Skaven

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Skaven

"Sometimes - you might think I'm as crazy as a doom prophet - but sometimes I think those rats are watching me. You know, spying like. Pelor preserve me, but I don't like it much. I'd hate to see it if the rodents ever got their way..."

The Skaven are a race of bipedal ratmen that are so rarely seen under the sun that many surface habitants deny their very existence. Yet they're one of the most numerous races, remaining hidden away underneath unsuspecting nations. They're also the only known race to commonly work with warpstone, a mysterious glowing mineral  that's basically crystallized magic and can be used for a variety of powerful effects, but also inevitably corrupts and ruins those who use it. Except for the skaven, which seem to not only be able to resist its harmful effects, they actually thrive on warpstone, as if they always had existed alongside with it. Which is probably true.

Physical Description: The majority of the man-sized vermin are slight of build and, if they abandoned their slinking hunched gait, stand between four to five feet in height, with the largest specimens reaching over six feet. Skaven are covered in close fur, save for their ears, muzzle, hands, and fleshy, worm-like tails. The eyes of the ratmen gleam red in torchlight and their mouths are lined with wicked teeth, particularly their yellowed incisors, which are razor-sharp for ripping and tearing.

Skaven move in rapid stop-start scurries. They exude nervous energy in twitchy, hurried bursts and always seem to be in an agitated state. Skaven metabolism burns at a ferocious rate, peaking with a spike of adrenaline if they feel angry or threatened. This hyper vitality gives rise to the quick reflexes, endless haste and the legendary speed of the Skaven. The drawback to such velocity is that the ratment need to gorge themselves after a long march or battle to refuel their drained bodies. Amongst Skaven this phenomen is known as the Black Hunger, and goes some way to explaining their propensity for feasting upon the fallen (of either side) after combat. The largest individuals can easily devour an entire Skaven body by themselves after an exhausting task. A Skaven suffering the pangs of the Black Hunger and unable to replenish himself will visibly weaken and soon after die.

Relations with other races: Skaven usually see other races as enemies blocking their path for world domination, allies to be backstabbed later, or as source of slaves and food (not much difference in the Skaven's eyes). They take great efforts to hide their true nature from surface dwellers, not only performing their attacks and raids under the cover of night, but also making sure to leave no corpses or equipment of their own behind. In the end, most Skaven attacks on the surface are blamed on lycanthropes, or some kind of rare mutant from some mad wizard's experiment like anthropomorphic animals.

They have more difficulty keeping their nature hidden from other underground races, but even those are left in the dark about the true might of the Skaven race. Skaven will also many times ally with other evil underground races like orcs, kobolds and drows against a common enemy, and end such alliances as soon as they believe they can get away with it.

Alignment: Skaven are creatures or urgency-unless powerfully led they naturally seek the easiest and most immediate solution to problems. If Skaven pause it is only to consider how they can explain their actions to reflect most highly upon themselves, or at least how they can better spin the events to disparage against rivals. Skaven have no sense of either history or posterity. Amidst the scheming and constant warfare, Skaven seek great achievements during their short lives for their own personal benefit. All of this combined leads to Skaven having  a powerful tendency for evil and chaos,

Skaven Lands: Like rats, Skaven can potentially be found everywhere, and if you see one, chances are that there's dozens more hidden nearby. They dig their lairs deep underground, but aren't shy of living on the captured cities of other subterranean races. Dwarven strongholds are a particular sign of prestige.

Skavenblight is the Skaven capital, and also their rumored place of origin. It was once a human city before a mysterious plague decimated its inhabitants and empowered the local rats. Since then corruption and ruin have spread from the city, turning the land around in cursed swamps that none (not even the Skaven themselves) dare to cross and disrupt all divinations and dimensional travel, making the exact location of Skavenblight a mystery to all other races. The Skaven have thus expanded the city underground, creating a sprawling metropolis of endless caverns, to which are connected all other skaven cities across the world.

Other Skaven important cities include Hell Pit,  the stronghold where Clan Moulder breeds most of its new monsters, and the northern Lair-Nests where Skaven dig the dangerous but powerful warpstone, as long as they pay an heavy toll for Clan Rictus that controls.

Religion: Skaven almost exclusively worship the Horned Rat, a powerful demon prince that prophesizes the Great Ascendancy, where all Skaven conquer the world and all other races. The Horned Rat's will is enforced by the Council of Thirteen, composed by the twelve leaders of the twelve strongest Skaven clans, and an empty seat for the Horned Rat itself. It is this council that keeps Skaven working as a whole for world conquest and prevents them from descending into a series of fractured factions or all-out civil war. Betrayal and scheming are still not only commonplace, but actually fully expected (if not even admired) among the Skaven, and the only regrettable thing is to be caught before succeeding.

Skaven have little if no clerics, instead relying on their grey seers and plague monk for their "religious" duties.

Language: Skaven speak Common, Squick-speak (their own language), and rarely learn other languages.

Names: Skaven take short names that are quite similar to the squealing and chittering of rats, like Ikit, Throt, Skweel, Queek, Tretch, Sckorlk and Sknikch.

Adventurers: Although they usually prefer strength in numbers, there's many Skaven willing to take the path of the adventurer, for the opportunity of gaining great personal power in short time, or at least some kind of powerful trading chip to buy themselves a high position in Skaven society.

SKAVEN RACIAL TRAITS
•Humanoid Type: Skavens are humanoids.
• +2 Dexterity, +2 Intelligence, –4 Wisdom: Skavens are naturally fast and cunning, but cowardly and devoid of empathy or compassion.
• Medium: As Medium creatures, Skaven have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
•Darkvision 60 feet.
• Skaven base land speed is 40 feet.
•Skurry Away: All Skaven embody the adage "he who runs away lives to fight another day". Skaven gain +5 feet to their land speed while using the Withdraw option or under any Fear effect.
•Verminous Valor: Skaven consider that scampering to safety while dooming their own allies as something natural. Whenever a Skaven is targeted by an attack, they may as an Immediate action take cover behind an adjacent ally, turning them into the target.
•Strength in Numbers:All Skaven gain +1 to Will saves for each adjacent ally of their own size or bigger.
•Bite: Skaven possess a Bite natural weapon that deals 1d4+Str mod damage.
•Black Hunger: Skaven need to eat a lot to keep their fast metabolisms going. They eat four times as much as a normal medium humanoid. If a Skaven goes 8 hours without eating they become fatigued. If they go 8 hours fatigued they become Exhausted. If they go 8 hours exhausted they must make a Fort save with DC 20 every hour or die, with the DC increasing by 1 every consecutive hour. Such is the hunger of the Skaven that even if they somehow lose the need to eat (like a ring of sustenance, becoming undead/construct), they still need to put fresh food down their throats every 8 hours or be rendered insane (even if they have become immune to mind-affecting) until they eat a good meal again.

Base Classes:
Skaven Warlord
Grey Seer
Plague Priest
Eshin Agent
Master Moulder
Warlock Engineer
Prc:
Eshin Nightlady
Verminlord

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So this was the small project I talked about some pages ago. For those of you who don't know, Skaven are a faction from Warhammer Fantasy, that I specially enjoy and feel like they would fit quite well in your average D&D campaign.  If people like it I'll work on the other skaven classes, if not then back to the monsters on the waiting list. But even then I'll eventually come back to this and finish it.   

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Skaven Warlord


"Now, hear-listen what I have to say. Long-long have we fought for this under-lair and now we stand in the Darf-things throne room. Their king-thing sat here. I, Warlord Viskis, have eaten him. We must take-take the other levels, kill-kill all that remain. Following is MY plan!"-Skaven Warlord Viskis

A treacherous hierarcy of clans dominates Skaven society, with what are known as Warlord clans making up the bulk of the bulging population. At the top of the pyramid of clan power is the Warlord, who must embody a kill-or-be-killed maxim. A Skaven Warlord is often physically larger and more imposing than his brethern, but he must also be a devious tactician to stay ahead of any would-be usurpers. As it is the Skaven cut-throat way to rise by any means possible, a Skaven Warlord  is right to suspect anyone and everyone.

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Adventures: Leadership must be savagely taken. To gain power, a Skaven Warlord must seize control proving himself a top fighter and devious adversary. By adventuring, a Skaven Warlord has plenty of oportunities to prove his might, collect trophies, and perhaps even strike temporary alliances with others to take down a rival.

Characteristics: Altough not as mighty as a orc chieftain or as devious as a drow captain, Skaven Warlords are an unique combination of martial prowess to crush their oponent during combat, leadership trough fear to keep his minions in line during combat, and political scheming to set rivals against each other.

Religion: Skaven Warlords don't have much time for religion, but they usally offer prayers for the Horned Rat.

Background: Skaven Warlords usually have risen quickly trough the ranks, or not risen at all. Those skaven that not only grow  big and strong but also bully their lither brothers, are quickly assigned to important military positions, and from there is a matter of staying alive while making sure others around you die first.

Other Classes: Skaven Warlords are more than happy to work with other classes and the variety of support they can offer, as long as the Skaven Warlord himself can be in a leadership position. If anything, they distrust sneaky allies, which they always suspect will try to cut their throats as soon as they turn their backs, but the Skaven Warlord has no problem with them cutting other's throats.

Role: Skaven Warlords provide a frontline force that triples as group support and clever manipulator.

HD:d10

Level	Bab	Fort	Ref	Will	Feature
1	+1	+2	+0	+0	Pawleader, Scavenge Pile
2	+2	+3	+0	+0	Clawleader, Verminous Honor
3	+3	+3	+1	+1	Stormvermin, Verminous Standard, +1 Str
4	+4	+4	+1	+1	Fangleader, Cornered Rats, +1 Con
5	+5	+4	+1	+1	Rat Chieftain, Allmighty Fighting Prowess, +1 Str
6	+6	+5	+2	+2	Rat General, Tools of Supremacy, +1 Con

Skills:6+int modifier per level, quadruple at 1st level,  class skills are Balance(Dex), Bluff(Cha), Climb(Str), Intimidate(Cha), Jump(Str), Hide(Dex), Knowledge (any) (int), Listen (wis), Search(int), Sense Motive(wis), Spot (wis), Swim (Str)

Proficiencies: Simple and Martial Weapons, Light and Medium armor, Light and Heavy Shields

Features:

Pawleader:At first level the Skaven Warlord only has the authority to order around a number of slaves equal to twice his Str mod or Skaven Warlord level, whicever's lower (minimum 2, maximum 12), the lowiest members of skaven society. Treat those as skaven commoner 1 with non-elite array of stats (before racial modifiers), no feats or skills, and just 1 HP, such is the poor conditions they're treated. They come with the simple  weapon they're proficient with, but it's in such a poor state that it has no market value whatsoever. They're fanatic towards the Skaven Warlord, and if they die, new ones will appear as replacement from the surrounding lands in 24  hours. That's because the only alternative a skaven slave has to working to death in some underground city is to serve as soldier to a Skaven Warlord, in the faint (but possible) hope of surviving and being promoted.

Scavenge Pile:Skaven society produces a series of unique equipment that are standard among their elite and leaders members. At 1st level the Skaven Warlord gains one of the following options (he's automatically proficient with any weapons gained from this).

Warpmusket- Skaven often use the highly unstable magical energies of warpstone to create devilishly deadly weapons. The warpmusket is a two-handed masterwork ranged weapon with a range increment of 100 feet and x4 crit multiplier that fires bolts of chaotic energy dealing 2d6 damage per shot and counts as magic for bypassing DR and hiting incorporeal oponents. Firing a warpmusket provokes attacks of oportunity just like a bow. It recquires no ammo, but on an attack roll of natural 1 the weapon releases a burst of energy that damages the user as if he had hit himself!

 Any non-skaven that uses a Warpmusket takes 1 point of Con and Wis drain for each shot fired, even if they're immune to ability drain.


Warplock Pistols-As the Warplock Musket, but is a one-handed weapon, deals 1d8 damage per shot and has a range increment of 30 feet, and doesn't provoke an attack of oportunity for firing in melee. Also the skaven gets two of these.
 
Poison Contract- The fine powders and unctuous lotions purchased from Clan Eshin can turn a scratch into a deathblow. At every nightfall the Skaven is contacted by a Clan Eshin member that offers it a choice of venoms and toxins. The Skaven Warlord can get up to 1000 GP per HD worth of poisons from this contact whitout paying anything, but they're cheap versions and will become useless if not used whitin 24 hours (and thus have no market value). This contact can also be used to purchase regular poisons with gold or other goods. In addition the Skaven  no longer risks poisoning himself when applying poisons to his weapons.

Tail Weapon- Altough a Skaven's tail is not strong enough to inflict any damage by itself, some Skaven learn how to wield a weapon with it. This could also be a mechanical clan Skyre attachment or an evolved mutation, the results are the same-another appendage wielding a weapon. This grants the Skaven one extra attack on a fullattack, but only adds half his Str mod to it. The extra appendage cannot perform fine manipulation.


Clawleader:At 2nd level the Skaven Warlord has enough authority to, instead of slaves, command  clanrats, the basic soldiers of the skaven, at the rate of 1 clanrat per 2 slaves (he may mix and match both, like 1 clanrat and 2 slaves instead of 2 clanrats). Treat them as Warriors with a Warrior level equal to the Skaven Warlord's HD -2(minimum 1), nonelite array of stats (before racial modifiers), that come with studded leather armor, light shield and two melee weapons they're proficient with. Again their equipment is of such lowly quality that it has no market value. They gain skills and feats as normal, but all feats must be spent in [Fighter] feats.  They obey the Skaven Warlord's orders, and if killed are replaced whitin 48 hours. In alternative, the Skaven Warlord may promote any slaves that survived at least one ecounter that granted the Skaven Warlord exp. This doesn't allow the Skaven Warlord to control more clanrats than normal, any excess surviving slaves are quickly backstabbed by their own brethern to make promotion room.

Verminous Honor: All skaven leaders agressively take credit for positive outcomes and swiftly allocate blame for all that goes poorly. This ranges from tweaking the truth to outrageous lies. For instance, if an avalanche destroys large portions of the foe, the more convincingly a Chieftain can take credit for the event, the more his esteem rises with subordinates ("yes-yes, it is deadly to attack Chieftain Snarlock") and overlords ("The Great Horned One watches over Snarlock"). The fact that few believe such lies or blatant self-aggrandisement is neither here nor there-what is important is the small strand of possiblity and the sheer audacity required to make such claims. It takes a great leader to speak great lies.

At 2nd level the Skaven Warlord adds his Skaven Warlord level plus half other levels as a racial bonus in all Bluff, Intimidate and Sense Motive Checks.

Stormvermin:At 3rd level the skaven rises to the rank of Stormvermin, the finest(relatively speaking) skaven warriors! Those ratmen are righteously feared for moving and attacking at lighting speed despite the great bulk of their gear. The Skaven Warlord becomes proficient with heavy armor, isn't encumbered by armor of any kind anymore (so he moves at his normal speed regardless of the armor type), and ignores the Max Dex bonus on any armor he wears.

Verminous Standard:With the natural cowardice of their brethern, Skaven Warlords carry large banners to boost their forces morale, and to strike fear into the minds of the enemy in order to even the odds. At 3rd level the Skaven Warlord can craft a personal banner with 8 hours of work and 100 GP worth of materials. All allies  whitin 40 feet of the banner gain a morale bonus to Will saves and attack rolls equal to 1/3 HD, including the Skaven Warlord himself. When the banner carrier charges, oponents whitin 30 feet of his end point must make a Will save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Str mod(of the Skaven Warlord) or be Shaken for 1 round. The Banner must be wielded in at least one hand, and if the wielder becomes stunned, paralyzed, prone, panicked or otherwise helpless or unable to hold the banner anymore, all the banner bonus are lost for 24 hours. The exception is that if another skaven is adjacent to the banner carrier when they would drop it, the skaven may pick up the falling banner as an immediate action and keep the bonus going.

The Skaven Warlord may delegate a minion to carry the banner on his stead to have both hands free, as long as he trust him to keep the banner high.

As the Skaven Warlord grows in power and legend, his personal banner acquires new qualities. The following abilities are only gained if all Skaven Warlord levels were taken.

At 6 HD as a swift action the wielder may 1/hour double the movement speed of all allies whitin 40 feet. If he charges during that turn, enemies are shaken on a sucesful save or frightened on a failed save.

At 9 HD he can decorate the banner with trophies and hides of an oponent as a fullround action. Allies whitin 40 feet of the banner gain a morale bonus on damage rolls equal to 1/2 the HD of the slain oponent against creatures of the same type (in the case of humanoids, must be of the same race). Only the remains of one oponent may be in the banner at any time for the purpose of this ability, removing old ones is a fullround action.

At 12 HD, enemies whitin 40 feet of the banner find themselves suddenly covered by squealing and biting rats out of nowhere that automatically inflict 1d6 damage per 6 HD at the start of the wielder's turn, plus inflicts a penalty on all skill checks  equal to 1/3 HD on said enemies while they're whitin 40 feet of the banner.

At 15 HD as a fullround action 1/day the banner carrier can start a ruinous storm that makes flying of any kind impossible in a radius of 1 mile per HD. Ranged attacks inside the area take a penalty equal to 1/3 HD on attack rolls, and even ranged attacks that would hit automatically like spells suffer a 50% failure chaince. At the end of every round after this ability is activated, there's a 20% chance the storm ends. In addition now every time the carrier charges enemies whitin 40 feet of the end point are shaken on a sucesful save or frightened on a failed save instead of just shaken in a failed save. If he uses the double movement speed ability, they're panicked on a failed save or shaken in a sucessful save instead.


At 18 HD the banner has become a tapestry of dread and evil. Its patterns twist and move forming runes that can be read in any language- "Gaze into the eyes of the Great Horned Rat and despair". Oponents whitin 40 feet take a penalty on Will saves equal to 1/6 HD, lose any immunity to Fear they may have (but still gain a +5 bonus against fear effects if they had it) and as an immediate action the banner carrier may force an oponent whitin 40 feet to re-roll a sucessfull Will save.


Ability Increase: The Skaven Warlord gains +1 to Str at levels 3 and 5 and +1 to Con at levels 4 and 6, for a total of +2 Str and +2 com at level 6.

Fangleader:At 4th level the Skaven Warlord has become important enough to, instead of clanrats or slaves, command a number of elite  stormvermin, at the rate of 1 stormvermin for each 2 clanrats (he may mix and match all types, like 1 stormvermin, 1 clanrat and 2 slaves instead of 2 stormvermin). Treat them as Skaven Warlords with a level equal to your own HD-2 (once they take all Skaven Warlord levels, they can take fighter and/or barbarian levels), elite array of stats (before racial modifiers), that come with fullplate armor and a +1 weapon they're proficient with, but have no minions or banners of their own. They gain skills and feats as normal, but all feats must be spent in [Fighter] feats.  They obey the Skaven Warlord's orders, but if killed are not replaced. The Skaven Warlord may replace stormvermin by promoting clanrats that survived at least one ecounter that granted the Skaven Warlord exp (must still get their equipment from somewhere else). This doesn't allow the Skaven Warlord to control more stormvermin than normal, any excess surviving stormvermin are quickly backstabbed by their own brethern to make promotion room.

