Enigmatic Biomancer (3.5e Class)

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A Biomancer controls magic that affects living cells. 20

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Biomancer

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Level	Base Attack Bonus	Saving Throws			Special	Spells per Day
		Fort	Ref	Will		0	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1st	+	+	+	+	Biohacks, custom microlab, injection expert, primary field of study, scientific method, Test Subject	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	+	+	+	+	Basic Cytocasting, Rapid Recovery	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3rd	+	+	+	+	Advanced Learning	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4th	+	+	+	+	Primary Specialty	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5th	+	+	+	+	Perfect Health, Skeletal Shift	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
6th	+	+	+	+	<-any class features gained at this level->	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
7th	+	+	+	+	Advanced Learning, Intermediate Cytocasting	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
8th	+	+	+	+	<-any class features gained at this level->	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
9th	+	+	+	+	<-any class features gained at this level->	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
10th	+	+	+	+	Sap Life, Secondary Specialty	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
11th	+	+	+	+	Advanced Learning	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
12th	+	+	+	+	<-any class features gained at this level->	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
13th	+	+	+	+	<-any class features gained at this level->	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
14th	+	+	+	+	Advanced Cytocasting	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
15th	+	+	+	+	Mastery	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
16th	+	+	+	+	Youthful Body	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
17th	+	+	+	+	<-any class features gained at this level->	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
18th	+	+	+	+	<-any class features gained at this level->	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
19th	+	+	+	+	Advanced Learning	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
20th	+	+	+	+	Biological Awakening, Thesis	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Class Skills (6 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level) Appraise (Int), Autohypnosis (Wis), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Disable Device (Int), Gather Information (Cha), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (Int), Listen (Wis), Martial Lore (Int), Move Silently (Dex), Open Lock (Dex), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Psicraft (Int), Search (Int), Sense Motive (Wis), Speak Language (None), Spellcraft (Int), Use Magic Device (Cha), Use Psionic Device (Cha). Class Features All of the following are class features of the Biomancer. Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Biomancer's are proficient with the club, dagger, heavy crossbow, light crossbow, and quarterstaff, but not with any type of armor or shield. Armor of any type interferes with a Biomancer's movements, which can cause her spells with somatic components to fail. Spells: A wizard casts arcane spells (the same type of spells available to sorcerers and bards), which are drawn from the wizard spell list (see bottom of page). A wizard must choose and prepare her spells ahead of time (see below). To learn, prepare, or cast a spell, the wizard must have an Intelligence score equal to at least 10 + the spell level (Int 10 for 0-level spells, Int 11 for 1st-level spells, and so forth). The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a wizard's spell is 10 + the spell level + the wizard's Intelligence modifier. Like other spellcasters, a wizard can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given in the Advancement table below. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Intelligence score (see Table 1—1: Ability Modifiers and Bonus Spells, page 8). Unlike a bard or sorcerer, a wizard may know any number of spells (see Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook, page 179). She must choose and prepare her spells ahead of time by getting a good night's sleep and spending 1 hour studying her spellbook. While studying, the wizard decides which spells to prepare (see Preparing Wizard Spells, page 177). 