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Consecrated Harrier

(Defenders of the Faith: A Guidebook to Clerics and Paladins variant, p. 52)

The consecrated harrier acts as a bounty hunter for her religion or organization.

Requirements

Base Attack Bonus: +5

Alignment: Any lawful

Skills: Disguise 5 ranks , Gather Information 5 ranks , Profession (lawyer) 5 ranks

Feats: Track

Special: The candidate must accept an assignment from her church to locate and destroy some specific, individual enemy of the church. A character who fails must wait a year and a day before applying again. If she succeeds, the church accepts her as a consecrated harrier and she may gain levels in the class.


Hit die

d10

Skill points

4 + Int

Class Features

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Consecrated harriers are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, with all types of armor, and with shields.

Spells per Day: Beginning at 1st level, a consecrated harrier gains the ability to cast a small number of divine spells. To cast a spell, the consecrated harrier must have a Wisdom score of at least 10 + the spell's level, so a consecrated harrier with a Wisdom of 10 or lower cannot cast spells. Consecrated harrier bonus spells are based on Wisdom, and saving throws against these spells have a DC of 10 + spell level + Wisdom modifier. When the consecrated harrier gets "—" spells of a given level, the character cannot cast any spells of that level. When the consecrated harrier gets 0 spells of a given level, such as 0 1st-level spells at 1st level, the harrier gets only bonus spells. A consecrated harrier without a bonus spell for that level cannot yet cast a spell of that level. The consecrated harrier's spell list appears below; she has access to any spell on the list and can freely choose which to prepare. A consecrated harrier prepares and casts spells just as a cleric does (though the consecrated harrier cannot lose a spell to cast a cure spell in its place).

Blessing of Scripture (Su): All consecrated harriers receive a +2 sacred bonus on Bluff, Listen, Sense Motive, Spot, and Wilderness Lore checks when tracking their church-assigned target. If the assigned target is a group, this bonus applies to the group's leader. They receive the same bonus on melee attack rolls and melee weapon damage rolls against their targets. A consecrated harrier does not receive this bonus with ranged weapons. This bonus increases to +4 at 3rd level, +6 at 5th level, +8 at 7th level and +10 at 9th level.

Detect Chaos (Sp): The consecrated harrier can detect chaos at will as a cleric of equal level.

Sanctified Sight (Su): Beginning at 2nd level, a consecrated harrier receives a +4 bonus on all saves against illusions.

Dispel Magic (Sp): A consecrated harrier can use dispel magic as a cleric of the same level. Starting at 3rd level, the consecrated harrier can use this spell-like ability once per day, plus one additional time per point of Wisdom bonus.

Emotion (Sp): Starting at 4th level, a consecrated harrier can arouse an emotion in all living creatures in a 15-foot radius, as the spell emotion. She uses this spell-like ability as a wizard of one level lower, so a 4th-level consecrated harrier uses it like a 3rd-level wizard. She can do this a number of times each day equal to her Wisdom bonus, minimum one.

False Vision (Su): Starting at 6th level, a consecrated harrier can hide herself from the scrying attempts of her target, her target's allies, or anyone in the target's employ, as the spell false vision. She uses this supernatural ability as a wizard of one level lower, so a 6th-level consecrated harrier uses it like a 5th-level wizard. She can do this a number of times each day equal to her Wisdom bonus, minimum one.

Implacable Hunt (Su): Beginning at 8th level, if the consecrated harrier wounds a target and the target escapes, the consecrated harrier always knows the direction in which her target lies and the approximate distance between her and her target. This ability only works if the consecrated harrier and her target are on the same plane of existence. Implacable hunt can be used simultaneously against different targets, as long as each of those individual targets is part of a group that is, in total, the harrier's target for her current mission.

Faultless Hunt (Su): At 10th level, a consecrated harrier who establishes an implacable hunt can intensify this to a faultless hunt, enabling her to locate her quarry even across planar boundaries. Unlike an implacable hunt, which can affect several individuals at the same time, only one faultless hunt against a single individual can be pursued at one time. For the consecrated harrier to begin a faultless hunt, she must abandon any faultless hunt that she is already conducting.

Code of Conduct: A consecrated harrier must make it known to her target who she is and why she is there at the time of the confrontation. She cannot sneak attack her target. She cannot slay her target on a battlefield without the target knowing who she is and why she is there. Consecrated harriers purposely word the requirements for conducting themselves vaguely, so that an individual consecrated harrier in the field has some flexibility. Harriers who fail to act according to their code of conduct must undertake an act of atonement before they can add any further levels of this class (see the atonement spell description, page 176 of the Player's Handbook).

Multiclass Note: A paladin who becomes a consecrated harrier may continue advancing as a paladin.

Spell List

1st—alter self, animate rope, calm emotions, command, doom.

2nd—charm person, daylight, detect thoughts, hold person.

3rd—death ward, discern lies, dismissal, legend lore.

4th—dominate person, mark of justice.

5th—antimagic field, banishment.

Advancement

Spells per Day
Level BAB Fort Ref Will Special 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
1st +1 +0 +0 +2 Blessing of scripture +2, detect chaos 0
2nd +2 +0 +0 +3 Sanctified sight 1
3rd +3 +1 +1 +3 Blessing of scripture +4, dispel magic 1 0
4th +4 +1 +1 +4 Emotion 1 1
5th +5 +1 +1 +4 Blessing of scripture +6 1 1 0
6th +6 +2 +2 +5 False vision 1 1 1
7th +7 +2 +2 +5 Blessing of scripture +8 2 1 1 0
8th +8 +2 +2 +6 Implacable hunt 2 1 1 1 0
9th +9 +3 +3 +6 Blessing of scripture +10 2 2 1 1 1
10th +10 +3 +3 +7 Faultless hunt 2 2 2 1 1

Class skills

Skill name Key ability Trained only Armor check penalty
Bluff CHA no no
Diplomacy CHA no no
Disguise CHA no no
Gather Information CHA no no
Intimidate CHA no no
Profession WIS yes no
Search INT no no

Also appears in

  1. Complete Divine

Spells for Consecrated Harrier