If the Skaven Warlord is himself slain, the player may pick up one of Stormvermin (if any's still alive) to keep playing. If he consumes a piece of his "previous" character, no matter how small, he absorbs the older essence and gains all the stats of the previous warlord, just with one lost level (overwriting the stormvermin own stats).


Cornered Rats: Desesperate Skaven can become suprisingly vicious. Whenever one of the Skaven Warlord's minions under his view fails a save, he can glare at it as an immediate action with terrible promises of death. The minion sucidically automatically throws himself at the nearest enemy whitin 10 feet, dealing 1d4 damage per HD (of the minion). The minion then dies from or takes the chance to chance to escape the battlefield never to be seen again, depending on the situation (either way, the minion's removed from the battle).



Rat Chieftain:At 5th level the Warlord becomes a true skaven hero (by ratmen standards of course), and nobody  would question that the Horned Rat clearly watches over him.  He treats natural 13s on attack rolls and saves as natural 20s (including always threatening a critical on a natural roll of 13).

Allmighty Fighting Prowess:A viscious streak, a vitriolic temper, an immense ego, those are all traits greatly regarded  by the skaven. At 5th level pick one of the following options.

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Trophy Hunter-The Warlord fights with the fury of the deepy conceited. As long as he carries remains of important enemies impaled on spikes at his back, as a swift action he can choose to focus on a single opponent. For 1 round he  gain a bonus equal to 1/5 his HD on all attack rolls, damage rolls and ability checks against that opponent. If one of the trophies is of someone the target of the focus personally knew or considered important, double this bonus.

Opportunistic Raider-The Warlord is an expert at attacking disadvantaged foes, a master of hacking down enemies that aren't looking. As a swift action for 1 round the Skaven warlord can re-rolls all attacks, trips, disarms, sunders, grapples and bullrushes against flanked and/or flatfooted enemies.

Stay here, I'll Get Help-The warlord has an uncanny ability to leave his companions at the most opportune time to a "better" positon. As a swift action, if the Warlord is adjacent to an ally, he can instantly move up to any space adjacent to another ally whitout provoking attacks of opportunity, as long as he doesn't move more than his base speed.

Rat General:At 6th level the Skaven Warlord is a true leader of rats.  Skavens from every place flock to him, granting him a virtualy endless supply of cannon fodder troops. Slaves can now replaced every hour, and clanrats every 8 hours.

If the Skaven Warlord has 10 Bab or more he instead replenishes slaves every 10  minute and clanrats every hour.

If the Skaven Warlord has 13 Bab or more he instead replenishes slaves every  minute and clanrats every 10 minutes.

If the Skaven Warlord has 17 Bab or more he instead replenishes slaves every  2 rounds and clanrats every minute.

If the Skaven Warlord has 20 Bab or more he instead replenishes slaves at the start of his turn and clanrats every 2 rounds.

If the replenishment happens in battle, the slaves/clanrats appear whitin 30 feet of the Skaven Warlord on any position of his choice.

Tools of Supremacy:At 6th level the Warlord gains acess to the best goods of Skaven society, in order to show the world his unquestionable might! Any selecteable weapons count as masterwork and magic for bypassing DR and hiting incorporeal oponents, and can be be further enchanted by normal means. Since they're custom-crafted for the Skaven Warlord, they're just mundane weapons on the hands of anyone else.

Fellblade- Raw warpstone smelted into stolen adamantine. Incantations of doom were heaped upon this cursed blade. Death itself was bound to its cutting edge and any with eldritch sight can see the aura of power and ruin that surrounds this wicked creation.

The Fellblade can be fashioned in the form of any weapon, doubles the wielder's Strength bonus for all purposes, ignores half the DR of the target and has a 50% chance of automatically dispelling any spell/power/similar on the target that would prevent the Fellblade from hiting it. Any natural attack roll of 3 or lower with this weapon automatically strikes the wielder instead. It cannot be further enanched.

Warpforged Blade-Warpstone powder mixed with steel during the forging process creates a weapon of wicked cutting prowess. The Warpforged Blade can be fashioned in the form of any weapon and all attacks with it ignore half the armor/shield/natural armor bonus of the target. Natural 1s with the  Warpforged blade automatically hit the wielder instead.

Warp Generator Weapon-This blade is attached to a warp generator that channels crackling energy along the weapon. The Warp Generator Weapon can be fashioned in the form of any weapon and it grants an Insight bonus to the Str of the wielder equal to 1/3 his HD, plus allowing an extra attack per round on a full attack. Natural 1s with the  Warpforged blade automatically hit the wielder instead.
 
Bonebreaker-This is one of Clan Moulder's specially engineered variant mount breeds, created by taking an augmented Rat Ogre and submerging the stitched monstrosity in a vat of growth agents for months. It takes thousands of slaves dying horrible deaths to produce enough growing juices to fill the vat. When it emerges from its enforced chemical immerson, the bonebreaker is so bulked out that its upper body is hunched over, straining to contain such massed brawn. A braced platform strapped or bolted onto the creature's back, allows a Warlord to ride atop the Bonebreaker. When mounted atop such a besast, a Warlord becomes pride-swollen and behaves more arrogantly than ever!

The bonebreaker is a large monstruous humanoid with base speed 60 feet and 10 base on Str, Dex and Con, 2 Int, 6 Wis and 10 Cha. It has an amount of d8 HD equal to the Skaven Warlord, average Bab, gains +1 to Str and Con for every HD, two natural claw attacks dealing 1d8+Str mod each and a bite attack dealing 1d6+1/2 Str damage, all good saves, plus a bonus to Natural armor equal to its HD.  It gains 2 skill points per HD and has just Spot and Listen as class skills. It also gains feats as normal but can only pick [Fighter] and/or [Monster] feats. Finally it delivers blows with such raw brutality that whenever it hits an oponent in melee, all whitin 30 must suceed on a Will save with DC 10+1/2 Str mod or become Shaken for 1 round (this doesn't stack with itself).

The Skaven Warlord can ride it using Intimidate instead of the Ride skill, and the Bonebreaker comes with a special plataform that grants the Skaven Warlord Cover (20% miss chance) while riding on it. If he's carrying his banner, all Verminous Standard abilities have their range increased to 60 feet as he stands out even more. If the bonebreaker gets killed, a new one can be supplied in a day's time for a 500's GP if the body is returned to a representative of Clan Moulder (found in any cave if the Skaven Warlord screams its name and waits for 24 hours) or 5000 GP and a week otherwise

Great Pox Rat-Another special breed of Clan Moulder, the Great Pox Rat is the size of a large pony, only much wider and abhorrent. A great Pox Rat's filth-encrusted claws and mouth are filled with needle-sharp edges and infectious diseases. Once astride the heavily bloated Great Pox Rat a Warlord can rightfully twitch his tail in pride, for surely none would be so foolish as to challenge such a mighty personage?

The great pox rat is a large animal with base speed 60 feet, 60 swim speed  30 feet climb speed, and 10 base on Str, Dex and Con, 2 Int, 6 Wis and 10 Cha. It has an amount of d8 HD equal to the Skaven Warlord, average Bab, gains +1 to Str and Dex for every HD, two natural claw attacks dealing 1d6+1/2 Str mod each and a bite attack dealing 1d8+1,5 Str mod damage, all good saves, plus a bonus to Natural armor equal to its HD.  It gains 4 skill points per HD and has just Spot, Hide, Move Silently and Listen as class skills. It also gains feats as normal but can only pick [Fighter] and/or [Monster] feats. Finally both its mouths and claws inflict Filth Fever, except the DC is 10+1/2HD+Str mod and the disease doesn't have incubation time, forcing a sucessful save or inflicting 1d3 Dex and 1d3 Con damage right away. Multiple hits on a single target stack. At 10 HD the Pox Rat's diseases can damage even creatures normally immune to it, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves.

The Skaven Warlord can ride it using Intimidate instead of the Ride skill. If he's carrying his banner, all Verminous Standard abilities have their range increased to 60 feet as he stands out even more. If the great pox rat gets killed, he can leave its body on a cave. For the next 24 hours, the carcass will atract all sorts of rats and vermin that will feast into the corpse, and then upon each other. When the 24 hours end, a new great pox rat will have emerged, loyal to the Skaven Warlord only. If no body can be recovered, a new request to Clan Moulder plus 5000 GP and a week of time can get a new one too.

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Grey Seer

The messenger bowed low, pressing its muzzle to the floor
"Speak-speak!”-snarled the Grey Seer
“Unexpected complications, most powerful of potentates”-answered the scurrier just before being roasted alive.
“Bad news can wait, and it's always best to kill the messenger"-Grey Seer Arqueek, after unleashing a warp lighting.


The Grey Seers are also known as the Chosen of the Great Horned One, prophets of the Lord of the Great Below, and the voice of the Horned Rat. They are powerfull sorcerers, capable of channeling eldritch energies in destructive ways. The strongest grey seers ride atop the nightmarish Screaming Bell to unleash untold ruination.

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Adventures:Grey Seers adventure normally guided by visions of the Horned Rat, to both acquire new eldritch knowledge, powers and unleash ruin and devastation along the way.

Characteristics:Grey seers wield both a wide array of ofensive magic to destroy his oponents and eldritch tricks for when subtelty is needed.

Religion:Grey Seers are the direct envoys of the Horned Rat, and don't hesitate to use that position to gain every advantage they can get away with.

Background:Marked at birth with their extremely rare fur colour, anywhere from pure grey to nearly white, Grey Seers are also different from other litter-spawnings as thye have small nub-like bony growths atop their heads. Should the Grey Seer live long enough, these will grow to become the fully formed horns that command instant fear and subjugation from all other Skaven.

Other Classes:Grey Seers see warriors and warlords as little more than pawns to distract the enemy while they unleash their magics. They have some more respect for other classes that can complement his own magics, but the Grey Seer still considers himself vastly superior to all others, for is he not a prophet of the Horned Rat?

Role: Grey seers provide powerful battlefield control, but at a considerable risk.

HD:d4

Level	Bab	Fort	Ref	Will	Feature
1	+0	+0	+0	+2	Grey Magic, Mark of the Horned Rat, Plague and Ruin
2	+1	+0	+0	+3	Rat Familiar
3	+1	+1	+1	+3	Warpstone Tokens
4	+2	+1	+1	+4	Warpstone Orb
5	+2	+1	+1	+4	Scavenge Pile
6	+3	+2	+2	+5	Screaming Bell

Skills:2+int modifier per level, quadruple at 1st level,  class skills are  Bluff(Cha), Concentration(Con), Craft(Wis) Intimidate(Cha),  Knowledge (any) (int),  Search(int), Sense Motive(wis), Spellcraft(Int)

Proficiencies: Simple Weapons.

Features:
Grey Magic: Grey Seers can cast as sorcerors of their Grey Seer level, but every level they must first learn  spells of the Plague and Ruin list (see below) whenever possible before learning any other sorceror/wizard spells. So for example at  first level the Grey Seer must learn Skitterleap and Pestilent Breath as his two starting 1st level spells, but can pick any 4 sorceror/wizard cantrips it wishes because the Plague and Ruin list doesn't have 0th level spells.  Grey Seer levels stacks with regular sorceror and caster-prc for casting, but the spell learning limitation is maintained.

Mark of the Horned Rat: Grey Seers are marked by an unique grey-white fur and two horns. These grant the Grey seer a +2 bonus on any Cha-based checks against other skaven.

Plague and Ruin: The Horned Rat blesses its prophets with acess to unique spells, at the cost of part of their sanity. The Grey Seer has a 10% chance of failing to cast any spell that can't be prevented by any means.

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Skitterleap
Conjuration [Skaven] [Teleportation]
Level: Grey Seer 1
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range:  Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: 1 willing creature whitin range.
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

With a “Bamf” the Skaven Sorcerer disappears in a puff of smoke to reappear somewhere else on the battlefield.

This spell teleports one target creature (including the Grey Seer himself) up to a distance of 20 feet per CL plus 5d4x5ft . If a 13 is rolled on the 5d4, you may also make this magic affect any number of willing targets whitin range. But if you roll three or more 1s, then this spell automatically fails and you take 1d6 damage per CL.

Pestilent Breath
Necromancy [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 1, Plague Priest 1
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 Standard action
Range: 20 feet
Area:Cone-shaped burst
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

Uttering horrible phrases the Skaven Sorcerer belches forth an impossible foul cloud.

This spell deals 5d4 damage to all inside the area unless they suceed on a Fort save. If a 13 is rolled on the extra 5d4, no saves, SR or counterspelling are allowed against this spell, and affected creatures are sickened for 13 rounds on top of the damage.   But if you roll three or more 1s on the 5d4, then this spell automatically fails and you take 1d6 damage per CL.

Warp Lighting
Evocation [Skaven] [Electricity]
Level: Grey Seer 2
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 Standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target: Up to one creature per fired bolt
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex for half
Spell Resistance: Yes

The Skaven points a fleshy paw and bolts of greenish black lighting arc outwards.

This spell fires 1d12 bolts that automatically hit the targets unless they have total cover or total concealment, each bolt dealing Cha mod electricity damage, Reflex save for half. The caster may choose to target all bolts to a single target or divide them among several enemies (if combined over a single target, count them as a single source of damage for resistance purposes). If a 1 is rolled on the number of bolts, then the bolt explodes on the caster's hand damaging himself.

At 8 CL, and for every other 4 CL, you may fire an extra 1d12 rays, but the “backfire” option still applies. If you ever fire exactly 13 bolts, double the damage dealt, no saves, SR or counterspelling are allowed against this spell, and it also bypasses any electricity resistance, and even creatures immune to electricity take normal (non-doubled) damage.


Bless with Filth
Necromancy[Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 2,Plague Priest 2
Components: V,  M
Casting Time: 1 Standard Action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: up to 1 willing creature per CL whitin range.
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: none.
Spell Resistance: no.

A foul mist wraps around the weapons of nearby allies and the weapons begin to drip with toxic filth.

The targets of this spell count all their melee attacks as poisoned for 1 round. The exact poison is equal to the one consumed in the casting of this spell. If the targets already had any kind of poison attack, add the caster's Cha mod to the save DC for 1 round.

Material component: any one dose of poison.

Howling Warpgale
Transmutation[Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 3
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 fullround action
Area:1-mile radius circle, centered on the caster.
Duration: Concentration+1 round.
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: no
The caster gestures twitchingly to the skies and fierce eldritch hurricane gales begin to build until it swirls around the entire battlefield, forming a cursed storm.

This spell summon driving winds that last while the Grey Seer concentrates and one extra round. All flying creatures inside the area are forced to land in the ground  and cannot fly anymore for the duration.  All enemy ranged attacks  inside the area suffer a penalty to attack rolls equal to the caster's Cha mod. Allies can still fire normaly as the caster still holds enough control over the unnatural winds to divert them from friendly missiles, but any natural 1s on such allied ranged attacks automaticaly hit the caster. Allied natural ranged attack rolls of 13 count as a natural 20, including threatening criticals.

Wither
Necromancy [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 4, Plague Priest 4
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1  standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Targets: Up to one creature per CL
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: Yes
Chanting passages from the Liber Bubonicus, the mage casts a spell of wasting, shrinking sickness.

Affected creatures take a 1d6 penalty to Con for 1 round (can't reduce below 1). If you want you may roll up to another two 1d6 and add the results to the penalty value, but if you roll a 1 in any of the dice then none of the enemies are affected and you take the resulting penalty to Con yourself for 1 round. If on the other hand you get exactly a 13, then  no SR or counterspelling are allowed against this spell, and its duration  becomes permanent. This last part doesn't apply if you rolled two or more 1s.

Focus:passages from the Liber Bubonicus, normaly on trips of yellowish paper or carved in bones.

Death Frenzy
Enchantment [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 5
Components: S, V
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Targets: up to 1 willingly creature per CL
Duration: 5d4 rounds.
Saving Throw: See text
Spell Resistance: no

Gesticulating wildly the caster gifts its allies with a rabid and frothing urge to close and strike the foe.

Creatures affected by this spell gain an Insight bonus to Str and to Will saves against Fear equal to your Cha mod, and can perform two extra attacks on a full attack. The affected creatures must then make a Will save at the start of their turn  or attack their nearest foe to the best of their ability. If no foes are visible and they fail the save, they'll start attacking allies.

If three or more 1s were rolled for the duration, affected creatures automatically attack the nearest enemy, or ally if no enemies are visible.

If an exact 13 was rolled for the duration, affected creatures are blessed with a murderous clarity, and can always choose who and when to attack.

Vermintide
Necromancy [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 5, Plague Priest 5
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action.
Effect: one improved swarm

The caster invokes and many vermin answer the call...

This spell works as Summon Swarm, but the invoked swarm has their HD increased to an amount equal to your CL, they fill a space of 20ft, they cause 1d6 damage per 4 CL, and add your Cha mod to the DC of any of their abilities that has a DC.

Scorch
Evocation [Skaven][Fire][Fear]
Level: Grey Seer 6
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level) 
Area:20-ft.-radius spread
Duration: See text
Saving Throw:See text
Spell Resistance: Yes

The skaven sorcerer thrusts his paws into the ground while cittering fiery incantations, summoning a gout of flame to blast out of the earth!

This spell makes an explosion to emerge from the ground towards the target area. Creatures inside the spread take 1d6 fire damage per CL and are panicked for 5d4 rounds. A sucessfull Reflex save reduces the damage to half and a sucessfull Will save reduces the panicked to shaken for 5d4 rounds.

Always roll the duration first. If you roll three or more 1s then the blast erupts in such a way that the caster's inside the spread instead of the original target area (the caster still gets to save). If you roll an exact 13, no saves, SR or counterspelling are allowed against this spell, it ignores any Fire and Fear resistances from the targets, and even creatures immune to fire take half damage and creatures immune to Fear are panicked for 1 round.

Cloud of Corruption
Necromancy [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 6,Plague Priest 6
Components:V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action.
Area:Sphere centered on caster with a radius of up to 5 ft per CL
Duration:Instantaneous
Saving Throw:Fort for half
Spell Resistance: Yes

The caster releases a stinking blast of diseased fury.

This spell ignores any barriers on its path, the corrupting cloud sliping trough the minimal chinks on both physical and magic barriers, affecting all inside the Area. All but the caster take 1d6 acid damage per CL plus an extra 5d4 acid damage and two negative levels. A sucessful Fort save halves the acid damage and reduces the negative levels received to 1.

If three or more 1s were rolled for the extra acid damage, then the cloud only ends up affecting the caster himself (he still gets a save). If an exact 13 was rolled for the extra acid damage, no saves, SR or counterspelling are allowed against this spell, it ignores any resistance against acid and energy drain, and even creatures immune to acid take half the damage and creatures immune to energy drain take 1 negative level.

Cracks Call
Conjuration [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 7
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Area: 5d4x5 ft line
Duration:Instantaneous
Saving Throw:Reflex negates (none for objects)
Spell Resistance:no

With the arcane incantation invoked, the Skaven ends by stamping his horrible pinkish rat-like foot, causing the very ground to split asunder.

A crack appears in the ground at the caster's feet, and runs for 5d4x30ft in a straight line in any direction of the caster's choosing. Any creatures in its path are allowed a Reflex save to jump to the sides, otherwise they're swallowed and crushed to death. This spell also tears an hole trough any inanimate obstacles like buildings and Wall of Force.
This spell can even be cast in the air, in which case the crack forms in mid-air, splintering the fabric of reality itself for a moment (same game effect,just targeting stuff in the air).

