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A swarthy human walks up to the gathering and introduces himself with a tip of his fancy hat. "Per Manaan, professional problem solver. I look forward to working with you."

Overhealed
Prerequisites: Base Fort save +3
Benefits: Whenever you receive healing, any hit points you would gain in excess of your normal maximum hit points are instead gained as temporary hit points. These temporary hit points last until lost. As normal for temporary hit points, these do not stack with each other or with other temporary hit points.

Dragon Shaman has been updated with a small buff to the mercury totem dragon, 3 new totem dragons (shadow, sand, ethereal), and a new ACF (Vampiric Dragon Shaman).

Two-Weapon Offense
Prerequisites: Two-Weapon Fighting, Dex 15, BAB +1
Benefits: Reduce the attack roll penalty when fighting with two weapons by 1 (minimum of -0). You can add your full Str modifier instead of half to damage rolls with your off-hand weapon.

Popping back to this for a bit because I had some ideas.

Dragon Shaman

Epic Level Characters

Epic Feats

It's been a while. Where can I find the rules for E6 and for partial gestalt? If I recall correctly, partial gestalt was like normal gestalt, but only between a high-tier class on one side and a low-tier class on the other side for any given level, and E6 is just stopping at level 6 and periodically getting bonus feats afterwards?

I am tentatively interested. My brain is nudging me in the direction of a Decept Twilight Adept, but I need to see if there's something there beyond it being some of the last homebrew I worked on.

Twilight Adept base class
In the time before the fall of the Temple of the Nine Swords, the House of the Fallen Sun was nothing more than an underworld information network. The organization's services, like those of many others, were purchased in service of the Shadow Tiger horde. After the horde's disastrous assault on the Temple of the Nine Swords, many of the martial adepts that fought within its ranks found themselves bereft of purpose. Turning to any sense of the familiar, some of them found themselves in the employ of the very groups that they had purchased the services of just months prior, including the House of the Fallen Sun. The information network was more than willing to bring these skilled assassins, infiltrators, and warriors under its sway. Over time, these martial adepts adapted the techniques they had learned under the tutelage of Reshar and his students to better suit their new activities. These new twilight adepts combined their knowledge of the nine martial disciplines with the mundane and magical techniques employed by other agents of the House.

Hit Die: d6

Table: The Twilight Adept

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Maneuvers Known	Maneuvers Readied	Stances Known
1	+0	+0	+2	+2	Elusive Strike +1d6/-0, Trapfinding	4	3	1
2	+1	+0	+3	+3	Elusive Dodge 10%	5	3	2
3	+2	+1	+3	+3	Elusive Strike +1d6/-1	6	3	2
4	+3	+1	+4	+4	Swift Stealth	6	3	2
5	+3	+1	+4	+4	Elusive Strike +2d6/-1	7	4	2
6	+4	+2	+5	+5	Uncanny Dodge	7	4	3
7	+5	+2	+5	+5	Elusive Strike +2d6/-2	8	4	3
8	+6/+1	+2	+6	+6	Elusive Dodge 15%, Elusive Evasion	8	4	3
9	+6/+1	+3	+6	+6	Elusive Strike +3d6/-2	9	4	3
10	+7/+2	+3	+7	+7	Camouflage	9	5	3
11	+8/+3	++	+7	+7	Elusive Strike +3d6/-3	10	5	3
12	+9/+4	+4	+8	+8	Elusive Mind	10	5	3
13	+9/+4	+4	+8	+8	Elusive Strike +4d6/-3	11	5	4
14	+10/+5	+4	+9	+9	Elusive Dodge 20%	11	5	4
15	+11/+6/+1	+5	+9	+9	Elusive Strike +4d6/-4	12	6	4
16	+12/+7/+2	+5	+10	+10	Improved Evasion	12	6	4
17	+12/+7/+2	+5	+10	+10	Elusive Strike +5d6/-4	13	6	4
18	+13/+8/+3	+6	+11	+11	Hide in Plain Sight	13	6	4
19	+14/+9/+4	+6	+11	+11	Elusive Strike +5d6/-5	14	6	4
20	+15/+10/+5	+6	+12	+12	Elusive Dodge 25%	14	7	5

