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== Naturalist == 

'''Abilities:''' Naturalist's spells run off [[Wisdom]], and they need [[Dexterity]] and [[Constitution]] to survive danger, and [[Strength]] if they plan to do melee.

'''Races:''' Any.

'''Alignment:''' Any.

'''[[SRD:Race Descriptions#Starting Age|Starting Age]]:''' As [[rogue]].

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<div>{{Anchor|Table: The Naturalist}}</div>
Hit Die: d8
|-
! rowspan="2" | Level
! rowspan="2" | [[BAB|Base<br/>Attack Bonus]]
! colspan="3" | [[SRD:Saving Throw|Saving Throw]]s
! rowspan="2" | Special
! colspan="10" | [[#Spells|Spells per Day]]
|-
! [[SRD:Saving Throw#Fortitude|Fort]] || [[SRD:Saving Throw#Reflex|Ref]] || [[SRD:Saving Throw#Will|Will]]
! 0 || 1<sup>st</sup> || 2<sup>nd</sup> || 3<sup>rd</sup> || 4<sup>th</sup> || 5<sup>th</sup>
|-
|1st||class="left" | +0 || +2 || +0 || +2
| class="left" | Wild Empathy
|4||2||—||—||—||—
|-
|2nd||class="left" | +1 || +3 || +0 || +3
| class="left" | 
|5||2||—||—||—||—
|-
|3rd||class="left" | +2 || +3 || +1 || +3
| class="left" | 
|5||3||—||—||—||—
|-
|4th||class="left" | +3 || +4 || +1 || +4
| class="left" | Animal Companion
|5||3||2||—||—||—
|-
|5th||class="left" | +3 || +4 || +1 || +4
| class="left" | 
|6||3||2||—||—||—
|-
|6th||class="left" | +4 || +5 || +2 || +5
| class="left" | 
|6||3||3||—||—||—
|-
|7th||class="left" | +5 || +5 || +2 || +5
| class="left" | 
|6||4||3||—||—||—
|-
|8th||class="left" | +6 || +6 || +2 || +6
| class="left" | Wildshape 1/day
|6||4||3||2||—||—
|-
|9th||class="left" | +6 || +6 || +3 || +6
| class="left" | 
|7||4||3||2||—||—
|-
|10th||class="left" | +7 || +7 || +3 || +7
| class="left" | 
|7||4||4||3||—||—
|-
|11th||class="left" | +8 || +7 || +3 || +7
| class="left" | 
|7||5||4||3||—||—
|-
|12th||class="left" | +9 || +8 || +4 || +8
| class="left" | Wildshape 2/day
|7||5||4||3||2||—
|-
|13th||class="left" | +9 || +8 || +4 || +8
| class="left" | 
|8||5||4||3||2||—
|-
|14th||class="left" | +10 || +9 || +4 || +9
| class="left" | 
|8||5||5||4||3||—
|-
|15th||class="left" | +11 || +9 || +5 || +9
| class="left" | 
|8||5||5||4||3||—
|-
|16th||class="left" | +12 || +10 || +5 || +10
| class="left" | Wildshape 3/day
|8||5||5||4||3||2
|-
|17th||class="left" | +12 || +10 || +5 || +10
| class="left" | 
|9||5||5||4||3||2
|-
|18th||class="left" | +13 || +11 || +6 || +11
| class="left" | 
|9||5||5||5||4||3
|-
|19th||class="left" | +14 || +11 || +6 || +11
| class="left" | 
|10||5||5||5||4||3
|-
|20th||class="left" | +15 || +12 || +6 || +12
| class="left" | Wildshape 4/day
|10||5||5||5||4||3
|- class="noalt"
| colspan="42" class="skill" |
'''Class Skills ([[Skill Points::4]] + [[SRD:Intelligence|Int]] modifier per level, &times;4 at 1st level)'''<br/>
{{3.5e Skills|
Concentration, 
Craft, 
Diplomacy, 
Handle Animal, 
Heal, 
Knowledge (nature), 
Listen, 
Profession, 
Ride, 
Spellcraft, 
Spot,
Survival, 
Swim}}
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===Class Features===

All of the following are class features of the Naturalist.

'''Weapon and Armor Proficiency:''' Naturalists are proficient with the following weapons: club, dagger, dart, quarterstaff, scimitar, sickle, shortspear, sling, and spear. They are also proficient with all natural attacks (claw, bite, and so forth) of any form they assume with wild shape (see below). 