If three or more 1s were rolled for the area, then crack forms just under the caster himself (he still gets a save to survive). If an exact 13 was rolled for the area, then this spell can't be countered and affected creatures must re-roll any sucessful Reflex saves.


Plague
Necromancy [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 8, Plague Priest 8
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 fullround action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect: Up to 1 creature per CL, none of which can be more than 30 feet away from the others.
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw:Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: No

The caster unleashes a disease from the Book of Woe.

The affected creatures must make Fortitude save or die from a virulent and inplacable disease. Such is its adaptation ability that the Plague can even affect creatures immune to disease, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves. This includes constructs/undeads as the Plague adopts a corrosive nature. Even the enviroment around the victims is suddenly covered on a sickly green, with rocks cracking, waters going fetid and other signs of decay.  After all saves have been made roll a 1d6 and apply the result:

1-The spell backfires! The nearest oponent can decide to end it, or cast it again with new targets of its choice but using your own stats, and then roll a new 1d6.

2-4-The plague stops...For now.

5-6-The plague endures! The last individual to choose the target can decide to end the madness now, or cast it again using your own stats, and then roll a new 1d6.

Focus: a copy from the Book of Woe.


The Dreaded Thirteenth Spell-Curse of the Horned Rat
Transmutation [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 9, Plague Priest 9
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 fullround action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect: 5d4 creatures.
Duration:Permanent
Saving Throw: See Text
Spell Resistance: Yes

With a sickening lurch the fabric of reality is torn by the twisting power of the Great Horned One.

This spell corrupts 5d4 creatures whitin range. They must suceed on a Fort, Reflex or Will save (whichever's lower on each) or be turned into a clanrat (treat as a Skaven Warrior with 10 on all base stats, no feats or skills,  level equal to your HD, maintains equipment). Nothing short of a miracle or wish can turn them back to normal. They're now under the control of the caster for 24 hours, after which their new rat cowardice will have truly sinked on them and they'll run away to some Skaven city.

If a 13 is rolled on the amount of affected creatures, then no save, SR, counterspelling, contigencies, free or immediate actions are allowed against this spell. If 3 or more 1s are rolled on the dice, then the spell fails and the caster loses his 1d4 top spell slots and takes an equal penalty to CL for the rest of the day.

Rat Familiar: At 2nd level the Grey Seer gains the Familiar ability, but can only get a Rat. However it doesn't cost any GP, and if it dies the Grey Seer doesn't lose anything. It also doesn't need any summoning ritual, and if one goes missing, another shows up in 24 hours. Did I say “can”? I meant must. A new rat familiar always appears after 24 hours of the loss of the last one, showing up from some dark corner.

Warpstone Tokens: These pieces of refined warpstone are consumed by power-hungry Grey Seers to add their spellcasting. This is dangerous, but the quick road to power is an irresistible pull for any Skaven.

At 3rd level the Grey Seer can eat one Warpstone token as a swift action. If he does, the next spell he casts during this round has its CL increased by 1d4-1. If a 1 is rolled on this d4, then the Grey Seer loses life equal to his CL, bypassing any defenses he may have.

Warpstone is mined from underground cursed mines, and the Skaven have basically the monopoly on all known extraction sites. Grey Seers, thanks to their status, get acess to “free samples”, and daily delivery is assured regardless of the Grey Seer's whereabouts. Every nightfall a small, aparently innocuous rat will find his way to the Grey Seer and start nibbling on him. If gutted, it will reveal one Warpstone token for every 3 HD of the Grey Seer. Those warpstone tokens must be used in 24 hours or grow brittle and crumble in useless dust.

Warpstone Orb: At 4th level the Grey Seer crafts a personal Scrying Stone made of the dangerous warpstone, held in   a neclace, crown, bracelet, tip of a staff or simply in hand.  Inside it chaotic images form and dissolve every second, and this item is said to be able to glimpse the future. At least in occasion, it seems to be true!

At the begginning of every round the Grey Seer can declare he's taking a quick look at the WarpStone Orb as a free action. If he does, the next time that round that he would be harmed, there's a 50% chance the Grey Seer evades it in the last second thanks to a Warpstone Orb premonition.  But if the evasion is sucessfull, then next round the Grey Seer acts Confused as he can't resist to try to interpret the next instructions from the mysterious globe (treat a result of 01-10 as acting normally, and 51-70 to run away from the nearest danger source).

Scavenge Pile:Skaven society produces a series of unique equipment that are standard among their elite and leaders members. At 5th level the Grey Seer gains one of the following options (he's automatically proficient with any weapons gained from this).

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Warpmusket- Skaven often use the highly unstable magical energies of warpstone to create devilishly deadly weapons. The warpmusket is a two-handed masterwork ranged weapon with a range increment of 100 feet and x4 crit multiplier that fires bolts of chaotic energy dealing 2d6 damage per shot and counts as magic for bypassing DR and hiting incorporeal oponents. Firing a warpmusket provokes attacks of oportunity just like a bow. It recquires no ammo, but on an attack roll of natural 1 the weapon releases a burst of energy that damages the user as if he had hit himself!

 Any non-skaven that uses a Warpmusket takes 1 point of Con and Wis drain for each shot fired, even if they're immune to ability drain.

Warplock Pistols-As the Warplock Musket, but is a one-handed weapon, deals 1d8 damage per shot and has a range increment of 30 feet, and doesn't provoke an attack of oportunity for firing in melee. Also the skaven gets two of these.
 
Poison Contract- The fine powders and unctuous lotions purchased from Clan Eshin can turn a scratch into a deathblow. At every nightfall the Skaven is contacted by a Clan Eshin member that offers it a choice of venoms and toxins. The Skaven can get up to 1000 GP per HD worth of poisons from this contact whitout paying anything, but they're cheap versions and will become useless if not used whitin 24 hours (and thus have no market value). This contact can also be used to purchase regular poisons with gold or other goods. In addition the Skaven  no longer risks poisoning himself when applying poisons to his weapons.

Tail Weapon- Altough a Skaven's tail is not strong enough to inflict any damage by itself, some Skaven learn how to wield a weapon with it. This could also be a mechanical clan Skyre attachment or an evolved mutation, the results are the same-another appendage wielding a weapon. This grants the Skaven one extra attack on a fullattack, but only adds half his Str mod to it. The extra appendage cannot perform fine manipulation.

Screaming Bell: The bell is an ever-present symbol in the creation legends of the Skaven and its mighty toll strikes deep inside the hearts of the ratmen, inspiring awe and the closest thing to devotion a Skaven can achieve. It is from these unholy altars that the Grey Seers preach their plans of total domination in the name of the Great Horned Rat. In battle the ominous tolling of the bell resounds above the clamour of the fighting, the thunderous BONNNNG! Is magically amplified an those that hear it and survive cannot find the words to describe the cacophony of horrible sounds that emit from the unholy Bell. Doom, Doom, Doom it seems to endlessly say... all will fall, all will be ruinous, Doom, Doom, Doom!

At 6th level the Grey Seer can request 12 skaven slaves (skaven commoner 1 with 10 on all stats, no skills or feats) to build him his personal mobile unholy altar. The skaven slaves work tiressly for a week gathering the raw materials and puting them togheter. Once completed, the Screaming Bell stands inside an Huge square wheeled plataform (15 ft by 15 ft), 30 HP per HD and hardness equal to HD,  with enough space for the Grey Seer himself to sit/stand on top, and the slaves push and pull it to make it move by spending their own move actions. As long as there's 6 slaves remaining, the Screaming Bell moves at their movement speed. If there's only 5 or 4 slaves it moves at half their movement speed. 3 slaves can't make the Screaming Bell move. Lost slaves are automaticaly replaced every hour as more flock to the Grey Seer's unholy presence. Should he be in an hurry and with lack of slaves, the Grey Seer can have others do the hard work, but animals refuse to pull the Screaming Bell. Otherwise 6 creatures with Str 10, 3 with Str 12, two with str 14 or one with Str 16 (or higher) can push the Screaming Bell at their top speed. It is not unheard of adventurous Grey Seers to get all kinds of other beings to push their altars! Creatures pulling the Bell will be called “crew” from now on.

While the Grey Seer sits on the Screaming Bell, he has cover and concealment and  it gains the following options:

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Ruinous Charge-As a combined fullround action from the crew and Grey Seer, the Screaming Bell moves up to twice their base speed (must move at least 10 feet). If there's any creatures on its path, they can atempt to get out of the way with a Reflex Save with DC 10+1/2HD+Cha mod or take 1d6 damage per HD. They can also choose to don't make a Reflex save and instead perform a basic melee or ranged attack against the advancing Screaming Bell. The Screaming Bell can also damage inanimate obstacles and ignores hardness on any objects on its path. If the Screaming Bell deals enough damage to clear  something on its path, it can keep pushing forward with any leftover movement.

Doom Toll-As a fullround action, the Grey Seer rings the bell. Roll a 1d20.

1-4=Not yet in Stride.  The Grey Seer strains under the task and the air stirs with magical energy, but nothing happens.
5-8=Unholy Clamour. The toll of the Bell fills the crew with zeal. The Screaming Bell makes either a normal move or Ruinous Charge, and then the crew may still take actions as normal.
9-12=Avalanche of Power. A surge of energy ripples from the Screaming bell, making the Grey Seer lose one of his highest level spell slots and lose life equal to twice his CL.
13= A stirring Beyond the Veil. Something that should not be awoken answers the Bell's summons...  The Screaming Bell summons a demon, aberration or chromatic dragon of CR 2 bigger than the Grey Seer's HD (Grey Seer's choice). It appears in any place whitin 100 feet of the Grey Seer's choice and acts immediatily. It cannot however be controled and will simply attack and/or suport the Grey Seer against any nearby enemies the best way it sees it. If no enemies are nearby, it will turn on the crew. If no crew is available, it will attack the Grey Seer. It lasts for 13 rounds.
14-17=Deafening Peals. The unnatural vibration of the bell spread outwards. The creature with the highest HP whitin line of effect from the bell takes 1d8 sonic damage per CL. If multiple creatures are tied for highest HP, they all take the damage.
18-19=Wall of Unholy Sound. The deafening peals rolls across the land. All allies whitin 30 feet of the Screaming Bell gain an insight bonus to attack rolls equal to the Grey Seer's Cha mod for 13 rounds. Any buildings and structures whitin 60 feet have a 50% chance of crumbling into rubble (roll individually for each).
20=Apocalyptic Doom. With a cataclysmic eruption of sound the Screaming Bell splits asunder, crashing to the ground like ten thousand thunderclaps. Sometimes even years later, survivors will report hearing of a faint echo. The screaming Bell is destroyed. Everybody whitin 100 feet takes 1d8 sonic damage per CL.

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Plague Priest

”I-I abase myself and undeservedly place-place the resources of clans Pestilens at the disposal of the Council of Thirteen.
Furthermore, should-should the attempts against my life continue-continue, I'll have no option but to release this vial of Yellow Skull Fever here-here in the very heart of Skavenblight.”-Nurglitch, clans Pestilens representative.

Plague Priests are the most degenerate ratmen of the disciples of decay, otherwise known as Clan Pestilens. They lead their foul brethern in the creation of new and virulent diseases-forever searching for the ultimate plague that can weaken all nations so the Skaven can rise up and rule supreme.

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Adventures:Plague Priests are well versed in the art of traveling in search of new things, their clan having originated from skaven pioneers that managed to cross the ocean into the mysterious jungles of Lustria where several secrets still lie. But whereas others usually search for gold and jewels and shiny trinkets, Plague Priests search for new diseases and subjects to experiment upon and sacrifice to the Horned Rat.

Characteristics:Plague Priests wield powerful debilitating magic while being suprisingly tough frontline melee warriors. The best way to spread a plague is on the tick of the enemy!

Religion:Plague Priests claim to receive visions from the Horned Rat just as Grey Seers, altough they seem to always be told to spread diseases far and wide.

Background:Plague Priests are probably the most open clans of all, happily welcoming any interested. And then the rite of iniation is drinking a cocktail of diseases and surviving. More often than not new candidates are skaven already suffering from great maladies from one source or the other that have nothing more to lose.

Other Classes:Plague Priests happily work with anybody else willing to help them. The question is more if the others are willing to work the with heavy diseased, putrid and rotten rat.

Role: Plague Priests provide a ftontline warrior that can also inflict all kind of maladies on any close opponents, while buffering up its allies.

HD:d12

Level	Bab	Fort	Ref	Will	Feature
1	+0	+2	+0	+2	Pestilence Magic, Disease Carrier, Plague
2	+1	+3	+0	+3	Fanatical Delirium
3	+2	+3	+1	+3	Liber Bubonica
4	+3	+4	+1	+4	Plague Censer
5	+3	+4	+1	+4	Scavenge Pile
6	+4	+5	+2	+5	Icon of the Horned Rat

Skills:2+int modifier per level, quadruple at 1st level, class skills are Concentration(Con), Craft(Wis) Intimidate(Cha), Knowledge (any) (int), Profession (any), Search(int), Sense Motive(wis), Spellcraft(Int)

Proficiencies: Simple Weapons, shortsword, flail, heavy flail, light armor

Features:
Pestilence Magic:Plague Priests can cast as a cleric of their Plague Priest level, except it uses Cha as its main casting stat, has no domains and has its own spell list below. Plague Priest levels stacks with regular cleric and caster-prc for casting, but the spell learning limitation is maintained.

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0-Level Plague Priest Spells (Orisons)

Cure Minor Wounds: Cures 1 point of damage.
Detect Magic: Detects spells and magic items within 60 ft.
Guidance: +1 on one attack roll, saving throw, or skill check.
Resistance: Subject gains +1 on saving throws.
Virtue: Subject gains 1 temporary hp.

1st-Level Plague Priest Spells

Bane: Enemies take -1 on attack rolls and saves against fear.
Bless: Allies gain +1 on attack rolls and saves against fear.
Cure Light Wounds: Cures 1d8 damage +1/level (max +5).
Curse Water: Makes unholy water.
Deathwatch: Reveals how near death subjects within 30 ft. are.
Detect Chaos/Evil/Good/Law: Reveals creatures, spells, or objects of selected alignment.
Detect Undead: Reveals undead within 60 ft.
Divine Favor: You gain +1 per three levels on attack and damage rolls.
Endure Elements: Exist comfortably in hot or cold environments.
Entropic Shield: Ranged attacks against you have 20% miss chance.
Magic Weapon: Weapon gains +1 bonus.
Protection from Good/Law: +2 to AC and saves, counter mind control, hedge out elementals and outsiders.
Remove Fear: Suppresses fear or gives +4 on saves against fear for one subject + one per four levels.


2nd-Level Plague Priest Spells

Aid: +1 on attack rolls and saves against fear, 1d8 temporary hp +1/level (max +10).
Align Weapon: Weapon becomes good, evil, lawful, or chaotic.
Augury: Learns whether an action will be good or bad.
Bear’s Endurance: Subject gains +4 to Con for 1 min./level.
Bull’s Strength: Subject gains +4 to Str for 1 min./level.
Cure Moderate Wounds: Cures 2d8 damage +1/level (max +10).
Darkness: 20-ft. radius of supernatural shadow.
Death Knell: Kills dying creature; you gain 1d8 temporary hp, +2 to Str, and +1 level.
Delay Poison: Stops poison from harming subject for 1 hour/level.
Desecrate M: Fills area with negative energy, making undead stronger.
Eagle’s Splendor: Subject gains +4 to Cha for 1 min./level.
Enthrall: Captivates all within 100 ft. + 10 ft./level.
Gentle Repose: Preserves one corpse.
Resist Energy: Ignores 10 (or more) points of damage/attack from specified energy type.
Restoration, Lesser: Dispels magical ability penalty or repairs 1d4 ability damage.
Status: Monitors condition, position of allies.
Undetectable Alignment: Conceals alignment for 24 hours.
3rd-Level Plague Priest Spells
Bestow Curse: -6 to an ability score; -4 on attack rolls, saves, and checks; or 50% chance of losing each action.
Blindness/Deafness: Makes subject blinded or deafened.
Contagion: Infects subject with chosen disease.
Continual Flame M: Makes a permanent, heatless torch.
Cure Serious Wounds: Cures 3d8 damage +1/level (max +15).
Dispel Magic: Cancels spells and magical effects.
Invisibility Purge: Dispels invisibility within 5 ft./level.
Locate Object: Senses direction toward object (specific or type).
Magic Circle against Good/Law: As protection spells, but 10-ft. radius and 10 min./level.
Magic Vestment: Armor or shield gains +1 enhancement per four levels.
Obscure Object: Masks object against scrying.
Prayer: Allies +1 bonus on most rolls, enemies -1 penalty.
Protection from Energy: Absorb 12 points/level of damage from one kind of energy.
Water Breathing: Subjects can breathe underwater.
Water Walk: Subject treads on water as if solid.

4th-Level Plague Priest Spells

Cure Critical Wounds: Cures 4d8 damage +1/level (max +20).
Death Ward: Grants immunity to death spells and negative energy effects.
Dimensional Anchor: Bars extradimensional movement.
Divination: Provides useful advice for specific proposed actions.
Dismissal: Forces a creature to return to native plane.
Freedom of Movement: Subject moves normally despite impediments.
Magic Weapon, Greater: +1 bonus/four levels (max +5).
Neutralize Poison: Immunizes subject against poison, detoxifies venom in or on subject.
Poison: Touch deals 1d10 Con damage, repeats in 1 min.
Restoration: Restores level and ability score drains.
Sending: Delivers short message anywhere, instantly.
Spell Immunity: Subject is immune to one spell per four levels.

5th-Level Plague Priest Spells

Break Enchantment: Frees subjects from enchantments, alterations, curses, and petrification.
Cure Light Wounds, Mass: Cures 1d8 damage +1/level for many creatures.
Dispel Good/Law: +4 bonus against attacks.
Unhallow: Designates location as unholy.
Raise Dead: Restores life to subject who died as long as one day/level ago.
Righteous Might: Your size increases, and you gain combat bonuses.
Scrying : Spies on subject from a distance.
Slay Living: Touch attack kills subject.
Spell Resistance: Subject gains SR 12 + level.
True Seeing: Lets you see all things as they really are.

6th-Level Plague Priest Spells
Antilife Shell: 10-ft. field hedges out living creatures.
Banishment: Banishes 2 HD/level of extraplanar creatures.
Bear’s Endurance, Mass: As bear’s endurance, affects one subject/ level.
Bull’s Strength, Mass: As bull’s strength, affects one subject/level.
Cure Moderate Wounds, Mass: Cures 2d8 damage +1/level for many creatures.
Dispel Magic, Greater: As dispel magic, but up to +20 on check.
Eagle’s Splendor, Mass: As eagle’s splendor, affects one subject/level.
Forbiddance: Blocks planar travel, damages creatures of different alignment.
Heal: Cures 10 points/level of damage, all diseases and mental conditions.
Heroes’ Feast: Food for one creature/level cures and grants combat bonuses.
Owl’s Wisdom, Mass: As owl’s wisdom, affects one subject/level.

