Draconic Paladin (3.5e Alternative Class Feature)

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Draconic Paladin

The draconic deities these paladin serve grant them the abilities of dragons rather than healing and traditional spells to help them to vanqish evil.

Class: Paladin

Prerequisites: Knowledge (Arcana) 1 Rank

Level: 1-20

Replaces: Skills, Weapon and Armour Proficiency, Lay on Hands, Spellcasting, Turn Undead, Remove Disease

Benefit:

Skills: The paladin's skill list and skill points changes to the following;

(4 + Int modifier per level) Balance (Dex), Climb (Str), Craft (Int), Concentration (Con) Diplomacy (Cha), Handle Animal (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Jump (Str), kKowledge (acanna), Knowledge (local) (Int), Listen (Wis), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Ride (Dex), Spot (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis), Spellcraft (Int), Survival (Wis), Swim (Str), and Tumble (Dex).

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Draconinc paladins are only proficent with medium, and light armor and all simple weapons and one martial weapon of their choice.

Invoking: A draconic paaladin gains the invocations of a dragonfire adept^DM of their draconic paaldin level. Draconic Paladins reduce arcane spell failure when wearing medium or light armor by 20% when using these invocations.

Breath Weapon At 1st level the draconic palaldin. gain the breath weapon and breath effects of the dragonfire adept^DM with DCs based on Charisma rather than Consitution. However the damage of the breath weapon increases by 1d6 every 3 levels after 1st, rather than the normal progression of the dragonfire adept.

Rebuke Dragon: At 4th level a draconic paladin can attempt to rebuke a dragon, as per the rebuke undead ability. However she can not use any of the other options normally allowed from a rebuke undead check. She may use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + her Charisma modifier. She treats her cleric level for this check as her draconic paaldin level -3. Rebuke dragons counts as Turn/Rebuke Undead and any abilites or feats that enhance Turn Dead can improve Rebuke Dragon.

Draconic Mount: At 8th level the draconic paladin's mount gains the Draconic template.

Supplementary Breath: At 12th level a draconic paladin can use their breath weapon in conjunction with other attacks. By spending one use of Rebuke Dragon she can use her breath weapon as a free action as a part of making a full attack. Her breath weapon can not be used for 1d4 rounds after using supplementary breath.

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