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2016-09-15, 07:23 PM
PACT SUPPLICANT (PALADIN)
-While most paladins swear themselves to a deity, or benevolence as their code entails, there are those who offer their service to less wholesome entities. Communing with the unknown, a pact supplicant stands as an uncanny champion of good to some, and a heretic to others.
Prerequisites
-Alignment: Any good.
Code of Conduct
-A pact supplicant must be of good alignment and loses all class features except for proficiencies if she ever willingly commits an evil act.
-Additionally, a pact supplicant's code requires that she respect all things associated with her patron, and punish those who threaten innocents and those associated with her patron.
Class Features
All of the following are class features of the pact supplicant.
-Hexen Rites: A pact supplicant's powers, rather than being drawn from patron or devotion to good in of itself, instead result from communion with the unknown. A pact supplicant uses Intelligence instead of Charisma as her key spellcasting ability score (to determine her spell DCs, bonus spells per day, bonus on concentration checks, and so on), and to determine the effects of smite evil. Additionally, a pact supplicant does not gain Knowledge (religion) as a class skill. A pact supplicant instead gains Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (nature), or Knowledge (planes) as a class skill, chosen at 1st level.
This ability alters the paladin's Class Skills, Spellcasting, and Smite Evil.
-Patron Sigil: At 1st level, a pact supplicant gains a patron sigil. This sigil can take any number of forms, ranging from a symbol akin to a holy symbol to a small object like a doll or a fetish, but it is always somehow associated with the pact supplicant's patron. A pact supplicant must commune with her sigil each day to prepare her spells. Whenever a pact supplicant would utilize a focus or divine focus when casting a spell, or attempting to detect evil, the pact supplicant must use her patron sigil.
-If a patron sigil is damaged, it is restored to full hit points the next time the pact supplicant prepares her spells. If the sigil is lost or destroyed, it can be replaced after 1 week in a special ritual that costs 200gp per paladin level. This process takes 8 hours regardless of the form it takes. A patron sigil can only be used to prepare spells by the pact supplicant that created it, but it can be utilized as a focus by any pact supplicant who shares the same patron as the sigil's creator. Patron sigils, when sold, typically hold the same value as a wooden holy symbol.
-This ability alters the paladin's Detect Evil.
-Patron Spells: At 1st level, a pact supplicant must select a patron. This functions like the witch class ability of the same name, except as follows;
The pact supplicant acquires their bonus spells at differing levels. The spells normally gained at 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th level are instead acquired at 5th, 8th, 11th, and 14th respectively. Patron spells normally acquired at 10th level and above are never gained by the pact supplicant.
The pact supplicant adds the spells directly to their spells known.
-Hasten Hex (Su): At 2nd level, a pact supplicant can expend one use of her smite evil ability to use a hex as a swift action instead of a standard action.
This ability replaces the paladin's Divine Grace.
-Hex: At 2nd level, a pact supplicant gains one hex of her choice. She gains an additional hex at 3rd level and for every 3 levels attained thereafter. A pact supplicant cannot select an individual hex more than once.
-This ability replaces the paladin's Lay on Hands and Channel Positive Energy.
-Pact Boon (Sp): Upon reaching 5th level, a pact supplicant receives a boon from her patron. This bond can take one of two forms. Once the form is chosen, it cannot be changed.
-The first type of boon allows the pact supplicant to enhance her weapon as a standard action by inviting spirits associated with her patron's themes into her weapon for 1 minute per paladin level. This functions identically to the standard paladin's weapon bond except the axiomatic weapon property is only available to lawfully aligned pact supplicants, and is replaced with anarchic for chaotic aligned pact supplicants. With DM permission, other enchantments may be swapped out with others of the same modifier if they would be more befitting of her patron. For example, frost and icy burst may take the place of fiery and flaming burst respectively for a pact supplicant of a winter patron.
-The second type of boon grants the pact supplicant the service of a familiar, treating her paladin level as her witch level for the purpose of this ability. This familiar does not by default store the pact supplicant's spells, nor must this familiar be communed with for the pact supplicant to prepare her spells. The pact supplicant can choose to preform ritual similar to that normally required to replace her Patron Sigil to designate her familiar as where her spells are stored and what she must commune with, or to designate her Patron Sigil as such if her familiar already serves this function. This version of ritual costs 100gp per paladin level. If the pact supplicant chooses to store her spells in her familiar, the pact supplicant must still utilize her Patron Sigil for the purpose of casting spells that require a focus and when she attempts to detect evil.
-This alters the paladin's Divine Bond.
-Major Hex: Starting at 15th level, and every three levels thereafter, a pact supplicant can choose major hexes whenever she could select a new hex.
