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### I hate [Tome] spheres

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Post by radthemad4 » Sun Jun 24, 2018 9:38 pm

Sphereless Carthaz Conduit
"My powers are more than enough to deal with the likes of you!"
A fiend is more than an individual; he is a representative of a particular brand of evil, and that role carries power with it. To become a Conduit of the Lower Planes is to embrace that role and become a living pathway by which the energies of the Lower Planes can be made manifest. Raw magical power is the result of this process, and a fiend that walks this route refines his mastery of his innate mystical arts to a terrible degree.
Alignment: A character must be non-good to take any levels in Conduit of the Lower Planes. Nothing happens to a Conduit of the Lower Planes if he becomes Good, save that he must look elsewhere for class advancing.
Races: The Conduit of the Lower Planes is only available to creatures with a plane of origin in the Lower Planes. Creatures from the prime material plane whose ancestors were from a Lower Plane may take this class.
Starting Gold: 4d4x10 gp (100 gold)
Starting Age: As Wizard.
Hit Die: d6
Class Skills: The Conduit of the Lower Planes 's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Bluff (Cha), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Handle Animal(Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (arcana) (Int), Knowledge (history) (Int), Knowledge (religion) (Int), Knowledge (the planes) (Int), Profession (Wis), and Spellcraft (Int). As well as whatever his Planar skill is.
Skills/Level: 4 + Intelligence Bonus
BAB: Medium (3/4), Saves: Fort: Poor; Reflex: Poor; Will: Good
Level, Benefit
1 SLAs, Petitioner Immunities, Petitioner Channel
2
3
4
5 Bonus Feat
6
7 Petitioner Skills, Petitioner Locomotion
8 Bonus Feat
9 Bonus Feat
10
11 Planar Bubble
12
13 Bonus Feat
14 Bonus Feat
15 Planar Apotheosis
All of the following are Class Features of the Conduit of the Lower Planes class:
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Conduits of the Lower Planes are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, as well as the whip, the scourge, and the dire flail. Conduits are proficient with light armor but not with shields of any kind.
SLAs: At level 1, the Conduit of the Lower Planes selects a sphere and gains the special benefits of it. He selects additional spheres at level 3, 9 and 15. He chooses 'SLAs known' from these selected spheres as per the table below (based on his Conduit level) and then casts them at will*. He may reselect these 'SLAs known' with eight hours of rest. At level 15 he counts his SLA progression as an 'arcane or divine' (choose one) spellcasting progression to qualify for PRCs, and PRCs that advance spellcasting progression continue to advance SLA progression.
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* Some spells may be particularly problematic at will at early levels, e.g. Earth glide, Command Undead, <others>. These may be used only once per day till level 3, when they may be used three times a day. From level 5 onwards, they may be used at will.
Petitioner Channel (Su): The Petitioner may make a ranged touch attack against a single target within close range, they are subject to the effects of a petioners plane as follows, with any saving throws being DC 10+Half HD+Cha mod:

- Pandemonium: A wave of sound does 1d8 damage and forces a Fort Save against Deafening.
- Abyss: A line of electricity arcs to the target, doing 1d6+Cha damage and arcing to another target within 30ft.
- Carceri: An Area is coated in Ice. Treat this a Grease Spell cast with CL equal to CL, but doing one cold damage each round to all occupants.
- Hades: A surge of negative energy does Cha mod damage, and forces a Will save. If failed, they take one Wisdom damage. This is Mind Affecting.
- Gehenna: A ball of acid strikes doing 2d4 Acid damage, to repeat on the following round unless they spend a full round action removing it.
- Baator: (No ranged touch attack required) A Gout of flame appears in a square, doing an automatic 1d6 Fire damage to the occupant, and doing the same damage to any adjacent creatures if the fail a reflex save.
- Acheron: A stream of sharp metal shoots out, doing 2d6+Cha mod slashing damage.

Petitioner Immunities: A Conduit of the Lower Planes gains his power from a specific lower plane, and is protected by the nature of that plane:

- Pandemonium: Sonic Immunity
- The Abyss: Immunity to Electricity
- Carceri: Immunity to Cold
- Hades: Immunity to Fear and Morale Effects.
- Gehenna: Immunity to Acid
- Baator: Immunity to Fire
- Acheron: Immunity to [Compulsion] effects.

Petitioner Skills: A Conduit of the Lower Planes gains his power from a specific lower plane, and at 6th level gains abilities from the nature of that plane (this must be the same plane as was chosen at 1st level):

- Pandemonium: +10 to Listen checks.
- The Abyss: +10 bonus to Survival checks.
- Carceri: +10 bonus to Bluff checks.
- Hades: +10 bonus to Hide checks.
- Gehenna: +10 bonus to Climb checks, if he doesn't already have a climb speed, he gains one equal to half his normal ground speed (bonuses to Climb from having a Climb speed gained in this way would be included in the +10 bonus)
- Baator: +10 bonus to Disguise checks.
- Acheron: +10 bonus to Intimidate checks.

