0 <div class='wide'> <div class='pageNumber auto'></div> <br> <br> ## Sword Saint When a greater power decides to birth true prodigy into the world and when this prodigies life dedication is the sword, a Sword Saint is born. A Sword Saints life work is the perfection of the body and the blade and combining them as one. A Sword Saint learns to enter into unique state of mind where all meaningless thoughts and emotions floats away leaving only a cold and calculating living weapon that pushes its body past its mortal limits. ___ **Role**: Sword Saints are unrivaled under the heavens when it comes to melee combat. They boast such martial prowess and speed when in Focus, that they can blitz any enemy and turn any blow directed at them, and woe is any enemy that faces their unparalleled sword skills in bloody combat. ___ **Alignment**: Any non-chaotic. **Hit Die**: d10 **Starting Wealth**: 3d6 × 10 gp (average 105gp.) In addition, each character begins play with an outfit worth 10 gp or less. #### **Class Skills** The Sword Saint’s class skills are Acrobatics (Dex), Bluff (Cha), Climb (Str), Intimidate (Cha), Perception (Wis), Perform (Cha), Sense Motive (Cha), Sleight of Hand (Dex), and Swim (Str). ___ **Skill Ranks per Level**: 4 + Int modifier. <div class='wide'> ##### Table: Sword Saint                                                                   | Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Features | Dodge AC Bonus | Movement Bonus |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | 1st | +1 | +3 | +3 | +0 |Focus, Sword Saint's Finesse, Fast Maneuvers| +1 | 0 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 2nd | +2 | +3 | +3 | +0 | Miracle, Tier(I)| +1 | 0 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 3rd | +3 | +3 | +3 | +1 | Uncanny Dodge | +1 | 0 Ft | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 4th | +4 | +4 | +4 | +1 | Miracle, The Sword is my Shield +1| +1 | 0 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 5th | +5 | +4 | +4 | +1 | Sword Expert | +1 | 10 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 6th | +6/+1 | +5 | +5 | +2 | Miracle, Tier(II) | +2 | 10 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 7th | +7/+2 | +5 | +5 | +2 | Honed +1 | +2 | 10 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 8th | +8/+3 | +6 | +6 | +2 | Miracle| +2 | 10 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 9th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +3 | Evasion, The Sword is my Shield | +2 | 10 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 10th | +10/+5 | +7 | +7 | +3 | Miracle, Tier(III) | +2 | 20 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 11th | +11/+6/+1 |+7 | +7 | +3 | Sword Master | +3 | 30 Ft. | +3 | 20 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | | 12th | +12/+7/+2 | +8 | +8 | +4 | Miracle| +3 | 30 Ft. | +4 | 20 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | | 13th | +13/+8/+3 | +8 | +8 | +4 | The Sword is my Shield +3| +3 | 20 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 14th | +14/+9/+4 | +9 | +9 | +4 | Miracle, Honed +2 | +3 | 20 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 15th | +15/+10/+5 | +9 | +9 | +5 | Tier(IV) | +3 | 30 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 16th | +16/+11/+6/+1 | +10 | +10 | +5 | Miracle | +4 | 30 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 17th | +17/+12/+7/+2 | +10 | +10 | +5 | Sword Lord | +4 | 30 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 18th | +18/+13/+8/+3 | +11 | +11 | +6 | Miracle +4 | +4 | 30 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 19th | +19/+14/+9/+4 | +11 | +11 | +6 | The Sword is my Shield +4 | +4 | 30 Ft. