Dragoon

Dragoons are proficient with simple weapons, as well as light armor and bucklers. In addition, if this is this character's first level in any class, they may select a martial tradition of their choice.

A dragoon may combine spheres and talents to create magical effects. A dragoon is considered a Mid-Caster. She may use either Wisdom or Charisma as her casting ability modifier and must make this choice at 1st level. (Note: all casters may select a casting tradition the first time they gain the casting class feature.)

A dragoon gains a small reservoir of energy she can call on to create truly wondrous effects, called a spell pool. This pool contains a number of spell points equal to her level + her casting ability modifier (minimum: 1). This pool replenishes once per day after roughly 8 hours of rest.

A dragoon gains combat or magic talents according to Table: Dragoon, gaining her choice of combat or magic talents at each level she would gain a talent. Dragoons use their casting ability modifier as their practitioner modifier.

At 1st level, as long as a dragoon is adjacent to her drake companion, she can spend 1 spell point as a move action action to draw upon its draconic might to empower herself for 1 minute. If she does so, she gains a +2 bonus to either her Strength, Dexterity, or Charisma score and she gains temporary hit points equal to her class level + her casting modifier which last until this ability ends. She can expend her martial focus as a free action to refresh these temporary hit points. At 8th level and again at 16th level, these bonuses increases by +2 (to +4 at 8th level and +6 at 16th level).

At 3rd level, she also gains a bite attack as a primary natural weapon which deals 1d6 natural damage. Due to the mystical nature of the transformation, the damage of this natural attack is unaffected by her size.

At 6th level, she also grows a pair of wings which give her a flight speed of 60 feet (good maneuverability).

At 9th level, whenever she uses her draconic bond, as long as her drake companion is within 60 feet of her when she does, it gains temporary hit points equal to her class level + her casting modifier for the duration of this ability. It can expend its martial focus as a free action to refresh these temporary hit points.

At 12th level, whenever she uses her draconic bond, as long as her drake companion is with 60 feet of her, it gains the benefit of her draconic might class feature.

At 15th level, her bite attack instead deals 1d10 damage and has its critical range increased to 19-20/x2.

At 18th level, she can instead use this ability as a swift action.

At 1st level, both the dragoon and her drake companion gain the Berserker sphere as a bonus talent. In addition, the dragoon uses her class level in place of her base attack bonus to determine the effects of Berserker sphere abilities.

At 2nd level and every even level thereafter, a dragoon’s drake companion gains a combat talent; although it may not select the beastmastery sphere or any other sphere talent which would grant it a familiar, animal companion, eidolon, or drake companion. A dragoon's drake uses Strength as its practitioner ability modifier.

At 2nd level, a dragoon may use a magical sphere ability with a target of “You” on her drake companion (as a touch range spell) instead of on herself. A dragoon may use a magical sphere ability on her drake companion even if it would normally not affect creatures of the companion’s type (dragon).

At 3rd level, as long as a dragoon is within 60 feet of her drake companion, she treats her base attack bonus as 1 higher for the purpose of her combat maneuver bonus and the effects of combat talents which rely on her base attack bonus. At 7th level and every four levels afterwards, this increase to her base attack bonus increases by 1, to a maximum of 5 at 19th level (this does not allow her to treat her base attack bonus as though it was higher than her dragoon level).

At 4th level, as long as a dragoon's drake companion is within 60 feet of her, whenever the dragoon or her drake companion would take damage, they can choose to reduce the other’s temporary hit points instead of taking the damage themselves.

At 5th level, as a standard action, a dragoon can call her drake companion. This functions as teleport ability of the warp sphere, using the dragoon’s caster level. When used, the drake companion appears adjacent to the dragoon (or as close as possible if all adjacent spaces are occupied). If the drake companion is out of range, the ability is wasted. The dragoon can spend 1 spell point to increase the range of this ability to medium.

At 9th level, this ability’s default range increases to medium, and the dragoon can spend 1 spell point to increase its range to long.

At 13th level, if a dragoon is reduced to 0 or fewer hit points (but is not dead) and her drake companion has 1 or more hit points, she gains the benefits of the Diehard and Deathless Initiate feats.

At 17th level, as long as a dragoon is within 60 feet of her drake companion, if either herself or her drake companion would recover hit points, she may choose to allocate that healing to whomever she wishes.

At 20th level, a dragoon changes her type to dragon (if it wasn’t already). Whenever she uses her draconic bond, she no longer has to select a single ability score, gaining the listed effects for all of the listed ability scores. In addition, she no longer needs to expend her martial focus to recover the temporary hit points gained from draconic bond, instead refreshing them instantly at the beginning of her turn.

Considering the incredible variety among dragons, drakes are also a varied lot, allowing for alterations in drakes unknown by most charges. A drake can select any number of variants as long as they do not alter the same features:

Legendary drake companions can select from the following drake powers.

Aligned Drake (Su): Select 1 alignment (chaos, evil, good, or law); your drake’s attacks count as that alignment for the purpose of penetrating damage reduction. Your drake’s alignment also shifts to that alignment. This drake power can be selected twice, the second time requiring an alignment on a different axis to be selected (a drake could select chaos and good, but not chaos and law).

Aqualung (Ex and Su): The drake can breathe in water as well as in air; if the drake has mount, any creature using it as a mount gains the effects of this drake power (granting this benefit is a supernatural ability). To select this, a drake must have swim.

Breath Weapon (Su): The drake gains the draconic breath weapon racial trait, selecting a damage type upon selecting this legendary drake power, and treating their charge’s level as their character level for the purposes of how much damage their breath weapon deals.

