Occult Tattooist (3.5e Alternate Class Feature)

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Occult Tattooist

The strange traditions of the warlocks never cease to surprise more mainstream magic-users. Some warlocks use fiend blood or other strange ink to tattoo their dark magic directly onto their skin. These warlock wear their magic and origin on their sleeve, but are able to share it with allies and minions. The dark rituals and occult scarification has a cost, the warlock becomes unable to project her eldritch blast outward as they normally could.

Class: Warlock

Prerequisites: Craft (Tattoo) or Profession (Tattooist) 4 Ranks

Level: 1st-11th

Replaces: Eldritch Blast

Benefit: A variant of the warlock who loses her long range eldritch blast for the ability to share her personal invocation with her allies and minions.

Burn (Ex): This class features functions just as the kineticistPathfinder's burn class features.

Eldritch Grasp (Sp): As the eldritch blast class feature, except it must be delivered as a melee touch attack and it cannot be altered into range attacks or non-melee area of effect by eldritch shape. However an occult tattooist adds her Charisma bonus to damage dealt by her eldritch blast.

Eldritch Tattoo (Su): Whenever an Occult Tattooist uses one of her invitations with a duration of 24 hours, a magical tattoo appears on her body. This tattoo can identified and linked with the correct invocation with a DC 15 + twice invocation spell level Spellcraft check, or without a check by another occult tattooist with the same invocation known. The tattoo provides a measure of anchoring to the invocation, if dispelled it automatically returns 1 round later.

An occult tattooist is also capable of sharing any tattoo on her. As a standard action she may bestow a willing touched creature the effect of one or more of her eldritch tattoos, however she may only share each individual tattoo with only one other creature. While shared, both her and the recipient fully benefit from the eldritch tattoo's bonus. The occult tattooist must accept 1 point of burn for each shared eldritch tattoo, if she recovers the burn, the tattoo on the recipient fades away and its benefit vanishes. An Occult Tattooist may also withdraw an eldritch tattoo from a recipient within line of sight as a free action, doing so immediately to recover the burn which becomes normal non-lethal damage.

Inscribed Skin (Ex): An Occult Tattooist's skin is inscribed with tattoo, scars, scripts and other disturbing features. This grant her a +1 Natural Armor bonus to AC, or increases an already existing bonus by +1. This make her much more recognizable and unless she completely hide her skin she take a -8 penalty on disguise check to mask her appearance. The natural armor bonus increases to +2 at 5th level, and by +1 at each 3 levels thereafter (8th, 11th, 14th, etc). Due to the magic nature of the ink, this bonus applies to touch AC against supernatural abilities, spells and spell-like abilities.

Continent Withdrawal (Ex): A 6th level Occult Tattooist may now place a condition or request when she shares her eldritch tattoo. It can be a broad rule, such as "do not betray me" or a task "retrieve the sword of Galmut". She may also add a time limit to the request. As normal the recipient must be willing and must knowingly accept the condition, or at least be under a compulsion effect and accept them. If the condition is violated or the task is not pursued, or the time limit for the request ends, the eldritch tattoo is immediately removed. The burn on the occult tattooist is removed, but instead of the occult tattooist taking non-lethal damage the recipient instead takes the non-lethal damage dealt by the burn as lethal damage.

Ouroboros Tattoo (Su): An 11th level Occult Tattooist has unlocked the power of the almighty ouroboros tattoo. At the start of the day, she learns any number of invocations she does not normally know, inscribing them into her ouroboros tattoo. However for each invocation learned this way she must accept 1 point of burn, to her normal burn limit. Once the burn is removed the learned invocations are forgotten and must be re-inscribed on her flesh.

Additionally the Occult Tattooist may now inflict burns on the recipient of one of her eldritch tattoos instead of herself. This does not count against her own personal limit on burn.



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The strange traditions of the warlocks never cease to surprise more mainstream magic-users. Some warlocks use fiend blood or other strange ink to tattoo their dark magic directly onto their skin. These warlock wear their magic and origin on their sleeve, but are able to share it with allies and minions. The dark rituals and occult scarification has a cost, the warlock becomes unable to project her eldritch blast outward as they normally could.
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