7th-Level Plague Priest Spells
Blasphemy: Kills, paralyzes, weakens, or dazes nonevil subjects.
Cure Serious Wounds, Mass: Cures 3d8 damage +1/level for many creatures.
Regenerate: Subject’s severed limbs grow back, cures 4d8 damage +1/level (max +35).
Restoration, Greater : As restoration, plus restores all levels and ability scores.
Resurrection : Fully restore dead subject.
Word of Chaos: Kills, confuses, stuns, or deafens nonchaotic subjects.

8th-Level Plague Priest Spells

Antimagic Field: Negates magic within 10 ft.
Cloak of Chaos: +4 to AC, +4 resistance, and SR 25 against lawful spells.
Cure Critical Wounds, Mass: Cures 4d8 damage +1/level for many creatures.
Dimensional Lock: Teleportation and interplanar travel blocked for one day/level.
Spell Immunity, Greater: As spell immunity, but up to 8th-level spells.
Unholy Aura F: +4 to AC, +4 resistance, and SR 25 against good spells.

9th-Level Plague Priest Spells

Heal, Mass: As heal, but with several subjects.
Soul Bind: Traps newly dead soul to prevent resurrection.
True Resurrection: As resurrection, plus remains aren’t needed.

Disease Carrier:During the Great Migration of the Skaven millenia ago, Clan Pestilens somehow found a way to Lustria. At first the clan was decimated by the virulent tropical diseases of the jungles. Their minds wracked with insane visions and on the verge of annihilation, they dedicated themselves to the plagues of the Horned Rat, arising anew, as devotees of disease.

If the Plague Priest is inflicted with a disease, it suffers no effects from it (ill or otherwise) besides looking sick and smelling fouly, and will actually inflict said disease with its bite attack from now on, save DC becoming 10+1/2 HD+Con mod. If the Plague Priest has 12 HD or more, the disease carried can afflict even those normally immune to it, but such opponents gain a +5 bonus on their saves. He can only carry one disease at a time, if it fails his Fort save against another infection it "overwrites" the last one. The Plague Priest can choose to start the game infected with any one Disease listed on the Contagion spell, or another disease with DM's aproval.

However this "blessing" is not whitout cost, as it makes one's mind and body react ever slower to the world around them. The Plague Priest suffers a -3 penalty on Iniative checks, which increases by an extra -2 for each extra level taken on this class, up to -13 penalty on Iniative checks at 6th level.

Plague: The Horned Rat blesses its prophets with acess to unique spells, at the cost of part of their sanity. The Plague Priest Priest has a 10% chance of failing to cast any spell that can't be prevented by any means, but learns the following spells. They can be prepared on the cleric domain slots, and the Plague Priest can spontaneously convert any regular spell it has prepared on a spell of this list of the same level or lower.

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Pestilent Breath
Necromancy [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 1, Plague Priest 1
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 Standard action
Range: 20 feet
Area:Cone-shaped burst
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

Uttering horrible phrases the Skaven Sorcerer belches forth an impossible foul cloud.

This spell deals 5d4 damage to all inside the area unless they suceed on a Fort save. If a 13 is rolled on the extra 5d4, no saves, SR or counterspelling are allowed against this spell, and affected creatures are sickened for 13 rounds on top of the damage. But if you roll three or more 1s on the 5d4, then this spell automatically fails and you take 1d6 damage per CL.


Bless with Filth
Necromancy[Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 2,Plague Priest 2
Components: V, M
Casting Time: 1 Standard Action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: up to 1 willing creature per CL whitin range.
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: none.
Spell Resistance: no.

A foul mist wraps around the weapons of nearby allies and the weapons begin to drip with toxic filth.

The targets of this spell count all their melee attacks as poisoned for 1 round. The exact poison is equal to the one consumed in the casting of this spell. If the targets already had any kind of poison attack, add the caster's Cha mod to the save DC for 1 round.

Material component: any one dose of poison.

Pestilent Weapon
Necromancy[Skaven]
Level: Plague Priest 3
Components: V, M
Casting Time: 1 Swift Action
Range: Personal
Target: weapon carried by you, manufactured or natural.
Duration: 5d4 rounds
Saving Throw: Fortitude Negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

When you cast this spell a weapon of your choice becomes covered in filth and flies, inflicting a Contagion effect on any targets hit for the duration as the spell. If the chosen disease is the same you're infected with, increase the DC by 1. Enemy SR can stop the contagion.
If a 13 is rolled on the 5d4, no saves, SR or counterspelling are allowed against this spell's effects. But if you roll three or more 1s on the 5d4, then this spell automatically fails and you take 1d6 damage per CL.

Wither
Necromancy [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 4, Plague Priest 4
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Targets: Up to one creature per CL
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: Yes
Chanting passages from the Liber Bubonicus, the mage casts a spell of wasting, shrinking sickness.

Affected creatures take a 1d6 penalty to Con for 1 round (can't reduce below 1). If you want you may roll up to another two 1d6 and add the results to the penalty value, but if you roll a 1 in any of the dice then none of the enemies are affected and you take the resulting penalty to Con yourself for 1 round. If on the other hand you get exactly a 13, then no SR or counterspelling are allowed against this spell, and its duration becomes permanent. This last part doesn't apply if you rolled two or more 1s.

Focus:passages from the Liber Bubonicus, normaly on trips of yellowish paper or carved in bones.


Vermintide
Necromancy [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 5, Plague Priest 5
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action.
Effect: one improved swarm

The caster invokes and many vermin answer the call...

This spell works as Summon Swarm, but the invoked swarm has their HD increased to an amount equal to your CL, they fill a space of 20ft, they cause 1d6 damage per 4 CL, and add your Cha mod to the DC of any of their abilities that has a DC.

Cloud of Corruption
Necromancy [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 6,Plague Priest 6
Components:V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action.
Area:Sphere centered on caster with a radius of up to 5 ft per CL
Duration:Instantaneous
Saving Throw:Fort for half
Spell Resistance: Yes

The caster releases a stinking blast of diseased fury.

This spell ignores any barriers on its path, the corrupting cloud sliping trough the minimal chinks on both physical and magic barriers, affecting all inside the Area. All but the caster take 1d6 acid damage per CL plus an extra 5d4 acid damage and two negative levels. A sucessful Fort save halves the acid damage and reduces the negative levels received to 1.

If three or more 1s were rolled for the extra acid damage, then the cloud only ends up affecting the caster himself (he still gets a save). If an exact 13 was rolled for the extra acid damage, no saves, SR or counterspelling are allowed against this spell, it ignores any resistance against acid and energy drain, and even creatures immune to acid take half the damage and creatures immune to energy drain take 1 negative level.

Rotten Flesh
Necromancy [Skaven]
Level: Plague Priest 8
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 Swift Action
Range: Personal
Duration:1 round/level

Saving Throw:No
Spell Resistance: No

Your skin liquifies as your muscles behind turn into a sickly green and pustulae form all over your body. The pain and corruption you feel is so intense that you simply ignore anything but raw violence.

When you cast this spell you gain 5d4x10 Temporary HP that last for the duration. While any of this Temporary HP remains, you're immune to any non-damage ill effects, unless they're inflicted by yourself.
If you roll a 13 on the 5d4, then the Temporary HP renews itself at the start of each of your turns! If you roll 3 or more 1st, then this spell automatically fails and you instead take ten times the roll result in damage to yourself.

Plague
Necromancy [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 8, Plague Priest 8
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 fullround action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect: Up to 1 creature per CL, none of which can be more than 30 feet away from the others.
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw:Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: No

The caster unleashes a disease from the Book of Woe.

The affected creatures must make Fortitude save or die from a virulent and inplacable disease. Such is its adaptation ability that the Plague can even affect creatures immune to disease, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves. This includes constructs/undeads as the Plague adopts a corrosive nature. Even the enviroment around the victims is suddenly covered on a sickly green, with rocks cracking, waters going fetid and other signs of decay. After all saves have been made roll a 1d6 and apply the result:

1-The spell backfires! The nearest oponent can decide to end it, or cast it again with new targets of its choice but using your own stats, and then roll a new 1d6.

2-4-The plague stops...For now.

5-6-The plague endures! The last individual to choose the target can decide to end the madness now, or cast it again using your own stats, and then roll a new 1d6.

Focus: a copy from the Book of Woe.


The Dreaded Thirteenth Spell-Curse of the Horned Rat
Transmutation [Skaven]
Level: Grey Seer 9, Plague Priest 9
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 fullround action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect: 5d4 creatures.
Duration:Permanent
Saving Throw: See Text
Spell Resistance: Yes

With a sickening lurch the fabric of reality is torn by the twisting power of the Great Horned One.

This spell corrupts 5d4 creatures whitin range. They must suceed on a Fort, Reflex or Will save (whichever's lower on each) or be turned into a clanrat (treat as a Skaven Warrior with 10 on all base stats, no feats or skills, level equal to your HD, maintains equipment). Nothing short of a miracle or wish can turn them back to normal. They're now under the control of the caster for 24 hours, after which their new rat cowardice will have truly sinked on them and they'll run away to some Skaven city.

If a 13 is rolled on the amount of affected creatures, then no save, SR, counterspelling, contigencies, free or immediate actions are allowed against this spell. If 3 or more 1s are rolled on the dice, then the spell fails and the caster loses his 1d4 top spell slots and takes an equal penalty to CL for the rest of the day.

Fanatic Delirium: In constant pain from the diseases coursing trough their bodies, Plague Priests can work themselves in a true frenzy. At 2nd level as an immediate action once per hour the Plague Priest can enter a Fanatic Delirium. During it the Plague Priest gains a +4 bonus to Cha and Con and can adds his Cha to Fort saves, melee attack rolls and melee damage rolls for the duration, but cannot cast spells and must also spend its turn attacking the nearest enemy to the best of its ability, and always using its bite attack if possible before any other attacks. Fanatic Delirium lasts 3+Improved Con mod rounds, after which the Plague Priest is left Nauseated for 1 minute and Sickened for 10 minutes.

Liber Bubonicus: At 3rd level the Plague Priest starts his personal recordings of any diseases he meets. They're incsrived in a tome much like a wizard's spellbook, except they don't need any expensive materials. As long as he spends 1 hour/day working on it, he can add any disease he has suffered himself. Bodies of creatures with natural diseased can also be dessicated to add them to the Liber Bubonicus. Plague Priests can also copy notes from each other works at the rate of 1 disease/hour, and there's the clans Pestilens legends that somewhere in the world lies the Book of Woe, a profane relic containing every disease that has existed, maintained by generations of Plague Priests.

With one additional hour of work each day with raw materials and his own  body fluids, the Plague Priest can prepare vials with  the diseases he's registed on the Liber Bubonicus. Those work as alchemist's fire, except they deal no damage, instead the creature hit must suceed on a Fort save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Con mod or be instantly infected with the disease whitout incubation time. Targets in the "splash" range must also save, but they gain a +4 bonus on their saves since the amount is smaller. If the Plague Priest has 12 HD or more his vials can affect creatures normally immune to them when directly struck(not splashed), but such targets get a +5 bonus on their saves. The vials may also be poured over food or water sources to spread the disease trough them, altough in those cases the incubation time applies as normal since they're dilluted. The amount of vials prepared each day is equal to the Plague Priest's Cha mod, and they'll grow inert after 24 hours if not used.


Plague Censer: Those dreaded weapons are only borne by the degenerate ratmen of Clan Pestilens. In an unholy ritual, the weapon is hollowed out while reading aloud disturbing and disease-ridden passages from the Book of Woe. Hellish runes glow as a laddle's worth of vile contation is added, begginning a slow bubble, sending tendrils of greenish vapours wafting out from the many ornate holes.  When swung in the in the heat of battle, the plague censer emits vast billowing green clouds, exposure to which instantly inflicts horrific diseases. It would take a creature absolutely devoid of common sense to be anywhere such a weapon, much less wield it in battle. Enter the Plague Priests.

At 4th level the Plague Priest can spend 8 hours and 100 GP worth of materials working on a two-handed bludgeoding weapon it owns (or a warpmusket/warpistol) to improve it to a Plague Censer. It works as the regular weapon, except it can be loaded with a vial of disease created with the Liber Bubonicus as a move action. At the end of your turn all creatures inside your Plague Censer's reach must make a Fort save with DC 6+1/2 HD+Con mod or be instantly affected by the disease loaded in your Plague Censer whitout incubation time. Creatures struck by your Plague Censer for the duration must make a Fort save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Con mod or be instantly affected by the disease loaded in your Plague Censer whitout incubation time. Even if the struck target would normally be immune, they instead just get a +5 bonus on their saves!

Each vial lasts for 1 hour of fumes. You can swap the disease by loading a new vial as another move action, but any time left of the previous one is wasted. Only you can benefit from your own Plague Censer this way, in the hands of anybody else it's treated as an improvised weapon at best since the hollowing screws up the balance for those who aren't used to it.

Scavenge Pile:Skaven society produces a series of unique equipment that are standard among their elite and leaders members. At 5th level the Plague Priest gains one of the following options (he's automatically proficient with any weapons gained from this).

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Warpmusket- Skaven often use the highly unstable magical energies of warpstone to create devilishly deadly weapons. The warpmusket is a two-handed masterwork ranged weapon with a range increment of 100 feet and x4 crit multiplier that fires bolts of chaotic energy dealing 2d6 damage per shot and counts as magic for bypassing DR and hiting incorporeal oponents. Firing a warpmusket provokes attacks of oportunity just like a bow. It recquires no ammo, but on an attack roll of natural 1 the weapon releases a burst of energy that damages the user as if he had hit himself!

Any non-skaven that uses a Warpmusket takes 1 point of Con and Wis drain for each shot fired, even if they're immune to ability drain.

Warplock Pistols-As the Warplock Musket, but is a one-handed weapon, deals 1d8 damage per shot and has a range increment of 30 feet, and doesn't provoke an attack of oportunity for firing in melee. Also the skaven gets two of these.
Poison Contract- The fine powders and unctuous lotions purchased from Clan Eshin can turn a scratch into a deathblow. At every nightfall the Skaven is contacted by a Clan Eshin member that offers it a choice of venoms and toxins. The Skaven can get up to 1000 GP per HD worth of poisons from this contact whitout paying anything, but they're cheap versions and will become useless if not used whitin 24 hours (and thus have no market value). This contact can also be used to purchase regular poisons with gold or other goods. In addition the Skaven no longer risks poisoning himself when applying poisons to his weapons.

Tail Weapon- Altough a Skaven's tail is not strong enough to inflict any damage by itself, some Skaven learn how to wield a weapon with it. This could also be a mechanical clan Skyre attachment or an evolved mutation, the results are the same-another appendage wielding a weapon. This grants the Skaven one extra attack on a fullattack, but only adds half his Str mod to it. The extra appendage cannot perform fine manipulation.

Icon of the Horned Rat: At 6th level the Plague Priest gets awarded a symbol worthy of it's status as a true disciple of disease. Pick one of the following. Since they're custom crafted/trained for the Plague Priest, they only work for him.

Plague Furnace-A disease-ridden altar to the Great Horned Rat and an unholy pulpit for a Plague Priest. It is the noisome shrine of Clan Pestilens and ruination and corruption travel on its wake. Its decaying chassis is riddled with woodworm, but it is the vast and ornate swinging brazier that commands attention. A glowing hot censer of wrecking ball proportions swings back and forth, issuing overhwleming heat and a roiling cloud that even simple beasts instinctively recognize as poisonous and unnatural.

The Plague Priest can request 8 skaven slaves (skaven commoner 1 with 10 on all stats, no skills or feats) to build him his personal mobile unholy altar. The skaven slaves work tiressly for a week gathering the raw materials and puting them togheter. Once completed, the Plague Furnace stands inside an Huge square wheeled plataform (15 ft by 15 ft), 20 HP per HD and hardness equal to 1/2 HD,  with enough space for the Plague Priest himself to sit/stand on top, and the slaves push and pull it to make it move by spending their own move actions. As long as there's 6 slaves remaining, the Plague Furnace moves at their movement speed. If there's only 5 or 4 slaves it moves at half their movement speed. 3 slaves can't make the Plague Furnace move. Lost slaves are automaticaly replaced every hour as more flock to the Plague Priest's unholy presence. Should he be in an hurry and with lack of slaves, the Plague Priest can have others do the hard work, but animals refuse to pull the Plague Furnace. Otherwise 6 creatures with Str 10, 3 with Str 12, two with str 14 or one with Str 16 (or higher) can push the Plague Furnace at their top speed. It is not unheard of adventurous Plague Priests to get all kinds of other beings to push their altars! Creatures pulling the Furnace will be called “crew” from now on.

While the Plague Priest sits on the Plague Furnace, it gains the following options:

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Billowing Death-By expending a vial of disease from the Liber Bubonicus and violently swinging the giant censer as a fullround action, the Plague Priest can cause a fuming fog of corruptive clouds to sweep over a nearby foe. It forms a fog with 20-ft. radius, 20 ft. high touching one of the surfaces of the Plague Furnace. Creatures inside that fog are affected as if directly struck by the vial. 

Wrecker Attack-As a fullround action, if the Plague Priest has a melee Plague Censer equiped, he can let loose the chain holding the mighty swinging Great censer aimed at a nearby enemy! Make a melee attack roll with a -2 penalty as if you were using your  Plague Censer and if you hit you deal double damage and ignore all hardness and DR from your target.  If you roll a natural 1 on this attack however the orb comes loose prematurely and smashes into the Plague Furnace below, destroying it. Ups!

Plagueclaw Catapult-Over the centuries many have suffered the wrath of the foul creations of Clan Pestilens, in particular when the Plague Priests learned to deliver their pestilent payloads via siege weaponry, the rupting splatter of deadly contents dooming targets in a toxic storm. With the support of the Warlock Engineers of Clan Skryre, soon those devices evolved into the Plagueclaw Catapults, great wheeled scaffold-towers bearing catapults, pushed and maneuvered by ragged Clan Pestilens acolytes fused into the engine trough vile methods better discussed elsewhere.

It works as an heavy catapult, except it can move at a speed of 30 feet and load itself up as fullround action whitout need of any checks, as long as viable ammo is available in adjacent squares. If the Plague Priest is whitin 30 feet then it can use his Bab and Cha mod instead of Int mod to check if it hits the target. The Plague Priest can also load it up with a vial of disease from his Liber Bubonicus as a move action, in which case when the projectile impacts, it inflicts the disease on the target as if struck by the vial, and it “splashes” into everybody whitin 20 feet!

Should the Plagueclaw catapult be destroyed, if the remains can be recovered they will fuse themselves over a period of 24 hours, forming a fresh one. If no remains can be recovered, then a new one will have to be commissioned at Clan Pestilens for 5000 GP and one week of time.

Great Pox Rat-Another special breed of Clan Moulder, the Great Pox Rat is the size of a large pony, only much wider and abhorrent. A great Pox Rat's filth-encrusted claws and mouth are filled with needle-sharp edges and infectious diseases. Once astride the heavily bloated Great Pox Rat a Plague Priest can rightfully twitch his tail in pride, for surely none would be so foolish as to challenge such a mighty personage?

