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A B OOK OF P RESTIGE C LASSES , V OLUME 2

Written by : M Jason Parent

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Designer : M Jason Parent

Editor : Larry Theden

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Dedication

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table of contents

Chapter 1 - Prestige Classes

Page 1

Bokor

Page 2

Bone Archer

Page 4

Brotherhood of the Golden Blossom

Page 7

Children of the Snake

Page 9

Circle of the Lute

Page 12

Earthbound

Page 14

Elite Cavalry

Page 16

Forge Singer

Page 17

Mad Tailor

Page 20

Mind Thief

Page 24

Order of Cordun

Page 26

Riders of the Duras

Page 28

Sacred Paladin

Page 30

Siege Mage

Page 32

The Society of Heavenly Movements

Page 34

Timer

Page 37

Tribal Berserker

Page 39

Troll Hunter

Page 41

Venomous

Page 43

Weapon Cult Paragon

Page 45

Chapter 2 - Spells

Page 47

New Spell Lists

Page 47

Clerical Domains

Page 47

Spells (alphabetical)

Page 49

Chapter 3 - Psionic Devices of the Duan’Khat

Page 53

Metafragments

Page 53

Dawn Spheres

Page 54

This volume of the Librum Equitis series is my fourth foray into

writing d20 books. My first title, Librum Equitis volume 1, should

be arriving in book stores now in a printed edition, published by

the hoopy froods at Mystic Eye Games.

I have to thank Larry for editing this work on the fly for me. The

prestige classes themselves went through his fine comb, howev-

er much of the flavor material managed to teleport into the docu-

ment after his revisions were done, so errors and glaring omis-

sions therein are entirely my own fault.

But this introduction is about electronic publication. I was first

introduced to electronic games publications four years ago

through a game called StaRPlay: Armageddon; StaRPlay is a

game system written by Phillip McGregor and published by his

one-man company Phalanx Games Design. Phillip McGregor is

one of the authors of the FGU Sci Fi classic "Space Opera" as

well as "The Riggers Black Book" for Shadowrun. The full

StaRPlay game system along with rules for use in the modern

day and the Armageddon rules set (some 380 pages in total) was

made available through what is very probably the first electronic

RPG store, at a very reasonable price. Through electronic gam-

ing storefronts such as RPGnow (one of the pioneers of such e-

commerce sites), new publishers can make their breakthough

into the gaming market without the massive risk and investment

required to jump directly into print publication. This has allowed

companies like Ambient Inc. and several others to release prod-

uct to showcase their writers abilities without having to submit the

material to publisher after publisher for it to see the light of day.

This year we will be releasing at least one more volume in the

Librum Equitis series (most likely two more) and are currently

working on a mega-module entitled “Jungles of the Mind”. Late in

the year, we are planning the release of the deadEarth d20

game, a conversion of the hardcore violent and gritty deadEarth

RPG to the d20 system. This is designed to work both as its own

RPG as well as being quite possible to use as a supplement for

any other post-apocalyptic d20 game. We also have the free Son

of a Portable Hole Full of Beer warming up for an April 1st

release (you can download the original Portable Hole Full of Beer

for free right now for a taste of the strange things to come) as

well as a few other project getting ready for launch in 2003.

Once again, thanks have to go out to my playtesters and to my

gaming groups for the hours of quality play that goes into a good

RPG. I’ve been gaming with some of you for 20 years now, and it

keeps getting better.

Thank you for buying the second book in the Librum Equitis

series, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating and using

these classes in my own campaigns.

Don’t forget to check out our site (www.dreadgazebo.com/dnd)

and Mystic Eye Games’ site (www.mysticeyegames.com) for

more information on our upcoming works and releases.

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chapter one

prestige classes

Some classes use unusual level progressions throughout this

book, being 5, 7 and 12 level prestige classes. Here is the basis

by which we build the level progressions for our prestige classes.

Welcome to the second volume of Librum Equitis - literally "the

book of cavaliers". This chapter is the core of the book, 20 pres-

tige classes handcrafted from the finest d20 components and

playtested to a hard edge for use in your fantasy d20 campaigns.

Three level prestige classes are minor specializations, almost

always directly tied to another character class or social function,

or employment. They do not define a character, and are most

often taken to specialize in a single aspect of a class ability or a

tangent from a normal class training.

More than likely, not all the prestige classes will be incorporat-

ed into an existing or new campaign. Others will easily find a

home in any campaign, while others may require some amount

of contortion to fit in. Many classes make reference to organiza-

tions, cults and societies that are fairly campaign-specific. These

can be changed to organizations already in a campaign world,

while other GMs may find that there are niches these organiza-

tions can easily fill. Remember that the campaign world you run

your games in is yours to mold and work, and with a little work,

prestige classes appropriate for most organizations, cults, cabals

and guilds can be made from the 40 classes published so far in

these volumes.

Five level prestige classes are generally used for "professional"

prestige classes - those attached to employment, training and

military service. Persons of very high level will normally not

define themselves by a prestige class of this scale, and thus it

cannot make up a majority of his experience levels due to its

small span of levels.

Seven level prestige classes are the middle ground between 5

and 10 level classes. More than a pass-time or a sub-class,

these classes still do not completely redefine the character who

takes it.

Feel free to tweak the classes a little for your campaign. Do

you have a very religious gnomish nation with a large badlands

area? Take the Riders of Duras, rename them to the Tarvin

Zephyrs, give them Knowledge (religion) as a class skill and

change the racial requirements to gnomes and half-gnomes. Add

some text about the mounted patrols of the Tarvin Zephyrs upon

their trained wardogs and you are done.

