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Class: Death Guard
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Death Guard

A protector of the Undead, a warrior sworn to protect the powers and secrets of the Lord of Negative Energy.
A warrior that understands the importance in protecting the realm of undeath, and to keep the balance between the negative and positive forces.
A warrior whos purpose is to increase the balance in favor of the Undead.

But this does not mean total genocide! Such an act would never be accepted by the lord!

Hit Die: d10.

Requirements
To qualify to become a Death Guard, a character must fulfill all the following criteria.
Alignment: Any Neutral.
Base attack bonus: +10
Special: The character must have some relation towards the Lord of Negative Energy.

Class Skills
Climb (Str), Concentration (Con), Diplomacy (Cha), Handle Animal (Cha), Hide (Dex), Jump (Str), Knowledge (Religion) (Int), Knowledge (Undead) (Int), Ride (Dex), Swim (Str).
Skill points at each level: 2 + Int modifier.

Death Guard Table


Level   Attack Bonus   Fort   Reflex   Will   Special                                .

1             +1        +2      +0      +0    Aura of Evil, Detect Living, Poison Use.

2             +2        +3      +0      +0    Dark Blessing, Sneak Attack +1d6       .

3             +3        +3      +1      +1    Aura of Despair, Smite Living 1xHD     .

4             +4        +4      +1      +1    Touch of Morte 1/day                   .

5             +5        +4      +1      +1    Undead Servant                         .

6             +6        +5      +2      +2    Sneak Attack +2d6                      .

7             +7        +5      +2      +2    Bonus feat                             .

8             +8        +6      +2      +2    Touch of Morte 2/day                   .

9             +9        +6      +3      +3    Negative Resistance 5                  .

10            +10       +7      +3      +3    Sneak Attack +3d6                      .

11            +11       +7      +3      +3    Smite Living 2xHD                      .

12            +12       +8      +4      +4    Touch of Morte 3/day                   .

13            +13       +8      +4      +4    Negative Resistance 10                 .

14            +14       +9      +4      +4    Sneak Attack +4d6, Bonus feat          .

15            +15       +9      +5      +5    Negative Bonus Damage +1d6             .

16            +16       +10     +5      +5    Touch of Morte 4/day                   .

17            +17       +10     +5      +5    Negative Resistance 15                 .

18            +18       +11     +6      +6    Sneak Attack +5d6                      .

19            +19       +11     +6      +6    Smite Living 3xHD, Touch of Morte 5/day.

20            +20       +12     +6      +6    Negative Bonus Damage +2d6             .


Class Features

Weapon and Armor Proficiency
Death Guards are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, with all types of armor, and with shields.

Aura of Evil (Ex)
The power of a Death Guard's aura of evil (See the detect evil spell) is equal to his hit dice.

Detect Living (Sp)
At will, a Death Guard can use Detect Living as a spell-like ability, duplicating the effect of Detect Good spell, but towards living creatures.

Poison Use
Death Guards are skilled in the use of poison and never risk accidentally poisoning themselves when applying poison to a blade.

Dark Blessing (Su)
A Death Guard applies his Charisma modifier (if positive) as a bonus on all saving throws.

Smite Living (Su)
Starting at level 3 and every 8 levels thereafter Death Guard may attempt to smite any living creature as a standard action attack.
He adds his Charisma modifier to his attack roll and deals the specified HD multiplier as bonus damage.
This power is useable 1 time plus HD/10 times per day.

This power is useless towards any Undead and other creatures that is said to be without a soul, golems and the like.

The epic feat Great Smite can NOT increase the damage output of this power.

Aura of Despair (Su)
Beginning at 3rd level, the Death Guard radiates a malign aura that causes enemies within 10 feet of him to take a -2 penalty on all saving throws.

Touch of Morte
Starting at level 4 and every 4 levels thereafter the Death Guard can sanctify the body of a recently killed creature (within a few rounds of death) to send the soul to the lord as a gift.
In return the Death Guard will be healed of 2 hp per HD the creature has. For example, a 40 HD creature would give the Death Guard 80 hp.

Undead Servant
The Death Guard receives an undead mount. An corpse animated non-intelligent warhorse.
It is not meant for battle, more of an show-off. The Death Guard can call for the undead servant whenever he so wishes.
The summoning takes a few rounds and forces the bones up from the ground, recreating the horse each time.

Sneak Attack
This ability, gained at 2nd level, and every 4 levels thereafter, is like the rogue ability of the same name.
If a Death Guard receives a sneak attack damage from another source, the bonuses on damage stack.

Bonus feat
At level 7 and every 7 levels thereafter the Death Guard may pick one feat from the following list:
Blind-Fight, Combat Casting, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack, Improved Critical, Improved Initiative, Power Attack, Cleave, Great Cleave, Weapon Focus.

Negative Resistance
At level 9 and every 4 levels thereafter the Death Guard gains resistance against Negative Energy damage.

Negative Bonus Damage
At level 15 and every 5 levels thereafter the Death Guard receives a bonus damage to all attacks in the form of Negative Energy.