Class skills (8 + Int modifier per level): Appraise, Balance, Bluff, Climb, Concentration, Craft, Decipher Script, Disable Device, Disguise, Escape Artist, Forgery, Gather Information, Hide, Intimidate, Jump, Knowledge (history, local), Listen, Martial Lore, Move Silently, Open Lock, Profession, Search, Sense Motive, Sleight of Hand, Spot, Swim, Tumble, and Use Rope.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: As a twilight adept, you are proficient with all simple weapons, plus the hand crossbow, rapier, sap, shortbow, and short sword, and with light armor.

Maneuvers: You begin your career with knowledge of four martial maneuvers. The disciplines available to you are Diamond Mind, Phantom Battlefield, Revealing Light, Setting Sun, and Shadow Hand.

Once you know a maneuver, you must ready it before you can use it (see Maneuvers Readied, below). A maneuver usable by a twilight adept is considered an extraordinary ability unless otherwise noted in its description. Your maneuvers are not affected by spell resistance, and you do not provoke attacks of opportunity when you initiate one.

You learn additional maneuvers at higher levels, as shown on the table above. You must meet a maneuver's prerequisite to learn it. See Table 3-1 (TOB 39), to determine the highest-level maneuvers you can learn.

Upon reaching 4th level, and at every even-numbered twilight adept level after that (6th, 8th, 10th, and so on), you can choose to learn a new maneuver in place of one you already know. In effect, you lose the old maneuver in exchange for the new one. You can choose a new maneuver of any level you like, as long as you observe your restriction on the highest-level maneuvers you know; you need not replace the old maneuver with a maneuver of the same level. For example, upon reaching 10th level, you could trade in a single 1st-, 2nd-, 3rd- or 4th-level maneuver for a maneuver of 5th level or lower, as long as you meet the prerequisite of the new maneuver. You can swap only a single maneuver at any given level.

Maneuvers Readied: You can ready three of the four maneuvers you know at 1st level, and as you advance in level and learn more maneuvers, you are able to ready more, but you must choose which maneuvers to ready. You ready your maneuvers by meditating and exercising for 5 minutes. The maneuvers you choose remain readied until you decide to meditate again and change them. You need not sleep or rest for any long period of time to ready your maneuvers; any time you spend 5 minutes in meditation, you can change your readied maneuvers.

You begin an encounter with all your readied maneuvers unexpended, regardless of how many times you might have already used them since you chose them. When you initiate a maneuver, you expend it for the current encounter, so each of your readied maneuvers can be used once per encounter (until you recover them, as described below).

You can recover all expended maneuvers with a single swift action, which must be immediately followed in the same round with a withdraw action or a total defense action. You cannot initiate a maneuver or change your stance while you are recovering your expended maneuvers, but you can remain in a stance in which you began your turn.

Stances Known: You begin play with knowledge of one stance from any discipline open to twilight adepts. At 2nd, 6th, 13th, and 20th level, you can choose additional stances. Unlike maneuvers, stances are not expended, and you do not have to ready them. All the stances you know are available to you at all times, and you can change the stance you are currently using as a swift action. A stance is an extraordinary ability unless otherwise stated in the stance description.

Unlike with maneuvers, you cannot learn a new stance at higher levels in place of one you already know.

Elusive Strike (Ex): As a twilight adept, you learn to notice and seize upon even the smallest opening an opponent gives you. When you attack a foe that has left such an opening, you can strike a vital spot for extra damage.

Attacks you make with strike maneuvers against open opponents deal an additional 1d6 points of damage at 1st level. This extra damage increases by 1d6 every 4 levels thereafter. Like all bonus damage dice, should you score a critical hit, the extra damage is not multiplied. If you perform multiple attacks with the same strike, you deal with bonus damage only once to each open opponent with the first hit you score against them.

