View source for Master Expert (3.5e Prestige Class)

{{author
|author_name=Foxwarrior
|date_created=3/1/10
|adopter=
|date_adopted= 
|status=Just started
|editing=
|balance=Rogue
}}
<div class="blank">
{{#set:Summary=You are a true master of the art of being an [[SRD:Expert|expert]].
|Length=5
|Minimum Level=4
|Base Attack Bonus Progression=Other
|Fortitude Save Progression=Poor
|Reflex Save Progression=Poor
|Will Save Progression=Good
|Class Ability=Other
|Class Ability Progression=Full
}}
<!-- Delete any of the following alignments if they are not allowed in the class -->
{{#set:Allowed Alignments=Lawful Good}} {{#set:Allowed Alignments=Lawful Neutral}} {{#set:Allowed Alignments=Lawful Evil}} {{#set:Allowed Alignments=Neutral Good}} {{#set:Allowed Alignments=Neutral}} {{#set:Allowed Alignments=Neutral Evil}} {{#set:Allowed Alignments=Chaotic Good}} {{#set:Allowed Alignments=Chaotic Neutral}} {{#set:Allowed Alignments=Chaotic Evil}}
</div>

<!-- If your page should contain a picture, replace this line with [[File:Picturename.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Insert the caption here.]] -->

==Master Expert==

{{quote
|Some people may be able to take over the world without help, but do they know the names of every person born before 2135?
|orig=Bob Robert, Gnome Expert/Master Expert
|src=The Complete Memorizable Encyclopedia of Everything, Volume MXVII
}}

Master Experts are by far the most excellent practitioners of all things skill related.

===Becoming a Master Expert===

Characters tend to pursue this class because they really love being good at what they do.

{| class="d20 dragon monstats" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
|+ style="font-size: larger; white-space: nowrap;" | Entry Requirements
|-
! Levels:
| 4 levels in NPC classes.
|-
! Skills:
| 35 ranks total, distributed as you choose.
|-
! Feats:
| Any two feats that provide bonuses to skill checks.
|} 