The great pox rat is a large animal with base speed 60 feet, 60 swim speed  30 feet climb speed, and 10 base on Str, Dex and Con, 2 Int, 6 Wis and 10 Cha. It has an amount of d8 HD equal to the Plague Priest, average Bab, gains +1 to Str and Dex for every HD, two natural claw attacks dealing 1d6+1/2 Str mod each and a bite attack dealing 1d8+1,5 Str mod damage, all good saves, plus a bonus to Natural armor equal to its HD.  It gains 4 skill points per HD and has just Spot, Hide, Move Silently and Listen as class skills. It also gains feats as normal but can only pick [Fighter] and/or [Monster] feats. Finally both its mouths and claws inflict Filth Fever, except the DC is 10+1/2HD+Str mod and the disease doesn't have incubation time, forcing a sucessful save or inflicting 1d3 Dex and 1d3 Con damage right away. Multiple hits on a single target stack. At 10 HD the Pox Rat's diseases can damage even creatures normally immune to it, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves.

The Plague Priest can ride it using Intimidate instead of the Ride skill. If he's carrying his plague Censer, it affects every creatures in reach of the great pox rat as if they were in reach of the Plague Censer (the great pox rat itself is immune to the plague censer). If the great pox rat gets killed, he can leave its body on a cave. For the next 24 hours, the carcass will atract all sorts of rats and vermin that will feast into the corpse, and then upon each other. When the 24 hours end, a new great pox rat will have emerged, loyal to the Plague Priest only. If no body can be recovered, a new request to Clan Moulder plus 5000 GP and a week of time can get a new one too.

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Eshin Agent


"The rats have been awfully noisy lately. Two more guards disapeared whitout trace. Suspected desertions."- Excerpt of the last report from the northern imperial bastion

Whetever Night Runner Raiders,  Gutter Runners killers, infiltrating Assassins, or simply information, Clan Eshin will help for the right price. It is well known among the skaven (if never spoken) that Clan Eshin is the knife in the paws of the Council of Thirteen. Whetever the Lords of Decay have something over the shadowy clan or have merely provided the best bribe, Clan Eshin provides the unseen force with which the Council maintains their reign. The Warlord clans know it is no use pointing paws as spies are everywhere and it is perilous to plot against the plotters.

The constant removal of political opponents whitin the Under-Empire has its drawbacks and often delays greater plans. It is said that the Council of Thirteen maintain a rolling blacklist of 10 000 names marked for swift death. On the list are the world's leaders, be they Man, Elf, Dwarf or any other non-skaven race. Prioritising, however, always seems to require that Warlords of Rebellious Clans or threats to members of the Council top the list. Despite complex schemes to undermine the powers of the world, most resources are instead used to silence internal opposition, quell the over-ambitious and maintain the positions of the Council

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Adventures:It's common to see Eshin Agents traveling far and wide with others to advance their agenda. If anyone recognizes them for what they actually are, or even suspect their true objectives, that's another story.

Characteristics:Eshin Agents fight fast and dirty to get their jobs done at all costs, no trick too low, no strategy too dishonorable, and no clues ever left behind.

Religion:Eshin Agents usually care little or nothing about religion, being taught to focus on their targets at hand over everything else.

Background:Clan Eshin trains their agents on the utmost secrecy. Some say they're the result of generations of selective breeding to produce the fastest skavens, other say they hand-pick and steal or buy particularly promising rat younglings to be iniated in their arts.  Some fewer speak of renegades who train disciples for the right price, but those end up being last words.

Other Classes:Clan Eshin puts good value on teamwork and a balanced strike force. If nothing else, as long as the enemy is focusing on others, it's always easier for the Eshin Agent to do his job!

Role: The Eshin Agent is a skilful, fast and versatile warrior specialized in disruption and debilitation, altough also pretty vulnerable once found out.

HD:d6

Level	Bab	Fort	Ref	Will	Feature
1	+0	+0	+2	+0	Night Runner, Weapon Finesse
2	+1	+0	+3	+0	Shadow Runner
3	+2	+1	+3	+1	Gutter Runner, Scavenge Pile
4	+3	+1	+4	+1	Deathrunner, +1 Dex
5	+3	+1	+4	+1	Assassin, +1 Dex
6	+4	+2	+5	+2	Deathmaster, +1 Dex

Skills:8+int modifier per level, quadruple at 1st level, class skills are Apraise(Int), Balance(Dex), Climb(Str), Concentration (con), Craft(any) (wis), Diplomacy(Cha), Disable Device(Int), Escape Artist(Dex), Heal (wis), Hide(dex), Intimidate(Cha), Jump(Str), Knowledge (any) (int), Listen (wis), Move silently (dex), Open Lock,Search (Int), Spot (wis), Survival (wis), Swim (Str), Use Rope (Dex)

Proficiencies: Simple Weapons, Kukri, Sap, Short Sword, Kama, Siangham, Net, Shuriken.

Features:
Nightrunner: The most common Clan Eshin warrior, altough they are still secretive like all their mysterious clan. They are taught the basis of sneaking from the shadows,  quickly seize terrain and harass stronger enemies.  Pick two of the following abilities, none of which can be taken more than once.

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Blade in Each Hand-The Eshin Agent gains two-weapon fighting as a bonus feat even if it doesn't meet the prerequisites. If it spends a swift and standard action it can attack once with each wielded melee weapon.

Rapid Shurikens-As a swift action, for one round whenever the Eshin Agent would throw one shuriken, it instead throws two. This doesn't stack with itself.

Sling Specialization-The Eshin Agent can reload a sling as a free action and can add his Dex mod to the damage rolls instead of his Str mod.

Slinking Advance-In the first round of Combat, after iniatives have been rolled but before anyone acts, the Eshin Agent may perform a basic move action as a free action. Its base speed also permanently increases by 10 feet.

Harass and Slow Down-Whenever the Eshin Agent attacks an enemy that's flanked or denied their Dex bonus to AC for any reason, he deals extra damage equal to his Int mod and entangles them for 1 round. A sucessful Reflex save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod denies the entanglement.

Expendable Lure-As a standard action the Eshin Agent may perform a basic attack on an enemy. Whetever it hits or misses, the target must suceed on a Will save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod or spend their next turn attacking the Eshin Agent to the best of their ability.

Sneaky Saboteur-The Eshin Agent gains trapfinding as the rogue ability. It may also as a fullround action convert a 5 feet  square of adjacent hard terrain into normal terrain or an adjacent 5 feet square of normal terrain into hard terrain, or add/remove cover or concealment to a 5 feet square of adjacent terrain. It takes a sucessful Spot or Search check against an opposed Disable Device check from the Eshin Agent to detect the ruse, otherwise the affected square looks “normal”.

Pack Stealth-Allies of the Eshin Agent whitin 30 feet can use his ranks in Hide and Move Silently instead of their own. If they an ally has the same number of ranks in one of those skills, both him and the Eshin Agent gain a +3 circumstance bonus on checks with that skill

Obscured Observer- The Eshin Agent can use Int for Spot, Survival and Listen checks instead of Wis, and gains Track as a bonus feat even if it doesn't meet the prerequisites.

Weapon Finesse: The Eshin Agent gains Weapon Finesse as a bonus feat even if it doesn't meet the prerequisites.

Shadow Runner:An Eshin Agent who survives enough initial missions advances to a Shadow Runner. He gains an insight bonus to AC equal to his Int mod while not wearing armor and picks two more abilities from the Night Runner list.

Gutter Runner:The Eshin Agent steps in a more inner circle, being iniated in mysterious techniques, taking full advantage of a skaven's exceptionable pliable body and learning how to use even more exotic equipment. Not only used for lighting raids, sudden arson and destructive sabotage, a Gutter Runner is also expected to perform more sinister deeds such spying, instigate warfare among the enemies of the Skaven, and steal or destroy whatever secret knowledge, forever seeking the Council of Thirteen stays one step ahead of their many foes. At 3rd level pick one of the following abilities, or alternatively three more from the Night Runner list. Again no option can be taken more than once

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Just a Rat- Special senses such as blindsense/blindsight,/mindsight and similar treat the Eshin Agent as a rat or other common local tiny animal or vermin, whichever's less suspicious. The Eshin Agent can also climb and swim at half his base speed, and use Dex instead of Str for Climb and Swim checks.

Snaring Net-The Eshin Agent can now apply range increments to a Net as if it was a regular thrown weapon. Add his Int mod to the Escape Artist and Burst DC and Bab+Int mod+Dex mod to the concentration check to cast spells. The net has 5 HP per HD. The Eshin Agent can also use Dex instead of Str to control the trailing rope and can attempt to entangle creatures of any size.

Suprise Bombs-The Eshin Agent can craft Alchemical items at 1/10th the regular market cost using Disable Device instead of Craft (alchemy), but those are unstable, shaky versions that would probably spontaneously explode on the hands of anybody else and thus are only good for the Eshin Agent that crafted them. In addition the Eshin Agent can now use some alchemical items in special ways as detailed below.

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Acid/Alchemist's Fire-You can load it in slings and it deals +1d6 acid/fire on a direct hit and +1 acid/fire damage on splash for every 2 ranks you have in Disable device.

Smokestick or Tindertwig-Can be drawn and  used as a single swift action.

Thunderstone-Increase the DC by your Int mod, a direct hit also deals 1d6 sonic damage for every 2 ranks you have in Disable Device on the creature struck, halved on a sucessful Fortitude save.

Lingering Poison-Any one dose of poison applied to a weapon or ammo lasts for an amount of hits equal to the Eshin Agent's Int mod, instead of being used up in one blow. In addition when you threaten a critical hit with a poisoned weapon, your opponent must roll the save twice and take the worst result!

Weeping Blades-The Eshin Agent can adapt, with 8 hours of work and 100 GP worth of material, any slashing weapon so that poison coated on it  “weeps” right into fresh wounds. Increase the DC of poison delivered by a Weeping Blade by the Eshin Agent's Int mod. The Weeping Blade itself deals damage as if it was one size category bigger while coated in poison. If the Eshin Agent has both this and Lingering Poison and 12 or more HD then poisons delivered by the Weeping Blade can affect even targets normally immune to them, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves. The benefits of a Weeping Blade apply only to the Eshin Agent that crafted it.

Shuriken Flurry-You need Rapid Shurikens to pick this. As a swift action for 1 round when you attack with a shuriken, you may throw two additional ones. This doesn't stack with itself. In addition you can poison three shurikens in the time it would take you to normally poison one other single weapon, and using just one dose for the three shurikens.

Deadshot Sling-You need Sling specialization to pick this. As a swift action for 1 round your critical threat with your sling is doubled (stacking with other doubling effects) and it ignores half the DR of the target, all concealment, all cover except total cover and adverse wind conditions, even magic ones like Wind Wall.

Vermin Pets-The Eshin Agent learns how to train and carry specially trained rats in an amount  equal to his Int mod, which can be assigned to special tasks. When not in use, they're left concealed inside the Eshin Agent's body and cannot be detected by any means short of killing him and tearing him apart. Treat them as rats, except they can use the Eshin Agent's skill ranks and Bab instead of their own and they can be used on the following special manners.

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Scout-As a fullround action the Vermin Pet is sent into a general direction or left in a place for up to 1 hour and then returns to its master. In a series of chitters, it tells all that it saw, smelled and heard for the period. It avoids combat to the best of its possibility and flees if threatened.

Distraction-As a swift action the Vermin pet is released and attacks a specific target to the best of its ability until either is destroyed (the Vermin Pet usually) and then returns. This can also be used to destroy soft matter such as books, ropes and documents that could be quickly chewed by a rat. Alternatively, they may be fed a dose of poison as they're released, in which case they'll inflict that poison with their bite attack for 1 minute before dying. If they're eaten or fall into a water deposit, the poison carries over.

Messenger-As an immediate action, the Vermin Pet can be released with an hastily scribbled scroll or other item it can carry as an Animal Messenger SLA with CL=HD.
 

Lost Vermin Pets can be replaced in 1-to-1 basis by finding and training a new rat in a 24 hour process.

Scavenge Pile:Skaven society produces a series of unique equipment that are standard among their elite and leaders members. At 3rd level the Eshin Agent gains one of the following options (he's automatically proficient with any weapons gained from this).

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Warpmusket- Skaven often use the highly unstable magical energies of warpstone to create devilishly deadly weapons. The warpmusket is a two-handed masterwork ranged weapon with a range increment of 100 feet and x4 crit multiplier that fires bolts of chaotic energy dealing 2d6 damage per shot and counts as magic for bypassing DR and hiting incorporeal oponents. Firing a warpmusket provokes attacks of oportunity just like a bow. It recquires no ammo, but on an attack roll of natural 1 the weapon releases a burst of energy that damages the user as if he had hit himself!

Any non-skaven that uses a Warpmusket takes 1 point of Con and Wis drain for each shot fired, even if they're immune to ability drain.

Warplock Pistols-As the Warplock Musket, but is a one-handed weapon, deals 1d8 damage per shot and has a range increment of 30 feet, and doesn't provoke an attack of oportunity for firing in melee. Also the skaven gets two of these.

Poison Contract- The fine powders and unctuous lotions purchased from Clan Eshin can turn a scratch into a deathblow. At every nightfall the Skaven is contacted by a Clan Eshin member that offers it a choice of venoms and toxins. The Skaven can get up to 1000 GP per HD worth of poisons from this contact whitout paying anything, but they're cheap versions and will become useless if not used whitin 24 hours (and thus have no market value). This contact can also be used to purchase regular poisons with gold or other goods. In addition the Skaven no longer risks poisoning himself when applying poisons to his weapons.

Tail Weapon- Altough a Skaven's tail is not strong enough to inflict any damage by itself, some Skaven learn how to wield a weapon with it. This could also be a mechanical clan Skyre attachment or an evolved mutation, the results are the same-another appendage wielding a weapon. This grants the Skaven one extra attack on a fullattack, but only adds half his Str mod to it. The extra appendage cannot perform fine manipulation.

Deathrunner-The most sucesful gutter runners are called Deathrunners, promising assassin-adepts. At 4th level the Eshin Agent picks one more ability of the Gutter Runner list (or three from the Night Runner) list and can now also  adds his Int mod as an insight bonus to Reflex and Will saves while not wearing armor.

Ability Score Increase-The Eshin Agent gains +1 Dex at levels 3, 4 and 5 for a total of +3 Dex at 6th level.

Assassin:The pinnacle of Clan Eshin warriors, elite killers in a class of their own. The few who know of the existence of the black-clad Assassins fear them above all others. Rumors of their cut-throat abilities are whispered in fear-the Clan Eshin devils are invisible and their very shadows are poisonous! He now gains an Insight bonus to Iniative equal to his Int mod and picks one ability of the following list, or alternatively two abilities from the Gutter Runner list.

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Sudden Shadow-The Eshin Agent gains a flight speed with perfect maneuverability equal to ten times his ranks in Jump, except he falls to the ground at the end of his turn. He takes no penalties to hide for doing so as long as he starts and ends his turn in a position where he could normally hide. In addition as a fullround action it may move up to its flight speed and at any point during its movement perform a standard action of his choice. If the choice is an attack, he doesn't take the -20 penalty for attacking from hiding.

Deadly Bag of Tricks-The Eshin Agent has a pouch that seems to always have the right tool for the kill. Any nonmagical items or potions can be drawn from the pouch, as long as their combined value doesn't exceed 100 GP per HD. By spending 1 hour improvising with mundane materials at hand, the Deadly Bag of Tricks may be restocked. It may seem like magic, but is just the Eshin Agent knowing how to plan ahead. The drawn items are however ephemereal and unstable versions of the real thing, so they can only be used  by the Eshin Agent himself, and if not expended, they'll crumble/dissolve/stop working by themselves after 1 hour. If anyone else tries to open the pouch, its contents instantly self-destruct and only a foul mess is left. The Eshin Agent must then spend 24 hours preparing a new one.

Never There-You need Just a Rat to pick this. The Eshin Agent benefits from an Ex permanent Nondetection effect with CL equal to his ranks in Hide. All indirect divinations such as Augury, Legend Lore and similar fail to account for the Eshin Agent. He never triggers Alarm or Symbol spells. All Track DCs made to pursue him have their DCs increased by his ranks in Move Silently+Int mod+Dex mod. His climb and swim speed are now both equal to his base speed an he gains a burrow speed equal to his base speed. At his choice, any thrown weapons or ammo he uses completely disintegrate in impact, leaving no clue behind. At his choice, he may rig his own body with special chemicals so that when he dies his remains and equipment instantly dissolve.

Infernal Bomb-Each day with one hour of work, the Eshin Agent can build an amount of Infernal Bombs equal to his Int mod. Whenever the Eshin Agent moves, he may quickly set up an Infernal Bomb as an immediate action in any square trough which he passed, as long as there's a nearby surface. He may as part of the same action prepare a trigger condition such as someone steping on that square, or activating a nearby  device such as a door, or to explode after a set amount of rounds (minimum  1 round delay). It takes a spot/search check against a Hide check from you to detect it. Alternatively you may simply detonate it at distance as an immediate action, but again must wait at least 1 round between setting it up and blowing it up. It deals damage in a 20 feet radius equal to a Disable Device check from you, reflex save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod for half, blinding for 1d12 rounds on a failed Reflex save, and also forces a Fort save with same DC against deafness for 1d12 rounds. Special senses such as blindsense/mindsense/blindsight/tremorsense/etc are supressed whitout save for 1d12 rounds. If you have at least one Infernal Bomb left with you and would die/be rendered uncoscious/dominated/charmed or otherwise unable to act normally, you may detonate it centered in your position as an immediate action. An Infernal Bomb always blows up after 24 hours of its creation if not used before it.

Cloak of Concealment-Woven from stolen human hair and spider silk, this Cloak conceals and silences the wearer. The Eshin Agent gains a special Silence and Invisibility effects on himself while wearing the Cloak of Concealment. The Silence only affects himself, but if he damages an enemy, they must succeed on a Will save with DC 10+1/2 Ranks in Move Silently+Int mod or be rendered under an equal silence effect as well for 1d12 rounds. Such is the deepness of this silence the target can't hear his own toughts, making it impossible to use SLAs, psionics and telepathy! If the Invisibility effect is broken, the Eshin Agent can restart it as a move action. In addition anti-Invisibility effects such as See Invisibility, Invisibility Purge, True Seeing and similar fail if the source is whitin a radius of 5 feet per rank in Hide centered on the Eshin Agent.

Poison Presence-A little, unnoticed pinprick, that's all it takes to deliver a poison onto the target's bloodstream. At the end of his turn the Eshin Agent can poison as a free action any creature adjacent to him, by spending one poison dose per target, whitout need of attack rolls. If you have lingering poison, then a single dose can be used for a number of uses of this ability equal to your Int mod. If you have lingering poison and  weeping blades, the 12 HD ability applies to this as well.

Instil Terror-Sometimes murdering the target is not enough, sometimes you have to murder them in such a gruesome way that others get the “message”. Whenever the Eshin Agent kills a target, he leaves behind a gruesome work that inflicts a morale penalty to attack rolls, skill checks and damage rolls of all whitin 60 feet. The penalty is equal to -1 plus an extra -1 for every 3 HD of the target. Moving the corpse from its dying place ends this effect. In addition those that witness the kill first hand and have as much or less HD than the victim must suceed on a Will save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod or be left frightened for 1 round and then shaken for 1d12 rounds, or just shaken for 1 round unless they suceeded by 10 or more. If the target destroyed is an undead/construct/vermin/ooze, this ability applies to that kind of creatures as well.