A creature is open to you if it would be denied a Dexterity bonus to AC (whether the target actually has a Dexterity bonus or not). Whenever a creature attempts to attack you or target you with an ability but either fails due to concealment or due to accidentally targeting an illusion of you instead, it also leaves itself open to you for 1 round as your deception manipulates it into leaving itself vulnerable.

Ranged attacks can count as elusive strikes only if the target is within 30 feet.

With a weapon that deals nonlethal damage, such as a sap (blackjack) or unarmed strike, you can make an elusive strike that deals nonlethal damage instead of lethal damage. You cannot use a weapon that deals lethal damage to deal nonlethal damage in an elusive strike, not even with the usual -4 penalty.

The bonus damage from elusive strike is a form of precision damage, just like a rogue's sneak attack. You can elusive strike only living creatures with discernible anatomies - undead, constructs, oozes, plants, and incorporeal creatures lack vital areas to attack. Any creature that is immune to critical hits is not vulnerable to elusive strikes. You must be able to see the target well enough to pick out a vital spot and must be able to reach such a spot. You cannot elusive strike while striking a creature with concealment or striking the limbs of a creature whose vitals are beyond reach.

Abilities and effects that modify a rogue's sneak attack can be applied to elusive strike, instead.

Starting at 3rd level, open opponents also suffer a -1 penalty on their saves against your strike maneuvers. This penalty increases by 1 every 4 levels thereafter. Any creature not subject to the bonus damage from elusive strike likewise is not subject to the save penalty.

Trapfinding (Ex): At 1st level, you gain trapfinding, as per the rogue's trapfinding ability.

Elusive Dodge (Ex): Starting at 2nd level, your evasive maneuvers and deceptive combat style cause all attacks and targeted effects to have a chance to fail against you. Any attack against you has a 10% miss chance, and any effect targeting you against which you are not willing has a 10% chance to fail to target you. This is different from concealment and produces a separate, independently-rolled chance for attacks against you to miss. This miss chance and targeting failure chance improves by 5% for every 6 levels beyond 2nd, to a maximum of 25% at 20th level.

Whenever a creature misses you or fails to target you as a result of elusive dodge, it leaves itself open to you for 1 round, allowing you to perform elusive strikes against it.

Elusive dodge does not function against creatures that are flanking you or against which you would be denied your Dexterity bonus to AC (whether you actually have a Dexterity bonus or not), nor does it apply while you are immobilized, helpless, or unaware of the attack or effect directed against you.

Elusive dodge only applies against attacks and effects that specifically target you. Area effects (such as a color spray spell) ignore its protection, although it does protect against effects that specify multiple individual targets within an area (such as a chain lightning spell).

Swift Stealth (Ex): Starting at 4th level, you no longer take the normal -5 penalty on Hide and Move Silently checks for moving at your normal speed.

Uncanny Dodge (Ex): Beginning at 6th level, you gain uncanny dodge, as per the barbarian's uncanny dodge ability.

Elusive Evasion (Ex): Beginning at 8th level, you gain evasion, as per the rogue's evasion ability.

Additionally, whenever you succeed on a Reflex save against an effect that allows for a saving throw for reduced effect and negate that effect entirely due to evasion, the creature that produced the effect leaves itself open to you for 1 round, allowing you to perform elusive strikes against it.

Camouflage (Ex): Starting at 10th level, you can use the Hide skill as long as you are within 10 feet of some sort of shadow, allowing you to hide yourself from view in the open without anything to actually hide behind. You cannot, however, hide in your own shadow.

Elusive Mind (Ex): Beginning at 12th level, you gain slippery mind, as per the rogue's slippery mind special ability. Additionally, whenever you succeed on your normal Will save against an effect that slippery mind could grant a second save against, the creature that produced the effect leaves itself open to you for 1 round, allowing you to perform elusive strikes against it.

Improved Evasion (Ex): Beginning at 16th level, you gain improved evasion, as per the rogue's improved evasion special ability.

Hide in Plain Sight (Ex): Starting at 18th level, you can use the Hide skill even while being observed.

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Change Log

Revealing Light martial discipline
Revealing Light shows the truth in all things. Darkness is but a thin disguise, easily torn away. Disciples of the martial discipline learn not just to observe, but to investigate and understand their opponents.

