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Drow Ceremony Master
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more efficiently, reducing the expenditure of materials.
When determining the costs involved in preparing and
enacting a ceremony, the ceremony master may reduce
the materials needed by one step without increasing the
DC of the final check (see Black Ceremonies, pg. 46).
Reduced preparation costs are not reduced further by
the participation of multiple ceremony masters with
this class ability.
Reduced Preparation Time: Even the simplest of
black ceremonies requires an immense amount of
exacting, time consuming preparation and the most
difficult ceremonies can require literally months of
preparation time before they may be enacted. As he
gains in skill and breadth of experience, the ceremony
master learns to make his preparations with greater
efficiency, allowing him to take a black ceremony
from start to completion in a vastly reduced period of
time. Beginning at 6 th level, the drow ceremony master
can reduce all preparation times for black ceremonies
by one step, without increasing the final DC of the
ceremony check (see Black Ceremonies, pg. 46).
This reduced time is considered to be the base time
for the purposes of reducing the final check DC by
extended preparation. This reduced preparation time
is not further reduced by the participation of multiple
ceremony masters with this class ability.
Bring Forth the Best: The ceremony master is a
skilled teacher, well versed in motivational methods.
The fact that many of these methods involve the
permanent scarring of the student does not phase the
ceremony master at all, since results are all that matters.
Beginning at 7 th level, when the ceremony master is
assisted by his cohort in the performance of a black
ceremony, he may add their skill ranks (but not attribute
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PRESTIGE CLASSES
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1 +0 +2 +0 +2 Ceremony Mastery +1 spell level
2 +1 +3 +0 +3 Breadth of Knowledge +1 spell level
3 +1 +3 +1 +3 Leadership -
4 +2 +4 +1 +4 Reduced Preparation Cost +1 spell level
5 +2 +4 +1 +4 - +1 spell level
6 +3 +5 +2 +5 Reduced Preparation Time -
7 +3 +5 +2 +5 Bring Forth the Best +1 spell level
8 +4 +6 +2 +6 Cult of Personality +1 spell level
9 +4 +6 +3 +6 - -
10 +5 +7 +3 +7 Absolute Mastery +1 spell level
bonus) in the relevant skill as a circumstance bonus to
his final DC check. This bonus is gained in lieu of that
gained by the aid another action (see Black Ceremonies,
pg. 46). The ceremony master only gains this ability if
his cohort possesses ranks in the relevant skill.
Cult of Personality: An experienced ceremony master
is like unto a god to his followers, a figure of authority
so imposing and majestic that lesser drow flock to
him, seeking only to bask in his presence and serve at
his whim. Among these fawning sycophants are truly
useful servants, those with skill enough to earn a place
at their master’s right hand. At 8 th level, the ceremony
master adds his Intelligence modifier to his class level
and Charisma bonus to determine his Leadership
score. In addition, his leadership score can no longer
be negatively modified by either his behaviour or by
outside events (such as political or military failure or
the exposure of personal weaknesses). In addition, the
ceremony master attracts replacement followers within
a month, as new soldiers and assistants stumble over
themselves to replace the ‘weak’ who failed in their
duties.
Absolute Mastery: The greatest ceremony masters
rarely, if ever, fail to carry those black ceremonies
they guide through to successful completion, since
those who do have a distressing tendency to end up
face down in the alley with a knife in their back.
At 10 th level, the ceremony master may, once a day
per point of their Intelligence bonus, re-roll any failed
check made during the conducting of a black ceremony.
The decision to re-roll must be made at the instant the
first check is failed, but there is no limit to the number
of times a failed check can be re-attempted. So, for