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Wall 07-09-07, 12:33 PM

Hey folks, had an idea for a prestige class. I'll try writing up some flavor momentarily, but for now I wanted to see how the mechanics worked out. EDIT: Currently Updating Prerequisites: Skills: Decipher Script 2 ranks, Speak Language (any two languages), Knowledge (any) 10 ranks Invocations: Must know Beguiling Influence, plus at least one of the following invocations: Baleful Utterance, Dread Seizure*, Warlock’s Call, Weighty Utterance*, Word of Changing; Must be able to use Lesser invocations *from Dragon Magic Level BAB Fort Ref Will Special 1 +0 +0 +0 +2 Vocal Blast, Lingual Power 2 +1 +0 +0 +3 Sound Wave Alteration (10) 3 +1 +1 +1 +3 4 +2 +1 +1 +4 Cacophonous Blast, Empowered Beguiling 5 +2 +1 +1 +4 6 +3 +2 +2 +5 Sound Wave Alteration (15) 7 +3 +2 +2 +5 Shattering Blast, Maximum Beguiling Class Skills (4 + Int per level): Bluff (Cha), Concentration (Con), Diplomacy (Cha), Gather Information (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (all skills, taken individually) (Int), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis), Speak Language (N/A), Spellcraft (Int), and Use Magic Device (Cha). Invocations: Eldritch Linguist levels stack with other classes that grant invocations for the purposes of invocations known, level of invocations, and eldritch blast damage. Lingual Power (Su): As you study language in all its forms, you slowly discover the ultimate root of all languages. Because of this, you learn to more easily affect creature when you speak magical words. For every three languages that you know (via the Speak Language skill, but not through the tongues spell or similar effects, or even magic items), the save DC of any of the following invocations increases by 1: Baleful Utterance, Charm, Dread Seizure, Warlock’s Call, Weighty Utterance, Word of Changing. Any effect applied to your Vocal Blast (see below) that allows a save also has its DC increased by 1 per three languages. Vocal Blast (Su): An eldritch linguist has learned how to substitute the gestures required for his Eldritch Blast with magic words. This means that you may use your Eldritch Blast while bound, while your hands are full, or while in armor with no chance of spell failure. However, your Eldritch Blast has a 20% chance to fail if you are deafened, and fails outright in an area of magical silence. A vocal blast otherwise works exactly like the eldritch blast class feature. Sound Wave Alteration (Su): Beginning at 2nd level, the eldritch linguist subconsciously begins to alter sound waves in his immediate vicinity. He gains Sonic resistance 10. At 4th level, the eldritch linguist’s sonic resistance improves to 15. Additionally, the eldritch linguist gains immunity to Language-dependant spells and effects. Cacophonous Blast (Sp): At 3rd level, you learn the invocation Cacophonous Blast (Eldritch Essence; 4th). You may only apply a cacophonous blast to a Vocal Blast (see above). The blast does sonic damage, and any creature struck by the blast must make a Fortitude save or be deafened permanently. Empowered Beguiling (Su): Beginning at 3rd level, the bonuses granted by the Beguiling Influence invocation increase to +9. Maximum Beguiling (Su): At 5th level, the bonuses granted by the Beguiling Influence invocation increase to +12. Shattering Blast (Sp): At 5th level, the eldritch linguist learns his most powerful invocation: Shattering Blast (Eldritch Essence; 7th). This invocation may only be applied to a Vocal Blast (see above). A Shattering Blast deals sonic damage, but reduces the eldritch blast die to a d4 instead of a d6. Additionally, a Shattering Blast ignores hardness and the damage reduction of constructs. Finally, due to the vibrations emitted by the blast, any living creature affected by the blast takes an additional 1d4 points of damage per round for three rounds.