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The Path Master
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Hit Die: d4.
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Requirements
In order to become a path master, the character must
meet all the following requirements.
Race: Drow only.
Skills: Knowledge (religion) 13 ranks, Spellcraft 13
ranks.
Feats: Iron Will, Unshakeable Devotion (the Dark
Mother) (see Drow Magic Feats, pg. 25).
Spellcasting: Must be able to cast favoured path spells
of at least 3 rd level, one of which must be the path of
darkness, the spider, the death rite or the matron.
Special: The character must willingly submit himself to
a quest assigned by a senior bishop of the Dark Mother
of Spiders. As a requirement of that quest, he must seek
out and slay a powerful opponent (equal to him in level
or challenge rating, at least) of the Dark Mother using
nothing but the spells of his favoured paths.
Class Skills
The path master’s class skills (and the relevant abilities
for each) are Bluff (Cha), Concentration (Con), Craft
(Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge
(arcana) (Int), Knowledge (religion) (Int), Sense Motive
(Wis), Speak Language (Int) and Spellcraft (Int).
Skill Points At Each Level: 2 + Int modifier.
Class Features
All the following are class features of the path
master.
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PRESTIGE CLASSES
Will
Save Special Spells
1 +0 +2 +0 +2 Path Focus +1 spell level
2 +1 +3 +0 +3 Awaken Path +1 spell level
3 +1 +3 +1 +3 Hone Path -
4 +2 +4 +1 +4 Path Focus +1 spell level
5 +2 +4 +1 +4 - +1 spell level
6 +3 +5 +2 +5 Awaken Path -
7 +3 +5 +2 +5 Hone Path +1 spell level
8 +4 +6 +2 +6 Path Focus +1 spell level
9 +4 +6 +3 +6 - -
10 +5 +7 +3 +7 Awaken Path +1 spell level
Weapon and Armour Proficiencies: The path master
gains no new weapon proficiencies, nor is he proficient
with armour or shields.
Spells: A path master continues to gain prowess as a
spellcaster, even as he gains a greater versatility with
his favoured paths. At every level except 3 rd , 5 th and
9 th , the path master gains a new level of spells, exactly
as though he had gained a level in the dark weaver
class. He does not, however, gain any other benefit a
character of that class would have gained (web scribe,
spider friendship and the like). This means that the
path master adds his class levels to his levels of the
base caster class, for the purposes of caster level checks,
spell levels which may be studied and so on.
Path Focus: The path master does not simply widen
his access to favoured paths by becoming a member
of this prestige class, he also strengthens his ability to
focus his will through those paths he already travels.
At 1 st level and then again at 4 th and 8 th level, the path
master gains the path focus ability. The path focus
ability adds +2 to the DC of all saving throws to resist
spells from one of the path master’s favoured paths. The
bonus gained from Path Focus stacks with that gained
from the Spell Focus feat, so the saving throw DCs of
spells on a path master’s favoured path which are of
schools to which he has applied that feat are increased
by a total of +3.
Path Focus can only be applied to a favoured path once,
so each time the path master gains this ability he must
apply it to a new favoured path.