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Woldian Classes

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Weapon Mage / Woldian Blade Singer

Weapon Mage / Blade Singer

Of all the Noble Races, the elves are known throughout the Wold for their mastery of magical arts and grace in combat. So it is no surprise that the elves learned how to marry their arcane and martial knowledge into a unique form of art. Over time, however, the practitioners of this art evolved into three corps. The first corps, welding the arts of archery and magic, is the arcane archer (per the DM Guide). Members of the second corps, called weapon mages, blend magic with the mastery of a particular melee weapon. Students of both magic and war, weapon mages gradually learn to store and channel spells through their weapons and to cast spells while wearing armor. Members of the third corps, called blade singers, go one step further, blending arcane swordplay with the beauty of dance in deadly combination. Named after the hum of their deadly whirling swords, blade singers have a vocation to protect all elven peoples and homelands from threats of any kind. The art of bladesong was lost to the Wold for millennia, until one of the Gold Dragons -- an elven warrior named Greymaulkin -- quested to regain the forgotten knowledge. Since then, the corps of blade singers has grown ... and rumors say that even one or two blade singers without elven blood have been admitted to the ranks.

Only candidates with intense martial training and extensive arcane experience can learn these arts: weapon mages and blade singers are usually wizard/fighters, although sorcerers, rangers, bards, and even paladins have passed the tests required for membership. Both weapon mages and blade singers must prove their worth before being admitted to the corps. The corps of weapon mages is willing to share their art with any elf-friend, regardless of race. Blade singers and arcane archers are less open and, as a rule, exclude those without elf blood.

As NPCs, weapon mages and blade singers are solitary figures, feared by mages for their ability to cast spells while wearing armor and by the common warrior for their arcane ability. Because of this, they often try to appear fairly easygoing and lighthearted so as to put others at ease. While often adventurous, they pride themselves on protecting the weak and setting an example of good works. In addition, blade singers have a deeper calling, since they are sworn to defend elvenkind and nature.

Hit die: d6

Requirements

To qualify to become a weapon mage or blade singer, a character must fulfill the following criteria.

Base BAB: +6 Knowledge (Arcana): 6 ranks Weapon and armor proficiency: All simple and martial weapons and all armor. Spells: Ability to cast 2nd level arcane spells Feat: Combat Casting Feat (weapon mage): Weapon Focus with any melee weapon Feat (blade singer): Weapon Focus with short sword, rapier, scimitar, long sword, or bastard sword Alignment: any good Special (weapon mage): Must have demonstrated magical and melee mastery in performing a service to elves. Special (blade singer): Must swear to follow the blade singer ethos, must have elf blood.

Class Skills

The weapon mage and the blade singer have the same class skills: Balance (Dex), Climb (Str), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Hide (Dex), Knowledge Arcana (Int), Listen (Wis), Move Silently (Dex), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Spellcraft (Int), Spot (Wis), Tumble (Dex).

Skill Points per level: 2 + Int modifier

Table -- The Weapon Mage / Blade Singer

Lvl...Att.....Will...Refx...Fort...Special Abilities
 1....+0.......+2.....+2.....+0.....Enhance Weapon +1
 2....+1.......+3.....+3.....+0.....Ignore spell failure 10%, +1 spell level
 3....+2.......+3.....+3.....+1.....Weapon Casting / Defensive Dance
 4....+3.......+4.....+4.....+1.....+1 spell level
 5....+3.......+4.....+4.....+1.....Enhance +3
 6....+4.......+5.....+5.....+2.....Store Spells / Grace, +1 spell level
 7....+5.......+5.....+5.....+2.....Ignore spell failure 20%
 8....+6.......+6.....+6.....+2.....Weapon Mastery, +1 spell level
 9....+6.......+6.....+6.....+3.....Absorption / Elegant Strike
10....+7.......+7.....+7.....+3.....Enhance +5, +1 spell level

Blade Singer Ethos

All blade singers swear to obey the following code of behavior: 1. Honor your word. 2. Temper justice with mercy. 3. Defend the defenseless. Moreover, blade singers are required to respond to calls for help from elves in need. If a blade singer ever unknowingly violates this ethos, then all Class Features (listed below) are lost until the blade singer atones. If the ethos is ever knowingly and deliberately violated, then all Class Features are lost forever, and no further advancement in levels in this prestige class is possible.