Naturalists are proficient with light and medium armor but are prohibited from wearing metal armor; thus, they may wear only padded, leather, or hide armor. (A naturalist may also wear wooden armor that has been altered by the ironwood spell so that it functions as though it were steel. See the ''[[SRD:Ironwood|ironwood]]'' spell description) Naturalists are proficient with shields (except tower shields) but must use only wooden ones. 

A naturalists who wears prohibited armor or carries a prohibited shield is unable to cast naturalists spells or use any of her supernatural or spell-like class abilities while doing so and for 24 hours thereafter. 

'''{{Anchor|Spells}}:''' A naturalist casts divine spells, which are drawn from the naturalist 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. A naturalist must choose and prepare her spells in advance (see below). 

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

Like other spellcasters, a naturalist can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given on Table: The Naturalist. 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. 

A naturalist prepares and casts spells the way a cleric does, though she cannot lose a prepared spell to cast a cure spell in its place. A naturalist may prepare and cast any spell on the naturalist spell list, provided that she can cast spells of that level, but she must choose which spells to prepare during her daily meditation. 

0&mdash; Any 0th-level spell on the druid spell list.

1st&mdash;''[[SRD:Calm Animals|calm animals]]'', ''[[SRD:Charm Animal|charm animal]]'', ''[[SRD:Cure Light Wounds|cure light wounds]]'', ''[[SRD:Detect Animals or Plants|detect animals or plants]]'', ''[[SRD:Detect Snares and Pits|detect snares and pits]]'', ''[[SRD:Endure Elements|endure elements]]'', ''[[SRD:Faerie Fire|faerie fire]]'', ''[[SRD:Goodberry|goodberry]]'', ''[[SRD:Hide from Animals|hide from animals]]'', ''[[SRD:Jump|jump]]'', ''[[SRD:Longstrider|longstrider]]'', ''[[SRD:Magic Fang|magic fang]]'', ''[[SRD:Magic Stone|magic stone]]'', ''[[SRD:Pass without Trace|pass without trace]]'', ''[[SRD:Produce Flame|produce flame]]'', ''[[SRD:Speak with Animals|speak with animals]]'', ''[[SRD:Summon Nature's Ally I|summon nature's ally I]]'', 

2nd&mdash;''[[SRD:Animal Messenger|animal messenger]]'', ''[[SRD:Animal Trance|animal trance]]'', ''[[SRD:Barkskin|barkskin]]'', ''[[SRD:Chill Metal|chill metal]]'', ''[[SRD:Delay Poison|delay poison]]'', ''[[SRD:Dispel Magic|dispel magic]]'', ''[[SRD:Fire Trap|fire trap]]'', ''[[SRD:Flame Blade|flame blade]]'', ''[[SRD:Flaming Sphere|flaming sphere]]'', ''[[SRD:Gust of Wind|gust of wind]]'', ''[[SRD:Heat Metal|heat metal]]'', ''[[SRD:Hold Animal|hold animal]]'', ''[[SRD:Lesser Restoration|lesser restoration]]'', ''[[SRD:Reduce Animal|reduce animal]]'', ''[[SRD:Resist Energy|resist energy]]'', ''[[SRD:Soften Earth and Stone|soften earth and stone]]'', ''[[SRD:Spider Climb|spider climb]]'', ''[[SRD:Summon Nature's Ally II|summon nature's ally II]]'', ''[[SRD:Summon Swarm|summon swarm]]'', ''[[SRD:Tree Shape|tree shape]]'', ''[[SRD:Warp Wood|warp wood]]'', ''[[SRD:Wood Shape|wood shape]]''

3rd&mdash;''[[SRD:Call Lightning|call lightning]]'', ''[[SRD:Contagion|contagion]]'', ''[[SRD:Cure Moderate Wounds|cure moderate wounds]]'', ''[[SRD:Daylight|daylight]]'', ''[[SRD:Diminish Plants|diminish plants]]'', ''[[SRD:Dominate Animal|dominate animal]]'', ''[[SRD:Greater Magic Fang|greater magic fang]]'', ''[[SRD:Meld into Stone|meld into stone]]'', ''[[SRD:Neutralize Poison|neutralize poison]]'', ''[[SRD:Plant Growth|plant growth]]'', ''[[SRD:Protection from Energy|protection from energy]]'', ''[[SRD:Quench|quench]]'', ''[[SRD:Remove Disease|remove disease]]'', ''[[SRD:Snare|snare]]'', ''[[SRD:Speak with Plants|speak with plants]]'', ''[[SRD:Spike Growth|spike growth]]'', ''[[SRD:Stone Shape|stone shape]]'', ''[[SRD:Summon Nature's Ally III|summon nature's ally III]]'', ''[[SRD:Water Breathing|water breathing]]'', ''[[SRD:Wind Wall|wind wall]]''