-While most paladins swear themselves to a deity, or benevolence as their code entails, there are those who offer their service to less wholesome entities. Communing with the unknown, a pact supplicant stands as an uncanny champion of good to some, and a heretic to others.
Prerequisites
-Alignment: Any good.
Code of Conduct
-A pact supplicant must be of good alignment and loses all class features except for proficiencies if she ever willingly commits an evil act.
-Additionally, a pact supplicant's code requires that she respect all things associated with her patron, and punish those who threaten innocents and those associated with her patron.
Class Features
All of the following are class features of the pact supplicant.
-Hexen Rites: A pact supplicant's powers, rather than being drawn from patron or devotion to good in of itself, instead result from communion with the unknown. A pact supplicant uses Intelligence instead of Charisma as her key spellcasting ability score (to determine her spell DCs, bonus spells per day, bonus on concentration checks, and so on), and to determine the effects of smite evil. Additionally, a pact supplicant does not gain Knowledge (religion) as a class skill. A pact supplicant instead gains Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (nature), or Knowledge (planes) as a class skill, chosen at 1st level.
This ability alters the paladin's Class Skills, Spellcasting, and Smite Evil.
-Patron Sigil: At 1st level, a pact supplicant gains a patron sigil. This sigil can take any number of forms, ranging from a symbol akin to a holy symbol to a small object like a doll or a fetish, but it is always somehow associated with the pact supplicant's patron. A pact supplicant must commune with her sigil each day to prepare her spells. Whenever a pact supplicant would utilize a focus or divine focus when casting a spell, or attempting to detect evil, the pact supplicant must use her patron sigil.
-If a patron sigil is damaged, it is restored to full hit points the next time the pact supplicant prepares her spells. If the sigil is lost or destroyed, it can be replaced after 1 week in a special ritual that costs 200gp per paladin level. This process takes 8 hours regardless of the form it takes. A patron sigil can only be used to prepare spells by the pact supplicant that created it, but it can be utilized as a focus by any pact supplicant who shares the same patron as the sigil's creator. Patron sigils, when sold, typically hold the same value as a wooden holy symbol.
-This ability alters the paladin's Detect Evil.
-Patron Spells: At 1st level, a pact supplicant must select a patron. This functions like the witch class ability of the same name, except as follows;
The pact supplicant acquires their bonus spells at differing levels. The spells normally gained at 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th level are instead acquired at 5th, 8th, 11th, and 14th respectively. Patron spells normally acquired at 10th level and above are never gained by the pact supplicant.
The pact supplicant adds the spells directly to their spells known.
-Hasten Hex (Su): At 2nd level, a pact supplicant can expend one use of her smite evil ability to use a hex as a swift action instead of a standard action.
This ability replaces the paladin's Divine Grace.
-Hex: At 2nd level, a pact supplicant gains one hex of her choice. She gains an additional hex at 3rd level and for every 3 levels attained thereafter. A pact supplicant cannot select an individual hex more than once.
-This ability replaces the paladin's Lay on Hands and Channel Positive Energy.
-Pact Boon (Sp): Upon reaching 5th level, a pact supplicant receives a boon from her patron. This bond can take one of two forms. Once the form is chosen, it cannot be changed.
-The first type of boon allows the pact supplicant to enhance her weapon as a standard action by inviting spirits associated with her patron's themes into her weapon for 1 minute per paladin level. This functions identically to the standard paladin's weapon bond except the axiomatic weapon property is only available to lawfully aligned pact supplicants, and is replaced with anarchic for chaotic aligned pact supplicants. With DM permission, other enchantments may be swapped out with others of the same modifier if they would be more befitting of her patron. For example, frost and icy burst may take the place of fiery and flaming burst respectively for a pact supplicant of a winter patron.
-The second type of boon grants the pact supplicant the service of a familiar, treating her paladin level as her witch level for the purpose of this ability. This familiar does not by default store the pact supplicant's spells, nor must this familiar be communed with for the pact supplicant to prepare her spells. The pact supplicant can choose to preform ritual similar to that normally required to replace her Patron Sigil to designate her familiar as where her spells are stored and what she must commune with, or to designate her Patron Sigil as such if her familiar already serves this function. This version of ritual costs 100gp per paladin level. If the pact supplicant chooses to store her spells in her familiar, the pact supplicant must still utilize her Patron Sigil for the purpose of casting spells that require a focus and when she attempts to detect evil.
-This alters the paladin's Divine Bond.
-Major Hex: Starting at 15th level, and every three levels thereafter, a pact supplicant can choose major hexes whenever she could select a new hex.