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Swordsman

“	Your life. This blade will spill it.	”
—Dakkon Blackblade, Swordsman

Becoming a Swordsman

Entry Requirements

Base Attack Bonus:	+4
Feats:	Weapon Focus (any bladed weapon),Power Attack, Weapon Specialization (any bladed weapon)

Table: The Swordsman

Hit Die: d8

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Saving Throws			Special
		Fort	Ref	Will
1st	+1	+2	+2	+2	Parry 1/encounter, Lead Blades, Blade Trick, Sword Mastery
2nd	+2	+3	+3	+3	Blade Trick, Called Strike (arms, legs), Bonus Feat
3rd	+3	+3	+3	+3	Parry 2/encounter, Sword Trance
4th	+4	+4	+4	+4	Blade Trick, Called Strike (head, torso), Bonus Feat
5th	+5	+4	+4	+4	Parry 3/encounter, Greater Sword Trance
Class Skills (6 + Int modifier per level.) Autohypnosis (Wis), Balance (Dex), Climb (Str), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Escape Artist (Dex), Gather Information (Cha), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Intimidate (Cha), Jump (Str), Knowledge (all skills, taken individually) (Int), Listen (Wis), Profession (Wis), Ride (Dex), Search (Int), Sense Motive (Wis), Speak Language (None), Spot (Wis), Survival (Wis), Swim (Str), Tumble (Dex), Use Rope (Dex).

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Swordsman.

Parry(Ex): At 1^st, you've learnt that getting hit hurt. As an immediate action, whenever you are about to be hit by an ability that requires an attack roll, you may make an opposed attack roll. If your attack roll is equal to or exceeds the attack's, you effectively parry the attack and take no damage or other associated effect. You may use this ability once per encounter at level one and an additional time at levels three and five.

Lead Blades (Ex): Whenever you're wielding a bladed weapon and use the Power Attack feat, you may treat it as if you were wielding it with two hands.

Blade Trick (Ex): Beginning at 1^st level, you learn a wide variety of tricks that only someone with an unhealthy obsession would have time to practice. At 1^st 2^nd and 4^th level, you may pick one of the following abilities:

Always in Hand (Ex):You may pick up and draw your weapon as a free action as long as it is within your reach.

Thrown Blade (Ex): You may throw your weapon as a ranged attack with a range of 30 feet.

Pole Vault (Ex): You may ignore up to 10 feet of rough terrain while wielding a bladed weapon. Additionally, you gain a competence bonus to Jump (Str) checks equal to four times your class levels.

Just Like Butter (Ex): Whenever you're wielding a bladed weapon, you may ignore the first 20 points of hardness when striking an object.

Flourish (Ex): When wielding a bladed weapon, you may make an Intimidate (Cha) check as a move action once per round, gaining a bonus to the check equal to the enhancement bonus on the weapon.

Slow Fall (Ex): You gain the monk ability of the same name, with unlimited fall distance.

Versatile Weapon (Ex): You may use a bladed weapon to deal piercing, slashing, blunt and non-lethal damage, you choose which type of damage to deal when declaring an attack.

Sword Mastery (Ex): At 1^st level, you may pick a specific type of bladed weapon, such as a longsword, gaining several abilities while wielding said weapon. At 1^st level you treat levels of swordsman as fighter, furthermore, your weapon gains an enhancement bonus equal to 1/3 1^rd your character level. At 2^nd level you are treated as having improved disarm,improved feint, and [[SRD:Improved Sunder|improved sunder] while wielding your chosen weapon. At 3^rd level you are treated as having greater weapon specialization while wielding your weapon. At 4^th level you gain improved critical while holding that weapon. At 5^th level you gain greater weapon Focus with that weapon. With a one hour training ritual, you may change which type of bladed weapon this ability applies to.

Life of Combat (Ex): At 2^nd level, you are never considered Flat-Footed for any reason and you act in any surprise round, taking actions as if it were a full round instead. In addition, the amount of time away from a fight to be considered out of the fight is only one round for you, instead of ten.

Bonus Feats: At 2^nd and 4^th level, you may choose a bonus Combat Feat. If you are not using Tome, you may choose a Fighter Bonus Feat that you qualify for.

