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Arcane Architect
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Hit Die: d4
Level
Base Attack Bonus
Fort Save
Ref Save
Will Save
Special
Dimension Points
1st
+0
+0
+0
+2
Demiplane Alteration, Demiplane Mastery, Personal Space
3
2nd
+1
+0
+0
+3
Planar Knowledge
7
3rd
+1
+1
+1
+3
Demiplane Mastery
12
4th
+2
+1
+1
+4
Shift (Basic)
18
5th
+2
+1
+1
+4
Demiplane Mastery, Gateway (Basic)
25
6th
+3
+2
+2
+5
Transplace (1/day)
33
7th
+3
+2
+2
+5
Demiplane Mastery, Shift (Improved)
42
8th
+4
+2
+2
+6
Gateway (Improved)
52
9th
+4
+3
+3
+6
Demiplane Mastery
63
10th
+5
+3
+3
+7
Shift (Coexist)
75
11th
+5
+3
+3
+7
Demiplane Mastery
88
12th
+6/+1
+4
+4
+8
Transplace (2/day)
102
13th
+6/+1
+4
+4
+8
Demiplane Mastery
117
14th
+7/+2
+4
+4
+9
133
15th
+7/+2
+5
+5
+9
Demiplane Mastery, Planar Fortress
150
16th
+8/+3
+5
+5
+10
168
17th
+8/+4
+5
+5
+10
Demiplane Mastery
187
18th
+9/+5
+6
+6
+11
Transplace (3/day)
207
19th
+9/+5
+6
+6
+11
Demiplane Mastery
228
20th
+10/+5
+6
+6
+12
Planar Union
250
Class Skills (2+Int modifier):Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Knowledge (all) (Int), Profession (Wis), Spellcraft (Int)
Spells: An arcane architect casts arcane spells, which are drawn from the arcane architect spell list below. When you gain access to a new level of spells, you automatically know all the spells for that level on your spell list. An arcane architect must choose and prepare his spells ahead of time (see below).
To prepare, or cast a spell, the arcane architect must have an Intelligence score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against an An arcane architect’s spell is 10 + the spell level + the arcane architect’s Intelligence modifier.
Like other spellcasters, an arcane architect can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. His base daily spell allotment is given on the "Spells per day" table. In addition, he receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Intelligence score.
Unlike a wizard or a sorcerer, an arcane architect knows all of his spells. He must choose and prepare his spells ahead of time by getting a good night’s sleep and spending 1 hour meditating on his connection to his personal demiplane. While meditating, the arcane architect decides which spells to prepare.
Personal Space : You create your personal demiplane, which will grow in size and power as you become more powerful. It has the following base traits:
No Gravity
Normal Time
Finite Size: In its base state, the demiplane is a 5 ft. cube.
Alterable Morphic
No Elemental or Energy Traits
Mildly Neutral Aligned
Normal Magic
The demiplane is created completely empty, containing not even air.
These traits may be altered, as described under Demiplane Alteration
Demiplane Alteration: You gain a number of Dimension Points (DP) as indicated in the table above, with an additional amount of DP equal to your intelligence modifier. You may spend these to purchase new features for the demiplane created by Personal Space.
All of these points may be reallocated when you prepare your spells.
Features are described in the follwing format:
Name (cost, other requirements, minimum level) - Description
All of the following features are spell-like abilities.
Store (xDP) - You may send an item you are currently holding to your demiplane, where it appears exactly in a location determined by you. The action required to send something to your demiplane depends on how many DP you spend on this ability: Full-round (1DP), Standard (2DP), Move (3DP), Swift (4DP)
Retrieve (xDP) - You retrieve an item from your demiplane, placing it directly into your hands or adjacent to you, if you are currently not capable of holding it. You may only retrieve items whose weight does not exceed your maximum load. The action required to retrieve an object from your demiplane depends on how many DP you spend on this ability: Full-round (1DP), Standard (2DP), Move (3DP), Swift (4DP)
Personal Transport (xDP, Level 5) - You can transport yourself to your demiplane or back to your native plane. When transporting yourself to the demiplane, you are instantly placed in a place you designated. When transporting yourself to your native plane, this works like Plane Shift. This ability can only transpor you, your familiar should you possess one and other objects with a total weight of up to 50 pounds. The action required for this depends on how many DP you spend on this ability: Full-round (2DP), Standard (3DP), Move (4DP), Swift (5DP)
Size (1DP) - the size of your demiplane is doubled. This can be purchased multiple times, each time doubling the size. (for example: 5ft. cube->10ft. cube->20ft. cube etc.)
Light (1DP) - Purchasing this feature for lights your entire demiplane with an illumination that you may control as a standard action.
Daylight (3DP) - As Light, except the light counts as daylight if you so desire.
Atmosphere (1DP) - You fill your demiplane with breathable air.
Local Atmosphere (3DP) - As Atmosphere, except you can choose parts of your demiplane not to have air in it. The atmosphere does not interact in any way with parts of your demiplane that do not have one.
Water (1DP) - You fill your demiplane with water. You may chose wether you want to use saltwater or freshwater.
Local Water (4DP) As Water, except you can chose for only parts of your demiplane to be filled with water. The water will not flow out of these areas, unless moved from there.
Deadly Border (5DP, Level 11) - Anything that touches the border of your demiplane becomes the subject of a disintegrate effect as though it were cast by you. For an additional DP, you become immune to this effect.
Normal Gravity (1DP)
High Gravity (1DP)
Very High Gravity (2DP) - Double all effects of High Gravity.
Light Gravity (1DP)
Very Light Gravity (2DP) - Double all effects of Light Gravity.
