CHAPTER 6
PRESTIGE CLASSES
underneath the stands. Around the periphery, various Since a totem rager is primarily a fighting character, she vendors sell icons, perfumes, ceremonial silks, and votive needs a high Strength score. A high Constitution score is candles at individual stalls. The perfects always worry also vital, both for the additional hit points it provides and that some outside source might corrupt the ceremonies because it controls her meldshaping ability. Finally, a high by trying to “fix” the fights, so they might assign a PC to Charisma score can improve her wild empathy ability. listen in the training rooms or outdoor areas and relay any conversations involving potential corruption back Entry Requirements Base Attack Bonus: +5. to them. Skills: Intimidate 5 ranks, Survival 9 ranks. The current august perfect of roses in this area is Aqrom Feat: Cobalt Rage. Orit (LN incarnate 2/fighter 4/spinemeld warrior 10), lord Special: Ability to bind soulmelds to totem chakra, rage of the Mishtoran. He is attended by three male skarn class feature. spines of snow (LG and LE soulborn 5/spinemeld warrior 5), two female skarn spines of rain (LG and LE soulborn 6/spinemeld warrior 4), and one female skarn flaw seeker CLASS FEATURES As a totem rager, you depend heavily on your rage ability and (LN fighter 1/wizard 8/spinemeld warrior 3). A cleric of Wee Jas (cleric 9) oversees the shops selling paraphernalia your soulmelds, and the new abilities you gain allow those and tends to the fallen. key features to work together more effectively. Using your rage ability makes your totemist soulmelds better by giving you extra essentia to invest. If you then invest that essentia in your rage ability, you can extend its duration and increase “I am the wrath of all beasts bound into one terrible form.” both your damage and your Will save modifier. —Sikudhani, the Bringer of War All of the following are class features of the totem rager prestige class. The totem rager embodies the wrath of nature in its most Weapon and Armor Proficiency: You gain no new bestial form. Like the barbarian, she can stir herself into a proficiencies with weapons, armor, or shields. fierce rage to cleave her enemies, and like the totemist, she Meldshaping: At each totem rager level except 1st and can shape the forces of nature into soulmelds that grant her 6th, you increase your meldshaper level, the number of the power of magical beasts. But only in the totem rager soulmelds you can shape, the number of chakra binds you do these abilities feed upon each other like the beasts of can create, and your essentia pool as if you had gained a the wild, growing stronger from one another’s essence. level in the meldshaping class to which you belonged prior She can use her rage to make her soulmelds better, and to gaining the totem rager level. You do not, however, gain use her soulmelds to make her virtually unstoppable any other abilities of that class, such as new tiers of chakra in combat. binds. If you had more than one meldshaping class before becoming a totem rager, you must decide to which class to BECOMING A TOTEM RAGER add each level for the purpose of determining your essentia Since a totem rager needs both the ability to rage and the pool, meldshaper level, and the number of soulmelds and ability to bind soulmelds to her totem chakra, the best chakra binds available. path into this prestige class is to combine the barbarian Totem Rage (Su): You can enhance the power of your and totemist classes. At least two levels of totemist and rage by tapping into the furious spirits of the beasts within one of barbarian are required, but since the base attack you. The essentia capacity of your Cobalt Rage feat increases bonus prerequisite mandates a character level higher than by 1. 3rd, most candidates take additional levels in those two Furthermore, as long as a soulmeld occupies your totem chakra, you gain a number of extra essentia points equal classes. A few levels in druid or ranger might also prove to one-half your totem rager level (minimum 1) while you useful, but few candidates stray from the wildernessoriented classes. rage. At your option, you can invest some or all of this extra
TOTEM RAGER
Table 6–8: The Totem Rager Hit Die: d10 Base Attack Fort Ref Will Level Bonus Save Save Save Special Meldshaping 1st +0 +2 +2 +0 Totem rage, wild empathy — 2nd +1 +3 +3 +0 Extra rage +1 level of existing meldshaping class 3rd +2 +3 +3 +1 Damage reduction 1/— +1 level of existing meldshaping class 4th +3 +4 +4 +1 Chakra binds (crown, feet, hands) +1 level of existing meldshaping class 5th +3 +4 +4 +1 Extended rage +1 level of existing meldshaping class 6th +4 +5 +5 +2 — — 7th +5 +5 +5 +2 Damage reduction 2/— +1 level of existing meldshaping class 8th +6 +6 +6 +2 Extra rage +1 level of existing meldshaping class 9th +6 +6 +6 +3 Chakra binds (arms, brow, shoulders) +1 level of existing meldshaping class 10th +7 +7 +7 +3 Totem chakra bind (+2 capacity) +1 level of existing meldshaping class Class Skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Climb, Concentration, Craft, Handle Animal, Intimidate, Jump, Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (nature), Listen, Profession, Ride, Spot, Survival, Swim
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