DARK TEMPLAR

Requirements

You gain a free necrograft that develops with you as you advance in level.  The necrograft you select must be equal to or less than your character level.  Each time you reach a level equal to the necrograft’s next item level you go through a 24-hour molting period while the necrograft upgrades itself.  This graft counts against your available body slots normally.

You frequently enter the Dreamscape of the Great Old Ones during your 8-hour meditations.  These lucid dreams offer short glimpses into a chaotic array of possible futures. Once per day a dark templar can spend 1 Edge and tap into these dreams gaining a precognitive advantage as though they have already experienced the situation.  As a reaction to any event requiring a 2d12 roll the dark templar can roll 3d12 and take the best 2 of 3 for all actions requiring 2d12 rolls until the end of their next turn. 

Blessing from the Great Old Ones begin to transform you into their likeness.  You gain 3 points to your Gene Pool.  See the Mutant Menagerie for more information on using your Gene Pool and mutations.

This Alternate class feature does not replace one of your base class features.  Instead you gain minor paranoia.  Occasionally, you feel everyone around you has betrayed the Call of the Great Old Ones. You believe everyone you see is an enemy. You become hostile to all creatures, treating all creatures as enemies and only yourself as an ally. You must attempt attacks of opportunity whenever any creature provokes them. Finally, whenever you are adjacent to two or more creatures, your paranoia overwhelms you, and you gain a –2 penalty on attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and saving throws.

Minor paranoia is triggered by any natural 2 on a 2d12 and last for 1d4 rounds.  As a reaction you can spend 1 Edge to avoid the paranoid effect.  You can also be talked down by any creature succeeding a diplomacy, bluff, or intimidate skill check.   You are considered hostile for purposes of determining the DC of the skill check.  See the details of each skill in the Player's Core Rules under Skills to determine the DC of the skill check.

You gain a free augmentation that develops with you as you advance in level.  The augmentation must be selected from bioware, cybernetics, nanotech, or necrograft. The augmentation you select must be equal to or less than your character level.  Each time you reach a level equal to the augmentation’s next item level you go through a 24-hour molting period while the augmentation upgrades itself.  This augmentation counts against your available body slots normally.

Your connection with the Great Old Ones is both a boon and a curse.  The line between reality and the Dreamscape of the Great Old Ones has become blurred for you both physically and mentally.  You have gained the supernatural ability to transform into the form of the Nameless twice per day.  This transformation uses the same rules as the 6th level polymorph spell.  Your caster level is equal to your character level.  Since the Nameless has many forms you can choose from any aberration then modify it with the quasi-dead type.  In addition to the normal benefits of the polymorph spell, you completely heal any Stamina damage you had when you transform into the Nameless.  There are samples forms of the Nameless in the Creature Update section of this book. 

Although you can choose a new form each time you take the form of the Nameless you should have the forms prebuilt and approved by your GM.  This will help maintain the speed of play.  (Nothing is worse than waiting 30 minutes on a player to document the results of a player’s polymorph spell during a four to five-hour game session.)

Gaining the Form of the Nameless comes at a cost.  As you have grown more powerful your sanity has been slowly stripped away.  You are now plagued by greater paranoia.  This replaces the minor paranoia gained at 6th level.  Greater paranoia is triggered by any natural 1 on a d12 and last for 3d6 rounds.  You must transform into the Nameless on your next action and become hostile to all creatures, treating all creatures as enemies and only yourself as an ally. You must attempt attacks of opportunity whenever any creature provokes them. This transformation counts as one of your daily uses.  If you don’t have a daily use remaining you still transform but gain the confused condition for the duration of the polymorph effect.

If you have not gained the confused condition, you can regain your composure 1d4 rounds after your transformation by spending 1 Edge as a full action.  Your allies can still attempt to bring you down from the paranoid state by normal means.