you are not wearing any armor, you may add your Wisdom modifier + 1/3 the number of Ki feats you have to your AC. This includes touch AC and when you are flat-footed. You may expend a daily useage of Ki to increase this bonus by 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have.
Reflexes of the Awakened[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Swift as the Wind, Ki Disciple, one other Ki feat
Benefit: You learn how to avoid attacks, reacting and moving to avoid them with a speed that only a Ki user can. All attacks against you have a chance of missing equal to the number of Ki feats you have. You may drastically enhance this ability by expending one daily Ki use, changing the miss chance of all attacks granted by this feat to (the number of Ki feats you have - 1) x 10 percent for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have, which cannot be enhanced beyond 80% by any means. Alternately, you can expend one daily Ki use in order to cause any one attack to automatically miss.
Body Repair[Ki]
Prerequsites: Ki Disciple, one other Ki feat, 6th level
Benefit: You may heal yourself by harnessing your Ki. You gain a pool of points equal to your HD + twice the number of Ki feats you have, to heal yourself with. These points need not be spent all at once, and can be spread out amongst multiple uses. You may expend a daily use of Ki in order to add 5 points to the pool.
Thousand Strike[Ki]
Prerequsites: Ki Disciple, Taijutsu, Improved Unarmed Strike
Benefits: You learn how to land more hits than you should. You gain useage of the Flurry of Blows class feature, treating yourself as a Monk of level equal to 1/2 your HD + the number of Ki feats you have. You may spend a daily use of Ki in order to bestow a bonus to the attack or damage rolls(your choice at time of useage) equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have.
Special: You may select this feat as a Fighter bonus feat.
Surprise Strike[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple
Benefit: You gain Sudden Strike +1d6 as per the Ninja class feature, except that should you use this on an enemy that has not acted yet or is not aware of your presence, you deal a bonus amount of damage equal to the number of Ki feats you have. You may expend one daily use of Ki to add dice to a Sudden Strike attack equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have.
Special: You may take this feat again in order to increase your Sudden Strike damage by 1d6.
Spirit Blow[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Surprise Strike +2d6, 6th level
Benefit: As a move action, you may make it so that the next attack you make hits incorporeal and ethereal creatures as though they were corporeal. You may expend one daily use of Ki in order to add 1/2 your Suprise Strike damage to such an attack.
Cloaked Stride[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Hide 4 ranks, Move Silently 4 ranks
Benefit: You may move as though Invisible as per the Invisibility spell for 1 round, at-will. However, you cannot make use of it this way for 5 rounds afterwards. You may expend one daily use of Ki in order to move around as though Invisibility spell for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have. This may be used to extend a useage of the at-will Invisibility granted by this feat.
Unseen Stride[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Cloaked Stride, 6th level
Benefit: You may expend two daily uses of Ki instead of one in order to move around as though under the effect of the Greater Invisibility spell for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have. Upon selection of this feat, you gain a special daily use of Ki for the useage of this feat's effect.
Spirit Stride[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Unseen Stride, Cloaked Stride, 9th level
Benefit: Your at-will invisibility movement granted by Cloaked Stride may now treat you as though under the effect of Greater Invisibility, which, should you choose to do so, extends the number of rounds before you can use it again by 2. Also, the Greater Invisibility movement granted by Unseen Stride now only costs 1 daily use of Ki, displacing the regular Invisibilty Ki use effect, although you lose the special daily use of Ki for this purpose. Lastly, you may expend two daily uses of Ki in order to move around as though under the effect of Etheral Jaunt for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have.
Focused Eye of the Shinobi[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Surprise Strike +4d6, Spirit Blow, 15th level
Benefit: You may see invisible and ethereal creatures as easily as normal visible and corporeal creatures. Also, effects like Blur that give you a miss chance only have a (100-number of Ki feats x 10) % chance of working. You may expend one daily use of Ki in order to give all your attacks the benefits of the True Strike Spell for one round. You cannot expend daily uses of Ki in this manner should you be making use of the daily Ki use effect of Thousand Strike.
Ninjutsu[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Knowledge(Religion or Arcana) 4 ranks
Benefit: You learn how to turn Ki into magical effects. Select one spell list. This is the spell list you will draw from for Ninjutsu effects. Choose any one spell from that list from the Evocation, Illusion, Transmutation, and one other school selected when this feat is, that is of level up to the highest level spell a sorcerer of level equal to 1/2 your HD + the number of Ki feats you have could cast. This becomes a Ninjutsu effect. Your caster level is treated as equal to 1/2 your level + the number of Ki feats you have for all non-duration effects. Your caster level for all duration-based effects is equal to 1 + 1/2 the number of Ki feats you have. Ninjutsu costs Ki use as on the table below:
{table]Spell Level|Number of Ki Uses
1-3|1
4-6|2
7-9|3
[/table]
This feat grants you an additional daily Ki use for Ninjutsu every time it is taken.
Special: You may select this feat multiple times, selecting a new spell each time.
Enhanced Ninjutsu[Ki]
Prerequsites: Ki Disciple, Ninjutsu, Knowledge(Religion or Arcana) 9 ranks, 6th level
Benefit: Choose one metamagic feat, provided you meet the caster level prerequisites(using your caster level for Ninjutsu). You may enhance your Ninjutsu with the metamagic feat's effect, expending one additional daily Ki use per two additional spell levels it adds, rounded up.
Special: You may select this feat again, choosing another metamagic feat to apply.
Art of the Doppleganger[Ki]
Prerequisites: Ki Disciple, Knowledge(Religion or Arcana) 4 ranks
Benefit: You have learned the Art of the Doppleganger, and can activate it by spending one Ki use as a standard action. Dopplegangers are used in place of images in this feat. This acts as the Mirror Image spell, with the following exceptions:
Dopplegangers are 10% per Ki feat real
Dopplegangers can only deliver unarmed attacks, which, upon success, deal 1 damage per Ki feat.
Dopplegangers get their own turns, each after yours, but can only use one action per turn.
You get one Doppleganger per Ki feat you have
You may make use of Ki feats through your Dopplegangers
Dopplegangers do not need to mimic your actions
You cannot merge with Dopplegangers
Dopplegangers have hit points equal to twice the number of Ki feats you have, and once they reach 0, disappear
This effect lasts for 1 minute/HD + 1 minute per two Ki feats you have.
Modifications to Existing Ki Feats in Dragon #342
-Hidden Kingdom, River Eel, and Rabbit Prince each last for a number of rounds equal to the number of Ki feats you have.
-Thousand Faces now lasts for 2 minutes per Ki feat you have, and by expending two daily Ki uses may also be used to allow your new form to either be of any type of creature, so long as it is the same size, or to allow your new form to be one size larger or smaller than you, but of the same type as you.
-Wind Oxen Jutsu's bonus to the bull rush attack now equals Wisdom modifier + the number of Ki feats you have + 1.
Well, that's all for now. Please comment/PEACH.