4th&mdash;''[[SRD:Antiplant Shell|antiplant shell]]'', ''[[SRD:Blight|blight]]'', ''[[SRD:Command Plants|command plants]]'', ''[[SRD:Control Water|control water]]'', ''[[SRD:Cure Serious Wounds|cure serious wounds]]'', ''[[SRD:Greater Dispel Magic|greater dispel magic]]'', ''[[SRD:Giant Vermin|giant vermin]]'', ''[[SRD:Reincarnate|reincarnate]]'', ''[[SRD:Repel Vermin|repel vermin]]'', ''[[SRD:Rusting Grasp|rusting grasp]]'', ''[[SRD:Spike Stones|spike stones]]'', ''[[SRD:Summon Nature's Ally IV|summon nature's ally IV]]''

5th&mdash;''[[SRD:Animal Growth|animal growth]]'', ''[[SRD:Awaken|awaken]]'', ''[[SRD:Baleful Polymorph|baleful polymorph]]'', ''[[SRD:Call Lightning Storm|call lightning storm]]'', ''[[SRD:Commune with Nature|commune with nature]]'', ''[[SRD:Control Winds|control winds]]'', ''[[SRD:Cure Critical Wounds|cure critical wounds]]'', ''[[SRD:Insect Plague|insect plague]]'', ''[[SRD:Stoneskin|stoneskin]]'', ''[[SRD:Summon Nature's Ally V|summon nature's ally V]]'', ''[[SRD:Transmute Mud to Rock|transmute mud to rock]]'', ''[[SRD:Transmute Rock to Mud|transmute rock to mud]]'', ''[[SRD:Tree Stride|tree stride]]'', ''[[SRD:Wall of Fire|wall of fire]]'', ''[[SRD:Wall of Thorns|wall of thorns]]''

'''{{Anchor|Wild Empathy}} {{Ex}}:''' A naturalist can improve the attitude of an animal. This ability functions just like a Diplomacy check made to improve the attitude of a person. The naturalist rolls 1d20 and adds her naturalist level and her Charisma modifier to determine the wild empathy check result. 

The typical domestic animal has a starting attitude of indifferent, while wild animals are usually unfriendly. 

To use wild empathy, the naturalist and the animal must be able to study each other, which means that they must be within 30 feet of one another under normal conditions. Generally, influencing an animal in this way takes 1 minute but, as with influencing people, it might take more or less time. 

A naturalist can also use this ability to influence a magical beast with an Intelligence score of 1 or 2, but she takes a –4 penalty on the check. 

'''{{Anchor|Animal Companion}} {{Ex}}:''' At 4th level a naturalist gains an animal companion like a [[ranger]], using half of her level as her effective druid level.

'''{{Anchor|Wild Shape}} {{Su}}:''' A 8th level naturalist gains wild shape like a [[druid]] of half her level.  Unlike a druid, she never gains forms beyond her initial medium and small forms.  She gains one use of it at 8th level, and an additional use at 12th and every four levels beyond.

===Ex-Naturalists===

A naturalist who ceases to revere nature or changes to a prohibited alignment loses all spells and naturalist abilities (including her animal companion, but not including weapon, armor, and shield proficiencies). She cannot thereafter gain levels as a naturalist until she atones (see the ''[[SRD:Atonement|atonement]]'' spell description). 

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Allowed Alignments	Lawful Neutral +, Lawful Evil +, Neutral Good +, Neutral +, Neutral Evil + and Chaotic Neutral +
Article Balance	High +
Author	Eiji-kun +
Base Attack Bonus Progression	Moderate +
Class Ability	Prepared Spellcasting + and Divine Spellcasting +
Class Ability Progression	Other +
Fortitude Save Progression	Good +
Identifier	3.5e NPC Class +
Length	20 +
Rating	Undiscussed +
Reflex Save Progression	Poor +
Skill	Concentration +, Craft +, Diplomacy +, Handle Animal +, Heal +, Knowledge +, Listen +, Profession +, Ride +, Spellcraft +, Spot +, Survival + and Swim +
Skill Points	4 +
Summary	The NPC druid, they are hippies who follow the rules of nature. +
Title	Naturalist +
Will Save Progression	Good +