0—<-spells, spells, spells-> 1st—<-spells, spells, spells-> 2nd—<-spells, spells, spells-> 3rd—<-spells, spells, spells-> 4th—<-spells, spells, spells-> 5th—<-spells, spells, spells-> 6th—<-spells, spells, spells-> 7th—<-spells, spells, spells-> 8th—<-spells, spells, spells-> 9th—<-spells, spells, spells-> <span id="Table: <-class name-> Spells Known">Table: <-class name-> Spells Known</span> Level Spells Known 0 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 1st — — — — — — — — — — 2nd — — — — — — — — — — 3rd — — — — — — — — — — 4th — — — — — — — — — — 5th — — — — — — — — — — 6th — — — — — — — — — — 7th — — — — — — — — — — 8th — — — — — — — — — — 9th — — — — — — — — — — 10th — — — — — — — — — — 11th — — — — — — — — — — 12th — — — — — — — — — — 13th — — — — — — — — — — 14th — — — — — — — — — — 15th — — — — — — — — — — 16th — — — — — — — — — — 17th — — — — — — — — — — 18th — — — — — — — — — — 19th — — — — — — — — — — 20th — — — — — — — — — — <span id="<-extraordinary class feature->"><-extraordinary class feature-></span> (Ex): <-class feature game rule information-> <span id="<-spell-like class feature->"><-spell-like class feature-></span> (Sp): <-class feature game rule information-> <span id="<-supernatural class feature->"><-supernatural class feature-></span> (Su): <-class feature game rule information-> <span id="<-class feature->"><-class feature-></span>: <-class feature game rule information-> <span id="<-subclass feature->"><-subclass feature-></span> <-"(Ex)", "(Su)", or "(Sp)" if applicable.->: <-subclass feature game rule information-> <-Lather, rinse...-> Custom Microlab (Ex): CUSTOM MICROLAB (EX) 1ST LEVEL You have created a small, customized kit consisting of medical supplies, testing materials, and pharmaceutical compounds, which you can use to evaluate medical conditions and perform several additional tasks described below. You can configure your custom microlab to take the shape of anything that can fit in your hand or similar appendage. Alternatively, you can add it to an armor upgrade slot or to an augmentation system in your brain or an arm; it never takes up an armor upgrade slot or occupies a system in your body, so you can still use that slot or system for an armor upgrade or augmentation as normal. You must have your custom microlab on your person to use it, but you can configure it so it doesn’t need to be in your hand to function. Your custom microlab counts as a basic medkit and a chemalyzer and can be used for any purposes applicable to those items. As long as you are in possession of your custom microlab, you can use Physical Science or Life Science instead of Mysticism to make serums, though these serums are not magic items, can be identified using Life Science or Physical Science rather than Mysticism, and do not require a detect magic spell to attempt such a check to identify. As long as you have your custom microlab, as a move action you can target a creature within your line of sight and within the microlab’s range (60 feet at 1st level) and attempt a special skill check to identify it. If the creature is living, this is a Life Science check. If it is unliving, it’s a Physical Science check. The DC of this check is determined by the creature’s rarity, as presented on the Creature Rarity table. You can attempt this check untrained regardless of the DC, and you always treat your die roll result as a 20. You can also attune your custom microlab to a number of individual creatures equal to 3 + your key ability modifier. This takes 10 minutes, which you can combine with the time needed to prepare your biohacks for the day, and the creatures must be present, willing, and able to cooperate with the scan. If you attune your microlab to creatures in excess of this number, the oldest attunements beyond your maximum number end. Otherwise, attunement lasts 24 hours, after which changes in environment and the target’s condition require the microlab be re-attuned. Under some circumstances, you can deliver biohacks to attuned creatures using ranged injection weapons without making an attack roll. At 5th level, your custom microlab can function as an advanced medkit. At 9th level, it functions as a medical lab (with no increase to its bulk), and its range increases to 90 feet. At 17th level, its range increases to 120 feet. If your custom microlab is damaged, destroyed, lost, or stolen, you can kitbash a new one from any medkit or chemalyzer with 1 hour of work. You can have only one custom microlab at a time. If you create a new custom microlab, your old one functions as a normal item of whatever type you made it from. <span id="<-extraordinary class feature->"><-extraordinary class feature-></span> (Ex):BIOHACKS (EX) 1ST LEVEL As part of your custom microlab, you keep a specialized micropharmacy of catalysts, nanites, and specialized chemicals, plus a small mixing apparatus and syringes. You can use these components to quickly fashion biohacks: specialized solutions that produce different effects. In living targets, your biohacks alter normal biological processes; in nonliving creatures, they emulate biochemistry via complex chemical compounds. You can use biohacks to boost your allies or inhibit your foes. Your biohacks produce their effects only when you inject a creature with them (see below), and only you know how to make and administer them properly—a biohack that leaves your possession becomes inert until you pick it up again. You can deliver any biohack you create with any attack from an injection weapon. You must declare prior to the attack roll that you are using a biohack and specify which effect you are using, but you select and apply the biohack as part of the action used to make the attack. You do not need to preload your weapon with biohacks. If you are making a ranged attack and miss your target, the biohack is expended along with the attack’s ammunition. A biohack delivered via a melee injection weapon is not normally expended on a missed attack. If you must attempt