Guided Mystic (3.5e Alternate Class Feature)
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Guided Mystic
Rather than developing a bond with a familiar, you are guided by one or more spirits.
Class: Any class that grants a Familiar, or the Obtain Familiar feat.
Level: 1-20
Replaces: Familiar
Benefit: You gain the Watchful Spirit class feature of the Wu Jen, allowing you to reroll your initiative once per day before you know the results of your roll, taking the better of the two rolls.
At 3rd level, you also gain a Spell Secret, permanently modifying one spell you know with the Silent Spell, Still Spell, Extend Spell or Enlarge Spell metamagic feats, at no increase is casting time or spell level. You gain another Spell Secret at every 4th level thereafter (7th, 11th, 15th and so forth).
However, each time you gain a Spell Secret, you must also choose a taboo; If you break any taboo, then you cannot cast any more spells that day. Possible taboos include:
- Cannot eat meat.
- Cannot own more than you can carry.
- Must make daily offerings (Of flowers, incense, food, etc.) to one or more spirit powers.
- Cannot bathe.
- Cannot cut your hair.
- Cannot touch a dead body.
- Cannot wear a certain color.
- Cannot sit facing a certain direction.
- Cannot light a fire.
- Must use a certain mundane object (A type of flower, a pinch of dirt, a piece of bark, a vial of water, a rock) as a material component with every spell you cast.
- Must go a random direction at a crossroads unless someone gives you directions.
- Cannot enter a building without invitation.
- Cannot set foot on sacred ground.
- Cannot look a person with a certain color of eyes (Usually blue) in the face.
- Cannot take credit for any deed you have done, good or bad.
The Watchful Spirit class feature granted by this alternate class feature stacks with the Obtain Watchful Spirit feat, granting you two initiative rerolls per day.
The Spell Secret class feature granted by this alternate class feature allows you to qualify for the Improved Spell Secrets and Greater Spell Secrets feats.
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| Author | Zhenra-Khal + |
| Class | Any class that grants a Familiar, or the Obtain Familiar feat. + |
| Identifier | 3.5e Alternate Class Feature + |
| Rating | Undiscussed + |
| Summary | Rather than developing a bond with a familiar, you are guided by one or more spirits. + |
| Title | Guided Mystic + |