Planar Locomotion (Su):At 6th level a Conduit gains a movement ability defined by his plane:

- Pandemonium: A Conduit of Pandemonium may use Gaseous Form at will as an SLA with CL equal to his character level, with a range of personal. However, he is an area of strong wind, not a cloud for appearance sake, and his DR is 10/- not 10/magic.
- Abyss: A resident of the Abyss gains a Perfect Fly speed of 30ft per round. If he already has a fly speed, it becomes Perfect Maneuverability and increases in speed by 30ft.
- Carceri: A Conduit of Carceri may affix themselves relative to another creature as an immediate action. This may be any creature within Close Range. The Conduit will then stay in a fixed position relative to that creature until he uses a swift action to dismiss the effect. While affixed, if the creature moves, he may follow the creatures movement pattern exactly. He is treated as having a Perfect fly speed for the purposes of staying aloft. Additionally, if any magic should cause that creature to move to another location on the current plane, or to send it to another plane, the Conduit may choose to follow to that position or plane. He may only be affixed to a single creature at a time, but otherwise, the duration is permanent.
- Hades: A Conduit of Hades may become incorporeal for up to 20 rounds per day. It is a free action to begin or end this effect. If it is activated at all, a minimum of one round is expended, regardless of how long it stays active.
- Gehenna (Ex): A Conduit of Gehenna is treated as being under the effect of a Spider Climb spell at all times, except that this is an Extraordinary ability instead of a Supernatural or Spell. He also gains a burrow speed equal to his land speed.
- Baator: A Conduit of Baator is so in touch with the natural teleporters of his Planar home that he gains Greater Teleport as a bonus feat. If he already has this feat, he may use the ability as a swift action 3 times per day.
- Acheron: A Conduit of Acheon always operates under subjective directional gravity, no matter what plane he is on.

Bonus Feat: At 5th level, the Conduit of the Lower Planes gains a bonus feat. This feat may be any [Fiend], [Monstrous], or [Item Creation] feat, and the Conduit of the Lower Planes must meet the prerequisites. He gains another such feat at levels 8, 9, 13 and 14.
Planar Bubble (Su):A Conduit may create a location on any Plane that reflects an area of his Plane of Power. He may have no more than one such area active at any time, and the creation of a second removes the first. However, when he dies, the area remains.
This area is in all respects treated as a Planar Bubble, which has all the traits of the Conduit's Plane, and many of the common features, such as fiery explosions of baator or cliffs of gehenna.
This Area may be of a radius of half a mile per day spent creating it. Creating it requires 8 hours of channeling each day, and is so exhausting that it cannot be done if you have engaged in combat during the last 8 hours. The Maximum Size of the Planar Bubble is a radius of 5 miles per Character Level.
During it's creation, the Bubble expands, deforming and destroying all terrain and replacing it with a replica of the Conduit's Plane and subjecting creatures to the new effects.
If the process is halted by any means, including interruption or combat, it ceases expansion and maintains itself. The next day spent creating the bubble does not increase the radius, but the day after does.
Planar Apotheosis (Ex): The Conduit takes on an aspect of his Plane:

- Pandemonium: The Conduit cannot be heard by anyone he does not want to hear him. He can also use a swift action to intimidate everyone who hears a very loud noise, the whipping of the winds around him.
- The Abyss: Each Denizen of the Abyss is permanently effected by magic, up to five spells cast on an Abyssal Conduit can last until they are dispelled, as if effected by the Permanency spell (even if they would not normally be a legal target).
- Carceri: The Conduit may prevent Planar Travel by the means of spells, including those that use the Astral such as Teleport, within his line of sight. This ability is either on, and no one can use any such spell, or off, and anyone can use such spells. Switching state requires a free action.
- Hades: a Conduit of Hades may become Incorporeal for up to 20 rounds per day. It is a Free Action to begin or end this effect. If it is activated at all, a minimum of one round is expended, no matter how long it stays active.
- Gehenna: a Conduit of Gehenna is treated as being under the effect of a Spider Climb spell at all times, as an Extraordinary ability. He also gains a Burrow speed equal to his land speed.
- Baator: A Conduit may invoke the right of contract on any agreement he and another make, verbal or written. If he does so, he is compelled to honor the agreement, and he will be notified via magic if the opposing party does not abide by the agreement, at which time, he may use Gate as an SLA at Cl equal to Character level to call a Devil from Baator who will agree to a long term service without payment, so long as that service takes no longer than one day per Character Level and involves the punishment of the deal breaking party. If the Conduit shall break the agreement, then a Balor will attack him and fight to the death in 1d4 days.
- Acheron: A Conduit of the Plane of Battle is hardened beyond imagination. He gains immunity negative mind affecting effects and he creates a battle aura. The aura gives himself and all allies a +5 Moral Bonus to saving throws and attack rolls.

The Conduit ACFs here also work for this
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Post by radthemad4 » Sun Jun 24, 2018 10:06 pm

This is pretty much the Carthaz Conduit crossed with Kaelik's Spirit Shaman. I have no idea what the numbers should be...
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Post by DrPraetor » Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:01 am

Why do you have to go all the way to apotheosis before you can PrC out?
I'd think if you wanted to be an Alienist - or something - and keep crawling up the spell/sphere progression but swap out other class features, that should be okay? I mean, you might be somewhat better, but not outside of the tolerance range.
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Post by radthemad4 » Mon Sep 10, 2018 5:22 am

I did let it PrC out earlier originally, but Kaelik's against it

> Kaelik on Discord wrote:the concept of PrCing out is fucking offensive
> you better stick with Conduit forever
> the point is that as written it's a naked power up
> since you keep getting what are effectively "new spheres" on the regular conduit
> even after you PrC
> so basically you just wrote "Fiendish Conduit: Exactly the same, but now you get whatever PrC abilies you can dumpster dive, and you don't give up getting new spheres"
> I mean sure, you can PrC after 15 or whatever
> the original conduit was built so that after level 10 you basically had to PrC

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