Bloodwrath Guardian - korinth

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PARAGON PATHS
Bloodwrath Guardian
“We are all animals. Only our arrogance separates us from
our more wild kin.”
Prerequisite: Warden
The primal power you wield has formed a bond
between you and the natural creatures of the world.
In their myriad forms, you see fractured reflections
of a greater being: the Primal Beast, who was the
world’s first predator. All the hunting animals of the
world—mighty lions and howling wolves, lowly ferrets
and soaring eagles—hold a distant echo of the Primal
Beast in their hearts.
In your commitment to protect the world from
demons, aberrations, and other beings that would
corrupt the balance of nature, you find yourself
growing closer to the Primal Beast’s perfection. That
growth is reflected in your bloodwrath—the heightened
speed you gain when you adopt a guardian
form, and the fury that punishes the enemies you
mark. At the pinnacle of your path, you at last gain
the ability to take on the form of the Primal Beast.
Bloodwrath Guardian
Path Features
Furious Action (11th level): You can spend an
action point to gain a bonus to attack rolls equal to
your Wisdom modifier until the end of your turn,
instead of taking an extra action.
Bloodwrath Stride (11th level): While you are
in a guardian form, you gain a +2 bonus to speed.
Bloodwrath Fury (16th level): When you hit an
enemy with a melee attack and the enemy is marked
by you, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll.
Bloodwrath Guardian
Evocations
Bloodwrath Strike Bloodwrath Guardian Attack 11
Primal fury wells within you as you slam your weapon into
your foe.
Encounter ✦ Primal, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. Fortitude
Hit: 3[W] + Strength modifier damage.
Warding Frenzy Bloodwrath Guardian Utility 12
Your senses heightened by the primal spirits around you, you
present a constant threat to enemies nearby and are ready to
strike if they ignore you.
Daily ✦ Primal, Stance
Minor Action Personal
Effect: Until the stance ends, any enemy that starts or ends
its turn adjacent to you is marked until the end of its
next turn.
Form of the Bloodwrath Guardian Attack 20
Primal Beast
Your body becomes a hunched thing of fur and shadow, an echo
of the archetypal predator, the Primal Beast. When you muster
your strength for a great attack, you deal a grievous wound to
your foe.
Daily ✦ Polymorph, Primal
Minor Action Personal
Effect: You assume the guardian form of the Primal Beast
until the end of the encounter. While you are in this
form, your melee reach increases by 1, and you gain
threatening reach.
Once during this encounter, you can make the following
weapon attack while you are in this form.
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + Strength modifier damage, and ongoing
10 damage (save ends).
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Horned Champion
“Don’t speak to me of your petty concerns—speak to me of
the world’s needs.”
Prerequisite: Warden
You have communed with the spirits of the land and
have been found worthy of the horned champion’s
mantle. You transcend the flesh you were born with
to become the chosen vessel of nature’s spirits. Your
duty is to take up arms against the fell creatures of
the land, to put an end to their destruction, and to
restore the splendor of the untamed wilds.
Becoming a horned champion is a transformative
experience. Gone are the simple concerns that bound
you to the world. You see the world on a grander
scale, as an organism that must be protected against
the abominations that would siphon its strength for
dark purposes. You appear to have no ties to people
or places, only to your weighty mission, leading many
to feel as though you lack understanding of the individual’s
plight. Although it’s true that you care little
for the individual’s suffering, giving no more attention
to a mortal’s difficulties than one would show
to an insect, your concern encompasses the natural
world and all things living in it. Thus, in a way, your
ties to others are deeper than friendship, for they are
forged from the bonds that connect all living things.
Horned Champion Path Features
Vicious Action (11th level): When you spend
an action point to make an attack and that attack
misses, you can reroll that attack roll but must use the
second result.
Fervent Pursuit (11th level): When you hit an
enemy with an opportunity attack, that enemy is
slowed until the end of its turn.
Blessing of Spring (16th level): Whenever you
use a warden daily attack power that has the polymorph
keyword, you can spend a healing surge as a
free action.
Horned Champion Evocations
Zealous Strike Horned Champion Attack 11
With a roar, you charge at your enemies to deliver an
overwhelming attack.
Encounter ✦ Primal, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC. If the target is bloodied, you gain a
+2 bonus to the attack roll.
Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier damage, and you knock the
target prone.
Effect: Make the attack one more time against the same
target or a different one.
Impetuous Stride Horned Champion Utility 12
Primal energy surrounds you as you push through the enemies’
ranks. Only a fool would dare strike you.
Encounter ✦ Primal
Move Action Personal
Effect: You move your speed. If any creature makes an opportunity
attack against you during this movement, that
creature takes damage equal to 5 + your Wisdom modifier.
WARDEN PARAGON PATHS
ERIC BELISLE
Form of the Horned Champion Attack 20
Leaping Stag
Great horns sprout from your head as primal power quickens
your step. Your charging assault can leave an enemy senseless.
Daily ✦ Polymorph, Primal
Minor Action Personal
Effect: You assume the guardian form of the leaping stag
until the end of the encounter. While you are in this
form, you gain a +4 bonus to speed. In addition, as a
move action, you can move your speed and gain a +2
power bonus to AC against opportunity attacks until the
end of your turn. During this movement, you can move
through any enemy’s space, marking that enemy until
the end of your next turn.
Once during this encounter, you can make the following
weapon attack while you are in this form.