Deathmaster:The best of the best of the assassins of Clan Eshin, Deathmasters have learned far and wide the arts of murder, skulking around and more murdering. He picks another ability of the Assassin list (or two from the Gutter Runner list) and now gains an Insight bonus equal to his Int mod to Fort saves and  weapon damage rolls against opponents flanked or denied their Dex bonus to AC while the Eshin Agent wears no armor.

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Master Moulder

”Yes-yes Warlord Krizk-for a treaty-pledge of just 200 slaves, 12 claws of warptokens, a Breeder and certain alliances and pledges, one of our very-very finest Clan Moulder Rat Ogres can be yours...”-Throt the Unclean, Master Moulder.

“Take it to the pens, stitch it up quick-quick! This one shows great promise!”- Throt the Unclean, Master Moulder's second head.

Clan Moulder rose to infamy by mastering the art of breeding, mutating and surgically creating monstrous fighting-beasts. It is unknown how they stitch together disparate parts of mutated creatures, for they jealously guard their methods. It is no secret that Clan Moulder is one of the wealthiest of all clans, for the henous creations are sold to the Warlord clans, who are eager to boost their fighting prowess by adding swarms of giant rats, packs of towering rat ogres, or perhaps something even more bizarre.

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Adventures:It's usual for master moulders to travel far and wide in search of new creatures to cut, corrupt and graft to create new monstruosities.

Characteristics:A Master Moulder violates all laws of nature to spawn fighting beasts and then guides them in battle personally. More experienced ones may even experiment on themselves to improve their own prowess.

Religion:If anything, Master Moulders consider themselves as semi-divine for their talent to create “new life”, altough more usually they don't bother much with religion at all.

Background:Usually trained by a veteran of the art under orders of the clan, some Master Moulders are self-taught after countless experiments.

Other Classes:Master Moulders specially apreciate skaven warlords for their potential of boosting their packs fighting power, but are distructful of plague priests whose diseases can easily wipe out their experiments “acidentally”.

Role: A Master Moulder and his pack provides a literal wall of flesh that bites and tears and slashes to swarm the battlefield, togheter with some support options like the healing skalm and the supporting skaven brew.

HD:d8

Level	Bab	Fort	Ref	Will	Feature
1	+0	+2	+0	+0	Create a Monster, Long Lash, Waves of Rats
2	+1	+3	+0	+0	Giant Rat, Skalm
3	+2	+3	+1	+1	Become a Monster, Thing-Killer
4	+3	+4	+1	+1	Rat Ogre, Skaven Brew
5	+3	+4	+1	+1	Running with the Pack, Scavenge Pile
6	+4	+5	+2	+2	Hellpit Abomination, Whip of Domination

Skills:4+int modifier per level, quadruple at 1st level, class skills are Apraise(Int), Balance(Dex), Climb(Str), Concentration (con), Craft(any) (wis), Diplomacy(Cha), Handle Animal(Cha), Heal (wis), Hide(dex), Intimidate(Cha), Jump(Str), Knowledge (any) (int), Listen (wis), Move silently (dex), Spot (wis), Survival (wis), Swim (Str), Use Rope (Dex)

Proficiencies: Simple Weapons, Guisarme, Halberd, Whip, Light Armor

Features:

Create a Monster: A Master Moulder’s main drive in life is to learn and develop the art of creating fighting beasts trough a combination of mad surgery and the mutating properties of warpstone. This can be performed in any living corporeal non-outsider non-plant non-elemental creature.

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Cut up pieces from a creature and stitch them in another, using powdered-based warpstone to make them stick. This demands 1hour of work per highest HD of the creature involved, and they must all be alive and helpless at the start of the process. The “receiver” can be given any of the following from the “donors”, as long as the “donor” is the same size or smaller than the “receiver”. Any donors are sacrificed during the process.

Sharp points-One natural attack, including any special ability that triggered with a successful hit with that natural attack from the “donor”. If the “receiver” already had such a natural weapon, it simply gains a new one of the same kind. Yes, this means extra limbs andeven  heads. Damage is unchanged from the donor. Any abilities based on level/HD/ability scores/similar use the donor's original ones.

Hide-Natural Armor bonus and DR of the donor, replacing the natural armor bonus and DR of the Receiver. This also carries on any elemental resistances/immunities from the donor.

Locomotion Limbs-Movement mode and speed from the donor. The donor must be the same size as the receiver.

A Master Moulder can only perform a number of such grafts in a single creature equal to his Master Moulder level plus half his other levels. There’s just how much he can stitch up togheter and keep it going! However they may remove an old graft to make room for a new one without need of extra time of resources.

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Usually uncontrolled exposure to warpstone to any non-skaven leads to a rapid, agonizing death from a variety of lighting-growth cancers. but if applied in small doses in the right form it can actually empower the subject! Even if it breaks their mind and leaves them in a state of constant unbearable pain, but those are minor details. Each mutation takes 1 hour of work for every HD of the subject.

Empowered-Grant an enanchment bonus to a physical stat of your choice equal to 1d4+1/4 your ranks in Heal. Roll again each night. Can be applied up to 3 times.

Wapstone Implants-Grant SR equal to 11+ranks in Heal.

Warpstone Extremities-Natural weapons count as magic for bypassing DR and fully affect incorporeal creatures.

Warpstone Metabolism-The creature gains regeneration equal to ½ your ranks in Heal that is bypassed by fire. This regeneration is lost if the creature becomes immune to fire.

Oozing Pods-One natural weapon of your choice inflicts a poison or disease of your choice. You need a sample of the disease/poison, which can be extracted from the living body of a creature that could inflict it on a natural attack of its own. 

Mysterious Fluids-The creature is under the permanent effect of a non-instantaneous spell with a range of touch of your choice, that cannot be dispelled. You need either a potion of that spell or you can extract its essence from a creature that could use it as an SLA or had another ability that explicitly replicated that spell (actual spellcasting is good enough too), sacrificing said creature as part of the proccess. Either way the CL is the same as the source.

A Master Moulder can only perform a number of such mutations in a single creature equal to his Master Moulder level plus half his other levels. Any more and he'll lose control of the process, ending up with a comatose mass of cancer.

Regardless of the changes applied, the subject is always reduced to a mindless ferocious state due to the extreme pain suffered. Its Int becomes -, losing all skill points and non-bonus feats, becomes immune to all mind-affecting effects, and can only perform the most basics of actions, being unable to use any activated abilities it had in life besides natural attacks and abilities that automatically trigger with said natural attacks. Its basic behaviour is attacking and eating (in that order, leaving any skaven or skaven creation for last if other targets are available) anything that moves in sight, including itself if nothing else seems available. Thus a Master Moulder always makes sure to chain or otherwise restrain its creations when it needs to perform lengthy tasks that demand its full attention (usually creating more monsters). A Master Moulder can command its beasts in battle by inflicting them pain (see Long Lash).

Long Lash: A Master Moulder is adept at using his whip to direct his feral creations, or, when engaged in combat, to snap the weapon at the enemy.  The Master Moulder can inflict either lethal or nonlethal damage at its choice with any whip regardless of the armor/natural armor of the target. The Master moulder never takes attack penalties with a whip for one of his creations being between him and the enemy.

With 1 hour of skilled whipping every day, a Master Moulder can ensure the obedience of an amount of the creatures it has created as long as the combined CR of their “base” creatures doesn't exceed your own-1. So a first level Master Moulder can only control creatures up to ½ CR. This only works while said creatures remain inside the reach of the whip. If they get out they revert to the basic behaviour described in Create a Monster. The Master Moulder can also quickly juggle between a whip and two-handed weapon with just two hands, holding one or the other whenever it's more convenient whitout need of actions, which allows him to keep control of his creations while attacking with the two-handed weapon. He can't attack with both whip and two-handed weapon in a single round with just two hands.

Waves of Rats: Master Moulders have an uncanny ability to atract smaller vermin. Every nightfall 1d12+1 tiny rats appear near the Master Moulder. At the DM's discretion other animals/vermin with CR inferior to ½ may appear depending on the area or special preparations (trapped rats may atract cats for example). Either way they're friendly to the Master Moulder and let themselves be captured to be used in experiments or snacks, but otherwise will not fight or follow orders unless they're turned into proper monsters and whipped into obedience. Any “unused” rats die after 24 hours-they weren't particularly healthy in aproaching the Master Moulder to begin with after all.

Giant Rats: At 2nd level the Master Moulder learns how to make tinier creatures quickly grow into wolf-sized monsters  by gorging them with warpstone-sprinkled meat soaked in things best left unmentioned. This can be applied to any  living corporeal non-outsider non-elemental creature “changed” by the Master Moulder, smaller  than medium-sized as a 1  minute process, altough the growth itself then takes 1d8 hours during which the creature is helpless. The creature grows to medium size and its Str score becomes 10+your ranks in Heal unless it was already better. They count as CR+1 of the base creature for controling purposes.

Skalm: This foul-smelling substance can be smeared on wounds to unnaturally accelerate the healing process. It takes 30 GP and 1 hour of work per dose, a standard action whitout provoking attacks of opportunity to apply and heals HP equal to an Heal check from the user. When applied in a Skaven, it also slows down their aging by one day. If applied in a non-Skaven, it ages them one day. Skalm doesn't affect creatures whitout a life expectancy.

Become a Monster: at 3rd level the Master Moulder takes the next logical step on his experiments-start applying them on himself! The Master Moulder can now apply mutations and transplatns from Create a Monster to himself, whitout losing any of its mental abilities (not that he's sane by any definition of the word by now). But can only gain half the amount of mutations/transplatns he could apply to one of its creations and doesn't gain immunity to mind-affecting effects.

Thing-Catcher: At 3rd level the Master Moulder learns how to properly add spikes and hooks to any one two-handed weapon he's proficient with in order to make it inflict extra pain and make it easier to bring down tough targets whitout killing them. This takes 1 hour of work and 30 GP worth of materials. Once it's done, it deals damage as if it was one size category larger, can deal nonlethal damage whitout any penalty on the attack roll and if a creature damaged by a Thing-Catcher would die whitin 1 minute of being hurt by it, it is instead left in a comatose state for that minute, the pain keeping them going. However such pain also scars the mind and the creature is reduced to a mindless ferocious state as if it had been used for Create a Monster, allowing the Master Moulder to begin experimenting on it. Only being killed and revived before the Master Moulder works his art or a Limited Wish can save their mind. The Thing-Catcher is treated simply as an improvised weapon for anyone else but the Master Moulder that created it.

Rat-Ogre: At 4th level the Master Moulder learns how to increase even more the growth of its specimens so they become giant sized! This can be applied to any  living corporeal non-outsider non-elemental creature “changed” by the Master Moulder, smaller  than medium-sized as a 1  minute process, altough the growth itself then takes 2d8 hours during which the creature is helpless. The creature grows to large size and its Str score becomes 14+your ranks in Heal unless it was already better, and its Con score becomes 10+your ranks in Heal unless it was already better as well. They count as CR+2 of the base creature for controling purposes.

Scavenge Pile:Skaven society produces a series of unique equipment that are standard among their elite and leaders members. At 4th level the Master Moulder gains one of the following options (he's automatically proficient with any weapons gained from this).

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Warpmusket- Skaven often use the highly unstable magical energies of warpstone to create devilishly deadly weapons. The warpmusket is a two-handed masterwork ranged weapon with a range increment of 100 feet and x4 crit multiplier that fires bolts of chaotic energy dealing 2d6 damage per shot and counts as magic for bypassing DR and hiting incorporeal oponents. Firing a warpmusket provokes attacks of oportunity just like a bow. It recquires no ammo, but on an attack roll of natural 1 the weapon releases a burst of energy that damages the user as if he had hit himself!

Any non-skaven that uses a Warpmusket takes 1 point of Con and Wis drain for each shot fired, even if they're immune to ability drain.

Warplock Pistols-As the Warplock Musket, but is a one-handed weapon, deals 1d8 damage per shot and has a range increment of 30 feet, and doesn't provoke an attack of oportunity for firing in melee. Also the skaven gets two of these.

Poison Contract- The fine powders and unctuous lotions purchased from Clan Eshin can turn a scratch into a deathblow. At every nightfall the Skaven is contacted by a Clan Eshin member that offers it a choice of venoms and toxins. The Skaven can get up to 1000 GP per HD worth of poisons from this contact whitout paying anything, but they're cheap versions and will become useless if not used whitin 24 hours (and thus have no market value). This contact can also be used to purchase regular poisons with gold or other goods. In addition the Skaven no longer risks poisoning himself when applying poisons to his weapons.

Tail Weapon- Altough a Skaven's tail is not strong enough to inflict any damage by itself, some Skaven learn how to wield a weapon with it. This could also be a mechanical clan Skyre attachment or an evolved mutation, the results are the same-another appendage wielding a weapon. This grants the Skaven one extra attack on a fullattack, but only adds half his Str mod to it. The extra appendage cannot perform fine manipulation.

Running with the Pack: At 5th level the Master Moulder and his monsters act as one. The Master Moulder becomes immune to mind-affecting effects while at least one of its creations remains under his control in reach of his whip, and those monsters can use the Master Moulder's own Bab and saves instead of their own whenver it would be benefical for them.

Skavenbrew: This concoction is made of warpstone and the blood of many creatures, costing 50 GP and 2 hours of work to make at 5th level. It can be gulped down as a normal potion, or the Master Moulder can make all of its creations under its control inside his whip's reach plus any willing adjacent allies to guzzle the vile liquid as a standard action whitout provoking attacks of opportunity (one dose enough). Either way roll a 1d6

1-The brew has gone bad, it tastes specially foul but no other effect.
2-The drinker may re-roll one attack roll per round for 1d12 rounds.
3-The drinker may re-roll all attack rolls per round for 1d12 rounds.
4-The drinker rages as a Barbarian for 1d12 rounds.
5-The drinker Mighty Rages as a 20th level Barbarian for 1d12 rounds and takes 13 damage per round at the end of their turn while this lasts.
6-The drinker may full attack after charging and makes an extra attack at their highest attack bonus on a fullattack for 1d12 rounds.

Hellpit Abomination:At 6th level the Master Moulder can start working on his masterpiece-a living mountain of misshapen flesh that moves in a rippling tide of unnatural spams,writhing worm-like and using its many limbs to pull and drag its hideous bulk forward.

The Hellpit abomination  works as another of the Master Moulder's usual creations, except it can receive double the mutations and transplants a regular one could and be grown up to huge size if it was smaller, gaining a Str score of 18+Ranks in Heal and a Con of 14+ranks in Heal if those values were better than the base creature. The whole process takes 13 days of work and 13 shards of warpstone each costing 13 GP to acquire. This includes applying transplants and mutations. At the end of the work terrible omens hail this unholy creation in the surrounding area like terrible storms, giant lighting bolts and plagues of vermins as nature itself is disgusted at this foul creation. The hellpit abomination demands daily attention to keep it going, meaning the Master Moulder can only keep one at a time. It also counts as the CR+3 of the “base” creature it was created from to control purposes.

In addition the Hellpit Abomination gains the following unique abilities

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Feed-As a swift action the Hellpit abomination can attack with any bites natural attacks it has, ignoring all miss chances including mirror image and similar.

Flailing Fists-As a swift action for 1 round any claw/slam attack of the Hellpit Abomination ignores any DR and hardness of the target. Creatures damaged by such attacks take a penalty on all skill checks equal to the Hellpit Abomination's Str mod for 1 round.

Avalanche of Flesh-As a swift action the Hellpit Abomination moves up to its movement speed in a straight line, being able to pass over creatures smaller than itself whitout trouble. It can perform one free attack with a natural weapon of its choice against each opponent it passed trough, but provokes aoos as normal.

Too Horrible to Die-as the Hellpit abomination twitches out its last shuddering death throes there is a chance its unholy metabolism restarts. Whenever the Hellpit abomination dies, at the start of your turn roll a 1d10. The hellpit abomination rises again with a percentage of health restored equal to ten times the amount rolled! In the case of a natural 10, then its metabolism overloaded and it explodes in a shower of gore at the end of this turn. Every extra time the hellpit abomination add+1 to this roll, with a result of 10 or more always resulting in the metabolism overload. This doesn't work against effects that completely destroy a creature's body.

If the Master Moulder has 15 ranks in Heal it can make it grow up to gargantuan with Str 22+Ranks in Heal and Con 18+ranks in Heal if better.

If the Master Moulder has 21 ranks in Heal it can make it grow up to colossal with an Str 26+Ranks in Heal and Con 22+ranks in Heal if better.

Whip of Domination:At 6th level whenever the Master Moulder hits an enemy with a whip with a natural 20 that enemy takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls, skill checks, saves, damage rolls, ability checks and skill checks for 13 rounds.

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Warlock Engineer

”Price for aid of almighty Clan Skryre most agreeable, yes-yes?”- Ikit Claw, Master Warlock Engineer

The notorious Warlock Engineers of Clan Skryre are the artificers of Skaven society, blending arcane sorceries with technology in an insane and mind-blogging mix. For the other other races of the world it is hard to differentiate or define where the science stops and the power of magic begins, altough such delineation never occurs to Skaven. Warlock Engineers see the two elements as one and the same-machines and sorcery blended togheter to create impressive killing power.

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Adventures: Warlock Engineers travel the world gathering knowledge with which to improve their craft, be it by stealing, studying, or, if they're desesperate enough, working for or along others to achieve new results. And if they can market clan Skryre products along the way, so much the better!

Characteristics: Warlock Engineers appear as other Skaven, but it is invariably harder to discern their shapes as they are typically covered in whirling, hissing, clanking contraptions of their own devising. Some warlock engineers used the aid of warped machinery to harness the winds of magic and channel it to foul Skaven effects. Others are absorbed on the building and firing of a variety of mechanical weapons capable of dangerous and unpredictable effects.

Religion: Every Warlock Engineer is in a  most holy quest for designing new ways of killing his opponents in the most violent and explosive ways possible.

Background: New Warlock Engineers are usually the students that survived graduated from an older master's teaching. Some are talented and lucky enough to teach themselves the starting basics whitout blowing up themselves. Too much. Pfft, you were planning to replace that flesh arm by a shiny new metal one anyway.

Other Classes:Warlock Engineers have great respect for anyone who will keep their enemies busy while they take aim with their weapons.

Role: Warlock Engineers provide powerful ranged support and a variety of utilities.

HD:d6

Level	Bab	Fort	Ref	Will	Feature
1	+0	+0	+0	+2	Techno-Mage Harness, Diabolic Device, Scavenge Pile
2	+1	+0	+0	+3	Diabolic Device, Life is Cheap
3	+2	+1	+1	+3	Diabolic Device, Warp Weapons
4	+3	+1	+1	+4	Diabolic Device, Arcane Technology
5	+3	+1	+1	+4	Diabolic Device, Gears of Warp
6	+4	+2	+2	+5	Diabolic Device, Rare Engine, Warp-Energy Condenser

Skills:6+Int modifier per level, quadruple at 1st level, class skills are Apraise(Int), Balance(Dex), Climb(Str), Concentration (con), Craft(any) (wis), Disable Device(Int), Intimidate(Cha), Jump(Str), Knowledge (any) (int), Open Lock,Search (Int), Spellcraft(Int),Use Magic Device(Cha)

Proficiencies: Simple Weapons, Light and Medium Armor

Features:

Techno-Mage Harness: The defining feature of a Warlock Engineer, a Techno-Mage Harness is a complex suit of armor  covered in whirling, hissing, clanking contraptions of their own devising. A basic Techno-Mage Harness works as a Masterwork Breastplate, except it has a -10 Armor Check Penalty. In the large backpack of this device resides a warpstone based generator, that each turn generates 1 Warp Power per Warlock Engineer level. Many of the Warlock Engineers other abilities demand the use of Warp Power. Warp Power resets at the start of each of the Warlock Engineer's turn.

