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Call of Duty – A Paladin’s Sourcebook: Chapter 1: Classes and Feats 14 Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier Class Features Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Chaos knights are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, and all armor and shields. Spike Expertise (Ex): Most chaos knights cannot resist the appearance of spiked armor and spiked gauntlets, but they do not don such equipment just for looks. Whenever you are in a grapple, you gain a free attack with armor spikes or spiked gauntlets at the beginning of your turn. This is in addition to any other actions you take Paladin Level Extra ability 1-2 Rage (Ex): You gain the ability to use the rage ability once per day as if a 1 st level barbarian. If you have this ability already, you may rage one extra time per day. 3-4 Smite Law (Su): Once per day, in addition to the ability granted to all chaos knights at second level. 5-6 Lay on hands (Sp): You may use the paladin’s lay on hands ability to heal a number of points of damage up to your Charisma bonus multiplied by your chaos knight class level, but only for yourself or those of non-lawful 7-8 alignment. You may use this ability while raging. Summon Slaad (Sp): You have an inherent connection to the chaotic planes. Once per day, you may summon a red slaad, as if casting a summon monster VI spell with a 40% chance of success. Your caster level is 5 plus your chaos knight class level. You can use this ability while in a rage. In fact, if you do so, you summon a more powerful blue slaad instead. 9-10 Polymorph Self (Sp): Once per day, you can use polymorph self. You may use this ability while raging. 11+ Anarchist. You are a true champion of chaos. You may immediately trade levels of ex-paladin for an equal number of levels of chaos knight, becoming up to a tenth level chaos knight. Any ex-paladin levels traded in this way do not count toward gaining other abilities on this table. Table 1-4, Fallen Paladin Chaos Knight Abilities when grappling, and does not count as an action. Uncontrollable Rage (Ex): Your devotion to chaos has required you to give up some control of your barbarian rage ability. Whenever you take damage from any source while not using rage, there is a 50% chance that you will lose control and must use your rage ability, if possible. You may not voluntarily end a rage brought on this way. Smell Oppression (Sp): At will, you can detect law as a spell-like ability. This ability works just like the spell, but utilizes your sense of smell. Smite Law (Su): Once per day, you can smite lawful opponents with one melee attack. When smiting law, you add your Charisma bonus, if any, to your attack roll and deal 1 extra point of damage per chaos knight class level. If you attempt to use your smite ability against an opponent who is not actually lawful, it has no effect and is wasted for the day. Winds of Change (Su): You can bend the laws of probability to give you an edge. A number of times equal to half your chaos knight class level, rounded down, you may reroll the result of a single melee attack. This ability can only be used once per round, and the results of the second roll always count, even if they are worse than the first. This ability may only be used while raging. For example, Bedlam, a barbarian 6/chaos knight 4, can reroll a melee attack twice per day when enraged. Aura of Aggression (Su): Act first, plan later. You and all allies within 10ft. gain a +2 luck bonus to initiative rolls. This bonus stacks with all other bonuses, except the aura of aggression of another chaos knight. Incite Panic (Su): While raging, whenever you strike someone in melee with a critical hit, your target is automatically affected as if you had cast a cause fear spell. Your chaos knight class level is your caster level. At 8 th level the saving throw DC for this ability increases by +4. Additional Rage (Ex): You may use your barbarian rage ability one additional time per day. Primal Rage (Su): Whenever you rage, you transform into a mass of shifting primal matter. While raging you gain damage reduction 5/+5, fast healing 3, resistance 5 to all energy types, and your twisting features and equipment are unrecognizable. Immune to Transformation (Su): Your sense of individuality suppresses the supernatural. You are immune to any spell that changes your form. Polymorph other or petrification may change your form for a moment, but as a free action, you can resume your normal form.