Discipline Access
Seekers and twilight adepts have access to Revealing Light, allowing them to learn and use its maneuvers. Like all martial disciplines, any character can dabble in its techniques with the Martial Study and Martial Stance feats.

Discipline Key Skill: Search

Discipline Favored Weapons: Club, dagger, glaive, quarterstaff, and rapier.

Sidebar: Mindfire Damage

Maneuvers by Level

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Awareness Beyond Sight Alone
Revealing Light (Stance)
Level: Seeker 1, Twilight Adept 1
Prerequisite: One Revealing Light maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Stance
While you are in this stance, you become intuitively aware of any sudden or hidden threats. You gain a +2 insight bonus on initiative checks and you don't lose your Dex bonus to AC as a result of being flat-footed.

Additionally, you gain the ability to find traps, as per the rogue's trapfinding ability, and you automatically gain a free Search check whenever you come within 10 feet of a trap as if you were actively searching. Unlike the trapfinding ability, this does not grant you any special ability to disarm magic traps.

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Burning Questions
Revealing Light (Strike) [Fire, Mind-Affecting]
Level: Seeker 8, Twilight Adept 8
Prerequisite: Three Revealing Light maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: Will negates
As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack. The attack deals an additional 10d6 points of mindfire damage. Further, if it hits, the creature struck must make a Will save (DC 18 + your Int modifier). On a failed saving throw, you can ask the creature one question and it is compelled to answer as honestly and as completely as it can within 1 round. A successful saving throw prevents the creature from being compelled to answer and negates the mind-affecting side of the mindfire damage (although the non-mind-affecting fire damage side of the amalgam damage still applies).

You can also use this maneuver to force a creature to answer your question without inflicting damage. If you do, you make a touch attack and your attack deals no damage.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability. This maneuver is an enchantment (compulsion) effect.

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Enemy Known
Revealing Light (Boost)
Level: Seeker 6, Twilight Adept 6
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: 30 ft.
Target: One creature or object
Duration: 1 round
At a glance, the sum total of a creature or object's existence reveals itself to you. You learn a great deal about the subject and any effects affecting it in a short moment.

If you target a creature, you learn its name, challenge rating, level, character classes (if any), race, and type. You also learn all of the following the targeted creature possesses: damage reduction, fast healing, immunities, miss chance, chance to ignore damage (such as from incorporeality), chance to ignore crit damage (such as from light fortification), regeneration, resistance to energy, spell resistance, and turn resistance. The DM lists only the types, not the amounts. For example, the DM would tell you a monster has fast healing, fire resistance, and spell resistance, not that it has fast healing 23, fire resistance 10, and spell resistance 35.

If you target an object, you learn its name, caster level (or equivalent), functions (both mundane and magical), how to activate its functions (if appropriate), and how many charges are left (if it uses charges).

You also learn of each ongoing effect affecting the targeted creature or object, including the effect's name, effect, and caster level (or equivalent).

Additionally, this surge of knowledge gives you momentary insight into the best way to fight the subject. For 1 round, you gain a +2 insight bonus on attacks rolls, saving throws, and to your Armor Class against the subject and effects it produces.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability. This maneuver is a divination effect.

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Expose Vulnerability
Revealing Light (Strike)
Level: Seeker 6, Twilight Adept 6
Prerequisite: Three Revealing Light maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: None
As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack. If the attack hits, the creature struck gains vulnerability to all damage for 1 round. It takes half again as much (+50%) damage as normal from any attack or effect, regardless of whether a saving throw is allowed, or if the save is a success or failure. This vulnerability also applies to the damage dealt by the attack from this maneuver.

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Faerie Strike
Revealing Light (Strike) [Light]
Level: Seeker 4, Twilight Adept 4
Prerequisite: One Revealing Light maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: None
As part of this maneuver, make a Search check with a DC equal to the target's Armor Class and a single melee attack. If your Search check succeeds, your attack ignores any miss chances caused by concealment or invisibility and deals an extra 4d6 points of damage. A creature struck this way is also outlined in mystical lights for 1 round, as per the faerie fire spell.

