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Call of Duty – A Paladin’s Sourcebook: Chapter 1: Classes and Feats no effect. Swords with the blasphemous, unholy, or unholy burst special abilities or with an evil alignment cannot be affected with this ability. You may only enhance two blades in this manner at any one time, one for each hand, and may remove the effect as a free action, if you wish to enhance a different blade. Smite Evil Blade (Sp): The corruption of steel cannot be tolerated. Once per day, whenever you are attacking a magical weapon, you may add your Charisma bonus to the attack roll, and deal 1 extra point of damage per sword saint class level. Your effective level for using this ability equals your sword saint class level plus your paladin level. My Blade is My Life (Su): Any time a sword enhanced by your sword saint class abilities takes damage; you may choose instead to take the damage yourself. Damage absorbed by you in this manner is not affected by damage reduction or spell effects, and must be taken. Using this ability is not an action. For example, Katrina, a sword saint, is battling Garog, an evil ogre fighter with the Sunder feat. Garog smashes his Huge greatclub down on Katrina’s holy rapier +2 with a critical hit for 40 points of damage. To the ogre’s amazement, the sword holds true and does not even show a nick, but Katrina winces as blood trickles out of her mouth. Holy Blade (Su): This ability works the same as the righteous blade ability, except that the sword gains the holy special ability (see the DMG, Chapter 8, Magic Item Descriptions, Weapons) for as long as you hold it. Bonus Feat: Sword saints gain bonus feats at 5 th and 9 th levels. They may choose any feat they meet the prerequisite for that requires them to specify a weapon type or that has the paladin’s smite evil ability as a prerequisite. The weapon type they specify must be a sword (including any of the following: bastard sword, greatsword, katana, longsword, rapier, scimitar, shortsword, or two-bladed sword). Holy Burst Blade (Su): This ability works the same as the righteous blade ability, except that the sword gains the holy burst special ability (see Chapter 4) while you wield it. Call Holy Avenger (Sp): Once per day, as a standard action you may summon an ancient blade used by a legendary paladin. The blade appears in your hand for a number of rounds equal to the sum of your paladin and sword saint levels. The blade is usually a holy avenger, but the DM may choose a different weapon with a good alignment of equal or lesser value if it better fits the situation. For example, a sword saint facing a horde of undead may receive a sun blade. 36 Blades summoned in this manner may also be intelligent, if the DM so chooses, and can offer advice or knowledge, and not just serve as a weapon. Ex-Sword Saint: If you ever lose the ability to smite evil, for instance by becoming an ex-paladin, then you become an ex-sword saint and lose the use of all your special abilities until you regain the smite evil ability by atoning. Deathblade: A deathblade is an evil prestige class with abilities similar to that of a sword saint, except they gain no paladin abilities, and instead of righteous, holy and holy burst blades; the deathblade imbues his blades as blasphemous, unholy, or unholy burst weapons, respectively. Instead of smite evil blade, they can smite good blades, and can call an unholy destroyer (see Chapter 4) instead of a holy avenger. In addition, deathblades do not need to be able to smite evil. They only need to be evil, to have a base attack bonus of +6 or higher, and to swear an oath to serve an evil outsider in exchange for their powers, the same as a blackguard. Ex-sword saints who take this dark path exchange all of their ex-sword saint levels for deathblade levels. Returning to the sword saint class after taking this oath is impossible. Deathblades who violate their oath or become non-evil lose all class abilities and become exdeathblades forever. Like ex-sword saints, exdeathblades lose all their special abilities. Sample NPC “Time to send you back.” Katrina Hellbane, female human Rng3/Pal3/Sword Saint 5: CR11; Medium-size Humanoid (human); HD 11d10+22; HP 71; Init +3; Spd 30ft; AC 18 (+3 Dex, +5 large shield); Melee +2 keen longsword +14/+9/+4 (1d8+2/crit 15- 20/x2); SA smite evil 3/day, favored enemy; SQ detect evil, divine grace, divine health, lay on hands, aura of courage, remove disease 1/week, turn undead, heal blade, my blade is my life, holy blade; AL LG; SV Fort +15, Ref +9, Will +7;Str 10, Dex 16, Con 14, Int 13, Wis 12, Cha 16. Skills and Feats: Animal Empathy +9(6), Heal +4(3), Hide +7(6), Knowledge (the planes) +7(6), Listen +7(6), Move Silently +7(6), Ride +12(9), Spot +7(6), Wilderness Lore +7(6); Bolster Smite, Improved Critical (longsword), Expertise, Smite Favored Enemy*, Track, Weapon Focus (rapier), Weapon Focus (longsword). * New feat, see page 4. SA–Virtual Feats (Ex): As long as she wears nothing heavier than light armor, Katrina may use the Two Weapon Fighting and Ambidexterity feats.