Diabolic Device: At each Warlock Engineer level they can pick one of the options below. Each can only be picked once unless noted otherwise. They all count as a single piece of gear with hardness 10 and HP equal to 10 per HD.

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Warp-Power Accumulator- The Warlock Engineer chooses one of Skitterleap, Warp Lighting or Howling Warpgale as per the Grey Seer Plague and Ruin spells, provided they have a Warlock Engineer level equal to at least twice the spell level. They can now use the chosen spell as a SLA at will with CL=HD by spending Warp Power equal to the spell's level, and using Int instead of Cha when appropriate. Whenever such a SLA is used roll 1d6. A result of 1 means the SLA fails. A result between 2 and 5 means it works as normal. A result of 6 means a power surge-the spell is cast with +3 DC an CL! However the Warp-Power Accumulator doesn't recharge Warp Power at the start of your next turn as it has to cool down. You can take this option more than once, each picking a new spell choice.

If all Warlock Engineer levels were taken, and you pick this option again with the Extra Option feat, you can choose to learn Death Frenzy, Scorch, Cloud of Corruption, Cracks Call or The Dreaded Thirteenth Spell-Curse of the Horned Rat, provided you have at least twice as much HD as the level of the spell.

Supercharged Warp-Power Accumulator- You need Warp-Power Accumulator to pick this. When you use a SLA, you can increase its CL and DC by 2 by spending extra Warp Power equal to the spell's level.

Poisoned Wind Globes- One of the most infamous weapons of the Warlock Engineers, first designed to battle heavily armored dwarves. A special compartment is added to the Techno-Mage Harness, where one dose of poison can be put as a fullround action. As a free action by spending one Warp Power, the Warlock Engineer can retrieve a delicate glass or crystal orb from that same compartment, that can be used as a Thrown weapon with range increment 20 feet. If it hits, the target is subject to the poison, and its DC becomes 10+1/2 HD+Int mod (even if otherwise it would be better). If you roll a natural 1 however, the globe shatters at your feet and you're the one poisoned.  It ignores the racial bonus against poison from Dwarves One dose of poison is enough for virtually infinite poisoned wind globes, while the orbs themselves can be easily fashioned from expendable materials during downtime, but if a new dose of poison is applied, the previous one is erased. If the Warlock Engineer has 12 or more HD, he may choose to make Poisoned Wind Globes affect those that would normally be immune to them, but they gain a +5 bonus on the save.

Allied adjacent creatures can retrieve and use the poisoned wind globes as long as there's enough Warp Power to produce them, but  if not used whitin 1 round, the unstable poison gas inside become inert and harmless.

Unsafety Gear- Altough they usually focus their inventions in destruction, some Warlock Engineers realize surviving a failed experiment will help them live to wreck havoc another day. Unsafety Gear consists of elaborate googles, masks and rebreathers that can be worn under or over the Techno-Mage harness taking the Shoulder Slot. It grants the Warlock Engineer a bonus on Fort and Reflex saves equal to the currently unused Warp Power. As an immediate action, the Warlock Engineer can spend Warp Power to re-roll a failed Fort or Reflex save with a bonus equal to twice the Warp Power spent this way. He can also choose to spend one Warp Power to count as not needing to breath at all for 1 round, spending one Warp Charge every round  to maintain this effect.

Warlock Optics- As a free action by spending one Warp Power, the Warlock Engineer can choose to either gain +4 to Spot checks (can be used multiple times, +2 Spot for each extra), ignore Cover, or ignore Concealment less than Total Concealment for 1 round. By spending 3 Warp power  they may duplicate a See Invisibility for 1 round. By spending 15 charges they may duplicate a True Seeing effect for 1 round.

Storm Demon-This cosnsists of a masterwork martial two-handed weapon of the Warlock-Engineer's choice (with which he becomes automatically proficient) that is connected to the Techno-Mage harness by plated cables that allow him to channel energy. It can be retrieved or put away as a swift action, and it cannot be disarmed. It counts as magic whenever it would be benefical for you. By spending one Warp Power as a free action, you can grant it a +1 bonus to either attack or damage rolls for 1 round, stacking for multiple warp points spent. As a standard action you can spend any amount of Warp Charges and fire a ranged touch attack ray with range 60 feet from the Storm Demon made of electricity/fire/cold/force/unholy/acid (random, roll 1d6) to a target that deals 1d6 damage per Warp Power spent. If you roll a natural 1 with an attack with the Storm Demon, you automatically hit yourself.

Body Part Replacement-Sometimes you lose a limb in a bad experiment. Other times you believe you can build a better one. The new cog limb works as previously, but by spending one Warp Power as a free action you can gain an extra bonus for 1 round:

Leg grants you a permanent +5 feet bonus to any non-flying movement speed. plus an extra +5 feet per  Warp Power spent. If you replace two legs, double the bonus gained per Warp Power spent.

Arm grants you a permanent +3 bonus to Grapple, Trip, Disarm, Bullrush, Craft and Use Magic Device Checks, plus an extra +2 per  Warp Power spent. If you replace two arms, double the bonus gained per Warp Power spent.

Torso grants you a permanent +5 HP. If you spend Warp Power in it, you regain 5  HP per Warp Power spent, or gain 5 Temporary HP if you're already at full, that last until the start of the your turn.

Each time you spend Warp Power on the body parts, roll 1d6. On a 1, the bonus becomes a penalty instead (or you take the same amount of damage in case of the torso). On a 2-5 it works normally. On a 6 double the bonus gained!

You can pick this Diabolic Device up to five times, two for legs, two for arms, and one for torso. You gain Fortification 20% for each time you pick this, plus your Str score counts as 4 higher for carrying capacity purposes.

Life is Cheap: At 2nd level, when performing a ranged attack against an opponent that is enganged in melee with an ally, the Warlock Engineer can choose to ignore the penalty of firing into melee and add his Int bonus to the attack roll. If he does so and hits the enemy, then the ally is also hit by the attack. If multiple allies are engaged in melee with the target, only one is affected, Warlock Engineer's choice.

Warp Weapons:  Clan Skryre has invented a variety of powerful, portable, yet dangerously precarious weapons to accompany the skaven hordes to battle. Unless otherwise noticed, each of those is a masterwork exotic weapon that weights 50 lb and counts as magic if it would be beneficial for it and that demands two individuals to fire-one to make the actual shot, that takes a fullround action,  and another to passively support like feeding ammo or controling energy levels, being able to only use an Aid Another for the shooter. Both must use all limbs to control the Warp Weapon. They also must both have Exotic Weapon profiency (relevant Warp Weapon). However, any Warlock Engineer that knows how to build one of those weapons can use them by himself, and is automatically proficient as well, but still cannot use other weapons at the same time. At 3rd level the Warlock Engineer picks one of the below options, learning how to build it and obtaining one free exemplar. Extra ones will cost 1000 GP and 13 days of work each. Sacrifice of one willing or helpless sentient creature reduces build time by 1 day, to a minimum of 13 hours for 13 sentient sacrifices.

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Ratling Gun-This multi-barrelled whirling death-dealing machine known as the Ratling Gun is a relatively modern invention. Nonetheless it has proven so successful that Clan Skryre simply cannot make enough to satisfy the greedy demands of the Warlord clans. Powered by warp steam and kicked into gear by the prodigious working of a hand crank, the six barrels of the Ratling Gun spin and whir, emitting a fusillade of warp-laced bullets that streatk trough the air, leaving faint freenish traces.

The ratling gun has a range increment of 40 feet and deals 1d12 piercing damage per bullet, ignoring half the armor, natural armor, and shield bonus to AC of the target, as well as half DR and Hardness. It fires 1d6 bullets per “shot”, that may be targeted at the same or different targets. However before damage for those bullets is resolved, the shooter can choose to fire another 1d6 bullets, and then another 1d6, and so on. If they roll a double this way, no more bullets are fired, and the ratling gun misfires. Roll one final 1d6.

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1-2 BLAM! The ratling gun is destroyed and the ones using it take 1d6 damage per bullet they fired this turn.

3-5 SPIN WILDLY! Choose one random creature whitin range other than the ones firing, friend or foe. All fires this turn are directed at them.

6 BBBbrrtt.... All bullets deal only half damage this turn.

For each 6 Bab of the one firing the weapon, they may choose to ignore one misfire per turn.

Warpfire Thrower- This weapon hurls a blast of unnatural flame. A flip of a switch and powdered warpstone mixes with onrushing chemicals, bursting into unholy flame.

When fired, the Warpfire Thrower produces a cone up to 50 feet, dealing 6d6 unholy damage to all inside the area, creatures and unattended objects, but make a ranged attack make a ranged attack roll anyway. Creatures can halve the damage from the Warpfire thrower by succeeding on a Reflex save with the same DC. Creatures failing this save are shaken for 1 round, or Frightned for 1 round if they fail by 10 or more. If a 1 is rolled on this attack roll, no warpfire comes out, instead a misfire happens. Roll a 1d6

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1-2 WHOMPFFF! The diabolical device explodes, dealing 5d6 unholy damage on a 30 feet burst centered on its position, no save allowed. A lurid mushroom cloud is all that remains from the warp weapon.

3-5 FUEL LEAK! Highly explosive fuel starts leaking and ignites! The warp weapon will explode at the end of the user's next turn as above, giving time to run away, or perhaps go in a suicide run, or even throw it at somebody else as an improvised weapon.

6-Ppphhhttt... With a disappointing fizzle, the Warpfire Thrower simply fails to fire.

For each 6 Bab of the one firing the weapon, it deals an extra 6d6 unholy damage and can extend an extra 50 feet.

Doom-Flayer- A motorised iron ball of whirling b lades that was first employed during the merciless underground battles against a clan of dwarves whose twisting tunnels made it impossible to properly use ranged weapons.

Unlike other warp weapons, the Doom Flayer is not a ranged weapon. Rather, when “fired”, it moves forward up to 100 feet in a straight line, ignoring difficult terrain dragging the user(s) along. Anything in its path automatically takes 6d4 slashing and bludgeoning damage, ignoring half their DR and hardness but make a ranged attack make a ranged attack roll anyway. Creatures can halve the damage from the Doom-Flayer by succeeding on a Reflex save with the same DC. Creatures failing this save are sickened for 1 round, or nauseated for 1 round if they fail by 10 or more as great splashes of gore and entrails are left behind. If a 1 is rolled on this attack roll, it doesn't move and misfires. Roll a 1d6

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1- 2 Bablam! The Doom-Flayer implodes in a rippling radius of multi-coloured death! Everybody inside a 30 feet burst centered on it automatically take 6d4 untyped damage, no save allowed.

3-5 ZZZZzap! The Doom-Flayer's warp generator temporaly overloads, dealing 6d4 electricity damage to the user(s) and anyone adjacent to them, but can be used normally next turn.

6-Power Failure... The crew look up innocently, acting as they are not doing anything harmful, certainly not directing the efforts of a chopping death abbatoir. It can be used normally next turn.

As a side effect, the Doom-Flayer doubles as a massive shield for the user(s), granting them a +4 shield bonus, cover and concealment. Double the shield and cover bonus and increase to total concealment against attacks coming from the opposite direction to which the Doom-Flayer moved last turn. For every 6 Bab of the user, it inflicts an extra 6d4 damage and can move an extra 100 feet.

Warp Grinder-More of a tool than actual weapon, the Warp-Grinder's primary purpose is to open up tunnels. Projectors gleam with warp-energy, pulverizing stone and leaving a narrow and smoking passageway in its wake. It can still be used to pulverize flesh and bones tough.

When fired, the Warp Grinder fires a purple beam as a ranged touch attack up to 30 feet away. If it hits a piece of terrain, it produces a 5-feet wide tunnel in a straight line that goes 3d12x5 feet deep. In the case of solid rock, halve the tunnel's length. In the case of solid metal, quarter it. If you hit a creature, it deals 3d12 untyped damage that ignores all regeneration, and if this kills said creature, no remains are left. If you use the Warp Grinder underground and roll a natural 1, the ceiling directly above you collapses in a 30-feet burst.

For each 6 Bab of the user, the Warp Grinder digs twice as further away or deals double damage against creatures.

Warplock Jezzail-a long-barrelled rifle with exceptional power and acuraccy, this weapon is basically the improved version of the Warpmusket. It has a range increment of 300 feet, a 18-20 x4 critical multiplier and each shot deals 3d8 damage. It is also almost safe! On an attack roll of a natural 1, you can re-roll it once, but if you get another natural 1, you automatically hit yourself. The Warplock Jezzail comes with a Pavise, that helps aiming, allowing you to add your Int mod to the attack roll, and simultaneously counts as an equipped Tower Shield.

For each 6 Bab of the user, the Warplock Jezzail deals an extra 3d8 damage and increase its Crit threat range by 1.

Arcane Technology: At 4th level, the Warlock Engineer becomes able to craft Arcane technology items. Those work as magic items for all intents and purposes, except the Warlock Engineer doesn't need to spend Exp, and counts as having all magic item crafting feats for purpose of this ability.  He must provide the needed spells in the form of scrolls, but those aren't consumed on the process. Items based on spells that have expensive material components and/or exp costs cannot be fashioned by Arcane Technology. The crafting process can be sped up by the sacrifice of  sentient willing or helpless creatures, at the rate of one day less per each sentient sacrifice, to a minimum of 13 hours of work.

 However whenever such an item is used, there's a 10% chance it breaks down and doesn't do anything. If it's an one-use item, the chance is 30%. In the case of passive items that don't demand an action to use, roll once per day and at the start of each battle. Arcane Technology items that break down can be repaired by a Warlock Engineer whitout need of spending more resources with 13 hours of work, or 13 minutes by sacrificing other items worth 1% of the crafting cost of the item to be repaired. If it's the Warlock Engineer that originally crafted the item doing the repairs, 13 rounds whitout spending extra resources, or one fullround action by sacrificing other items worth 1% of the crafting cost is enough.

Gears of Warp: The most Devious Warlock Engineers craft some weapons they never sell, but only use themselves, and even then they only keep one around at a time out of paranoia's sake, lest somebody else steal it. At 5th level pick one of the following options. Unless otherwise noticed, each Gear of Warp can only be used once per day, and after used the Warlock Engineer must spend 1 hour preparing a replacement. A Warlock Engineer cannot build a new Gear of Warp while he has one remaining.

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Brass Orb-A fist sized metal orb made of interlinking whirling cogs, the Brass Orb is a dangerous device capable of opening a crack in the plane of reality, sucking those in its blast vicinity into the twisting Abyss. As a standard action the Brass Orb can be thrown up to 40 feet, scattering as an alchemical weapon. When it impacts a creature or surface, everybody whitin 30 feet must make a Reflex save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod or be transported to some very nasty layer of the Abyss. Terrain is equally affected, as well as any standing magic effect that would fit inside the affected area. If a natural 1 is rolled when throwing the Brass Orb, it explodes in the Warlock Engineer's position instead.

Doomrocket-Built with secrets stolen from mysterious groups, Warlock Engineers still seek to improve the propulsion, steering and payload of this devastating weapon. As a standard action the Warlock Engineer can choose to fire the rocket. Roll any amount of d12s, minimum 4d12. This is the amount of feet the Doom Rocket travels before exploding, dealing 1d10 damage per HD in a 30 feet radius and dazing the survivors, Reflex save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Int mod halves this damage and negates the Daze. This damage overcomes any kind of regeneration, ignores object hardness and  also automatically dispels any effects inside the area, including Force effects that normally cannot be dispelled.  It will not stop if there's a creature on its path, but will detonate if it impacts a terrain surface beforehand. If 3 or more 1s are rolled when calculating the distance, a mishap happens. Roll 1d6

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1 THOOOOMMM! The rocket blows up prematurely, exploding in the Warlock Engineer's position.

2-5 Stablising Fin lost. The Doomrocket goes in another direction, use thrown weapon scatter rules to determine which one.

6 It's a Dud. The Doomrocket falls to the ground whitout exploding at the end of its course. At the start of each of your next turns there's a 50% chance it finally explodes.

Death Globe-This works as the poisoned wind globe, except you need a standard action to throw it, and the poison spreads in a 30 feet radius from the point of impact, the DC increases by 4, and double the poison's initial damage. It still falls at your feet if you roll a natural 1.

Rare Engine: The biggest, nastiest creations of the Warlock Engineers. At 6th level pick one of the options below

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Warp Lighting Cannon- A contraption built and powered by an enormous hunk of raw warpstone, the Warp Lighting cannon is mounted on an Huge square plataform with mechanized enchanted wheels that turn by themselves, being able to move up to 50 feet per turn. It has 15 HP per HD and hardness equal to your Int mod. However it cannot be fired on the same round it moved. If standing on it, the Warlock Engineer can fire the Warp Lighting Cannon as a fullround action, that produces a 5-feet wide Line with up to 30 feet per HD that deals 1d8 untyped damage per HD to everything on its path, counting as magic if benefical, ignoring all hardness and then explodes in a 30 feet burst at the end of the trajectory.  Make an attack roll every time it is fired. Creatures and objects on its path can make a Fort save with the same DC to halve this damage. Those that fail the save take half the initial damage at the end of each of their turns as the warp energy consumes their bodies, but are allowed a new Fort save with the same DC to stop the effect. After being fired, the Warp Lighting cannon cannot be used again for 1d4 rounds. If a natural 1 is rolled on the attack roll, a mishap happens. Roll a 1d6

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1-2 Meltdown! The machine explodes in a green fireball, dealing 1d8 damage per HD to all on its space. If you survive, you may wonder if it was really a malfuction or if you're being double-crossed...

3-5 Energy overload! The Warp Lighting cannon fires in a random direction as per the thrown weapon scatter rules, dealing +50% damage with no save allowed this turn!

6 Spluttering Fizzle. The energy dissipates harmlessly, but you may attempt to fire again next turn.

The Warp Lighting Cannon grants Cover to those standing inside it. A destroyed Warp Lighting Cannon takes 2000 GP worth of material and 13 days to rebuild. Sacrificing sentient willing or helpless creatures reduces the needed time by 1 day, to a minimum of 13 hours for 13 sentient sacrifices.

Iron Frame-A mighty upgrade of the Techno-Mage Harness, the Iron Frame generates two extra Warp Power per turn,  grants hardness equal to ½ its AC bonus, and a Deflection bonus to AC equal to 1/3 HD. Plus the Warlock Engineer can fire Warp Weapons as a standard action now.