If your check fails, you can still attack, but you do not ignore miss chances, deal extra damage, or produce any faerie fire.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability.

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Find the Hidden Opening
Revealing Light (Strike)
Level: Seeker 7, Twilight Adept 7
Prerequisite: Three Revealing Light maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 full-round action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
As part of this maneuver, make a full attack. For each attack you make as part of the full attack, make a Search check with a DC equal to your target's Armor Class. If the attack hits and the Search check succeeds, the attack deals one-and-a-half times its normal damage. If the Search check succeeds but the attack misses, the attack nonetheless counts as a hit, but deals half its normal damage.

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Flash of Truth
Revealing Light (Counter) [Light]
Level: Seeker 2, Twilight Adept 2
Initiation Action: 1 immediate action
Range: 30 ft.
Target: One creature
Duration: Instantaneous
When you are attacked, you can initiate this maneuver to momentarily blind your attacker with a burst of light, potentially disrupting their attack. Your attacker resolves the attack as though they were blinded, granting you the benefits of total concealment against the attack. While the blinding imposes a 50% miss chance on the attack, it does not prevent your attacker from successfully targeting you entirely. You must initiate this maneuver after the attack is declared, but before your attacker has checked for concealment or made her attack roll.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability.

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Liar's Punishment
Revealing Light (Strike)
Level: Seeker 3, Twilight Adept 3
Prerequisite: One Revealing Light maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: Will negates
As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack. If the attack hits, it deals an additional 2d6 points of damage and the creature struck must make a Will save (DC 13 + your Int modifier) or be rendered unable to speak for 1 round. A successful saving throw negates the silencing but not the extra damage.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability.

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Light Come Forth
Revealing Light (Boost) [Light]
Level: Seeker 5, Twilight Adept 5
Prerequisite: Two Revealing Light maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: End of turn
For the rest of your turn, any weapon you wield gains a modified version of the brilliant energy property. This causes your attacks to most ignore nonliving matter, bypassing most armor and shield bonuses to Armor Class, but leaves them still able to harm nonliving creatures such as constructs and undead.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability.

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Mirrored Soul
Revealing Light (Counter)
Level: Seeker 7, Twilight Adept 7
Prerequisite: Three Revealing Light maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 immediate action
Range: Personal
Target: You
You can use this maneuver when you are subject to an effect that allows a saving throw. The effect must be a gaze attack or a spell that targets you. This maneuver does not protect you from area spells that simply include you in their area, nor does it protect you from effect spells (including rays) or touch spells.

Make a Search check in place of your save and use the check's result to determine the save's success. If your save is successful, you are not affected by the effect and instead it is reflected back to its source, targeting its originator instead of you. If the spell or effect requires multiple saving throws, this maneuver only applies to the first saving throw you make; the full effect is reflected if you succeed, and you roll any subsequent saves normally if you fail. If the spell or effect is subsequently reflected back to you, it is instead negated.

You must use this maneuver before you attempt the saving throw. A result of a natural 1 on your Search check is not an automatic failure.

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Moment of Truth
Revealing Light (Counter)
Level: Seeker 8, Twilight Adept 8
Prerequisite: Three Revealing Light maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 immediate action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Instantaneous
Sometimes, when the stakes are highest and the risk of failure is at its greatest, the universe shares a mote of hidden knowledge to guide you to victory. You can initiate this maneuver to reroll a failed roll you just made. You gain an additional +10 insight bonus on the reroll. This can be an attack roll you missed, a saving throw you failed, or a skill check you failed. The universe will only share so much knowledge so quickly, however. No matter how many times you initiate this maneuver, you can only reroll a roll of a given type (attack roll, saving throw, or skill check) once per day, each.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability.