{| class="zebra d20"
|+ <div>{{Anchor|Table: The Master Expert}}</div>
<p>Hit Die: d6</p>
|-
! rowspan="2" | Level
! rowspan="2" | [[BAB|Base<br/>Attack Bonus]]
! colspan="3" | [[SRD:Saving Throw|Saving Throw]]s
! rowspan="2" | Special
|-
! [[SRD:Saving Throw#Fortitude|Fort]] || [[SRD:Saving Throw#Reflex|Ref]] || [[SRD:Saving Throw#Will|Will]]
|- 
| 1st || +0 || +0 || +0 || +2
| class="left" | [[#Superior Aptitude|Superior Aptitude]], [[#Bonus Feats|Bonus Feat]]
|- 
| 2nd || +0 || +0 || +0 || +3
| class="left" | [[#Superior Aptitude|Superior Aptitude]], [[#Versatility|Versatility]]
|- 
| 3rd || +0 || +1 || +1 || +3
| class="left" | [[#Superior Aptitude|Superior Aptitude]], [[#Non-Combatant|Non-Combatant]]
|- 
| 4th || +0 || +1 || +1 || +4
| class="left" | [[#Superior Aptitude|Superior Aptitude]], [[#"I know what I'm doing"|"I know what I'm doing"]]
|- 
| 5th || +0 || +1 || +1 || +4
| class="left" | [[#Superior Aptitude|Superior Aptitude]], [[#Bonus Feats|Bonus Feat]]
|- class="noalt"
| colspan="42" class="skill" |
'''Class Skills ([[Skill Points::6]] + [[SRD:Intelligence|Int]] modifier per level.'''<br/>
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Appraise Skill|Appraise}} ([[SRD:Intelligence|Int]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Autohypnosis Skill|Autohypnosis}} ([[SRD:Wisdom|Wis]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Balance Skill|Balance}} ([[SRD:Dexterity|Dex]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Bluff Skill|Bluff}} ([[SRD:Charisma|Cha]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Climb Skill|Climb}} ([[SRD:Strength|Str]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Concentration Skill|Concentration}} ([[SRD:Constitution|Con]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Control Shape Skill|Control Shape}} ([[SRD:Wisdom|Wis]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Craft Skill|Craft}} ([[SRD:Intelligence|Int]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Decipher Script Skill|Decipher Script}} ([[SRD:Intelligence|Int]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Diplomacy Skill|Diplomacy}} ([[SRD:Charisma|Cha]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Disable Device Skill|Disable Device}} ([[SRD:Intelligence|Int]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Disguise Skill|Disguise}} ([[SRD:Charisma|Cha]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Escape Artist Skill|Escape Artist}} ([[SRD:Dexterity|Dex]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Forgery Skill|Forgery}} ([[SRD:Intelligence|Int]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Gather Information Skill|Gather Information}} ([[SRD:Charisma|Cha]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Handle Animal Skill|Handle Animal}} ([[SRD:Charisma|Cha]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Heal Skill|Heal}} ([[SRD:Wisdom|Wis]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Hide Skill|Hide}} ([[SRD:Dexterity|Dex]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Intimidate Skill|Intimidate}} ([[SRD:Charisma|Cha]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Jump Skill|Jump}} ([[SRD:Strength|Str]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Knowledge Skill|Knowledge}} ([[SRD:Intelligence|Int]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Listen Skill|Listen}} ([[SRD:Wisdom|Wis]])
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Move Silently Skill|Move Silently}} ([[SRD:Dexterity|Dex]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Open Lock Skill|Open Lock}} ([[SRD:Dexterity|Dex]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Perform Skill|Perform}} ([[SRD:Charisma|Cha]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Psicraft Skill|Psicraft}} ([[SRD:Intelligence|Int]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Profession Skill|Profession}} ([[SRD:Wisdom|Wis]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Ride Skill|Ride}} ([[SRD:Dexterity|Dex]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Search Skill|Search}} ([[SRD:Intelligence|Int]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Sense Motive Skill|Sense Motive}} ([[SRD:Wisdom|Wis]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Sleight of Hand Skill|Sleight of Hand}} ([[SRD:Dexterity|Dex]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Speak Language Skill|Speak Language}} (None), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Spellcraft Skill|Spellcraft}} ([[SRD:Intelligence|Int]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Spot Skill|Spot}} ([[SRD:Wisdom|Wis]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Survival Skill|Survival}} ([[SRD:Wisdom|Wis]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Swim Skill|Swim}} ([[SRD:Strength|Str]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Tumble Skill|Tumble}} ([[SRD:Dexterity|Dex]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Use Magic Device Skill|Use Magic Device}} ([[SRD:Charisma|Cha]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Use Psionic Device Skill|Use Psionic Device}} ([[SRD:Charisma|Cha]]), 
{{Property Link|Skill|SRD:Use Rope Skill|Use Rope}} ([[SRD:Dexterity|Dex]]).
|}

====Class Features====

All of the following are class features of the Master Expert.

'''{{Anchor|Superior Aptitude}}:''' Every level, the Master Expert may add his key ability modifiers to his skill checks one additional time.

'''{{Anchor|Versatility}}:''' The minimum check modifier for any skill check the Master Expert makes cannot be less than his total hit dice, after all penalties and bonuses have been applied.

'''{{Anchor|Non-Combatant}}:''' At level 3, as long as the Master Expert has done nothing offensive (such as dealing damage or applying penalties to his opponents) during a combat, he may add his Master Expert class level to his armor class. This applies against touch attacks, and while flat-footed, immobilized, or helpless.

'''{{Anchor|"I know what I'm doing"}}:''' At level 4, the Master Expert can always take 10 on any skill check.

'''{{Anchor|Bonus Feats}}:''' At levels 1 and 5, the Master Expert gains a bonus feat. It may be a Skill feat, a feat that gives a bonus to skill checks, or any feat that has skill ranks as a prerequisite. The Master Expert cannot choose a feat for which he does not meet the prerequisites.