an attack roll with a biohack and your attack hits but deals no damage (normally as a result of damage reduction or an ability such as the vanguard’s mitigate), the biohack is expended but the target is not affected by it. After a missed attack that does not expend the biohack, you can remove it or change which biohack you are using as part of your next attack without taking any additional action. You can also deliver a biohack using a physical syringe (from your custom microlab) that you can wield in one hand. This is considered a consumable basic melee weapon with negligible bulk, 1 Hit Point, and an item level and hardness equal to your biohacker level. To inject an unwilling creature with a biohack in this manner, you must hit them with a melee attack. This attack deals no damage, but if the creature would be damaged by 1 point of piercing damage, that creature is instead affected by the biohack within the syringe. A biohack can be injected into a willing or unconscious creature (or yourself) as a standard action without requiring an attack roll, as long as the target is within your reach. You can also use a ranged injection weapon to deliver a biohack to a willing ally you have attuned your custom microlab to as a standard action without making an attack roll, as long as they’re within your custom microlab’s range. Under any other circumstance, injecting a biohack into an ally at range requires a successful ranged attack roll. The materials you use to create biohacks are inert until you activate them. Once activated, they can be used to create any biohacks you know. Each day after you have rested for 8 hours, you can spend 10 minutes to activate the ingredients to create a number of biohacks equal to 1 + your key ability score modifier. This is the maximum number of biohacks you can have ready at one time. This preparation activates only the ingredients; you don’t need to decide which specific biohacks you’re creating until the actual actions or attacks used to deliver them. Activated biohack materials that aren’t used that day become inert, even if they’re still in your possession. You can readily replenish these inert reagents on a regular basis at no cost, unless the GM states otherwise. Whenever you take a 10-minute rest to recover Stamina Points, you can also prepare additional activated biohack ingredients to replace those you have used, up to your maximum. Biohacks come in two varieties: boosters and inhibitors. At 1st level, you know the basic boosters and inhibitors listed below, the minor boosters and inhibitors that follow, and the unique booster and inhibitor granted by your primary field of study. As you increase in level, you can also devise theorems to learn special biohacks (see Theorem), in addition to gaining biohacks from a secondary and a tertiary field of study. Additionally, most fields of study eventually provide you with breakthroughs: special biohacks described in their entries. Basic Booster A basic booster biohack aids a creature in one manner or another. The effect lasts for a number of rounds equal to your key ability score modifier (minimum 1 round) unless it states otherwise. You begin play knowing this basic booster biohack; when you use it, select an effect: The target gains a +1 enhancement bonus to AC. The target gains a +2 enhancement bonus to skill checks. The target gains a +10-foot enhancement bonus to their speed. If the creature has more than one movement type, choose one to receive this bonus. Basic Inhibitor A basic inhibitor biohack hinders a creature’s physiology or material function. The effect of an inhibitor lasts for a number of rounds equal to 3 + your key ability score modifier (minimum 1 round) unless it states otherwise. You begin play knowing this basic inhibitor biohack; when you use it, select an effect: The target takes a –2 penalty to AC. You reduce the target’s DR by 5. At 9th level, you instead reduce it by 10. At 17th level, you instead reduce it by 15. You reduce the target’s resistance to one type of energy (your choice) by 5. At 9th level, you instead reduce it by 10. At 17th level, you instead reduce it by 15. A creature can be affected by only one of your basic inhibitors at a time, though it could be under the effects of multiple basic inhibitors originating from multiple biohackers. If you affect a creature with a different basic inhibitor while a previous inhibitor is still in effect, the effects of the previous inhibitor end. Minor Biohacks You can create minor biohacks from less powerful (and more stable) pharmaceuticals, nanites, and catalysts, and you can add them to any attack you make with an injection weapon that does not already have another biohack added to it. You don’t need to activate the materials for minor biohacks in advance, and using them does not count against the maximum number of biohacks you can have ready at one time. Minor biohacks are otherwise used as and function as basic booster and basic inhibitor biohacks, and they count as such biohacks for the purposes of interactions with other abilities (such as spark of ingenuity). Minor Booster Using a minor booster biohack allows you to attempt some Medicine checks on targets you affect so long as the target is within range of your