Objective Directional Gravity (1DP per direction) - You can have gravity in different areas of your demiplane point in different directions. Purchase this trait once for every
direction in addition to the first. This requiren another Gravity Trait to already exist. You can have different Gravity Traits by purchasing each one separately.
Subjective Directional Gravity (5DP, Level 6)
Self-Contained (5DP, Level 9) - Your Demiplane becomes self contained: Anything that would cross its inside boundary at one point, enters the demiplane immediately at the opposite point.
Selective Trait (2DP per trait) - You can apply planar traits to an area inside your demiplane instead of the plane as a whole. Purchase this feature once for every trait that does not affect the entire plane.
Structures are placed within your demiplane. They are fixed in space and cannot be moved from where they are unless they are destroyed or the appropriate feature is bought. They can be angled however you wish. If a structure has walls, these have a thickness of up to 2inch/level.
Unless the dimensions of a structure are specified and it is not part of another structure, assume that it is a 5ft.*5ft.*5ft. cube, although it can be reshaped as desired, as long as the amount of material remains the same and the dimensions do not exceed twice the starting size.
Strucures are made from a featureless, grey, stone-like material with Hardness equal to your Class Level and 1HP per class level per inch of thickness
Room (1DP) - You gain a cubic 10ft room which you can place anywhere in your demiplane. You are free to remove any of the walls when creating the room. You can split this room up into cubic 5ft sections, which can be arranged however you wish, as long as they are connected to each other.
Wall/Floor (1DP) - You can place a a 20ft*20ft wall or floor inside your demiplane. You can reshape it by rearranging it in 5ft.*5f sections that must be in one flat plane and connected to each other. However, you are free to leave out any sections of it after deciding on its shape but before creating it.
Door (0DP) - you can place simple wooden doors in any wall you desire. These doors do not have any locks.
Locked Door (xDP) - As Basic Door, except for a lock that can keep the door closed. When this feature is created, you may designate any suitable object on your person as the key for this lock. Alternatively, you may have it open and close at your command as a free action for an additional DP. The basic cost of this feature is 1DP for a simple lock with an Open Lock DC of 20. This DC may be increased by 10 for each additional DP, although you may not increase it above Class Level+20.
Gateway (1DP, Level 5) - This special Door is not used to connect rooms (Although it can, if combined with a door feature), instead you can connect to it by using the gateway feature. You can connect to each Gateway once per day, although you can spend DP on a Gateway to increase this by one use per day per point, until you can connect to this specific Gateway at will when reaching 5 uses per day.
A standard Gateway is sized for medium creatures. You can expend an additional 1DP per size category you want it to be larger.
Closing Gateway (2DP, Level 8) - As Gateway, except you may close it while inside your demiplane and reopen it to the position it was last opened to by expending another daily use.
Telepathic Beacon (5DP, Level 7) - The area within 5 feet per level of this beacon is treated as being inside your demiplane for purposes of telepathy.
Flight Beacon (5DP, Level 9) - The area within 5 feet per level of this beacon is treated as being inside your demiplane for purposes of flight.
Teleportation Beacon (5DP, Level 11) - As long as you are within range of your Dimension Door or Teleport ability you can use it to teleport to this beacon.
Arcane Pedestal (4DP per spell level, Level 7) - When this feature is formed, chose a spell level (0 counts as 1/2). You can then place an arcane scroll of exactly that spell level on this pedestal. After it has remained there for at least 24 hours, you can then prepare the spell as though it were on your spell list, with the following changes: While the level of the spell remains the same, you have to prepare it in a slot that is three levels higher than that of the spell. This does not count as metamagic and it is not possible to reduce the spell slot in which you have to prepare the spell to anything less than Spell level+3. Under NO circumstances. If the scroll is removed from the pedestal while you have this spell prepared, you immediately lose the spell.
Divine Pedestal (6DP per spell level, Level 14) - This works like an Arcane Pedestal, except for divine scrolls and spells have to be prepared in a slot that is 4 levels higher than that of the original spell. Furthermore, you need a wisdom of 10+original spell level in order to cast such a spell.
Trap (xDP) - You may place a non-magical trap with a CR of up to your own level. The cost is 1DP per 1000gp the trap would cost.
These features can be applied to structures placed within your demiplane. Features that specify a specific structure after their cost have to be placed on that structure, purchased as a structure.
Dimensional Lock (2DP, room) - A room with this feature cannot be entered or exited through extradimensional travel.
Appearance (1DP) - You can change the appearance of the structure this feature is applied to. This allows you to have its surface look like anything you want, as long as the shape is not changed. You could, for example, have a wall look like it is made from stone with writing of blood on it. True seeing can see through this change. For an additional point you may also make the structure invisible.
Texture (1DP) - You can change the texture of the structure this feature is applied to to anything you wish.
Hardened (xDP) - For each DP invested into this feature you increase Hardness by 1 and HP per inch of Thickness by 5.
Impervious (2DP) - A strucure with this feature can only be harmed by magical attacks. This includes both spells and attacks with magic weapons.
Sealed (1DP, room) - The room is magically sealed against the environment outside of it. This provides an invisible barrier that prevents the inside of the room from being influenced by the outside environment. This does allow, for eample, to have the room submerged in water without any of it intruding.
Airy Water (1DP, room) - anyone inside the room can breathe water as though it were air.
Ethereal Solid (1DP) - Any solid parts of the structure are solid in the ethereal plane as well, preventing ethereal travel through the structure.
Ethereal Lock (1DP, room) - As Ethereal soid, except the inside of the room prevents ethereal travel as well.
Linked Door (1DP, Level 7, door) - Choose another door with this feature. Anyone who steps through this door is immediately transported to the other.
Warped Space (3 DP, Level 12) - Space itself is malleable for you. Chose a 5 foot cube within your demiplane. This cube still has the same dimensions from outside, but inside this cube it is a 10 foot cube.