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Pyre of Falsehoods
Revealing Light (Strike) [Fire, Mind-Affecting]
Level: Seeker 4, Twilight Adept 4
Prerequisite: Two Revealing Light maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: 3 rounds
Saving Throw: Will negates
As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack. The attack deals an additional 4d6 points of mindfire damage. Further, if it hits, the creature struck must make a Will save (DC 14 + your Int modifier) or catch fire. The fires that engulf the creature are mystical, not just physical, and are fueled by untruths as much as by flammable materials. While the creature burns, it takes mindfire damage instead of normal fire damage from being on fire and it cannot knowingly lie. The mystical fire created by this maneuver does not spread from the creature, so nearby flammable materials and flammable objects the creature is wearing or holding are not at risk of catching fire (although they may still be damaged by contact with the flames). A successful saving throw prevents the creature from catching fire and negates the mind-affecting side of the mindfire damage (although the non-mind-affecting fire damage side of the amalgam damage still applies).

As normal for catching on fire, a creature ignited by this maneuver immediately takes an additional 1d6 points of damage and is allowed a Reflex save (DC 14 + your Int modifier) each round to put itself out, taking 1d6 points of damage if it fails. As noted above, however, this is mindfire damage instead of the normal fire damage. The mystical flames burn for up to 3 rounds.

You can also use this maneuver to force a creature's truthfulness without inflicting damage. If you do, you make a touch attack, and your attack deals no damage. The mystical flames that burn on the creature also deal no damage, create no heat, do not damage or destroy anything they come in contact with, and are not at risk of spreading to other flammable materials.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability. This maneuver is an enchantment (compulsion) effect.

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Revelation Strike
Revealing Light (Strike) [Light]
Level: Seeker 6, Twilight Adept 6
Prerequisite: Two Revealing Light maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Area: 30-ft. radius burst; see text
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: None
As part of this maneuver, make a Search check with a DC equal to the target's Armor Class and a single melee attack. If your Search check succeeds, your attack ignores any miss chances caused by concealment or invisibility and deals an extra 8d6 points of damage. A creature struck this way is also outlined in mystical lights for 1 round, as per the faerie fire spell.

If your Search check succeeded and your attack hit, the faerie fire surges outward from the point of impact. All of your opponents within a 30-foot radius burst with Armor Class less than or equal to your Search check result take 5d6 points of damage and become outlined in the faerie fire for 1 round

If your check fails, you can still attack, but you do not ignore miss chances, deal extra damage, or produce any faerie fire.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability.

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Seeker's Strike
Revealing Light (Strike)
Level: Seeker 1, Twilight Adept 1
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Saving Throw: None
As part of this maneuver, make a Search check with a DC equal to the target's Armor Class and a single melee attack. If your Search check succeeds, your attack ignores any miss chances caused by concealment or invisibility and, if it hits, deals an extra 1d6 points of damage.

If your check fails, you can still attack, but you do not ignore miss chances or deal extra damage.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability.

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Shadows Hide the False Path
Revealing Light (Counter) [Mind-Affecting]
Level: Seeker 4, Twilight Adept 4
Prerequisite: Two Revealing Light maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 immediate action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: Instantaneous
You can initiate this maneuver after a creature misses you with an attack. You make a melee touch attack against that creature. If your attack hits, it deals no damage, but the creature must make a Will save (DC 14 + your Int modifier) or become confused until the end of its next turn. This does not interfere with the remainder of any action it is in the middle of performing. This attack does not induce the creature to attack you, although subsequent attacks you might perform will, as normal.

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Shadows Parted
Revealing Light (Stance)
Level: Seeker 1, Twilight Adept 1
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Stance
While you are in this stance, your senses intensify. If you have 4 or more ranks in Search, you gain low-light vision while you are in this stance, or the range of your existing low-light vision doubles if you already have it. If you have 9 or more ranks in Search, you gain darkvision out to 60 feet while you are in this stance, or the range of your existing darkvision increases by 60 feet if you already have it. If you have 14 or more ranks in Search, you gain blindsense out to 30 feet while you are in this stance. If you have 19 or more ranks in Search, you gain blindsight out to 15 feet.

