Woodland Knight (3.5e Alternate Class Feature)
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Woodland Knight
A woodland knight is a lionhearted protector, fighting with both sword and bow, to seek and fell strong and destructive foes. A woodland knight is almost always associated with a human community, and are often proper knights or royal hunters in the employ of a ruler. Some woodland knights may be knight errant, seeking to defeat her foes as an anonymous protector, or perhaps only for the sake of her glory. Unlike most rangers, a woodland knight is skilled in the use of heavy armor, and often mixes archery as well as melee attacks as their favored fighting style.
Class: Ranger
Level: 1st-20th
Replaces: Favored Enemy, Hunter's Bond, Spells Evasion
Benefit: A woodland knight gain the following class features:
Armor Proficiency: A woodland knight is proficient with heavy armor. She does not lose any of her ranger abilities while wearing heavy armor.
Challenge Foe (Ex): A woodland knight unlike most rangers does not rely on brutal expertise against certain types of creatures, instead finding foes worthy of fighting and facing them heads on. A woodland knight may challenge an animal, dragon or magical beast as action, gaining a +1 bonus on attack roll and damage roll against it. The challenge lasts until its target is defeated, flee, surrender or the encounter ends. A woodland knight may not issue another challenge while she has an active challenge.
The bonuses granted by challenge foe increases by +1 at 5th level and each 5 levels thereafter. At such level she may also choose another type from the following list, adding the chosen type to the list of creature types she can challenge: aberration, humanoid [giant], outsider [evil], undead.
This ability replaces favored enemy.
Armor Training (Ex): At 3rd level woodland knight gain armor training as a fighter of her class level.
Knight's Bond (Ex): A woodland knight's hunter bond does not allow her to make a bond with allies, she may however choose a bond with an animal companion as normal. She may also make a bond with an order, choosing a cavalier order when she gains this ability. She gains the Order's skill bonus and the Order's 2nd level ability. At 10th level she gains the Order's 8th level ability. At 18th level she gains the Order's 16th level ability. She must follow her order's shaken]] for 1 hour if she violates it, bypassing any immunities she has.
This ability alters hunter's bound.
Secondary Combat Style (Ex): A woodland knight gains a second combat style at 4th level as well as a feat from that combat style, following the normal rules for combat style. She must choose archery as her secondary combat style, unless she previously chose archery at which point she may select any other combat style as her secondary combat style. Furthermore, when she would gain a combat style feat she may select from either her primary or secondary fighting style.
This ability replaces spells.
Lionhearted (Ex): A 7th level woodland knight has steeled her heart against her terrifying opponents. She becomes immune to fear-effects.
Stalwart (Ex): At 9th level whenever a woodland knight makes a Fortitude or Will saving throw against an attack that has a reduced effect on a successful save, she instead avoids the effect entirely. A helpless woodland knight does not benefit from stalwarts.
This ability replaces evasion.
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| Author | Leziad + |
| Class | Ranger + |
| Identifier | 3.5e Alternate Class Feature + |
| Rating | Undiscussed + |
| Summary | A woodland knight is a lionhearted protec … A woodland knight is a lionhearted protector, fighting with both sword and bow, to seek and fell strong and destructive foes. A woodland knight is almost always associated with a human community, and are often proper knights or royal hunters in the employ of a ruler. Some woodland knights may be knight errant, seeking to defeat her foes as an anonymous protector, or perhaps only for the sake of her glory. Unlike most rangers, a woodland knight is skilled in the use of heavy armor, and often mixes archery as well as melee attacks as their favored fighting style. e attacks as their favored fighting style. + |
| Title | Woodland Knight + |