CLASS FEATURES

Throughout their training there are points at which the Blade Singer and the Weapon Mage diverge, both in their ways of thinking and the areas on which they focus. This is shown through their specific choices of certain abilities and special feats that each is allowed to attain.

Spells per Day: At every second level gained in the prestige class, you gain new spells as if you had also gained a level in your spellcasting class (if you have more than one, pick a class in which you can cast second level arcane spells). You do not, however, gain any other benefit from that prior class.

Enhance Weapon (Su): At first level in the PrC, pick a melee weapon to which you have applied the Weapon Focus feat. If you are a blade singer, your choice is more limited (see above). This type of weapon is your specialty weapon. With the Enhance Weapon ability, any specialty weapon becomes a magical weapon when you weild it, gaining a +1 enhancement bonus. This bonus only applies to weapons you are holding. If your specialty weapon is a double weapon, then both ends are enhanced; if you use two weapons of the same type, both are enhanced. As you gain levels in the prestige class, your weapons will gain greater potency: +1 at first level; +3 at fifth level; and +5 at tenth level. The bonus gained from this ability does not stack with any other enhancement bonus gained if your specialty weapon is a masterwork or magical weapon.

Ignore Spell Failure (Ex): Beginning at second level, your hard work and practice at joining spell and weapon play start to pay off. As an extraordinary ability, you are able to ignore a portion of the arcane spell failure chance associated with using armor and shields. This reduction begins at 10% at second level and increases to 20% at seventh level. You subtract the listed percentage value from your total spell failure chance.

Weapon Casting (weapon mage) or Defensive Dance (blade singer)

Weapon Casting (Su): At third level, the weapon mage gains an arcane symbiosis with specialty weapons. Once per round, you can cast spells while holding your weapon, even those with both somatic and material components. Any time you cast a touch or target-specific spell, you can choose to use your weapon to deliver the spell instead of making a touch attack. For example, in the same round, a weapon mage can cast Shocking Grasp and then deliver it as part of a standard melee attack through his weapon. You can move before casting the spell, after casting the spell but before making the attack, or after making the attack -- just like a touch attack. You can also choose to hold the charge. This ability works with any specialty weapon you weild.

Defensive Dance (Ex): At third level, when keeping one hand free (no shield, secondary weapon, or other object), a blade singer adds one point of intelligence or charisma bonus per blade singer level to your dexterity bonus to modify armor class, while wielding their specialty blade. Use intelligence if your blade singer levels boost wizard spell casting; use charisma if your blade singer levels boost your sorcerer or bard casting. (Rare witch blade singers can use wisdom or charisma.) For instance a third level wizard / blade singer with an 18 Int and bonus of +4 can add +3 to her armor class; at fourth level, that AC bonus rises to +4. Store Spell (weapon mage) or Grace (blade singer)

Store Spell (Sp): At sixth level the weapon mage learns how to store spells up to third level in a single nonmagic specialty weapon. Effectively, you gain the "Brew Potion" feat using an alternative medium. All rules, XP costs, and expenses that apply to "Brew Potion" also apply to this ability, with the following exceptions. Once the spell is entered into the weapon, it remains there until triggered. You can store a number of spells in your weapon equal to your weapon mage level plus Intelligence bonus. You can only store spells in a single weapon, and you must carry that weapon on you at all times. Stored spells are lost only when the weapon is broken or if the weapon is out of your reach for more than a day. Only you can activate spells that are stored, doing so with a silent gesture: While weilding the weapon, you can activate a stored spell upon yourself as a standard action, or on a friend with a touch of the weapon as a standard action, or on an enemy as part of a standard attack (in addition to the normal attack, but not as part of a full attack). Only one stored spell can be triggered per round. Stored spells can be meta-magicked, but Silent, Still, and Quick effects have no relevance. You can store spells with your DM's approval; you do not have to go to the Catacombs to pay the XP and gold cost, as would a potion-brewer. Only a nonmagic masterwork weapon can be used to store spells.

Grace (Ex): At sixth level a blade singer gains an additional +2 competence bonus on all reflex saving throws. You also gain the rogue’s evasion ability. If you already have evasion from another class, such as rogue, then you gain improved evasion. The save bonus and evasion only function when you are wearing light or no armor and when not using a shield or weapon in your secondary hand.