Ex-Chaos knights: If your alignment changes to become non-chaotic, then you become an exchaos knight and lose all spell-like and supernatural abilities of this class. Returning to a chaotic alignment restores all lost abilities. Changing to a lawful alignment causes you to become an ex-chaos knight forever. Ex-Paladins: Those who lost their paladinhood by changing to a chaotic alignment make powerful chaos knights. Ex-paladins who become chaos knights gain extra powers as shown on Table 1-4. Ex-paladins who become chaos knights can never regain their paladinhood. Sample NPC “Let’s party.” Bedlam, male half-orc Bbn 6/Chaos knight 4: CR 10; Medium-size Humanoid (orc); HD 10d12+33; hp 95; Init +2 (+2 aura of aggression); Spd 40 ft; AC 15 (+5 breastplate); Melee +1 chaotic spiked chain +16/+11 (2d4+6, +2d6 against lawful opponents); SA rage, spike expertise, smite law, winds of change; SQ fast movement, half-orc traits, uncanny dodge, uncontrollable rage, smell oppression, aura of aggression; AL CN; SV Fort +12, Ref +2, Will +1; Str 20, Dex 10, Con 16, Int 8, Wis 8, Cha 12. Skills and Feats: Intimidate +14(13), Listen +3(4), Wilderness Lore +4 (5); Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Spiked Chain), Knowing Gaze (detect law)*, Power Attack, Toughness. SA–Rage (Ex): 3/day, Bedlam can fly into a screaming blood frenzy for 8 rounds. Bedlam gains +4 Str, +4 Con, and a +2 morale bonus vs. fear, but suffers -2 to AC. After the rage, Bedlam is fatigued. SA–Spike Expertise (Ex): While grappling, Bedlam gains an additional attack each round with his armor spikes. SA–Smite Law (Su): Once per day, Bedlam can strike a lawful creature with an attack bonus of +1, and a damage bonus of +4. SA–Winds of Change (Su): While raging, Bedlam can reroll melee attack rolls twice per day. SQ–Half-Orc Traits (Ex): 60 foot darkvision, orc blood. SQ–Uncanny Dodge: Dex bonus to AC, can't be flanked. SQ–Uncontrollable Rage (Ex): Whenever Bedlam takes damage, there is a 50% chance he will be forced to use his rage ability if possible. SQ–Smell Oppression (Su): Bedlam can detect law at will using his sense of smell. SQ–Aura of Aggression (Su): All of Bedlam’s allies within 10ft. gain a +2 bonus to initiative. Call of Duty – A Paladin’s Sourcebook: Chapter 1: Classes and Feats Equipment: +1 chaotic spiked chain (named “Wildcat”), breastplate, armor spikes, large sack with stolen food, dice bag with bone dice. * New feat, see page 3. History: Durgut was born as a slave deep under the ground. Forced to mine for silver, he finally escaped his orcish family and lived off the wilderness as a savage for many years. While hunting, a patrol of knights attempted to capture him for stealing livestock. The sight of manacles unleashed a fury unlike any he had felt, and Durgut slew them all with the chains they tried to shackle him with, and became a chaos knight in the heat of battle. He discarded the name his hateful family gave him, and took the name whispered to him in his dreams: Bedlam. Now he wanders the world as a mercenary, and sometimes attracts followers, usually low level rogues or warriors who help him rob travelers or who just want to be on the winning side of a fight. Appearance: Bedlam wears a patchwork of armor pieces lodged with daggers, arrows, and spear points equivalent to a breastplate with armor spikes. He has piercings and crude tattoos, some of them obscene, all over his large, muscled body. Despite his startling appearance, he has excellent personal hygiene and speaks eloquently. Unfortunately, while his vocabulary may be broad, he often uses large words incorrectly. Personality: Like all chaos knights, Bedlam thrives on battle, and roams the world looking for the next big fight. The best way to sum up Bedlam’s personality is that he is a bully. He loves to fight those weaker than himself, and is secretly afraid of humiliation in battle by anyone weaker than he is. He has no desire for accumulating wealth, but loves to gamble and waste money on human women and ale. Using Bedlam: Bedlam can be a major henchman of one of your campaign’s villains, but is not clever enough to be a long-term villain himself. He is extremely deadly in a melee against lawful characters, and can be used to challenge paladins, monks, or others of lawful alignment. However, as a direct opponent of the party, he will not last long, so you might have more fun with him by making him a mere annoyance or rival. Setting up a non-lethal fight with him is a good idea. In a city setting, he might come into conflict with the player characters at a gambling table, or in a tavern brawl. Remember that Bedlam is not really evil or cruel, but is definitely out for himself. Someone who can beat him might impress him. Bedlam may even befriend such a person for a while. 15
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