Chapter Five
Chaos Slaves Kail spoke to the advancing mutants. “Look, I am a servant of chaos, sent here by the high priest Mevalkris.” A voice came from the ebon bonds of the darkness around him. “Our master has other plans for you.” Kail strained to see the speaker. He thought he could make out a thin, hawkish man, clad in tattered robes. Some strange tattooed pattern ran across his flesh. The pattern occasionally flashed with what looked like a bluish bolt of electricity. In this bizarre light, Kail saw a diminutive, misshapen creature of flesh and steel at the man’s feet, clinging to the hem of his robes like a child. “Who is your master?” Kail asked him. “We serve as you do, Kail. We are all slaves of chaos.” his chapter deals with the people who willingly serve chaos by working with chaositech. It offers two new prestige classes, the chaositechnician and the machine mage. It also provides a template for creatures either modified by chaositech or created entirely by chaositech, plus two additional creature templates: the chaosomaton and the fused aberration.
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Chaositechnician Rarely, a mortal becomes adept at working with chaositech. While most go mad attempting to master the science of chaos, these rare individuals, called chaositechnicians, excel at it. Some still go mad eventually, plying the mysterious and unpredictable stuff of chaos itself, but before they do, many learn to use chaositech the way mages use spells. Chaositechnicians cannot only use chaositech—and use it better and more efficiently than others—but they can alter it to fit their own needs and create new chaositech devices when they need to. Chaositechnicians are quick thinking and good with their hands. They frequently carry dozens of tools with them, most of which a nonchaositechnician could not even iden-
tify, let alone use. Chaositechnicians come from all walks of life and all professions, except perhaps monks and paladins. Anyone with a chaotic disposition and a good Intelligence can excel at working with chaositech. A high starting Wisdom, representing a good grounding in reality, helps ensure that the character can progress in the class without too much fear of going insane. Chaositechnicians are frequently loners, although they often dwell in urban areas to keep abreast of new sources of chaositech. They frequently garner mysterious reputations, such as “the surgeon in the shadows” who will grant individuals amazing powers for a hefty price. Due to the nature of the dangerous materials they work with, as well as the fact that they frequently become mutants in the course of their work, many chaositechnicians are fugitives from the law. Any chaos cult would kill (literally) for a chaositechnician to join its ranks and help provide it with the gifts of the Chaos Lords. Most large and powerful cults do have at least one associated chaositechnician. These individuals are rarely the cult leaders (although chaotic clerics make fine chaositechnicians), preferring to stay and work in shadows even deeper than those in which the cult operates.
CHAOSITECHNICIAN Class Base Attack Fortitude Reflex Level Bonus Save Save 1st +0 +0 +0 2nd +1 +0 +0 3rd +2 +1 +1 4th +3 +1 +1 5th +3 +1 +1 6th +4 +2 +2
Will Save +2 +3 +3 +4 +4 +5
7th 8th
+5 +6
+2 +2
+2 +2
+5 +6
9th 10th
+6 +7
+3 +3
+3 +3
+6 +7
Special Chaositech affinity Tinker, resist insanity Chaositech stabilization Surgical healing (1d8) Jury rig chaositech (1st level) Surgical healing (2d8), rapid tinker Jury rig chaositech (2nd level) Surgical healing (4d8), jury rig chaositech (3rd level) Jury rig chaositech (4th level) Surgical healing (6d8), jury rig chaositech (5th level)
Spells Per Day/Spells Known or Chaositech Combat Bonus Increase +1 level of existing class or +1 attack — +1 level of existing class or +1 damage — +1 level of existing class or +1 attack — +1 level of existing class or +1 damage — +1 level of existing class or +1 attack +1 level of existing class or +1 damage