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | 20th | +20/+15/+10/+5 | +12 | +12 | +6 | Capstone Miracle, Tier(V), Honed +3| +4 | 40 Ft. | ─ | ─ | — | — | — | — | — | </div> </div> \pagebreak <div class='pageNumber auto'></div> <div class='wide'> ### **Class Features** The following are class features of the Sword Saint class. ___ **Chosen Weapon and Armor Proficiency** A Sword Saint must choose on simple, martial, or exotic one-handed/two-handed piercing or slashing (it has to be a sword) melee weapon to be proficient with. it is proficient with light armor. A Sword Saint wearing any heavier armor than light or wielding a shield it cannot enter into a Focus. <br> #### **Focus (Ex)** A Sword Saint can Focus and enter into an absolute calm state of mind and perform at a divine level of speed and accuracy. Starting at 1st level, a Sword Saint can focus for a number of rounds per day equal to 4 + its Dexterity modifier. At each level after 1st, it can Focus for 2 additional rounds. Temporary increases to Dexterity, such as those gained from spells like Cat's Grace, do not increase the total number of rounds that a Sword Saint can focus per day. A Sword Saint can enter Focus as a free action. The total number of rounds of Focus per day is renewed after resting for 8 hours, although these hours do not need to be consecutive. ___ While in Focus, a Sword Saint adds both its Strength and Dexterity modifiers to to-hit as well as a +4 morale bonus on Will saves to mind affecting attacks and spells. ___ A Sword Saint can end its Focus as a free action and is staggered for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the number of rounds spent in the Focus to a minimum of 1 round. A Sword Saint cannot enter a new Focus while staggered or exhausted but can otherwise enter Focus multiple times during a single encounter or combat. If a Sword Saint falls unconscious, its Focus immediately ends, placing it in the peril of death. <br> #### **Sword Saint's Finesse (Ex)** At 1st level, a Sword Saint gains the benefits of the Weapon Finesse feat with the melee weapon it chose as its proficient weapon, and can use its dexterity score in place of Intelligence as a prerequisite for combat feats. This ability counts as having the Weapon Finesse feat for purposes of meeting feat prerequisites. <br> #### **Fast Maneuvers (Ex)** At 1st level, a Sword Saint speed is faster than the norm for its race. It gains a land speed and dodge bonus to its AC that scales with the Sword Saint's level as shown on Table: (Sword Saint) above. benefit applies only when it is wearing no armor or light armor and not carrying a heavy load. Apply this bonus before modifying the Sword Saints speed because of any load carried. <br> #### **Miracles (Su)** As a Sword Saint gains levels, it learns to harness its Focus to perform miraculous deeds. Starting at 2nd level, a Sword Saint selects from the Tier (I) miracles. It gains another miracle for every two levels a Sword Saint attained after 2nd level and at 6th, 10th, 15th, and 20th a Sword Saint may select from the higher Tiers of Miracles . A Sword Saint gains the benefits of miracles only while in Focus, and some of these miracles require the Sword Saint to take an action first. Unless otherwise noted, a Sword Saint cannot select an individual miracle more than once. To perform any miracle a Sword Saint must expend additional uses of Focus. A Sword Saint can only expend 1 additional round of Focus at level 1, this increases by 1 for every 5 levels a Sword Saint has attained in the Sword Saint class so at level 5 a Sword Saint can spend 2 additional rounds of focus per turn and at lvl 20 it can expend 5 additional rounds of Focus per turn. Expending any number of additional rounds of Focus in one round is a free action. ___ **A list of all the Miracles are on pages 4 - 8** <br> #### **Uncanny Dodge (Ex)** At 3rd level, a Sword Saint gains the ability to react to danger before its senses would normally allow it to do so. A Sword Saint cannot be caught flat-footed, nor does it lose its Dex bonus to AC if the attacker is invisible. Sword Saints still loses its Dexterity bonus to armor class if immobilized. A Sword Saint with this ability can still lose its Dexterity bonus to armor class if an opponent successfully uses the feint action against it. <br> #### **The Sword is my Shield (Ex)** At 4th level, When wielding its chosen sword and is unencumbered, the Sword Saint gains a +1 shield bonus to AC. This bonus increases by +1 at the 9th, 13th, and 19th level, to a maximum of a +4 shield bonus to AC at 19th level. <br> </div> </div> \pagebreak <div class='pageNumber auto'></div> <div class='wide'> <br> #### **Sword Expert (Ex)** At 5th level, a Sword Saint's understanding and connection with its chosen blade becomes stronger. It gains the bonus combat feats (Weapon Focus) and (Weapon Specialization). <br> #### **Honed (Su)** At 7th level, a