Extremely Warped Space (5DP, Level 18) - As Warped Space, except the internal size changes to a 100 foot cube and the external to a 10 foot cube. These dimensions may be doubled by purchasing this feature additional times.
Linked Space (3 DP, Level 13) - Choose an area with the maximum size of a 5ft-square. Anything that passes through this area is immediately transported to another area inside your demiplane.
Astral Pool (5DP, Level 8) - Your Demiplane gains a colour pool on the Astral Plane. This pool acts as any other, although it can only be used to enter your demiplane, with the point of entry being chosen when this feature is formed.The appearance of this pool must be chosen when you first chose this feature and can only be changed with a week of meditation, during which you may not undertake any other tasks except for resting and fulfilling your basic needs.
Astral Access (5DP, Level 11) - This feature must be applied to an already existing Astral Pool feature. This creates a matching Colour pool at the exit point of the colour pool, making it into a two-way portal between the Astral and your own plane.
Demiplane Mastery: Even while constantly altering and changing your demiplane, each Arcane Architect develops his own quirks andalterations for his demiplane that work in a more permanent fashion than the features described in Demiplane Alteration. Pick one of the following choices at first level and then at every odd level afterwards.
Knowledge: You are aware of anything that happens inside your demiplane, allowing you to feel, see and hear everything inside it, ignoring invisibility, darkness, concealment and similar effects. This works even if you are not inside your demiplane. If you chose this feature an additional time, you never suffer from miss chances that would prevent you from hitting a target inside your demiplane while also gaining an enhancement bonus to all attack rolls made against targets insid your demiplane equal to 1/2 your class level.
Size: Your demiplane becomes a 100 ft. cube. This feature may be chosen additional times, each time multiplying the size by 10, increasing the size to 1000, then 10000 and so forth.
Infinity (requires level 9): You gain Infinite Architecture as a bonus feat, ignoring the normal prerequisites.
Telepathy (requires level 7): You gain Telepathy, which you may use to communicate mentally with any being inside your demiplane.
Fly (requires level 7): You gain a fly speed of class level * 10 ft. with a maneuverability of perfect while inside your demiplane. This is a supernatural ability.
Teleportation (Sp): You may use Dimension Door at will while inside your demiplane. You may purchase this feature additional times, each time you do so you choose one of the following: Upgrade from Dimension Door to Teleport, upgrade from Teleport to Greater Teleport, reduce the action from a standard to a move acion, reduce the action from a move to a swift action, reduce the action from a swift to a free action which may be used once per turn or purchase additional uses per turn if you can already use it as a free action.
Detect Thoughts (Sp, requires level 11): You may use Detect Thoughts at will while you are inside your demiplane. The entirety of your demiplane is considered to be in the area of the spell. This ability has a DC of 10 + 1/2 class level +Cha modifier.
Ghostly Movement (Su, requires level 17): You may pass through any material inside your demiplane without taking any harm, treating anything inside your demiplane as either corporeal, incorporeal or nonexistant in regards to yourself. This ability only applies against anything created as part of the demiplane, while only working against foreign material if it is not a creature or not magical.
Access (Sp): You have the ability to access your demiplane, by sending inanimate objects there and retrieving them from there, gaining the following abilities at the indicated levels:
Basic: At level 1 you can retrieve and store items in your demiplane as a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity. Items can only be stored if you hold them in your hands an anything containing an extradimensional space may not be stored. Retrieved items always appear in your hands, falling to the ground if they are already full.
Standard: At level 2 you can store and retrieve items as a standard action that provokes attacks of opportunity.
Swift: At level 11 this becomes a swift action that provokes attacks of opportunity.
Planar Knowledge: At second level you gain a bonus to Knowledge (the Planes) equal to half your class level, rounded down.
Shift (Su): You can shift parts of your demiplane into the plane you are currently in.
Basic: As a full-round action you can shift structures worth up to 1 DP per level from your demiplane into the plane you currently occupy. You can place these anywhere in close range (25ft. + 5ft per 2 levels), where they are, like in your demiplane, fixed in space. No Structure that would share any of its space with already existing solid matter appears and everything that is shifted always has the same configuration it has in your demiplane and will last for one round per level. This ability can be used 1/day.
Improved: This works like Shift (Basic), except as follows: The action required is a standard action, you can call 2DP per level and features applied to the called structures are called as well, as long as the cost is paid. This ability replaces Shift (Basic) and can be used 2/day.
Coexist: Whatever structure you call from your demiplane now exists both on the plane it is shifted to and where it originally was in your demiplane. This works as Shift (Improved), except that everything called as well as everything within 5 feet of it can be perceived and interacted with from both planes. Anyone within five feet of anything you have called with this ability has an active and a passive plane, with the acive one being the one they were on before entering the coexisting area, the passive one being the other. Interaction with the active plane is as normal. Interaction with the passive plane is not possible, except for sseing a ghostly overlay over the active plane, which makes it possible to still defend from attacks from the passive plane and make spot checks to see on that plane, although at a -10 penalty.
Changing which of the planes is active and which passive is possible as a standard action with a Wisdom Check (DC 15). This can be used 3/day and replaces Shift (Improved), although you may use only the effects of Shift (Improved) if you so desire. This has to be decided when using this ability.
Gateway (Sp)You can open doors to your demiplane, gaining the following abilities at the indicated levels:
Basic: As a full round action that provokes attacks of opportunity, you can open a portal to your demiplane. This portal must be connected to a gateway inside your demiplane and can be closed as a free action. However, as long as you remain on your demiplane, it must remain open.
