Acolyte (3.5e NPC Class)

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Acolyte

Abilities: Acolyte's spells run off Wisdom, Charisma for turning and social abilities, and they need Dexterity and Constitution to survive danger.

Races: Any.

Alignment: Any.

Starting Age: As rogue.

Table: The Acolyte

Hit Die: d6

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Saving Throws			Special	Spells per Day
		Fort	Ref	Will		0	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
1st	+0	+0	+0	+2	Spontaneous Casting	3	1	—	—	—	—
2nd	+1	+0	+0	+3	Turn/Rebuke Undead	3	1	—	—	—	—
3rd	+2	+1	+1	+3		3	2	—	—	—	—
4th	+3	+1	+1	+4		3	2	0	—	—	—
5th	+3	+1	+1	+4		3	2	1	—	—	—
6th	+4	+2	+2	+5	Divine Augmentation 1/day	3	2	1	—	—	—
7th	+5	+2	+2	+5		3	3	2	—	—	—
8th	+6	+2	+2	+6		3	3	2	0	—	—
9th	+6	+3	+3	+6		3	3	2	1	—	—
10th	+7	+3	+3	+7	Divine Augmentation 2/day	3	3	2	1	—	—
11th	+8	+3	+3	+7		3	3	3	2	—	—
12th	+9	+4	+4	+8		3	3	3	2	0	—
13th	+9	+4	+4	+8		3	3	3	2	1	—
14th	+10	+4	+4	+9	Divine Augmentation 3/day	3	3	3	2	1	—
15th	+11	+5	+5	+9		3	3	3	3	2	—
16th	+12	+5	+5	+10		3	3	3	3	2	0
17th	+12	+5	+5	+10		3	3	3	3	2	1
18th	+13	+6	+6	+11	Divine Augmentation 4/day	3	3	3	3	2	1
19th	+14	+6	+6	+11		3	3	3	3	3	2
20th	+15	+6	+6	+12	Little Miracle	3	3	3	3	3	2
Class Skills (4 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level) Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Gather Information (Cha), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (nature) (nobility) (religion) (the planes) (Int), Listen (Wis), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis), Speak Language (None), Spellcraft (Int), Spot (Wis).

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Acolyte.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Acolytes are proficient with all simple bludgeoning weapons, the light hammer, sap, light and heavy shield, and the light and heavy mace. They are proficient in light armor and shields (but not tower shields).

Spells: An acolyte casts divine spells, which are drawn from the acolyte spell list. Her alignment may restrict her from casting certain spells opposed to her moral or ethical beliefs; see Chaotic, Evil, Good, and Lawful Spells, below. An Acolyte must choose and prepare her spells in advance (see below).

To prepare or cast a spell, the Acolyte must have a Wisdom score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a Acolyte’s spell is 10 + the spell level + the Acolyte’s Wisdom modifier.

Like other spellcasters, a Acolyte can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given on Table: The Acolyte. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Wisdom score. She does not have access to any domain spells or granted powers, as a cleric does.

An acolyte prepares and casts spells the way a cleric does. An acolyte may prepare and cast any spell on the acolyte spell list, provided that she can cast spells of that level, but she must choose which spells to prepare during her daily meditation.

0— Any 0th-level spell on the cleric spell list, plus disrupt undead.

1st—aligned water bomb, anarchic water^SpC, axiomatic water^SpC, bane, bless, bless water, blessed aim^SpC, command, comprehend languages, condemning smite, conviction^SpC, corpse puppet, create shrine, cure light wounds, curse water, death's door, deathwatch, delay disease^SpC, detect chaos/evil/good/law, detect undead, dispel ward^SpC, doom, dust to dust, endure elements, entropic shield, faith healing^SpC, guiding light^SpC, healing gust, healthful rest^SpC, hide from undead, inflict light wounds, ironguts^SpC, lesser animate dead, lesser vigor^SpC, light of lunia^SpC, magic weapon, moral guidance, nightshield^SpC, nimbus of light^SpC, omen of peril^SpC, perseverance, protection from chaos/evil/good/law, punish violence, remove fear, resurgence^SpC, sanctuary, shield of faith, sign^SpC, vision of glory^SpC