She sometimes uses this ability to bash with her shield when faced with multiple, weak foes. SA-Favored Enemies (Ex): Katrina has selected devils as her favored enemy. She gains a +1 bonus to Bluff, Listen, Sense Motive, Spot and Wilderness Lore checks regarding devils and deals +1 point of damage in melee to devils. SA–Smite Evil (Su): Three times per day, Katrina may add +3 to an attack roll against an evil opponent, and if she hits, adds +8 to the damage. If the opponent is a devil, she does +11 damage instead, plus the damage from the favored enemy ability. One of her smites for the day can only be used against devils. SQ–Lay on Hands (Sp): Katrina may heal up to 33 points of damage per day. She can divide his healing up as she likes. SQ–Turn Undead (Su): Katrina turns undead as a 1 st level cleric up to 6 times per day. SQ–My Blade is My Life (Su): Katrina may take any damage inflicted on a blade she wields. SQ–Holy Blade (Su): Any sword Katrina wields gains the holy special ability (+2d6 holy damage against evil creatures). Equipment: +2 keen longsword, +3 large steel shield, mw shortsword, mw chainmail bikini History: Tired of fighting a guerrilla war from the wild jungles of their island, Katrina’s older sister, a powerful wizard, summoned fiends to protect their tropical island home from invaders. Though her sister’s intentions were good, she made one pact too many with a pit fiend and lost her soul to darkness. Katrina watched her sister’s soul sink into hell, and was forever changed. At the age of 20, she picked up her mother’s sword and charged through the still open portal into a dark place of fiery doom. She remembers well the torture she suffered. Shortly after her foolish attack, a raiding party of solars rescued her. They healed her and showed Call of Duty – A Paladin’s Sourcebook: Chapter 1: Classes and Feats Organization Statblocks See Chapter 2 and 3 for more information on tenets and paladin orders. By summarizing organizations into a statblock-like format, you can give players information on your campaign at a glance. Sisters of the Far Isle: Paladin Order Summary: The Sisters of the Far Isle are an all female order of ranger/paladins, some of which are sword saints. They were originally formed when a magical plague killed most of the men on the islands. Recently, the order has not been active, but an invasion of devils has caused them to rally. Note that they have no prejudices against males, but there are very few males on the Far Isles and none have been called to duty in recorded history. Race: Any, but humans are the most common. All are female. Patron Deity: none, the Sisters are secular Common Feat Progression: Bolster Smite, Weapon Focus, Improved Critical, Smite Favored Enemy. Skills: Max out Heal and Knowledge (the planes) (crossclass) May freely multiclass as: Rangers Tenets: Must never surrender, though they may retreat. (tactical) Must not have a patron deity. All Sisters of the Far Isle worship their ancestors and gain their powers from the spirits of female warriors. (cultural/tactical) Alignment (Tilt): LG (NG) her the paradise she would someday visit. The experience overwhelmed her, and she answered the call of duty with a proud heart. Now the same creatures that killed her sister are conquering her land, and she searches for a way to fight them while hoping to rescue her sister from hell itself. Recently, Katrina accepted leadership of the Sisters of Far Isle, a paladin order spanning the island archipelago she calls home. Appearance: Katrina shuns armor, preferring warmer climates and as little clothing as possible, and even going topless when the local culture allows it. Her body is toned and deeply tanned. She likes jewelry, but seldom wears much when fighting. She usually carries a magical longsword, and sometimes a backup weapon, usually a masterwork shortsword. Personality: Katrina is driven to fight the fiends of hell on their own ground. She knows she cannot confront them directly, at least not yet, and is content to merely thwart their plans on the prime material plane. Being a paladin is a source of great pride to Katrina; it gives her a focus in life. She does not think of herself as a “sword saint”, but simply as a paladin who disdains spellcasting. Using Katrina: Katrina is likely to be encountered away from her homeland on a quest to find allies against the diabolic invaders of her islands. What she does not realize is that her sister Elena is now a powerful succubus wizard and a key part of the invading force. Rather than destroying Katrina, Elena seeks to corrupt her into becoming a deathblade. Elena will attempt to seduce any paladin helping Katrina with the same goal in mind: corruption. Elena does not want to destroy anyone; she is looking for recruits to join the forces of hell for the blood war. 37
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