Greater Weapon Focus (Ex): At eighth level, you gain the feats of Weapon Specialization and Greater Weapon Focus with your specialty weapon.

Absorption (weapon mage) or Elegant Strike (blade singer)

Absorption (Su): At ninth level the weapon mage's specialty weapon (the same one in which you Store Spells) acts as a Rod of Absorption. Treat this as the Rod of Absorption magic item in all ways, except you can only store spell levels equal to your weapon mage level plus Intelligence bonus. After using stored levels, however, you can absorb more levels to replace them, unlike the rod, which can only absorb spell levels once. You know how many levels are stored in the weapon at any given time.

Elegant Strike (Ex): At ninth level a blade singer gains the ability to strike precisely with her specialty weapon, gaining an extra 2d6 damage added to normal damage. Elegant strike only works against living creatures with discernable anatomies. Creatures who are not subject to critical hits are also not subject to this additional damage.

SPECIAL FEATS

While other feats are certainly available to the weapon mage and blade singer, several special feats exist that only they are allowed to use. These feats, of course, must be taken in place of the normal feats that the you get as you advance in level.

BLADE SINGER FEATS

Feat: Bladesong [SPECIAL] Prerequisites: Blade singer level 1, Still Spell, 3 ranks Perform (dance). Benefit: With this feat, any time you use your sword to attack, you gain a +1 morale bonus on attacks, damage, and armor class.

Feat: Improved Bladesong [SPECIAL] Prerequisite: Bladesong; 6 ranks Perform (dance). Benefit: Your bladesong morale bonus doubles to +2.

Feat: Bladedance [SPECIAL] Prerequisite: Improved Bladesong; 9 ranks Perform (dance). Benefit: You can release your sword (requiring a standard action) to attack on its own. It fights for four rounds using your base attack bonus and then drops. It never leaves your side (never straying more than 5 feet) and fights on even if you fall. If you do not move more than 5 feet, it makes multiple attacks based on your base attack bonus; if you move more than 5 feet, it will follow you and make a standard attack. You can mentally command it to attack certain enemies; otherwise it attacks the nearest. It takes up a 5-by-5 space and has a reach of 5 feet. You can grasp it while it is attacking on its own as a free action, but when so retrieved it can't dance (attack on its own) again for four rounds. While the sword is dancing, you can cast spells, draw another sword and attack, or take any other normal actions.

WEAPON MAGE FEATS

Feat: Arcane Offense [SPECIAL] Prerequisite: Weapon mage level 3, 3 ranks Spellcraft. Benefit: With this feat, any time you use weapon casting to cast a spell through your weapon, add +1 to that spell’s DC.

Feat: Improved Arcane Offense [SPECIAL] Prerequisite: Arcane Offense, 6 ranks Spellcraft. Benefit: Your arcane weapon casting spell DC bonus doubles to +2.

Feat: Spell Parry [SPECIAL] Prerequisite: Improved Bladesong or Improved Arcane Offense, 9 ranks Spellcraft. Benefit: When you Fight Defensively, in addition to the +2 dodge bonus you normally gain to AC, you also gain a +2 dodge bonus to all saving throws vs. magical attacks (spells and supernatural and spell-like abilities). When you use the Total Defense action, you gain the usual +4 dodge bonus to AC as well as a +4 dodge bonus to all saving throws vs. magic. If you have five or more ranks in the Tumble skill, the bonuses rise to +3 for Defensive Fighting and +6 for Total Defense for both AC and saves. (This feat is also open to blade singers.)

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The weapon mage was created by Kent; the Woldian blade singer was created by Donna, Cayzle, and Kent.

Approved by Cayzle on 10 April 2005.

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DMG PrCs

The Dragon Disciple is banned from the Wold. See information about Woldian Dragons for more info. Assassin and Blackguard are not approved for use by Woldian players, but may be used by DMs.

The following DMG PrCs are approved:

Arcane Archer

Arcane Trickster

Archmage

Duelist

Dwarven Defender

Eldritch Knight

Hierophant

Horizon Walker

This PrC is restricted to members of the Walkers Organization.

Loremaster

Mystic Theurge

Shadowdancer

Thaumaturgist