DnD/Class Handbooks/Paladins/Call of Duty - Paladin

Call of Duty – A Paladin’s Sourcebook: Chapter 1: Classes and Feats
(Con), Diplomacy (Cha), Gather Information (Cha),
Intimidate (Cha), Intuit Direction (Wis), Jump (Str),
Knowledge (laws of the land) (Int), Knowledge
(religion) (Int), Ride (Dex), Spot (Wis), Swim (Str),
Wilderness Lore (Wis).
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Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier
Class Features
Weapon and armor proficiency: Archons
are proficient with all simple and martial weapons,
and with all types of armor and shields.
Code of Conduct: Archons must be lawful.
They must swear to uphold their personal honor
and the edicts of legitimate authority. Examples of
dishonorable behavior include: lying, cheating, the
use of disguises or other extreme trickery,
disloyalty, or disobeying the letter or spirit of the
laws set by legitimate authority.
Archons have no reservations about striking a
helpless opponent or using ambushes or sneak
attacks, ranged weapons, or poison (when allowed
by laws of the land). Almost any tactic is fair, as
long as it does not rely primarily on deception.
For an archon, legitimate authority is defined
as those who are most capable of bringing order to
the land. Often, an order of archons will add
several tenets to this code (see tenets in Chapter
2. Archons might be proponents of the concepts
of chivalry (see boxed text on page 44).
Associates: You may not associate with
chaotic creatures or known criminals, and you may
not have hirelings of a chaotic alignment.
Spells: Beginning at 1 st level, the archon
gains the ability to cast a small number of divine
spells. To cast a spell, you must have a Wisdom
score of at least 10 + the spell’s level, so an
archon with a Wisdom of less than 11 cannot cast
spells. When you get 0 spells of a given level, you
receive only bonus spells, if applicable. You
prepare and cast spells as a cleric, but use the
following spell list. You have access to every spell
on the list.
1 st level: command, divine favor, mending,
protection from chaos, remove fear, vigilant
sleep*
2 nd level: calm emotions, dispel fear*, hold
person, make whole, silence
3 rd level: discern lies, dispel magic, magic
circle against chaos, shadow bane*, speak
with dead
4 th level: death ward, dispel chaos, greater
command, status
*New spell in this book, see Chapter 4.
Detect Chaos (Sp): You may detect chaos at
will.
Clean Kill (Su): Whenever you perform a
coup de grace, you may also add your archon
class level to the damage.
Judge (Su): A number of times per day equal
to half your archon class level rounded down,
when attacking a creature in melee you may
choose to judge that creature by stating the crime
they have committed. This ability is a free action.
For example, before rolling a melee attack at a
rogue caught picking a pocket, Baron Fornst, a
ranger 6/archon 6, declares “You are guilty of
theft.”
Judging a creature inflicts a “judge mark”, a
scar caused by the damage of your attack, if you
successfully strike your opponent. You still use up
one of your chances to judge when you miss.
The mark glows softly and remains until you
choose to dismiss it, or if removed by a wish or
miracle. You may only mark one creature at a
time, and no creature may bear more than one
mark from you, so the mark disappears if you
judge another.
The judge mark gives you certain bonuses
against the creature. When tracking a judge
marked creature, you gain a competence bonus
equal to your archon class level.
At any distance from the mark, you may use
the Intuit Direction skill to determine the direction
of the marked creature. You automatically know if
they have left the plane of existence you are on,
but not where they went.
If you have the aura of truth ability, a marked
creature has a penalty to their saving throw equal
to your archon class level.
Finally, you gain a circumstance bonus equal
to your archon class level to melee attack rolls
against the marked creature.
Smite Chaos (Su): You gain the ability to
smite chaos. Once per day, you can smite chaotic
opponents with one melee attack. When smiting
chaos, you add your Charisma bonus, if any, to
your attack roll and deal 1 extra point of damage
per archon class level. If you attempt to use your
smite ability against an opponent who is not
actually chaotic, it has no effect and is wasted for
the day.
Aura of Truth (Su): A zone of truth spell
surrounds you with a 10ft radius at all times. Your
caster level is equal to 10 plus your archon class
level. Creatures subjected to this aura get a
saving throw when first entering the area of effect,
and every minute afterwards. You can suppress
or reactivate this aura as a free action at the
beginning of your turn.
Quick Kill (Ex): You may perform a coup de
grace as a standard action, instead of a full round
action.