Improved: once per day you can open a Gateway as with the basic function of this ability, ecept that it may be opened any place inside your demiplane as though you had purchased the gateway feature for that place with up to 1DP per Int modififer with a minimum of 1.
Transplace (Sp): As a melee touch attack you can shift creatures or objects to your demiplane. The target cannot have a weight of more than 50lb. per level and its dimensions may not exceed 3 cubic feet per level. A target can resist Transplace with a will save (DC 10+class level+cha mod) This ability can be used 1/day at level 6, 2/day at level 12 and 3/day at level 18.
Planar Fortress: Where before you only shifted parts of your demiplane for a short while, now you can permanently call part of your demiplane into another plane. with a ritual that takes 1 minute to complete you may call parts of your demiplane worth up to 2DP per class level to you, as in Shift(Improved). Unlike with a normal use of Shift, the duration of this effect is permanent until you either dismiss the fortres as a free action or you perform the ritual again.
Planar Union: After all the time you spent developing your personal demiplane, growing it, nurturing it, learning from it and drawing power from it, you have finally unlocked some of the greatest secrets of the planes. Chose one of the following:
Ascension: As long as you are within your demiplane, you count as a deity with divine rank 1 and the Alter Reality salient divine ability, even if you do not meet the prerequisites. Anything you create with Alter Reality will vanish when it leaves the demiplane, any effect with a duration that is not instantaneous is removed. Anything permanently created or changed with an instantaneous effect is likewise dismissed, while other effects like damage or healing are not affected.
If you already are a deity or become one at a later point, your divine rank increases by one while in your demiplane. If you gain Alter Reality separately from this class feature, the restrictions aplied by this class feature no longer apply and you may use it as a swift action while inside your demiplane.
Great Architect: Without any doubt, you can count yourself amongst one of the greatest arcane architects to ever live, making your personal plane a place of wonder and magic and creating new ones at a whim. Your DP are multiplied by 3 and casting Genesis and other non-epic spells that create demiplanes no longer requires XP.
Soul of the World: Your soul becomes fused with your demiplane, tethering you to it and restoring you if you should ever die. Whenever you die, you are fully restored in your demiplane after 1d10 days. The only way to permanently kill you would be to destroy your demiplane and then kill you before you would have a chance to recreate it. Should you have another means of returning to life, such as a lich's phylactery, you may chose the method of revival at the moment of your death. If you do not chose, roll once for each method (if rolls are required), after which the one that is quickest is used.
In addition to the benefits listed above, you no longer age.
Spells per day
Level
0th
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
1
3
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
4
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
4
2
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
4
3
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
4
3
2
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
4
3
3
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
4
4
3
2
1
-
-
-
-
-
8
4
4
3
3
2
-
-
-
-
-
9
4
4
4
3
2
1
-
-
-
-
10
4
4
4
3
3
2
-
-
-
-
11
4
4
4
4
3
2
1
-
-
-
12
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
-
-
-
13
4
4
4
4
4
3
2
1
-
-
14
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
-
-
15
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
2
1
-
16
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
-
17
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
2
1
18
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
19
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
20
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
Spell List:
0: Arcane Mark, Caltrops SC, Detect Magic, Mage Hand, Mending, Open/CLose, Prestidigitation, Read Magic
1: Alarm, Benign Transposition SC, Blockade CS, Detect Secret Doors, Endure Elements, Greater Mage HandSC, Hail of Stone SC, Identify, Mage Armor, Magic Stone, Mount, Obscuring Mist, Portal Beacon SC, Protection from Chaos/Evil/Good/Law, Slide SC, Summon Monster I, Unseen Servant
2: Arcane Lock, Baleful Transposition SC, Fog Cloud, Glitterdust, Heart of Air CM, Knock, Obscure Object, Portal Alarm SC, Resist Energy, Rope Trick, Spymaster's Coin CS, Stone Shape, Summon Monster II, Levitate
3: Anticipate Teleportation SC, Arcane Seal*, Avoid Planar Effects, Blink, Dispel Magic, Fly, Heart of Water CM, Magic Circle against Chaos/Evil/Good/Law, Protection from Energy, Summon Monster III
4: Astral Hospice, Detect Scrying, Dimension Door, Dimensional Anchor, Heart of Earth CM, Minor Cration, Summon Monster IV
5: Contact Other Plane, Dismissal, Evacuation Rune CS, Heart of Fire CM, Major Creation, Overland Flight, Secret CHest, Summon Monster V, Teleport, Wall of Stone
6: Antimagic Field, Contingency, Energy ImmunitySC, Greater Dispel Magic, Mage's Magnificent Mansion, Planar Binding, Plane Shift, Scry Location CS, Summon Monster VI, Tactical Teleportation CM, Wall of Iron, Word of Recall
7: Banishment, Ethereal Jaunt, Greater Teleport, Instant Summons, Phase Door, Summon Monster VII, Sequester, Teleport Object
8: Binding, Dimensional Lock, Greater Planar Binding, Maze, Refuge, Summon Monster VIII, Temporal Stasis
9: Astral Projection, Etherealness, Gate, Genesis, Genius Loci CM, Summon Monster IX, Teleportation Circle
SC - Spell Compendium
CM - Complete Mage
CS - Complete Scoundrel
* - Sharn, City of Towers
This is going to be my first piece of homebrew and is something that just wouldn't stop floating around my head. I think it was mostly inspired by the Ozodrin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?153536-Tooth-and-Tentacle-base-class-PEACH) and its stomach feature, as well as the Dungeon Seed (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?197462-The-Dungeon-Seed-%283-5-base-class-unusual-concepts%29)
Also, I would be very happy for all suggestions you guys have to offer. I especially wonder which spells would be most fitting. I mostly want spells that interact with objects and the planes on the spell list.
