Clockwork Reanimator (3.5e Alternate Class Feature)

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Clockwork Reanimator

Instead of mastery over undead, you gain mastery over constructs.

Class: Dread Necromancer^HoH

Level: 1-20

Replaces: The whole class

Benefit: Instead of dealing with undead, you deal with constructs.

Class Features

Clockwork Reanimator

Level	Special
1st	Anima Touch, Rebuke Construct
2nd	Construct Body DR 2
3rd	Anima Burst 1/day
4th	Advanced Learning, Mental Bastion +2
5th	Life Support
6th	Spell Resistance
7th	Construct Body DR 2, Summon Construct Familiar
8th	Advanced Learning, Anima Burst 2/day, Construct Mastery
9th	Negative Energy Resistance
10th	Light Fortification 25%
11th	Construct Body DR 6, Mental Resistance 1
12th	Advanced Learning, Animating Touch 1
13th	Anima Burst 3/day
14th	Mental Bastion +4
15th	Construct Body DR 8
16th	Advanced Learning, Mental Resistance 2
17th	Animating Touch 2, Light Fortification 50%
18th	Anima Burst 4/day
19th	Craft Wondrous Item
20th	Advanced Learning, Clockwork Transformation

Anima Touch (Su): Animating energy flows through a clockwork reanimator's body, concentrating in her hands. As an attack action at will, but no more than once per round, she can make a melee touch attack against an undead foe that deals 1d8 points of damage + 1 per four class levels, as the energy is positive energy based. Against living creatures, the energy burns unpleasantly but leaves no benefit or loss. This touch deals constructs as if it was a Repair spell, restoring 1 hit point per touch + 1 per four class levels. A clockwork reanimator can use the spectral hand spell to deliver this attack from a distance.

Rebuke Construct (Su): A clockwork reanimator has control over the unnatural life force which powers constructs, rather than the negative energy of the undead. She may rebuke or command construct creatures as a cleric of her level would rebuke or control undead.

Construct Body (Ex): Starting at 2nd level, a clockwork reanimator begins her journey into construct form. The first symptom is her body's increased resilience to physical harm. She gains DR 2/adamantine. As the clockwork reanimator increases in level, this DR increases in effectiveness, to DR 4 at 7th level, DR 6 at 11th level, and DR 8 at 15th level.

Anima Burst (Su): Beginning at 2rd level, a clockwork reanimator gains the ability to emit a burst of animating energy from her body, harming undead creatures within 5 feet of her. This burst deals 1d4 points of damage per class level. A successful Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 class level + Cha) modifier) reduces damage by half. Construct creatures within this burst are healed the same amount of hit points as the damage she deals to undead creatures. Living creatures feel unpleasant, but are unaffected. A clockwork reanimator can use this ability once per day at 3rd level, and one additional time per day for every five levels she attains beyond 3rd (2/day at 8th level, 3/day at 13th level, and 4/day at 18th level).

Advanced Learning (Ex): As the dread necromancer class feature, but it must be a spell of the transmutation school.

Mental Bastion (Ex): As the dread necromancer class feature.

Life Support (Ex): At 5th level, a clockwork reanimator's body becomes self sufficient, no longer needing to eat or breath, though she must still sleep.

Spell Resistance (Su): At 6th level, a clockwork reanimator obtains spell resistance from dangerous magic effects. She gains spell resistance equal to her class level + 10, and she may raise or lower her spell resistance as an immediate action.

Summon Construct Familiar: At 7th level or anytime thereafter, a clockwork renaimator can obtain a familiar. The familiar she acquires is more powerful than a standard wizard's or sorcerer's familiar, and is mechanical in nature. The player of a clockwork reanimator chooses one of the following creatures: IMP REPLACEMENT, QUASIT REPLACEMENT, VARGOUILLE REPLACEMENT, or GHOSTLY VISAGE REPLACEMENT. A clockwork reanimator's familiar gains the usual familiar benefits given to wizards with two exceptions. Its type does not change, and it does not gain the exceptional ability to speak with other creatures of its kind. A clockwork reanimator's familiar can use the ability to deliver touch spells such as its master's anima touch or animating touch attack. The master must use a standard action to imbue the touch attack into her familiar.

Construct Mastery: All construct creatures created by a clockwork reanimator who has reached 8th level or higher gain a +4 enhancement bonus to Strength and Dexterity and 2 additional hit points her HD. In addition, when a clockwork reanimator uses her animate construct spell or controls constructs, she can control 4 + her Charisma bonus HD worth of construct creatures per class level (rather than the 4 HD per level normally granted by the spell). Similarly, when a clockwork reanimator casts the control construct spell, the spell targets up to 2 + her Cha bonus) HD/level of construct creatures, rather than the 2 HD/level normally granted by the spell.

Negative Energy Resistance (Ex): As the dread necromancer class feature.

Light Fortification (Ex): As the dread necromancer class feature.

Mental Resistance (Ex): At 11th level, a clockwork reanimator has a mind closer to a construct than a living being, becoming immune to fear and compulsion effects. At 16th level, the coverage becomes complete, rendering her immune as if under the effects of a constant mind blank spell.

Animating Touch (Ex): When a clockwork reanimator reaches 12th level, she gains the ability to animate mundane matter into capable warriors when she uses her anima touch attack. Each day, she can animate a number of small objects equal to her caster level, as the spell animate objects except with a range of touch. She need not animate everything at once, and may choose to animate the equivalent of 4 small objects the first time, 1 small object, then 8 small objects on the third touch. She has a telepathic connection out to 100 feet for all animated objects created in this method. Beginning at 17th level, the number of animated objects she can create increases to 2 small objects per caster level.

Craft Wondrous Item (Ex): As the dread necromancer class feature. This helps her prepare the machine core required to become a Clockwork Lich.

Clockwork Transformation (Ex): When a clockwork reanimator attains 20th level, she undergoes a surgical transformation and becomes a clockwork lich. Her type changes to construct, and she gains all the traits of the clockwork lich template. She no longer has a Constitution score, all her existing Hit Dice become d10s, she gains bonus hit points based on her size, and she must reroll her hit points. A clockwork reanimator need not pay experience points or gold to create her machine core, and she does not receive the level adjustment for the template. A clockwork reanimator who is already a construct does not gain this class feature.

Spells List

1st Level: X, X, X, X, detect magic, X, inflict light damage^ECS, magic weapon, repair light damage^ECS, X

2nd Level: X, command construct, X, inflict moderate damage^ECS, X, X, X, spectral hand, X, repair moderate damage^ECS, X, warp wood, wood shape

3rd Level: X, X, greater magic weapon, inflict serious damage^ECS, magic vestment, X, X, repair serious damage^ECS, X

4th Level: animate construct, X, X, X, dispel magic, X, X, inflict critical damage^ECS, X, X, X, X, repair critical damage^ECS, X

5th Level: X, disrupting weapon, fabricate, flesh to stone, greater dispel magic, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, stone to flesh, mass inflict light damage^ECS, mass repair light damage^ECS, X

6th Level: X, X, create construct, X, disable construct^ECS, hardening^SpC, mass inflict moderate damage^ECS, mass repair moderate damage^ECS, X, X, total repair^ECS

7th Level: control construct, destruction, X, mass inflict serious damage^ECS, mass repair serious damage^ECS, X, X, X

8th Level: create greater construct, X, mass inflict critical damage^ECS, mass repair critical damage^ECS, X

9th Level: X, X, mass disable construct, mass total repair, X, summon golem^SpC