The Quintessential Chaos Mage

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Author	Patrick Younts
Series	Quintessential Series
Publisher	Mongoose Publishing
Publish date	2003
Pages	128
ISBN	1-904577-54-7
OGL Section 15	qcmg

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Lord of Change

Chaos mages are drifters and restless wanderers, dreamers and visionaries and destroyers. The common folk fear chaos mages, and with good reason, for upheaval follows in their wake and chaos spirits herald their arrival like vultures seeking the feast.

Perhaps no chaos mage fits this description better than the lord of change. He is cloaked in possibility and all the maybes, mayhaps, perhapses, perchances, unlikelies, definitelies and nevers of the world swirl about him like autumn leaves.

Hit Die: d4

Requirements

In order to qualify to become a lord of change, the character must fulfil all the following requirements:

Feats: Casting Focus, Immutable Will
Skills: Concentration 12 ranks
Spellcasting: Must be able to cast chaos magic

Class Skills

The lord of change’s class skills, and the relevant ability for each skill, are: Bluff (Cha), Craft (alchemy) (Int), Disguise (Cha), Forgery (Int), Knowledge (arcana) (Int), Profession (Int) and Spellcraft (Int).

Skill Points Per Level: 2 + Int modifier

Class Features

All the following are class features of the lord of change prestige class.

Spellcasting: The character continues to improve in spellcasting, gaining a new chaos caster level at every level except 3rd and 9th. These level increases are not taken into account for the purposes of determining access to Chaos Countermagic, increases to the number of Multiple Effects or increasing the ability scores of familiars.

Weapon and Armour Proficiency: Lords of change gain no new proficiencies in any weapons or armour.

Specialised Focus (Su): At 1st level, the lord of change gains great insight into the nature of change and transformation. He gains the Specialised Focus feat, but must apply it to either Materialisation or Transformation effects. He gains the feat again at 5th level and must apply it to whichever effect he did not select at 1st level.

Forced Focus (Su): The lord of change is the master of evolution and of transformation, and is incapable of dominating the minds of others, or directly annihilating objects or living beings. Beginning at 1st level, he no longer has access to Domination or Direct Damage effects, and any attempt to use them in his chaos casting results in an automatic failure and
backlash.

Master Of Evolution (Su): The lord of change is the avatar of change and he finds it a simple matter to cast spells which have far reaching consequences. At 3rd level, select either Materialisation or Transformation effects – when casting spells which are composed solely of that effect element, the default duration is raised to By Round. This means that the lord of change does not increase the DC of his spells when he chooses a By Round effect. As a consequence of this, the DC cost of selecting other Duration elements is lowered as shown below:

Instantaneous (DC -5)
One Round (DC -2)
By Round ( Default)
By Minute (DC + 5)
By Hour (DC + 10)

At 7th level, the lord of change gains the same benefit when casting spells which are composed solely of whichever of the two effect elements he did not select at 3rd level. In addition, he can apply the bonus to spells which combine both Materialisation and Transformation effect elements.

At 10th level, when casting Materialisation or Transformation spells which use the By Hour duration effect, the total length of the spell is equal to one hour per caster level, rather than one hour per two caster levels.

Master of his own Destiny (Su): The control the lord of change has over evolution at 8th level is truly remarkable, outstripping even his fellow chaos mages in his self-mastery. As such, it is less likely for you to progress quickly down your Path of Chaos; you are considered to be one step lower than your current step for the purposes of determining the effects of backlash. So, a chaos mage with this feat who has taken three steps along a Path of Chaos would take another step if he rolled a 2 or less on his backlash check, while the same mage with seven steps would take another step if he rolled 6 or lower. The chance of taking a step through backlash can never be lowered below 1, however.

Lord of Change

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Spellcasting
1	+0	+2	+0	+2	Specialised Focus, Forced Focus	+1 caster level
2	+1	+3	+0	+3		+1 caster level
3	+1	+3	+1	+3	Master of Evolution 1
4	+2	+4	+1	+4		+1 caster level
5	+2	+4	+1	+4	Specialised Focus	+1 caster level
6	+3	+5	+2	+5		+1 caster level
7	+3	+5	+2	+5	Master Of Evolution 2	+1 caster level
8	+4	+6	+2	+6	Master Of His Own Destiny	+1 caster level
9	+4	+6	+3	+6
10	+5	+7	+3	+7	Master of Evolution 3	+1 caster level