Pathfinder Chronicles - Faction Guide (oef).pdf - WORLDWAKE

Dim Mak: You may spend 1 point from your ki pool as a
swift action to execute your next Stunning Fist attack as a
melee touch attack rather than a normal melee attack.
Mind of the Kensai: You may spend 1 point from your ki
pool as a swift action to imbue a single melee weapon in
your hands with the ki focus weapon special ability until
your next turn.
Wings of the Crane: If you have the Def lect Arrows feat,
you may spend 1 point from your ki pool as an immediate
action to use that feat to def lect a second missile weapon
that round. If you have the Snatch Arrows feat, you may use
this ability to catch a second weapon, but not throw it back.
Zen Combatant: You may spend 1 point from your ki pool
as a swift action to substitute your Wisdom score for your
Strength or Dexterity for all melee or ranged attacks you
make that round.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects
do not stack. Each time you take the feat, you may choose
an additional ability from the list above. Monks can select
this feat as a monk bonus feat.
Let Them Come (Combat)
You have trained to fight onrushing enemy hordes. With
a carefully timed strike you ensure that their reckless
charge will be their undoing.
Prerequisites: Dwarf, Ninth Battalion TPA 25.
Benefit: You treat all one- or two-handed melee weapons
as if they had the brace special feature.
Normal: Only weapons with the brace special feature
can be readied against charges.
Master Performer (Kitharodian Academy)
When using your bardic performance abilities, you grant
your allies greater bonuses.
Prerequisites: Bardic performance class feature, Extra
Performance, Kitharodian Academy 15 TPA.
Benefit: When any of your bardic performance abilities
grant your allies a bonus, that bonus is increased by +1.
Nameless Servitor
The fact that you have given up your real name makes you
resistant to certain types of magic.
Prerequisite: Risen Guard rank, Risen Guard 10 TPA.
Benefit: Anyone who attempts to use magic in order to
learn personal information about you, such as through
divination, scrying, or similar magic, must make a caster
level check with a DC equal to 10 plus your level to succeed.
You are immune to spells that require the use of your name
in order to function (such as trap the soul).
Most members of the Risen Guard with this feat are
addressed by their rank.
Special: If you ever choose a real name, you lose all
benefits of this feat.
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Old Cults Awakener
You hear the voices of the Old Ones, and believe it is your
destiny to awaken others to their ancient cause using
bizarre and torturous rituals. Whether your work leaves
these individuals mad or truly touched by alien sentience
remains unproven.
Prerequisite: Old Cults 20 TPA.
Benefit: You can attempt a DC 25 Heal check upon an
unconscious but stable intelligent creature. The ritual
takes 1 hour to complete. If it’s successful, the victim must
make a DC 25 Will save or he gains a false memory of a
vision that he has personally been chosen by the Great
Old Ones to serve them (treat as an implanted memory
from modify memory, except this is a nonmagical effect).
If the ritual is unsuccessful, the victim takes 1d2 points
of Intelligence and Wisdom drain; you may attempt the
ritual again.
Ominous Mien
Your walk, stance, and voice all amplify your status as a
Hellknight when you cast spells or use spell-like abilities
against opponents.
Prerequisite: Hellknight rank, Hellknight 10 TPA.
Benefit: Whenever you cast a spell or use a spell-like
ability from the compulsion, fear, phantasm, or shadow
sub-schools, add +1 to the DC of the saving throw against
that spell or effect.
Silent Performer
You can use any bardic performance ability without
making a sound.
Prerequisites: Bardic performance class feature,
Extra Performance, Master Performer, bard level 12th,
Kitharodian Academy 15 TPA.
Benefit: You can use your audible-component bardic
performance as visual-component bardic performances.
Any bardic ability used in this manner expends 4 times as
many bardic performance rounds as normal.
Touched by Sacred Fire
Regular contact with an elemental guardian of the Ruby
Prince (such as Khemet’s invisible fire elemental cohort
Janhelia) has left you able to shrug off many sources of
unnatural heat, even if the effort required sometimes
makes it difficult to defend yourself from attacks.
Prerequisites: Endurance, Risen Guard rank, Risen
Guard 15 TPA.
Benefit: You gain fire resistance 5 and a +2 bonus on all
saving throws to resist the effects of fire or heat. As a swift
action, you can increase your fire resistance to 10 and your
save bonus to +4 until your next turn; this causes you to
lose your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class until your next
turn (which leaves you vulnerable to sneak attacks).
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