2nd—aid, align weapon, augury, aura of doom, calm emotions, close wounds^SpC, consecrate, cure light magic missile, cure moderate wounds, death knell, deific vengeance^SpC, divine insight^SpC, divine interdiction^SpC, divine protection^SpC, delay poison, desecrate, fertilize, force pulse, gentle repose, ghost touch armor^SpC, guilt, hand of divinity^SpC, healing lorecall^SpC, healing whip, inflict moderate wounds, lesser restoration, light of mercuria^SpC, living undeath^SpC, mark of the outcast^SpC, protection from negative energy^SpC, protection from positive energy^SpC, purify damage, refit limb, remove paralysis, shroud of undeath^SpC, spawn screen^SpC, stabilize^SpC, shield other, status, sterilize, summon elysian thrush^SpC, unseen medic, vile strike, voluntary coma, voodoo doll, wave of grief^SpC, zone of truth

3rd—animate dead, anarchic storm^SpC, atonement, awaken sin^SpC, awesome light, axiomatic storm^SpC, belladone's fiendish defender, binding pact, bubble shield, bury the dead, circle dance^SpC, cloak of bravery^SpC, condition, continual flame, create food and water, cure serious wounds, daylight, demon dirge^SpC, devil blight^SpC, dispel magic, disruption sphere, divine chant, empower royal kiss, favorable sacrifice^SpC, ghost touch weapon^SpC, glyph of warding, greater endure elements, helping hand, holy storm^SpC, inflict serious wounds, interplanar message^SpC, lethal to nonlethal, light of venya^SpC, locate object, magic circle against chaos/evil/good/law, magic vestment, mantle of chaos/evil/good/law^SpC, mass aid^SpC, mass align weapon^SpC, mass conviction^SpC, mass lesser vigor^SpC, mass resergence^SpC, obscure object, prayer, rejuvenative corpse^SpC, remove blindness/deafness, remove curse, remove disease, safety^SpC, séance, share malady, shield of warding^SpC, skull watch^SpC, spark of life^SpC, suppress curse, suppress enchantment, suppress glyph^SpC, speak with dead, unholy storm^SpC, vigor^SpC, water walk, weapon of the deity^SpC

4th—astral hospice^SpC, castigate^SpC, corpse reanimation, cure critical wounds, daunting ray, death ward, delay death^SpC, dimensional anchor, discern lies, dismissal, divination, freedom of movement, glowing orb^SpC, greater magic weapon, greater resistance^SpC, hand of the faithful^SpC, inflict critical wounds, iron bones^SpC, lesser planar ally, lesser regenerate, life ward^SpC, make manifest^SpC, mass shield of faith^SpC, negative energy aura^SpC, neutralize poison, panacea^SpC, positive energy aura^SpC, recitation^SpC, repel vermin, restoration, reveal greatest sin, revenance^SpC, sending, sheltered vitality^SpC, shinespark weapon, summon hound archon^SpC, tongues, undead bane weapon^SpC, wall of chaos/evil/good/law^SpC

5th—break enchantment, call zelekhut^SpC, commune, dispel chaos/evil/good/law, disrupting weapon, greater command, greater vigor^SpC, hallow, incorporeal nova^SpC, life's grace^SpC, mark of justice, mass cure light wounds, mass inflict light wounds, mass sanctuary^SpC, raise dead, revivify^SpC, righteous wrath of the faithful^SpC, scrying, spell resistance, stalwart pact^SpC, subvert planar essence^SpC, summon babau demon^SpC, summon bearded devil^SpC, summon bralani eladrin^SpC, superior resistance^SpC, true seeing, unhallow, wall of dispel magic^SpC, zone of respite^SpC, zone of revelation^SpC

Spontaneous Casting: An acolyte can spontaneously cast cure or inflict spells as a cleric does.

Turn or Rebuke Undead (Su): The 2nd level acolyte can turn (if good) or rebuke (if evil) undead as a cleric. Neutral acolytes can choose one or the other on creation.

Divine Augmentation (Su): At 6th level, the acolyte can perform various small miracles that augment their next spell cast in that round. Activating this is a free action. Same effects do not stack. Choose from one of the following effects:

Caster Level Increase +2: If the spell has a cap on things that scale with caster level, this also increases the cap by +2.

Max Heal: Healing effects are maximized, as per Maximize Spell.

Retain Spell Slot: The spell slot is not consumed, to a maximum of 1 lower than your maximum spell you can cast (max 4th).

They gain an additional use per day at 10th and every four levels beyond.

Little Miracle (Su): The unheard of 20th level acolyte can perform a small miracle. Once per day, they can cast any cleric (not just acolyte) spell of 5th level or lower, using its normal casting time and components.

Ex-Acolytes

An acolyte who grossly violates the code of conduct required by his god loses all spells and class features, except for armor shield and weapon proficiencies. He cannot thereafter gain levels as an acolyte of that god until he atones (see the atonement spell description).

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