Search Ranks	Senses
4+	Low-light vision
9+	Darkvision 60 ft.
14+	Blindsense 30 ft.
19+	Blindsight 15 ft.

This stance is a supernatural ability.

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Seek the Final Answer
Revealing Light (Strike) [Mind-Affecting]
Level: Seeker 9, Twilight Adept 9
Prerequisite: Four Revealing Light maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: Permanent
Saving Throw: Will negates
As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack. The attack deals an additional 5d6 points of damage. Further, if it hits, the creature struck must make a Will save (DC 19 + your Int modifier). On a failed Will save, the creature is rendered catatonic, its mind filled with visions showing it answers to all that it could ever ask about, and more. The creature is unable to react to its environment, its attention consumed with the visions. It will not take any actions, even to protect itself from imminent death. Without care from others, the creature will eventually die of thirst or starvation.

A spell or effect that dispels ongoing effects will not end this maneuver, only suppress it for 1d4 rounds. A miracle, limited wish, wish, or other effect of similar power can end it. A microcosm power will also end this maneuver. An anti-magic field or mind blank effect will negate this maneuver for as long as they last, but the visions and their effects will return as soon as the effect lapses.

Despite the apparent importance of the visions, no information can be gleaned from them. Any creature freed from this maneuver's effects will feel as though they could have gleaned some truth from the visions had they seen them for but a few moments longer.

A successful saving throw or protection from mind-affecting or divination effects prevents the catatonia-inducing visions, but does not negate the additional damage.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability. This maneuver is a divination effect.

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Strike of Truth
Revealing Light (Strike)
Level: Seeker 3, Twilight Adept 3
Prerequisite: One Revealing Light maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack. You gain a +20 insight bonus on your attack roll and your attack ignores any miss chances caused by concealment or invisibility.

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Surprising Reactions
Revealing Light (Counter)
Level: Seeker 1, Twilight Adept 1
Initiation Action: 1 immediate action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Instantaneous
You can initiate this maneuver when you are attacked. If your attacker misses you, the suddenness of your reactions places them on the back foot, rendering them flat-footed against you (although not with respect to any other creatures) until they next act. You must decide whether or not to initiate this maneuver before determining whether the attack hits or misses you.

Being flat-footed does not prevent you from using the immediate action to initiate this maneuver. If you initiate this maneuver while flat-footed, you are not flat-footed against the attack. If you were flat-footed as a result of not yet acting during the current encounter, you cease to be flat-footed.

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Thoughtful Radiance
Revealing Light (Stance) [Light]
Level: Seeker 3, Twilight Adept 3
Prerequisite: One Revealing Light maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal; 30 ft.
Area: 30-ft. radius emanation
Target: You
Duration: Stance
While you are in this stance, you radiate bright light, as per a daylight spell, in a 60-foot radius, and dim light for an additional 60 feet beyond that. Opponents within the area of bright light that can see it are dazzled (imposing a -1 penalty on their attack rolls, on Search checks, and Spot checks). You and allies within 30 feet that can see the bright light receive flashes of insight and guidance from the universe; each affected creature can choose to add a +1 insight bonus on a single attack roll, saving throw, or skill check once per round, which must be chosen before making the roll.

This stance is a supernatural ability.

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Torch of Secrets
Revealing Light (Strike) [Fire, Mind-Affecting]
Level: Seeker 2, Twilight Adept 2
Prerequisite: One Revealing Light maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack. The attack deals an additional 2d6 points of mindfire damage. Further, if it hits, the creature struck must make a Will save (DC 12 + your Int modifier). On a failed Will save, you can read the creature's surface thoughts. A successful saving throw prevents you from learning he creature's thoughts and negates the mind-affecting side of the mindfire damage (although the non-mind-affecting fire damage side of the amalgam damage still applies).

You can also use this maneuver to read a creature's thoughts without inflicting damage. If you do, you make a touch attack, and your attack deals no damage.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability. This maneuver is a divination effect.