Eye on the Prize (Ex): At 4^th level, a roll of a 1 on an Attack Roll or Saving Throw is no longer an automatic failure and is instead treated as a 1. Once per day, you may elect to treat the roll of 1 as a roll of 21 instead. You gain an additional use of this ability per day for every four more levels you have. (8^th, 12^th, 16^th...)

I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight! (Ex): At 5^th level, a Blood Knight is Immune to any status effects that would cause her to stop fighting, aside from dying. This does not make her immune to a compulsion that would order her to fight her allies, but it would stop a compulsion with an order to stand down.

I Declare War. (Ex): At 7^th level, a Blood Knight can force open hostilities in all surrounding creatures. All creatures within 60' have their attitudes shifted to hostile towards whomever the Blood Knight designates. A Will save (DC = 10 + 1/2 Blood Knight's ECL + STR) negates the effect. However, avoiding mob mentality is tough. If more than half the creatures in range fail their saves, the ones that didn't must make another save with the same DC +2 per each creature that originally failed.

Life May Cease, Battle Does Not (Ex): At 10^th level, the Blood Knight stops aging and is never completely killed by any effect.

A week after being killed, the Blood Knight is brought back to life within 30' of her killer and must defeat the killer one on one, taking no actions counter to this objective. If the Blood Knight wins, she is free to act as she wishes. If slain in this battle, the Blood Knight returns again in one month to repeat the challenge.

Should her losing streak continue, she will return again in a year, then a decade, then finally once a century. If the killer dies in the intervening time, the Blood Knight challenges the closest living relative instead. When raised in this manner, the Blood Knight takes no penalty for the death(s).

The only other ways a Blood Knight may be revived are with a Wish or Miracle spell, or if the killer is subject to a Remove Curse, Break Enchantment, or Limited Wish to remove the need to be challenged. In this case, the killer and his family are freed from being challenged; the Blood Knight is still revived on the next time she is scheduled, but may act according to her own wishes.

The epic Blood Knight gains a bonus feat (selected from the list of epic Blood Knight feats) starting at 12^th and continuing every three levels from then on. (15^th, 18^th, 21^st...)

Truly Epic BAB: Unlike other classes taking on Epic levels, the Blood Knight is so focused upon fighting that her BAB continues to rise by 1 each level, though she does not obtain 5 or more iterative attacks by going beyond +20. This is in addition to the +1 Epic bonus for every odd level past ECL 20.

Epic Blood Knight Bonus Feat List: The Blood Knight may choose from the Epic Bonus Feat list of any class she has, adding her levels in Blood Knight to levels in that class to determine qualifications for these feats. She must meet the prerequisites for these Epic Bonus Feats.

Campaign Information

Playing a Royal Vanguard

Combat: In combat, you want to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and your opponents took all the gum. Go get your gum back.

Advancement: Anything that makes you kick more ass is a desirable way to advance, including more levels of Blood Knight.

Resources: Blood Knights are equally likely to fight each other as they are to fight alongside one another, and these situations are not mutually exclusive.

Royal Vanguard in the World

“

Round One. Fight!

”

Wherever there is Battle, there are Blood Knights, with almost no exceptions. (Most of said exceptions are pitifully small-scale skirmishes.)

NPC Reactions: NPCs that know what a Blood Knight is will generally attempt to convince the Blood Knight that there is something worth beating up far away from where they are right now. Usually, the NPC is right.

Royal Vanguard Lore

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

Knowledge (History) or Knowledge (Warfare)

DC	Result
11	There are those in this world who fight for the sake of fighting.
16	Those people are called Blood Knights. They live for battle and can be found wherever there is a good fight.
21	It is said that if a war is not happening right now, a Blood Knight is getting one started.
26	Some Legendary Blood Knights do not stay dead, returning to face their killer in a duel to the death for the right to return to life.

Royal Vanguard in the Game

Blood Knights fit an Attacker and Striker role in Combat, and if they are not currently doing this, they find a fight and jump in so that they can.

Adaptation: If you can't find a place for guys and gals who go around starting fights because they want to find a good fight, nothing I can write here can really help you.

Sample Encounter: A very archetypal Random Encounter if there was one, just have an unnamed Blood Knight challenge the most visually imposing member of your party to a one on one fight.

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