===Campaign Information===

====Playing a Master Expert====

'''Combat:''' Run! Hide! You're likely to be pretty good at that. Of course, you could just persuade your enemies to run for their lives and leave all their worldly possessions. Perhaps if you get good enough at Perform (Tragedy) you can make people die of sadness.

'''Advancement:''' [[Word Wizard (3.5e Class)|Word Wizards]] are a fairly splashable caster class, and casting (or Use Magic Device) is really the only way you're going to pull your own in any sort of battle.

'''Resources:''' Master Experts tend to stick together.

====Master Experts in the World====

{{quote|I can steal from banks by smoking by a wall, climbing up the smoke, squeezing through an air hole, picking the locks on the vaults, and jumping through a second-story window, without anyone noticing me. Sure, Wizards could try the same thing, but what sort of important bank doesn't have an anti-magic field?|4=Jazgul Aribanti, Minotaur Master Expert}}

Master Experts are the best people for cheaply appraising and identifying items. They make the best scholars, the best thieves, and the best con men. They are likely to gain control of countries through sheer force of personality. The liars among them are more likely to be respected and feared as powerful wizards and deities than ''actual'' powerful wizards and deities are.

'''NPC Reactions:''' Characters of this class are far more likely to fit into polite society than ordinary adventurers are.

====Master Expert Lore====

Characters with ranks in Knowledge (Local) can research Master Experts to learn more about them.  When a character makes a skill check, read or paraphrase the following, including information from lower DCs.

{| class="zebra d20"
|+ Knowledge (Local)
! DC || class="left" | Result
|-
| 11 || class="left" | Master Experts tend to be terrible swordsmen or wizards.
|-
| 16 || class="left" | Master Experts are very good at skills they have the abilities for.
|-
| 21 || class="left" | It is universally accepted (as in accepted by the universe) that hitting a Master Expert is rude and should be avoided.
|- 
| 26 || class="left" | Names of specific Master Experts in the area.
|}

<!-- REMOVE THIS LINE WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE "... IN THE GAME" SECTION
====<-pluralized class name-> in the Game====

<-How characters of this class fit in the game (PC and NPC) and what roles they play->

'''Adaptation:''' <-Fitting this class in your campaign->

'''Sample Encounter:''' <-DM placement for NPC of this class->

''EL <- whatever ->:'' <-Encounter scenario and character info on sample NPC including stat block.  The CR of the NPC is typically the same as the EL for the encounter->
 REMOVE THIS LINE WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE "... IN THE GAME" SECTION -->

----
{{3.5e Prestige Classes Breadcrumb}}
[[Category:3.5e]]
[[Category:User]]
[[Category:Class]]
[[Category:Prestige Class]]
Allowed Alignments	Lawful Good +, Lawful Neutral +, Lawful Evil +, Neutral Good +, Neutral +, Neutral Evil +, Chaotic Good +, Chaotic Neutral + and Chaotic Evil +
Article Balance	High +
Author	Foxwarrior +
Base Attack Bonus Progression	Other +
Class Ability	Other +
Class Ability Progression	Full +
Fortitude Save Progression	Poor +
Identifier	3.5e Prestige Class +
Length	5 +
Minimum Level	4 +
Rating	Unrated +
Reflex Save Progression	Poor +
Skill	Appraise +, Autohypnosis +, Balance +, Bluff +, Climb +, Concentration +, Control Shape +, Craft +, Decipher Script +, Diplomacy +, Disable Device +, Disguise +, Escape Artist +, Forgery +, Gather Information +, Handle Animal +, Heal +, Hide +, Intimidate +, Jump +, Knowledge +, Listen +, Move Silently +, Open Lock +, Perform +, Psicraft +, Profession +, Ride +, Search +, Sense Motive +, Sleight of Hand +, Speak Language +, Spellcraft +, Spot +, Survival +, Swim +, Tumble +, Use Magic Device +, Use Psionic Device + and Use Rope +
Skill Points	6 +
Summary	You are a true master of the art of being an expert. +
Title	Master Expert +
Will Save Progression	Good +