Draconic Breath Weapon (Su): Wyrmtouched select one of the following energy types: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. A number of times per day equal to the wyrmtouched’s Constitution modifier (minimum 1), as a standard action they can release a gout of elemental energy from their mouth in either a 15 foot cone or 30 foot line and deals 1d6 + their Constitution modifier (Reflex for half damage) although they must wait 1 round in between uses of it. At 4th level and every four levels afterwards, this breath weapon deals an additional +1d6 damage.

Blindsight (Ex): The drake gains blindsight 30 feet and its blindsense increases to 60 feet. To select this, the drake must have dragon senses and their charge must be 15th level or higher.

Bloody Bite* (Ex): Whenever the drake makes a successful bite attack against an opponent, that opponent must make a Reflex save (DC = 10 + 1/2 the drake’s Hit Dice + the drake’s Strength modifier) or take bleed damage equal to the drake’s Strength modifier.

Breath Master (Ex): The drake gains the Expanded Breath Weapon and Powerful Breath Weapon feats, even if they do not meet the prerequisite for them. The drake can choose to use their breath weapon as either a line, cone, or to as it normally would be. To select this, the drake must possess breath weapon.

Burrow (Ex or Su): The drake gains a burrow speed of 30 feet and can breathe while underground; if the drake has mount, any creature using it as a mount can be carried while it is burrowing and can also breathe while underground (granting this benefit is a supernatural ability). When its charge reaches 11th level or higher, this speed increases to 60 feet.

Dragon Senses (Ex): The drake gains darkvision 120 feet. They also see four times as well as a human in dim light and twice as well in normal light. When the drake’s charge is 7th level, it also gains blindsense 30 feet.

Earth Glide (Sp): The drake is treated as though under the constant effect of the earth glide^ARG spell; if the drake has mount, any creature using it as a mount it also gains the benefits of this drake power. To select this, the drake must have burrow and its charge must be at least 11th level.

Enchanted Attacks (Su): The drake gains a +1 enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls with its natural attacks and its attacks count as magic for the purpose of penetrating damage reduction. For every eight levels the drake’s charge possesses, this enhancement bonus increases by +1.

Energy Bite* (Su): The drake’s bite deals 2d6 extra points of damage of the same energy type as its breath weapon. When the drake’s charge is 15th level, this damage increases to 4d6. To select energy bite, a drake must have breath weapon its charge must be at least 7th level.

Energy Resistance (Ex): Select 1 energy type, the drake gains resist 5 against that energy type . For every five levels the drake’s charge possesses, this energy resistance increases by 5. When the drake’s charge reaches 20th level, this instead becomes immunity to that energy type.

Flight (Ex): The drake gains a fly speed of 40 feet (clumsy). When its charge reaches 7th level, the drake’s fly speed improves to 60 feet (average), and when its charge reaches 15th level, its fly speed improves to 80 feet (good) To select flight, a drake must have glide and its charge must be at least 4th level.

Glide (Ex): The drake is able to take ranks in Fly. It can slow its fall to 60 feet per round, and it takes no falling damage as long as it can take actions and succeeds at a DC 15 Fly check each round. As it falls, it can take a move action to move up to 30 feet laterally in a straight line, or two move actions to move up to 60 feet laterally in a straight line. The drake can’t gain height while gliding.

Iron Scales (Ex): The drake gains DR 2/-. For every eight levels the drake’s charge possesses, this damage reduction increases by 2. This drake power stacks with the armored variant.

Keen Mind (Ex): The drake’s Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores each increase by 2. This drake power can be selected multiple times; its effects stack.

Magic Bite* (Su): The drake’s bite applies 1-1/2 × its Strength modifier to the damage dealt by its bite attack, and its bite attack deals full damage to incorporeal creatures. To select magic bite, a drake must have enchanted attacks and the drake’s charge must be at least 7th level.

Mount (Ex): The drake can carry a rider of its own size and will allow creatures other than its charge to use it as a mount.

Pounce (Ex): The drake gains pounce. To select this, the drake’s charge must be 7th level or higher.

Powerful Claws (Ex): The drake gains two claw attacks which deal 1d4 damage; these attacks are treated as secondary natural weapons.

Rend (Ex): The drake gains a rend attack with its claws. To select this power, the drake must have powerful claws and its charge must be 7th level or higher.

Scent (Ex): The drake gains the scent ability and a +6 competence bonus to Perception checks

Shadowed Drake (Su): The drake permanently reduces the lighting levels of its squares and all adjacent squares by 1 step, the drake can end or reactivate it as a free action on its turn. To select this, the drake’s charge must be 3rd level or higher.

Sharpened Attacks (Ex): Select 1 natural attack, the drake’s critical threat range with that natural attack increases by 1 (this stacks with the Improved Critical feat and the keen weapon enhancement but is applied last.) This drake power can be selected multiple times, each time selecting a different natural attack.

Sickening Bite* (Ex): Whenever the drake makes a successful bite attack against an opponent, that opponent must make a Fortitude save (DC = 10 + 1/2 the drake’s Hit Dice + the drake’s Constitution modifier) or be sickened for a number of rounds equal to the drake’s Constitution modifier (or Charisma modifier if the drake has the undead variant).

Swim (Ex): The drake gain a 60-ft swim speed.

Tremorsense (Ex): The drake gains tremorsense 30 feet. When the drake’s charge reaches 15th level or higher, this increases to 60 feet. To select this, the drake must have dragon senses and its charge must be 7th level or higher.

Tripping Bite* (Ex): Whenever the drake makes a successful bite attack against an opponent, that opponent must make a Reflex save (DC = 10 + 1/2 the drake’s Hit Dice + the drake’s Strength modifier) or be knocked prone. A drake can only apply one drake power that modifies their bite attack at a time.

*: A drake can only apply one drake power that modifies their bite attack at a time.