Fluff comes later
Hit Die: d4
Level
Base Attack Bonus
Fort Save
Ref Save
Will Save
Special
Dimension Points
1st
+0
+0
+0
+2
Demiplane Alteration, Demiplane Mastery, Personal Space
3
2nd
+1
+0
+0
+3
Planar Knowledge
7
3rd
+1
+1
+1
+3
Demiplane Mastery
12
4th
+2
+1
+1
+4
Shift (Basic)
18
5th
+2
+1
+1
+4
Demiplane Mastery, Gateway (Basic)
25
6th
+3
+2
+2
+5
Transplace (1/day)
33
7th
+3
+2
+2
+5
Demiplane Mastery, Shift (Improved)
42
8th
+4
+2
+2
+6
Gateway (Improved)
52
9th
+4
+3
+3
+6
Demiplane Mastery
63
10th
+5
+3
+3
+7
Shift (Coexist)
75
11th
+5
+3
+3
+7
Demiplane Mastery
88
12th
+6/+1
+4
+4
+8
Transplace (2/day)
102
13th
+6/+1
+4
+4
+8
Demiplane Mastery
117
14th
+7/+2
+4
+4
+9
133
15th
+7/+2
+5
+5
+9
Demiplane Mastery, Planar Fortress
150
16th
+8/+3
+5
+5
+10
168
17th
+8/+4
+5
+5
+10
Demiplane Mastery
187
18th
+9/+5
+6
+6
+11
Transplace (3/day)
207
19th
+9/+5
+6
+6
+11
Demiplane Mastery
228
20th
+10/+5
+6
+6
+12
Planar Union
250
Class Skills (2+Int modifier):Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Knowledge (all) (Int), Profession (Wis), Spellcraft (Int)
Spells: An arcane architect casts arcane spells, which are drawn from the arcane architect spell list below. When you gain access to a new level of spells, you automatically know all the spells for that level on your spell list. An arcane architect must choose and prepare his spells ahead of time (see below).
To prepare, or cast a spell, the arcane architect must have an Intelligence score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against an An arcane architect’s spell is 10 + the spell level + the arcane architect’s Intelligence modifier.
Like other spellcasters, an arcane architect can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. His base daily spell allotment is given on the "Spells per day" table. In addition, he receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Intelligence score.
Unlike a wizard or a sorcerer, an arcane architect knows all of his spells. He must choose and prepare his spells ahead of time by getting a good night’s sleep and spending 1 hour meditating on his connection to his personal demiplane. While meditating, the arcane architect decides which spells to prepare.
Personal Space : You create your personal demiplane, which will grow in size and power as you become more powerful. It has the following base traits:
No Gravity
Normal Time
Finite Size: In its base state, the demiplane is a 5 ft. cube.
Alterable Morphic
No Elemental or Energy Traits
Mildly Neutral Aligned
Normal Magic
The demiplane is created completely empty, containing not even air.
These traits may be altered, as described under Demiplane Alteration
Demiplane Alteration: You gain a number of Dimension Points (DP) as indicated in the table above, with an additional amount of DP equal to your intelligence modifier. You may spend these to purchase new features for the demiplane created by Personal Space.
All of these points may be reallocated when you prepare your spells.
Features are described in the follwing format:
Name (cost, other requirements, minimum level) - Description
All of the following features are spell-like abilities.
Store (xDP) - You may send an item you are currently holding to your demiplane, where it appears exactly in a location determined by you. The action required to send something to your demiplane depends on how many DP you spend on this ability: Full-round (1DP), Standard (2DP), Move (3DP), Swift (4DP)
Retrieve (xDP) - You retrieve an item from your demiplane, placing it directly into your hands or adjacent to you, if you are currently not capable of holding it. You may only retrieve items whose weight does not exceed your maximum load. The action required to retrieve an object from your demiplane depends on how many DP you spend on this ability: Full-round (1DP), Standard (2DP), Move (3DP), Swift (4DP)
Personal Transport (xDP, Level 5) - You can transport yourself to your demiplane or back to your native plane. When transporting yourself to the demiplane, you are instantly placed in a place you designated. When transporting yourself to your native plane, this works like Plane Shift. This ability can only transpor you, your familiar should you possess one and other objects with a total weight of up to 50 pounds. The action required for this depends on how many DP you spend on this ability: Full-round (2DP), Standard (3DP), Move (4DP), Swift (5DP)
Size (1DP) - the size of your demiplane is doubled. This can be purchased multiple times, each time doubling the size. (for example: 5ft. cube->10ft. cube->20ft. cube etc.)
Light (1DP) - Purchasing this feature for lights your entire demiplane with an illumination that you may control as a standard action.
Daylight (3DP) - As Light, except the light counts as daylight if you so desire.
Atmosphere (1DP) - You fill your demiplane with breathable air.
Local Atmosphere (3DP) - As Atmosphere, except you can choose parts of your demiplane not to have air in it. The atmosphere does not interact in any way with parts of your demiplane that do not have one.
Water (1DP) - You fill your demiplane with water. You may chose wether you want to use saltwater or freshwater.
Local Water (4DP) As Water, except you can chose for only parts of your demiplane to be filled with water. The water will not flow out of these areas, unless moved from there.
Deadly Border (5DP, Level 11) - Anything that touches the border of your demiplane becomes the subject of a disintegrate effect as though it were cast by you. For an additional DP, you become immune to this effect.
Normal Gravity (1DP)
High Gravity (1DP)
Very High Gravity (2DP) - Double all effects of High Gravity.
Light Gravity (1DP)
Very Light Gravity (2DP) - Double all effects of Light Gravity.