Standard Action Melee weapon
Effect: Before the attack, you move your speed.
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier damage, and the target is
stunned until the end of your next turn.
Miss: Half damage, and the target is dazed until the end of
your next turn.
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Storm Sentinel
“Feel the wrath of the storm unleashed, for I am nature’s
champion and none shall stand against me.”
Prerequisite: Warden
To many, there is no clearer expression of the power
of nature than the raging fury of the storm. Churning
clouds, crashing thunder, and blasting lightning
are manifestations of the rage coursing through
the world when its natural laws are violated and its
purity corrupted. When gods or primordials overstep
their bounds, when demons or aberrant beings try to
tear the fabric of reality, the fury of a storm—and its
cleansing rain—are part of nature’s response.
Most wardens draw power from the earth. As an
incarnation of the storm’s wrath, your greatest primal
power comes from the sky. Lightning flows in your
veins, and thunder booms in your footsteps. As you
advance along this path, you can transform yourself
into wind and rain and can ultimately take on the
aspect of storm’s wrath.
Storm Sentinel Path Features
Invigorating Action (11th level): When you
spend an action point to make an attack, you can
spend a healing surge as a free action after the attack.
Critical Jolt (11th level): Whenever you score a
critical hit, it deals extra lightning damage equal to
your Strength modifier.
Undying Wind (16th level): Whenever you
spend a healing surge, you regain additional hit
points equal to your Constitution modifier.
Storm Sentinel Evocations
Thunder Smash Storm Sentinel Attack 11
Your weapon rumbles with thunder as you swing it toward the
earth in a tremendous smash that knocks your foes down.
Encounter ✦ Primal, Thunder, Weapon
Standard Action Close burst 2
Target: Each enemy in burst
Attack: Strength vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier thunder damage, and you
knock the target prone.
Storm Step Storm Sentinel Utility 12
For a brief moment, you transform into wind and rain.
Encounter ✦ Primal
Move Action Personal
Effect: You become insubstantial until the end of your
next turn. In addition, you fly your speed; at the end of
this movement, you must land in a space adjacent to
an enemy.
Form of Storm’s Wrath Storm Sentinel Attack 20
Thunder crashes around you as your skin becomes the dark
blue-gray of thunderclouds and your eyes flash with lightning.
Daily ✦ Lightning, Polymorph, Primal
Minor Action Personal
Effect: You assume the guardian form of storm’s wrath
until the end of the encounter. While you are in this
form, any enemy that starts its turn adjacent to you is
marked until the end of your next turn and takes lightning
damage equal to your Constitution modifier if you
are able to take actions. In addition, at the start of each
of your turns, choose one enemy that you can see within
3 squares of you. That enemy takes lightning damage
equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.
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Verdant Lord
“I am one with the forest, and the forest is one with me.”
Prerequisite: Warden
Like the trees of the forest, you draw strength
from the loamy earth, from the water that
spills from the sky and flows across the land,
and from the radiance of the sun. You embrace
the essence of the tree, becoming the forest’s
protector, its champion against those that would
despoil it. When you use your primal powers,
shoots of new growth emerge from the ground, flowers
bloom, and trees straighten with renewed vigor.
You favor guardian form powers that let you take
on treelike forms (such as form of the willow sentinel,
form of the oak sentinel, and form of the rowan sentinel),
but even when you take on other aspects, the earth
responds with growth. As the culmination of this
path, you can take on a form like that of a treant,
smashing foes and objects alike with a weapon held
in your branchlike fists.
WARDEN PARAGON PATHS
WAYNE ENGLAND
Verdant Lord Path Features
Reaching Action (11th level): When you spend
an action point to take an extra action while you are
in a guardian form, your melee reach increases by 1
until the end of your turn.
Writhing Roots (11th level): While you are in a
guardian form, enemies treat each square adjacent to
you as difficult terrain, and each ally adjacent to you
gains a +1 bonus to AC.
Iron Boughs (16th level): When you hit an
enemy with a melee attack and the enemy is marked
by you, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll.
Verdant Lord Evocations
Falling Tree Strike Verdant Lord Attack 11
As the tree falls and crushes all beneath it, your weapon
smashes down to knock your foe off its feet.
Encounter ✦ Primal, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. Reflex
Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier damage, and you knock the
target prone.
Awaken the Forest Verdant Lord Utility 12
Vines burst from the ground around you to hinder your foes.
Daily ✦ Primal, Zone
Standard Action Close burst 3
Effect: The burst creates a zone of thick vines that lasts
until the end of your next turn. The zone is difficult
terrain for your enemies. In addition, your allies have
cover while within the zone. As a move action, you can
move the zone 5 squares.
Sustain Minor: The zone persists.
Form of the Verdant Lord Verdant Lord Attack 20
You transform into a treant, sprouting roots that draw strength
from the earth and growing branches that sap life from
your foes.
Daily ✦ Healing, Polymorph, Primal
Minor Action Personal
Effect: You assume the guardian form of the verdant lord.
While you are in this form, your melee reach increases
by 1, you gain a +5 bonus to Strength checks to break
objects, and your attacks deal triple damage to objects.
In addition, at the start of each of your turns, each ally
within 2 squares of you regains 5 hit points.
Once during this encounter, you can make the following
weapon attack while you are in this form.
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. Fortitude
Hit: 3[W] + Strength modifier damage, and the target is
immobilized (save ends).
Miss: Half damage, and the target is immobilized until the
end of your next turn.
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