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Truth Unseen and Undesired
Revealing Light (Strike) [Mind-Affecting]
Level: Seeker 5, Twilight Adept 5
Prerequisite: Two Revealing Light maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: Will negates
As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack. If the attack hits, it deals an additional 2d6 points of damage and the creature struck must make a Will save (DC 15 + your Int modifier) or become confused for 1 round, its mind filled with answers to questions it never wished to know. This attack does not induce the creature to attack you, although subsequent attacks you might perform will, as normal.

A successful saving throw or protection from mind-affecting or divination effects prevents the confusion, but does not negate the additional damage.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability. This maneuver is a divination effect.

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Unfettered Sight
Revealing Light (Stance)
Level: Seeker 7, Twilight Adept 7
Prerequisite: Four Revealing Light maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Stance
While you are in this stance, you see beyond the physical and into the underlying truth of reality. You perceive things as they truly are, as per the true seeing spell. Additionally, you gain a +5 insight bonus on Search and Spot checks.

This maneuver is a supernatural ability. This maneuver is a divination effect.

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Change Log

Quote from: Nanshork on June 11, 2020, 11:41:28 PM

Let me know when you're ready for me to look over the Gladiator.

Hey look at that, I guess you're ready!    ^{(I realized after I typed this up that I gave input on it a couple of years ago, I guess that makes my joke less amusing.)}

I'm not going to look at modules right now, I don't have the time. 


This looks like it's using the Energy Warrior chassis so that's what I'll be comparing it to if I think anything looks off.

Same chassis, similar concept in being a fighty type. Exo gladiator's more down-to-earth with gritty and brutal fighting compared to the energy warrior's flashier science-fantasy aesthetic.

Can you attach/remove an exograft to/from yourself?

The intent is that it should be the same as applying a graft in that regard, which means yes. The Cybernetic Grafter feat (and other grafter feats I referenced way back when) specifically says that you can apply grafts to yourself, in addition to others. That said, exografts aren't grafts, so that's another thing that needs to be made explicit.

I had a question about exografts but actually reading that section answered it (I had originally skimmed, there are a lot of paragraphs).

Yeah. That section kind of got away from me since grafts are rather complicated. While exografts are armor and aren't grafts, they still function a bit like them in enough ways that it felt worth spelling out as much as possible.

It would make me happy if Energized Exograft specifically said what the enhancement bonus was for (aka armor class) since it is also the modules kind of and you know I like being super specific.

Exografts are armor. The intent is that it's the same as a normal enhancement bonus on a +1 to +5 armor, the same as magic vestment grants. It's also the same wording used for the Power Suit module. It's also similar to the Energy Warrior's 3rd-level Energy Beam upgrade, although there are some nuanced differences.

I'll probably switch it over to the Energy Warrior's ability's wording. "Beginning at 3rd level, while your exograft module is activated, your exograft gains an enhancement bonus equal to the amount of energy allocated to your exograft module. You must have an attached exograft in order to use this ability."

For neural override, "Your exograft still allows you to take actions that you would find preferable to taking no action at all." is a little confusing because if you are charmed then you would find taking actions commanded by the charmer to be preferable to taking no action at all.

It's not making you act according to how you want to act in the moment under the effect's influence. It's supposed to be emulating your normal mental state for that decision-making. I'll add something like "were you in your normal mental state" to that overriding mind-affecting influence section to make it clear, since otherwise it only mentions that sort of thing in the fluff paragraph.

The Warforged ACF is neat.

Okay, the whole class is nice and I like natural weapons and the concept is cool but I fell like it's missing something.  I have no idea what that something is, maybe it's in the modules.

Not surprising, since I've had a similar feeling. It's a bit of that Barbarian/Fighter "hit it hard" syndrome where the class's fantasy is just brute force and its abilities don't touch quite enough on anything beyond that. The wide variety of effects that modules offer will alleviate that somewhat, but the module list and most of the exograft modules are specifically tuned towards that concept.

I might direct you to the Grafted Origin features buried deep in the notes at the end of http://minmaxforum.com/index.php?topic=3381.msg348079#msg348079. I was toying with them to fill some dead levels, add some abilities along a different conceptual axis, and give the class a little more baked-in flavor.