Objective Directional Gravity (1DP per direction) - You can have gravity in different areas of your demiplane point in different directions. Purchase this trait once for every
direction in addition to the first. This requiren another Gravity Trait to already exist. You can have different Gravity Traits by purchasing each one separately.
Subjective Directional Gravity (5DP, Level 6)
Self-Contained (5DP, Level 9) - Your Demiplane becomes self contained: Anything that would cross its inside boundary at one point, enters the demiplane immediately at the opposite point.
Selective Trait (2DP per trait) - You can apply planar traits to an area inside your demiplane instead of the plane as a whole. Purchase this feature once for every trait that does not affect the entire plane.
Structures are placed within your demiplane. They are fixed in space and cannot be moved from where they are unless they are destroyed or the appropriate feature is bought. They can be angled however you wish. If a structure has walls, these have a thickness of up to 2inch/level.
Unless the dimensions of a structure are specified and it is not part of another structure, assume that it is a 5ft.*5ft.*5ft. cube, although it can be reshaped as desired, as long as the amount of material remains the same and the dimensions do not exceed twice the starting size.
Strucures are made from a featureless, grey, stone-like material with Hardness equal to your Class Level and 1HP per class level per inch of thickness
Room (1DP) - You gain a cubic 10ft room which you can place anywhere in your demiplane. You are free to remove any of the walls when creating the room. You can split this room up into cubic 5ft sections, which can be arranged however you wish, as long as they are connected to each other.
Wall/Floor (1DP) - You can place a a 20ft*20ft wall or floor inside your demiplane. You can reshape it by rearranging it in 5ft.*5f sections that must be in one flat plane and connected to each other. However, you are free to leave out any sections of it after deciding on its shape but before creating it.
Door (0DP) - you can place simple wooden doors in any wall you desire. These doors do not have any locks.
Locked Door (xDP) - As Basic Door, except for a lock that can keep the door closed. When this feature is created, you may designate any suitable object on your person as the key for this lock. Alternatively, you may have it open and close at your command as a free action for an additional DP. The basic cost of this feature is 1DP for a simple lock with an Open Lock DC of 20. This DC may be increased by 10 for each additional DP, although you may not increase it above Class Level+20.
Gateway (1DP, Level 5) - This special Door is not used to connect rooms (Although it can, if combined with a door feature), instead you can connect to it by using the gateway feature. You can connect to each Gateway once per day, although you can spend DP on a Gateway to increase this by one use per day per point, until you can connect to this specific Gateway at will when reaching 5 uses per day.
A standard Gateway is sized for medium creatures. You can expend an additional 1DP per size category you want it to be larger.
Closing Gateway (2DP, Level 8) - As Gateway, except you may close it while inside your demiplane and reopen it to the position it was last opened to by expending another daily use.
Telepathic Beacon (5DP, Level 7) - The area within 5 feet per level of this beacon is treated as being inside your demiplane for purposes of telepathy.
Flight Beacon (5DP, Level 9) - The area within 5 feet per level of this beacon is treated as being inside your demiplane for purposes of flight.
Teleportation Beacon (5DP, Level 11) - As long as you are within range of your Dimension Door or Teleport ability you can use it to teleport to this beacon.
Arcane Pedestal (4DP per spell level, Level 7) - When this feature is formed, chose a spell level (0 counts as 1/2). You can then place an arcane scroll of exactly that spell level on this pedestal. After it has remained there for at least 24 hours, you can then prepare the spell as though it were on your spell list, with the following changes: While the level of the spell remains the same, you have to prepare it in a slot that is three levels higher than that of the spell. This does not count as metamagic and it is not possible to reduce the spell slot in which you have to prepare the spell to anything less than Spell level+3. Under NO circumstances. If the scroll is removed from the pedestal while you have this spell prepared, you immediately lose the spell.
Divine Pedestal (6DP per spell level, Level 14) - This works like an Arcane Pedestal, except for divine scrolls and spells have to be prepared in a slot that is 4 levels higher than that of the original spell. Furthermore, you need a wisdom of 10+original spell level in order to cast such a spell.
Trap (xDP) - You may place a non-magical trap with a CR of up to your own level. The cost is 1DP per 1000gp the trap would cost.
These features can be applied to structures placed within your demiplane. Features that specify a specific structure after their cost have to be placed on that structure, purchased as a structure.
Dimensional Lock (2DP, room) - A room with this feature cannot be entered or exited through extradimensional travel.
Appearance (1DP) - You can change the appearance of the structure this feature is applied to. This allows you to have its surface look like anything you want, as long as the shape is not changed. You could, for example, have a wall look like it is made from stone with writing of blood on it. True seeing can see through this change. For an additional point you may also make the structure invisible.
Texture (1DP) - You can change the texture of the structure this feature is applied to to anything you wish.
Hardened (xDP) - For each DP invested into this feature you increase Hardness by 1 and HP per inch of Thickness by 5.
Impervious (2DP) - A strucure with this feature can only be harmed by magical attacks. This includes both spells and attacks with magic weapons.
Sealed (1DP, room) - The room is magically sealed against the environment outside of it. This provides an invisible barrier that prevents the inside of the room from being influenced by the outside environment. This does allow, for eample, to have the room submerged in water without any of it intruding.
Airy Water (1DP, room) - anyone inside the room can breathe water as though it were air.
Ethereal Solid (1DP) - Any solid parts of the structure are solid in the ethereal plane as well, preventing ethereal travel through the structure.
Ethereal Lock (1DP, room) - As Ethereal soid, except the inside of the room prevents ethereal travel as well.
Linked Door (1DP, Level 7, door) - Choose another door with this feature. Anyone who steps through this door is immediately transported to the other.
Warped Space (3 DP, Level 12) - Space itself is malleable for you. Chose a 5 foot cube within your demiplane. This cube still has the same dimensions from outside, but inside this cube it is a 10 foot cube.
