CHARACTER OPTIONS
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general—has racial substitution levels. Essentially, each Class Skills set of substitution levels presents a racially flavored variant Dragonblood cleric substitution levels have the class skills standard class for your game. The DM can add more racial of the standard cleric class. Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier (or four substitution level options, such as for a dragonborn barbartimes this number as a beginning character). ian or a kobold druid, as desired, using the substitution levels presented here as guidelines. You can usually select a particular substitution level only at a Class Features specific class level. When you take a substitution level for your All the following are class features of the dragonblood cleric racial substitution levels. class at a given level, you give up the standard class features Notes: The following substitution level class features gained at that level and get the substitution level features require the dragonblood cleric to select one energy type instead. You can’t go back and gain the class features for the level you swapped out—when you take your next level in the from among acid, cold, electricity, fire, and sonic. The energy standard class, you gain the class features of the next higher type must be the same for all these substitution features. A half-dragon who takes one or more of these substitulevel as if you had gained the previous level normally. tion levels must choose the energy type that matches her For instance, if you take the dragonborn paladin substitution level for 5th level, you forever lose the class features breath weapon (if possible). If a half-dragon cleric’s breath normally gained by a standard 5th-level paladin, gaining weapon doesn’t have an energy type, she can choose any instead the racial substitution class features for a 5th-level energy type so long as it is the same for all substitution level class features. dragonborn paladin. When you take the next level in paladin, you gain the normal 6th-level benefits of the standard A dragonblood cleric who doesn’t take the 1st-level racial paladin class. substitution level can expend turn undead uses in place of turn energy uses if she takes the 5th- or 9th-level racial Unless noted otherwise in the description of a racial subsubstitution levels. stitution level class feature, a character who takes a racial Turn Energy (Su): Starting at 1st level, a dragonblood substitution level gains spellcasting ability (increases in spells per day, caster level, and spells known, if applicable) cleric can channel the elemental power of dragons to grant as if he had taken a level in the standard class. her and her allies protection from energy a number of times A character need not take all the substitution levels per day equal to 3 + her Charisma modifier. provided for a class. For example, a spellscale bard might Using this ability is a standard action that does not prodecide to take only the racial substitution level for 1st level, voke attacks of opportunity. The cleric and all allies within ignoring the other substitution levels. 30 feet gain temporary immunity to the specified energy The description of each substitution level class feature type. Each protected ally remains immune until the effect explains what occurs with regard to a standard class ability protects him from 5 points of energy damage per cleric level, after which the effect is discharged for that ally. If not gained, if that ability would normally increase at a specific it is not discharged, the benefit of the effect fades after 1 rate (such as a dragonborn paladin’s base attack bonus). When a substitution level changes the standard class’s Hit minute per cleric level. The cleric can exclude herself and Die or class skill list, the change applies only to that substituany allies she chooses from the effect. tion level, not to any other class levels. A character who takes Turn energy overlaps and does not stack with the effect the kobold rogue substitution level as a beginning character of the resist energy spell. If a character is warded by both gains 4 hit points (from the substitution level’s d4 Hit Die) and this effect and resist energy, this effect absorbs damage until gains an additional 1d4 hit points for each additional kobold it is discharged. Turn energy stacks with the effect of the protection from energy spell. rogue substitution level he takes later in his career. He gains This substitution level class feature replaces the stanthe normal d6 Hit Die for all standard rogue levels. dard cleric’s turn or rebuke undead class feature. For a dragonblood cleric, turn energy counts as turn or rebuke DRAGONBLOOD CLERIC undead for the purpose of meeting prerequisites for feats, Dragonblood creatures are naturally inclined toward arcane prestige classes, and so on. magic. Some hear the call of a deity, however, and become Energy Barrier (Su): A dragonblood cleric who takes clerics instead. Dragonblood clerics focus on the elemental affinities of their draconic bloodline. the 5th-level racial substitution level can expend one of her Hit Die: d8. turn energy (or turn undead) uses for the day to create a wall of energy. This ability functions like the benefit of the Exhaled Barrier feat (see page 101), except as noted below. Requirements Any creature passing through the wall takes 1d6 points of To take a dragonblood cleric substitution level, a character energy damage per two cleric levels the dragonblood cleric must have the dragonblood subtype and be about to take her 1st, 5th, or 9th level of cleric. possesses. If the cleric creates the wall so that it appears where Table 6–6: Dragonblood Cleric Racial Substitution Levels Base Attack Fort Ref Will Level Bonus Save Save Save Special 1st +0 +2 +0 +2 Turn energy 5th +3 +4 +1 +4 Energy barrier 9th +6/+1 +6 +3 +6 Energy sustenance
Spellcasting Same as cleric One less 3rd-level spell; see text One less 5th-level spell; see text
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