custom microlab. This doesn’t require any additional time or action beyond making the attack. The tasks you can attempt with such a Medicine check depend on your level, and they don’t have the duration of normal booster biohacks. At 1st level, you can attempt a Medicine check to administer first aid. At 3rd level, you can attempt a Medicine check to treat drugs or poison, though on a successful check, the target gains a +4 bonus only on the next saving throw it attempts against the drug or poison, and that saving throw must occur within the next hour. At 6th level you can attempt a Medicine check to treat disease, though on a successful check, the target gains a +4 bonus only to the next saving throw it attempts against the disease, and that saving throw must occur within the next hour. Minor Inhibitor A minor inhibitor biohack imposes a slight hindrance on a target: the target takes a –1 penalty to attack rolls for a number of rounds equal to 3 + your key ability score. ">INJECTION EXPERT> (Ex):You are proficient with weapons with the injection weapon special property, as long as the weapon has not gained that weapon special property through a weapon fusion, spell, class feature, or similar ability or effect. At 2nd level, you gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls with these weapons. At 9th level, that bonus increases to +2, and at 18th level it increases to +3. When you hit an ally with such a weapon, you can avoid dealing damage to that ally, while still affecting the ally with the biohack booster or inhibitor, drug, medicinal compound, poison, serum, or other substance that was loaded into the injection weapon. When you fire a weapon with the injection special property and you have multiple types of ammunition loaded into the weapon, you choose which type of ammunition you fire when you attempt the attack. {{Anchor|PRIMARY FIELD OF STUDY} (Ex): Your primary field of study represents your scientific specialty. Choose your primary field of study upon taking your first level in biohacker—once made, this choice cannot be changed. A field of study grants you a unique booster and inhibitor, many of which work only on living creatures (not objects or creatures with the unliving universal creature rule) and have special properties and descriptors explained in their entries. Rapid Recovery (Ex): A biomancer knows how to manage their body. From 2nd level on, a biomancer recovers twice as quickly when sleeping, restoring 2 hp per HD and 2 points of ability damage overnight. This stacks with a successful Heal check for long term care for 3 times HD and 3 points of ability damage a night. Finally, a biomancer may perform long term care on himself. Perfect Health (Ex): At 4th level a biomancer can fend of diseases of all kinds. A biomancer becomes immune to disease, both mundane and magical. Skeletal Shift (Ex): As a standard action, 2nd-level Biomancers can shift the bone structure of their limbs and face (including teeth) to appear as a different person, at will. This ability grants a +3 bonus on Disguise checks. Sap Life (Su): As a touch attack, an 8th-level osteomancer can cause a malaise to settle into the core of an opponent's bones. This effect deals 2d4 points of Strength damage unless the opponent makes a Fortitude save (DC 10 + osteomancer level + Charisma modifier). The osteomancer can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 1 plus his Charisma modifier (minimum 1). This ability can only affect living creatures with a skeleton. Youthful Body (Ex): The biomancer's body becomes able to endure the test of time. At 16th level, a biomancer no longer takes ability score penalties for aging and he cannot be magically aged. Any penalties he may have already incurred, however, remain in place, and the biomancer still dies when his time is up. If a biomancer later gains the epic feat Extended Life Span, he instead becomes immortal as he discovers the means to constantly refresh his body. Biological Awakening: At 20th level a biomancer has played with the building blocks of complex life for so long than his studies have forever changed him. He becomes an aberration rather than a humanoid or his original creature, retaining all subtypes and still counting as an original member of his race for prestige classes and spells. Additionally the biomancer gains damage reduction 5 to either silver, adamantine, or cold iron (the biomancer's choice), and his cell form's damage reduction also becomes damage reduction of the appropriate type instead of DR/magic. The damage reduction stacks with any similar form of damage reduction the biomancer already possesses, but not the increase granted by cell form's DR 10. He gains darkvision 60 ft, or adds 60 ft. to his current darkvision, and his biology changes where he no longer needs to eat or sleep (but he must still breath). Finally the biomancer gains regeneration 1, which is bypassed by fire, cold, electricity, and acid damage. <-... repeat as necessary.-> Ex-<-pluralized class name-> <-Describe what happens when a character violates the alignment restrictions or any other class restrictions. If there are no behavior or alignment restrictions, delete this section.->. 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