Doomwheel- Few devices sum up the blend of science and sorcery, the sheer inhuman ingenuity of the Skaven, than the infernal war engine known as the Doomwheel. The Doomwheel whirs quickly across the battlefield, unleashing powerful warp lightning bolts that blast those nearby to shrivelled blackness, as the great iron-reinforce wheel crushes all in its path. The Doomwheel is mounted on an Huge square plataform with wheels powered by a skurrying, screeching rat horde, moving 2d12 x5 feet per round by itself in a straight line, being able to move over other creatures of any size, as well as objects smaller than itself. Any objects/creatures that it moves over take 6d6 crushing, slashing and bludgeoning damage per HD, Reflex save with DC 15 for half and creatures are knocked prone if they fail the save. Creatures attempting Aoos against the Doomwheel moving over them don't get this Reflex save. At the end of this movement it automatically deals 3d12 slashing damage to all adjacent enemies as the rats inside chew at anything nearby. If the Warlock Engineer is riding it, he can channel the energy produced by the doomwheel's turning as a standard action to unleash 3 rays of warp lighting, each a ranged touch attack that deals 1d6 untyped damage per HD with range 60 feet that counts as magic if benefical and each such ray must have a different target. After unleashing the stored power, the Doomwheel must move at least 130 feet by itself before being able to fire again. The Warlock Engineer can also goad the rats to run faster while riding the Doomwheel as a move action, doubling the movement for that round, the damage to 1d6 per HD, the Reflex DC to 10+1/2 HD+Int mod, but if a double is rolled for the 2d12, the Doomwheel moves in a random direction as per the scatter rules. The Doomwheel has 20 HP per HD and hardness equal to 3+your Int mod.

The Doomwheel grants Cover to those standing inside it. A destroyed Doomwheel takes 2000 GP worth of material and 13 days to rebuild. Sacrificing sentient willing or helpless creatures reduces the needed time by 1 day, to a minimum of 13 hours for 13 sentient sacrifices.

Warp-Energy Condenser: At 6th level, the Warlock Engineer's Techno-Mage Harness generates one Warp Power per HD.

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Verminlord



”Vecteek!... Mighty Verminlord, Prince of Ruins and Desolation. Heed the summonings of Grey Seer Thanquol. Harken to the Voice of the Horned Ones Prophet.... Vecteek!... I, Thanquol, servant of the Horned Rat, demand you to pass through this tunnel between worlds! Obey! "

Those few skaven who manage to truly impress the Horned Rat are slowly ascended to an higher form of filth and scheming, the ultimate form for the walking rats.

Prerequisites:
-Skaven Race
- All 6 levels of one of the base Skaven classes.
-Nongood, nonlawful alignment

HD:d8

Level	Bab	Fort	Ref	Will	Feature
1	+1	+2	+2	+0	Rat Demon Body, Protection of the Horned Rat, Growing Rat, +1 Str, +1 Cha
2	+2	+3	+3	+0	Horned Rat’s Blessing, +1 Con, +1 Int
3	+3	+3	+3	+1	Icon of Ruin, Horned Rat’s Blessing, +1 Str, +1 Cha
4	+4	+4	+4	+1	Rat Regalia, Growing Rat, +1 Con, +1 Int, +1 Str
5	+5	+4	+4	+1	Rat Spell, Horned Rat’s Blessing, +1 Con, +1 Int, +1 Cha
6	+6	+5	+5	+1	Disgusting Majesty, Horned Rat’s Blessing, +1 Str, +1 Cha, +1 Int, +1 Con

Skills: 6+int modifier per level, quadruple at 1st level, class skills are Apraise(Int), Balance(Dex), Climb(Str), Concentration (con), Craft(any) (wis), Diplomacy(Cha), Disable Device(Int), Disguise(Cha), Escape Artist(Dex), Heal (wis), Hide(dex), Intimidate(Cha), Jump(Str), Knowledge (any) (int), Listen (wis), Move silently (dex), Open Lock(Dex), Search (Int), Spot (wis), Survival (wis), Swim (Str), Use Rope (Dex)

Proficiencies: Simple Weapons, Four Martial weapons of its choice, Light and Medium Armor, Light and Heavy Shields

Features:

Rat Demon Body: At first level the Verminlord’s type changes to Outsider (do not recalculate anything). It gains a natural Gore attack dealing 1d8 base damage that counts as magic if benefical and the [Evil] and [Chaotic] subtypes and all of their attacks count as those alignments.

Protection of the Horned Rat: The Verminlord gains DR/cold iron and magic equal to half its HD plus SR equal to 11+HD, which may be raised or dropped at any time as a free action even if it isn’t its turn.

Growing Rat: At 1st and 4th level the Verminlord grows a size category, gaining an extra +1 Natural armor and +10 feet to their base speed when they do so. Verminlords know well how smaller cowardly creatures move and keep a rat’s flexibility and speed, thus they do not take size penalties to AC, attack rolls or hide checks.

Ability Score Increase: The Verminlord gains a permanent

+1 to Str at levels 1, 3, 4, 6
+1 to Cha at levels 1, 3, 5, 6
+1 to Con at levels 2, 4, 5, 6
+1 to Int at levels 2, 4, 5, 6

For a total of +4 Str, +4 Cha, +4 Con, +4 Int at level 6.

Horned Rat’s Blessing: At all levels but first and fourth, the Verminlord gains spellcasting as if they had taken a level of sorceror or cleric (no domains).

Icon of Ruin: At 3rd level pick one of the following options.

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Corruptor-You gain the Disease Carrier and Fanatic Delirium abilities of the Plague priest. If you already had them, instead now when you use Fanatic Delirium you can still cast spells and don’t need to use your bite attack first, and while it lasts allies smaller than yourself whitin 30 feet can use your Cha mod if it would be better than theirs.

Deceiver-You gain the Nightrunner ability from the Eishin Agent plus Weapon Finesse as a bonus feat. If you already had them, instead now you can use Dex for your melee and ranged damage rolls, plus all ranged attacks against you suffer a -4 penalty to attack rolls and DCs.

Warbringer -You gain the Pawleader and Scavenge Pile abilities from the Skaven Warlord. If you already had them, instead now you and smaller allies whitin 40 feet can add your  Cha mod to Will saves and AC against melee attacks.

Warpseer-You gain the Mark of the Horned Rat and Plague and Ruin abilities from the Grey Seer. If you already had them, instead now each day you gain a “pool” of 13 metamagic that can be spent to replicate the effects of Maximize, Empower, Quicken, Still and/or Silent on any spell you cast, provided the target(s) are all smaller than yourself. So for example you could add the Quicken and Still metamagics to a spell without need of any action by spending 4 points from your pool.

Stormfiend-You gain the Diabolic Device and Techno-Mage Harness  abilities of the Warlock Engineer. If you already had them, instead now your Techno-Mage Harness has no skill penalty and as a swift action you can change it to work as a masterwork version of any armor you’re proficient with instead of a breastplate, always having the ability to generate warp power.

Mutator-You gain the Create a Monster and Waves of Rats  abilities of the Master Moulder. If you already had them, instead now you now can perform transplants and mutations in half the time, plus by having two identical specimens, you can having them produce an offspring with identical stats each day.

Rat Regalia: At 4th level pick one of the following. You automatically become proficient with them. If they’re stolen, lost, destroyed or similar, you can summon them at your hand in perfect condition as a swift action.

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Plaguereaper- A +3 Anarchic Unholy Keen Scythe. When you attack with it, no immediate or free actions may be taken. If you have two Plaguereapers, you gain a +2 CL bonus to divine spells, they count as your holy symbols and you can perform divine spell somatic components while holding both.

Warp Stilleto- A +3 Wounding Ghost Touch Rapier that ignores half the target’s DR, Hardness plus half the target’s Armor, Natural Armor, Shield, Deflection, Sacred and Perfection bonus to AC. Any poison applied to the Warp Stilleto lasts until another poison is applied, regardless of how many attacks it does in between.

Doomstar-A +3 Returning Wounding Shuriken. When you throw it, you can target all creatures in a line up to its max range simultaneously (roll once and compare to their ACs).

Doom Glaive-A +3 Anarchic Unholy Ghost Touch Glaive that can be wielded with only one hand but still counts as two-handed if advantageous, and if you keep your other hand free, you gain a +2 bonus to CL of arcane spells.

Vermin Dagger-A +3 Anarchic Unholy  Vicious punching Dagger. It can perform coup de graces as a free action and the hand wielding it counts as free for other abilities.

Scry Orb- While held in clear view over a hand grants  a +3 Profane bonus to AC and saves and the hand counts as free for other abilities. As an attack action can be thrown up to 30 feet, and all whitin a 10 feet burst must make a Reflex save with DC equal to 10+1/2 HD+Cha mod or be dazed for 13 rounds. The orb then takes 13 hours, 13 minutes and 13 seconds before you can summon it again.

Doom-Flayer Gauntlet-A +3 Anarchic Unholy Gauntlet that deals 3d4 extra slashing and bludgeoning damage and grants you +20 feet to your movement speed and +2 Shield bonus. If you have two, the movement speed and shield bonus stack plus you can move over other creatures as long as you move in a straight line without changing direction, dealing them 1d4 slashing damage per HD, Reflex save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Str mod for half. Creatures attempting to make Aoos against your movement this way are not allowed the reflex save.

Grinder Gauntlets-A +3 Anarchic Unholy gauntlet that counts as a two-handed weapon when benefical that deals +1d12 damage, all of it ignoring all regeneration. If you have two  equipped and not holding anything else on the same hands grants you a burrow speed equal to your base speed, half if going through solid rock, or further halved if going through solid metal.

Windlaunchers- This device takes a single hand but works as an heavy catapult, load and fire as fullround action whitout need of any checks, as long as viable ammo is available in adjacent squares. The Verminlord can use their own Bab and Cha mod instead of Int mod to check if it hits the target. If the Verminlord has the Liber Bubonicus, they can load a vial from it as a move action, in which case when the projectile impacts, it inflicts the disease on the target as if struck by the vial, and it “splashes” into everybody whitin 20 feet!  If you have two, you can use both as a single fullround action.

Shock Gauntlet- A +3 Shocking Burst Gauntlet that attacks against touch AC and can attack all adjacent enemies simultaneously. If you have two, you can simultaneously attack all enemies whitin 30 feet.

Ratling Cannon- As the Warlock Engineer’s Ratling Gun,  except it takes a single hand, can be used as a standard action, and has a +3 enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls. If you have two Ratling Cannons, they can both be fired as a single fullround action.

Warpfire Projector-As the Warpfire Thrower, except it takes a single hand and can be used as a standard action. If you have two, they can be both fired as a single fullround action.

You may gain a second Rat Regalia by sacrificing either a Tool of Supremacy, a Rare Engine, an Assassin option, an Hellpit Abomination, a Screaming Bell or an Icon of the Horned Rat. If you pick two of the same,  you can attack with both as a standard action, during an Aoo or at the end of the charge with no penalties on the attack rolls.

Rat Spell: At 5th level pick one of the following options.

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Plaguemaster-Add the Cloud of Corruption skaven spell to your list of spells known. If you have the Plague Censer class ability, you can cast Cloud of Corruption as a swift action by spending one spell slot of each level you have available (minimum two spell slots).

Shadowstrider-Add the Skitterleap skaven spell to your list of spells known. If you have the Deathmaster class ability, you can cast Skitterleap as a swift action by spending one spell slot of each level you have available (minimum two spell slots).

Verminous Fury-Add the Death Frenzy skaven spell to your list of spells know. If you have the Rat General class ability, you can cast Death Frenzy as a swift action by spending one spell slot of each level you have available (minimum two spell slots).

Master of Lighting-Add the Warp Lighting skaven spell to your list of spells know. If you have the Warpstone Orb class ability, you can cast Warp Lighting as a swift action by spending one spell slot of each level you have available (minimum two spell slots).

Warpfire Wand-Add the Scorch skaven spell to your list of spells known. If you have the Warp-Energy Condenser class ability, you can cast Scorch as a swift action by spending one spell slot of each level you have available (minimum two spell slots).

World of Rats-Add the Vermintide spell to your list of spells known. If you have the Whip of Domination Class ability, you can cast Vermintide as a swift action by spending one spell slot of each level you have available (minimum two spell slots).

Disgusting Majesty: At 6th level those smaller than the Verminlord that start or end their turn whitin 130 feet must make a Will save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Cha mod or be panicked for 1d12 rounds, shaken even if they save. Creatures that succeed on their save against this cannot be affected again by the same Verminlord’s Disgusting Majesty for 1 minute, unless they’re in melee with the Verminlord in which case they must make the save every round. Even creatures immune to fear may be affected by this, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves. In addition as a standard action the Vermin Lord may make a basic attack and cast a spell with a casting time of a standard action or less, or as a fullround action full attack and cast a spell with a casting time of a standard action or less, either way all the target(s) of the attack(s) and spell must be smaller than the Vermin Lord.

[oslecamo]

Reserved just in case. And oh, Plague Priest added!

[Concerned Ninja Citizen]

Skaven Warlord:

Verminous Standard: The 12HD ability is written like it's activated but it has no activation action, duration, etc. If it's supposed to be constant, maybe note that in the ability.

Can the banner be used as a weapon?

Fangleader: do the Stormvermin retain the 10s in all stats of the clanrats or do they have better stats?

The Stormvermin come with Fullplate but their Skaven Warlord levels do not grant them proficiency in it until lv 3, so a 4th lv Warlord gets Stormvermin in nonproficient armor. 

Clawleader and Fangleader both contain the phrase "all skills must be spent on [fighter] feats." Should that be "all feats"?

Are Skaven automatically proficient with Warpmuskets/pistols or do they have to take EWP for them?

Tools of Supremacy:

The Fellblade can be fashioned in the form of any weapon, doubles the bearer's Strenght bonus,

For damage? For attacks? For skills? For the save DC of Verminous Standard?

has a 50% chance of automatically dispelling any spell/power/similar on the target that would prevent the Fellblade from hiting it.

What happens if you dispel incorporeality?

[oslecamo]

Skaven Warlord:

Verminous Standard: The 12HD ability is written like it's activated but it has no activation action, duration, etc. If it's supposed to be constant, maybe note that in the ability.

It says it triggers at the end of your turn.

Can the banner be used as a weapon?

As an improvised one, sure.

Fangleader: do the Stormvermin retain the 10s in all stats of the clanrats or do they have better stats?

It already says they get the elite array of stats base.

The Stormvermin come with Fullplate but their Skaven Warlord levels do not grant them proficiency in it until lv 3, so a 4th lv Warlord gets Stormvermin in nonproficient armor. 

Make them burn a feat in heavy armor proficiency or sell the armor, your choice.

Clawleader and Fangleader both contain the phrase "all skills must be spent on [fighter] feats." Should that be "all feats"?

Ah, fixed.

Are Skaven automatically proficient with Warpmuskets/pistols or do they have to take EWP for them?

Scavenge Pile already specifies you automatically gain proficiency with any weapons gained from it.

Tools of Supremacy:

The Fellblade can be fashioned in the form of any weapon, doubles the bearer's Strenght bonus,

For damage? For attacks? For skills? For the save DC of Verminous Standard?

Yes. That's why it has the heaviest drawback.

has a 50% chance of automatically dispelling any spell/power/similar on the target that would prevent the Fellblade from hiting it.

What happens if you dispel incorporeality?

Eeer, they simply turn corporeal?

[Rakoa]

The Plague Priest is an interesting one, very nice. Only thing I can say after skimming slightly is that under Plague Furnace it should probably not say that the Plague Priest gains options for sitting on the Plague Priest.

[Concerned Ninja Citizen]

It says it triggers at the end of your turn.

It says when the damage triggers. It doesn't say when the "sudden covering" of enemies with rats triggers.

Yes. That's why it has the heaviest drawback.

Might want to note "for all purposes" or something similar just to clarify since it is a surprisingly powerful ability, though well balanced by the drawback.

What happens if you dispel incorporeality?

Eeer, they simply turn corporeal?

Forever?

[Wrex]

Warp lightning seems a bit......weak? d6xCHA mod is terribly small unless you have a massive charisma score, and I don't see why you would bother with warp lightning if you did. Wither is also spectacularly bad, only dealing d6 con for a single round as a 4th level spell?

[sirpercival]

Warp lightning seems a bit......weak? d6xCHA mod is terribly small unless you have a massive charisma score, and I don't see why you would bother with warp lightning if you did. Wither is also spectacularly bad, only dealing d6 con for a single round as a 4th level spell?

Hey!  It's a Wrex sighting!  How are you, man?

[oslecamo]

It says it triggers at the end of your turn.

It says when the damage triggers. It doesn't say when the "sudden covering" of enemies with rats triggers.

I think it's pretty clear they just have to enter and stay inside the range of the ability for it to trigger. If you have a better wording for it I'm all hears.

Yes. That's why it has the heaviest drawback.

Might want to note "for all purposes" or something similar just to clarify since it is a surprisingly powerful ability, though well balanced by the drawback.

Clarified.

What happens if you dispel incorporeality?

Eeer, they simply turn corporeal?

Forever?

The Fellblade can only remove buffs that can be dispelled. If you were naturally incorporeal then it can't remove it.

Warp lightning seems a bit......weak? d6xCHA mod is terribly small unless you have a massive charisma score, and I don't see why you would bother with warp lightning if you did. Wither is also spectacularly bad, only dealing d6 con for a single round as a 4th level spell?

Hmm, good point on Warp Lighting, increased it to 1d12 bolts fired per 4 CL.

As for Wither, you notice it offers no save, doesn't need to hit, is multi-target,   and you can choose to roll up to 2 extra d6 for a total 3d6 penalty on Con? Even if it's just 1 round, that'll still be 1 round on which your enemies are left severly weakened and exposed to your other party members.

[Wrex]

Mmm, I'll accept that line of thinking. Ordinarily I would say Bless with Filth would be pretty bad, but you -do- get free poison, so it's fairly useful.


I should note that it seems a bit crippling for the plague priest to recieve such a massive Init Penalty. Why did you think it neccesary? The Clerical casting?

[oslecamo]

Yeah, clerical casting+d12 HD+2 good saves+other abilities every level, was feeling kinda too strong compared to the other skaven classes so came up with that penalty.

EDIT: and noticed now bless with filth wasn't clear enough that it's multi-target, fixed.

[OutlawPhilosopher]

Some thoughts on Grey Seer spells (take with a grain of salt)

Warp Lightning scales rather extremely. At, say, CL 16 with 20CHA (and 26+ seems more likely at this point) it is doing ~130 damage divided pretty much as you wish, which is quite a lot for a 2nd level spell. On the other hand, I guess it's still going to do absolutely nothing against even 5 electricity resistance. I'm not sure if this is the dynamic you're looking for, maybe it is, but it's definitely unusual. Also, the backfire just isn't that scary, doing at most 5xCHA at CL20 with a massively unlikely quintuple 1 roll.

Cracks Call is a giant line area SR(no) reflex save or die without the death or mind-affecting descriptors which also destroys objects and has a 15% chance of forcing rerolled saves. This is probably not more powerful than really broken effects, but is kind of out of line with, say, disintegrate or destruction.

Can the non-13 version of skitterleap target enemies? If so, it's probably borked, being SR(no) and no save.

Vermintide is going to cause distraction DC of 10+1/2CL+CHA vs nauseated, which is, again, probably not broken but quite unusual.

That's all for now.

[Rakoa]

I think that the Plague Priest's Plague Censer ability lacks a duration for the how long the disease lasts, but mentions one. I might be wrong. Also, Philosopher, Skitterleap specifies that the target must be willing.