Ten level prestige classes are generally used for "subclass"

prestige classes. These are prestige classes that can be used to

redefine a character. A high level character in one of these class-

es may well define himself more by his prestige class than his

primary class.

A note on formatting - Just as in Librum Equitis volume 1,

classes are formatted such that each class begins on a new

page. This results in some amount of white space on some

pages, but it also allows for easier printing of the prestige classes

you want to use in your campaigns without printing out chunks of

other prestige classes also. We obviously don’t use this format-

ting style for the print editions of Librum Equitis, but when buying

PDFs you aren’t paying per page, but for content.

Prestige classes with more than 10 levels are seen as career

moves that are as final as becoming a paladin or monk in most

game worlds - these are decisions not taken lightly that will lead

the character down his own path to power, with little left of his

original class or classes when he gets there.

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of magical training and the "interpersonal" aspects of the

Bokor's pursuits appeal to dark raconteurs. If anything, the

bardic music makes the Bokor more intimidating, granting his

followers additional abilities during ceremonial chants.

Hit Die : d4

Bokor

With a deft cut, the goblin guard was dispatched by Drelga's

knife, his life-blood gushing over her muddied hands and thick,

yellow claws. Not that she liked using it, but quietly killing guards

was not a job for a half-orc warrior with a long spear.

Unfortunately, not all the guards had gone so quietly, and the last

few had been on full alert, making the job significantly more…

challenging. Somewhere in this horrid swamp, someone was

enchanting the Burgomaster with a bleeding disease; one that

that made him vomit blood; one that returned every night, even

after applications of cure disease from the clerics. Drelga and

Sapphire parted the spanish moss hanging from the swamp-wil-

lows - making out the torchlit glow of the goblin shaman's hut not

a hundred feet away.

The hut was quite old; there were holes in the roof, and span-

ish moss draped over it. They approached as quietly as they

could through the black knee-deep waters of the swamp.

Decorating the perimeter were skulls and bones of all shapes

and sizes, mostly other swamp denizens but obviously some

goblin and human skulls in the mix. Pushing through the curtains,

they made their way inside. The inside of the hut well lit and

almost warm, with candles all about, the smell of blood thick in

the air. Obviously, the goblin shaman had heard them coming.

The hut was abandoned, but nailed to the central post by a dark

dagger was a single doll made of burlap and crude stitching,

obviously a caricature of the Burgomaster. Beneath it sat a bowl

of freshly-drawn blood from a dead, black rooster.

Requirements

To qualify to become a Bokor (Bok) a character must fulfill all

the following criteria.

Alignment : Any evil

Intimidate : 5 ranks

Knowledge (arcana) : 6 ranks

Knowledge (religion) : 6 ranks

Spellcraft : 10 ranks

Feats : Craft Wondrous Item

Spellcasting : ability to cast at least two necromancies and

bestow curse .

Class Skills

The Bokor's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are

Alchemy (Int), Bluff (Cha), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int),

Diplomacy (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (arcana) (Int),

Knowledge (religion) (Int), and Spellcraft (Int).

Skill Points per level: 4 + Int modifier

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Bokor prestige

class.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency : The Bokor is proficient in all

simple weapons but with no armor nor with shields. Note that

armor check penalties for armor heavier than leather apply to the

skills Balance, Climb, Escape Artist, Hide, Jump, Move Silently,

Pick Pockets and Tumble.

The Bokor are lords of curses, dark sorcerers of voodoo-esque

arcana. They have sought power from dark forces, and rule

those around them through intimidation and fear of their dark

arts. They are rumored to traffic with devils, to slay people with

strange incantations and then have the slain work for them as

their undead servants. Those living in the same community as a

Bokor usually live in awe and fear of his powers. Many powerful

mages see the Bokor's obsession with intimidation and dark arts

used to such ends as petty, but most Bokor seek not arcane

power, but power over their fellows. Many Bokor are hurtful,

spiteful creatures that revel in their power and dark habits.

Bokor are usually drawn from the ranks of sorcerers and wiz-

ards. Some clerics worship deities who see the path of the Bokor

as suited to their divine agents, and some dark druids have also

taken this path - making their wildernesses something to be

feared by the common man, thus protecting them from their pre-

dations. Bards are also attracted to this class, as the combination

Spellcasting : At the indicated levels, the Bokor gains new

spells per day as if he had also gained a level in the spellcasting

class he belonged to before adding the prestige class. He does

not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class

would have gained (improved chance of controlling or rebuking

undead, metamagic or item creation feats, hit points beyond

those he receives from the prestige class, and so on), except for

an increased effective level of spellcasting. If a character had

more than one divine spellcasting class before becoming a

Bokor, he must decide to which class he adds the new level for

purposes of determining spells per day. The Bokor also gains

access to a new level 2 spell, minor curse , detailed in the spells

chapter.

Table 1-1: The Bokor Level Advancement

Class Attack

Fort

Ref

Will

Level Bonus

Save

Save Special

Spellcasting

Terrifying Presence -1, Poison Use

+1 Spellcaster Level

Sympathetic Figure (Enchantment)

+1 Spellcaster Level

Sympathetic Figure (Transmutation)

Terrifying Presence -2

+1 Spellcaster Level

Sympathetic Figure (Abjuration)

+1 Spellcaster Level

Sympathetic Figure (Necromancy)

Terrifying Presence -3

+1 Spellcaster Level

Sympathetic Figure (Evocation)

+1 Spellcaster Level

Sympathetic Figure (Conjuration)

+10

Terrifying Presence -4

+1 Spellcaster Level

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