Extremely Warped Space (5DP, Level 18) - As Warped Space, except the internal size changes to a 100 foot cube and the external to a 10 foot cube. These dimensions may be doubled by purchasing this feature additional times.
Linked Space (3 DP, Level 13) - Choose an area with the maximum size of a 5ft-square. Anything that passes through this area is immediately transported to another area inside your demiplane.
Astral Pool (5DP, Level 8) - Your Demiplane gains a colour pool on the Astral Plane. This pool acts as any other, although it can only be used to enter your demiplane, with the point of entry being chosen when this feature is formed.The appearance of this pool must be chosen when you first chose this feature and can only be changed with a week of meditation, during which you may not undertake any other tasks except for resting and fulfilling your basic needs.
Astral Access (5DP, Level 11) - This feature must be applied to an already existing Astral Pool feature. This creates a matching Colour pool at the exit point of the colour pool, making it into a two-way portal between the Astral and your own plane.
Demiplane Mastery: Even while constantly altering and changing your demiplane, each Arcane Architect develops his own quirks andalterations for his demiplane that work in a more permanent fashion than the features described in Demiplane Alteration. Pick one of the following choices at first level and then at every odd level afterwards.
Knowledge: You are aware of anything that happens inside your demiplane, allowing you to feel, see and hear everything inside it, ignoring invisibility, darkness, concealment and similar effects. This works even if you are not inside your demiplane. If you chose this feature an additional time, you never suffer from miss chances that would prevent you from hitting a target inside your demiplane while also gaining an enhancement bonus to all attack rolls made against targets insid your demiplane equal to 1/2 your class level.
Size: Your demiplane becomes a 100 ft. cube. This feature may be chosen additional times, each time multiplying the size by 10, increasing the size to 1000, then 10000 and so forth.
Infinity (requires level 9): You gain Infinite Architecture as a bonus feat, ignoring the normal prerequisites.
Telepathy (requires level 7): You gain Telepathy, which you may use to communicate mentally with any being inside your demiplane.
Fly (requires level 7): You gain a fly speed of class level * 10 ft. with a maneuverability of perfect while inside your demiplane. This is a supernatural ability.
Teleportation (Sp): You may use Dimension Door at will while inside your demiplane. You may purchase this feature additional times, each time you do so you choose one of the following: Upgrade from Dimension Door to Teleport, upgrade from Teleport to Greater Teleport, reduce the action from a standard to a move acion, reduce the action from a move to a swift action, reduce the action from a swift to a free action which may be used once per turn or purchase additional uses per turn if you can already use it as a free action.
Detect Thoughts (Sp, requires level 11): You may use Detect Thoughts at will while you are inside your demiplane. The entirety of your demiplane is considered to be in the area of the spell. This ability has a DC of 10 + 1/2 class level +Cha modifier.
Ghostly Movement (Su, requires level 17): You may pass through any material inside your demiplane without taking any harm, treating anything inside your demiplane as either corporeal, incorporeal or nonexistant in regards to yourself. This ability only applies against anything created as part of the demiplane, while only working against foreign material if it is not a creature or not magical.
Access (Sp): You have the ability to access your demiplane, by sending inanimate objects there and retrieving them from there, gaining the following abilities at the indicated levels:
Basic: At level 1 you can retrieve and store items in your demiplane as a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity. Items can only be stored if you hold them in your hands an anything containing an extradimensional space may not be stored. Retrieved items always appear in your hands, falling to the ground if they are already full.
Standard: At level 2 you can store and retrieve items as a standard action that provokes attacks of opportunity.
Swift: At level 11 this becomes a swift action that provokes attacks of opportunity.
Planar Knowledge: At second level you gain a bonus to Knowledge (the Planes) equal to half your class level, rounded down.
Shift (Su): You can shift parts of your demiplane into the plane you are currently in.
Basic: As a full-round action you can shift structures worth up to 1 DP per level from your demiplane into the plane you currently occupy. You can place these anywhere in close range (25ft. + 5ft per 2 levels), where they are, like in your demiplane, fixed in space. No Structure that would share any of its space with already existing solid matter appears and everything that is shifted always has the same configuration it has in your demiplane and will last for one round per level. This ability can be used 1/day.
Improved: This works like Shift (Basic), except as follows: The action required is a standard action, you can call 2DP per level and features applied to the called structures are called as well, as long as the cost is paid. This ability replaces Shift (Basic) and can be used 2/day.
Coexist: Whatever structure you call from your demiplane now exists both on the plane it is shifted to and where it originally was in your demiplane. This works as Shift (Improved), except that everything called as well as everything within 5 feet of it can be perceived and interacted with from both planes. Anyone within five feet of anything you have called with this ability has an active and a passive plane, with the acive one being the one they were on before entering the coexisting area, the passive one being the other. Interaction with the active plane is as normal. Interaction with the passive plane is not possible, except for sseing a ghostly overlay over the active plane, which makes it possible to still defend from attacks from the passive plane and make spot checks to see on that plane, although at a -10 penalty.
Changing which of the planes is active and which passive is possible as a standard action with a Wisdom Check (DC 15). This can be used 3/day and replaces Shift (Improved), although you may use only the effects of Shift (Improved) if you so desire. This has to be decided when using this ability.
Gateway (Sp)You can open doors to your demiplane, gaining the following abilities at the indicated levels:
Basic: As a full round action that provokes attacks of opportunity, you can open a portal to your demiplane. This portal must be connected to a gateway inside your demiplane and can be closed as a free action. However, as long as you remain on your demiplane, it must remain open.
Improved: once per day you can open a Gateway as with the basic function of this ability, ecept that it may be opened any place inside your demiplane as though you had purchased the gateway feature for that place with up to 1DP per Int modififer with a minimum of 1.
Transplace (Sp): As a melee touch attack you can shift creatures or objects to your demiplane. The target cannot have a weight of more than 50lb. per level and its dimensions may not exceed 3 cubic feet per level. A target can resist Transplace with a will save (DC 10+class level+cha mod) This ability can be used 1/day at level 6, 2/day at level 12 and 3/day at level 18.
Planar Fortress: Where before you only shifted parts of your demiplane for a short while, now you can permanently call part of your demiplane into another plane. with a ritual that takes 1 minute to complete you may call parts of your demiplane worth up to 2DP per class level to you, as in Shift(Improved). Unlike with a normal use of Shift, the duration of this effect is permanent until you either dismiss the fortres as a free action or you perform the ritual again.
Planar Union: After all the time you spent developing your personal demiplane, growing it, nurturing it, learning from it and drawing power from it, you have finally unlocked some of the greatest secrets of the planes. Chose one of the following:
Ascension: As long as you are within your demiplane, you count as a deity with divine rank 1 and the Alter Reality salient divine ability, even if you do not meet the prerequisites. Anything you create with Alter Reality will vanish when it leaves the demiplane, any effect with a duration that is not instantaneous is removed. Anything permanently created or changed with an instantaneous effect is likewise dismissed, while other effects like damage or healing are not affected.
If you already are a deity or become one at a later point, your divine rank increases by one while in your demiplane. If you gain Alter Reality separately from this class feature, the restrictions aplied by this class feature no longer apply and you may use it as a swift action while inside your demiplane.
Great Architect: Without any doubt, you can count yourself amongst one of the greatest arcane architects to ever live, making your personal plane a place of wonder and magic and creating new ones at a whim. Your DP are multiplied by 3 and casting Genesis and other non-epic spells that create demiplanes no longer requires XP.
Soul of the World: Your soul becomes fused with your demiplane, tethering you to it and restoring you if you should ever die. Whenever you die, you are fully restored in your demiplane after 1d10 days. The only way to permanently kill you would be to destroy your demiplane and then kill you before you would have a chance to recreate it. Should you have another means of returning to life, such as a lich's phylactery, you may chose the method of revival at the moment of your death. If you do not chose, roll once for each method (if rolls are required), after which the one that is quickest is used.
In addition to the benefits listed above, you no longer age.
Spells per day
Level
0th
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
1
3
1
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-
-
-
-
-
-
2
4
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
4
2
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
4
3
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
4
3
2
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
4
3
3
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
4
4
3
2
1
-
-
-
-
-
8
4
4
3
3
2
-
-
-
-
-
9
4
4
4
3
2
1
-
-
-
-
10
4
4
4
3
3
2
-
-
-
-
11
4
4
4
4
3
2
1
-
-
-
12
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
-
-
-
13
4
4
4
4
4
3
2
1
-
-
14
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
-
-
15
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
2
1
-
16
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
-
17
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
2
1
18
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
19
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
20
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
Spell List:
0: Arcane Mark, Caltrops SC, Detect Magic, Mage Hand, Mending, Open/CLose, Prestidigitation, Read Magic
1: Alarm, Benign Transposition SC, Blockade CS, Detect Secret Doors, Endure Elements, Greater Mage HandSC, Hail of Stone SC, Identify, Mage Armor, Magic Stone, Mount, Obscuring Mist, Portal Beacon SC, Protection from Chaos/Evil/Good/Law, Slide SC, Summon Monster I, Unseen Servant
2: Arcane Lock, Baleful Transposition SC, Fog Cloud, Glitterdust, Heart of Air CM, Knock, Obscure Object, Portal Alarm SC, Resist Energy, Rope Trick, Spymaster's Coin CS, Stone Shape, Summon Monster II, Levitate
3: Anticipate Teleportation SC, Arcane Seal*, Avoid Planar Effects, Blink, Dispel Magic, Fly, Heart of Water CM, Magic Circle against Chaos/Evil/Good/Law, Protection from Energy, Summon Monster III
4: Astral Hospice, Detect Scrying, Dimension Door, Dimensional Anchor, Heart of Earth CM, Minor Cration, Summon Monster IV
5: Contact Other Plane, Dismissal, Evacuation Rune CS, Heart of Fire CM, Major Creation, Overland Flight, Secret CHest, Summon Monster V, Teleport, Wall of Stone
6: Antimagic Field, Contingency, Energy ImmunitySC, Greater Dispel Magic, Mage's Magnificent Mansion, Planar Binding, Plane Shift, Scry Location CS, Summon Monster VI, Tactical Teleportation CM, Wall of Iron, Word of Recall
7: Banishment, Ethereal Jaunt, Greater Teleport, Instant Summons, Phase Door, Summon Monster VII, Sequester, Teleport Object
8: Binding, Dimensional Lock, Greater Planar Binding, Maze, Refuge, Summon Monster VIII, Temporal Stasis
9: Astral Projection, Etherealness, Gate, Genesis, Genius Loci CM, Summon Monster IX, Teleportation Circle
SC - Spell Compendium
CM - Complete Mage
CS - Complete Scoundrel
* - Sharn, City of Towers
This is going to be my first piece of homebrew and is something that just wouldn't stop floating around my head. I think it was mostly inspired by the Ozodrin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?153536-Tooth-and-Tentacle-base-class-PEACH) and its stomach feature, as well as the Dungeon Seed (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?197462-The-Dungeon-Seed-%283-5-base-class-unusual-concepts%29)
Also, I would be very happy for all suggestions you guys have to offer. I especially wonder which spells would be most fitting. I mostly want spells that interact with objects and the planes on the spell list.