Sword Saint has pushed its body to the breaking point and this has made it stronger and given it greater control and understanding of its body. The Sword Saint can reduce the focus he spends on miracles per round by 1 (to a minimum of 1 round spent per turn). It can not use this ability to reduce the cost of the highest tier of miracle the Sword Saint can use. This ability cost reduction increases by 1 on 14th and 20th level, to a maximum of 3 cost reduction at on the 20th level. ___ **Example** A 7th level Sword Saint can only reduce the cost of tier (I) Miracles and can only reduce the cost of Tier (II) Miracles once it has gained a Tier (III) Miracle at 10th Level. <br> #### **Evasion (Ex)** At 9th level and higher, a Sword Saint can avoid even magical and unusual attacks with great agility. If it makes a successful Reflex saving throw against an attack that normally deals half damage on a successful save, the Sword Saint instead takes no damage. Evasion can be used only if the Sword Saint is wearing light armor or no armor. A helpless Sword Saint does not gain the benefit of evasion. <br> #### **Sword Master (Ex)** At 11th level, a Sword Saint's chosen weapon has all but become an extension of its body. It gains the bonus combat feats (Greater Weapon Focus) and (Improved Critical). <br> #### **Sword Lord (Ex)** At 17th level, a Sword Saint is now one with its chosen weapon, its body is merely the hilt of the blade. It gains the bonus combat feats (Greater Weapon Specialization) and (Critical Focus). <br> </div> </div> \pagebreak <div class='pageNumber auto'></div> <div class='wide'> ### **Miracles (I)** At 2nd level, a Sword Saint may select miracles from the following list. Each of these miracles only cost 1 additional round of Focus to use. ___ **Quickened State (Su)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 1 round of Focus and receive the following benefits until the beginning of its next turn. A Sword Saint can make one additional attack at its highest attack bonus when making a full-round attack action and Increase its speed by 20 feet. These bonuses do not stack with any other "State" Miracle or the Haste spell. ___ **Stance, Deadly Defense (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 1 round of Focus and receive the following benefits until the Sword Saint ends its current Focus. Only if the Sword Saint's last turn was spent either fighting defensively or as a total defense action and an opponent makes a melee attack against a Sword Saint, it may expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt to parry that attack. The Sword Saint makes an attack roll as if it were making an attack of opportunity; for each size category the attacking creature is larger than the Sword Saint, the Sword Saint takes a –2 penalty on this roll. If its result is greater than the attacking creature’s result, the creature’s attack automatically misses. The Sword Saint must declare the use of this ability after the creature’s attack is announced, but before its attack roll is made. Upon performing a successful parry the Sword Saint can as an Attack of Opportunity action make an attack against the creature whose attack it parried, provided that creature is within its reach. For every successfully parried attack, the Sword Saint receives a cumulative -2 to To-Hit until the beginning of the Sword Saints next turn. Only one Stance Miracle can be active at a time and a Stance Miracle can only be switched to another Stance miracle once per turn as a swift action. ___ **Special** If the Sword Saint possess Both "Stance, Deadly Defence" and "Stance, Pin-Point Deflection", It may use both Simultaneously at the cost of 3 Focus ___ **Expert Maneuvers (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 1 round of focus and receive the following benefits until the beginning of its next turn. While this is active a Sword Saint dose not provoke attacks of opportunity when performing any combat maneuvers and gains a +2 to CMB and a +4 to CMD. ___ **Threading the Needle (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 1 round of Focus and receive the following benefits until the beginning of its next turn. A Sword Saint gains the ability to strike with pin-point precision with their chosen weapon, adding its Sword Saint level to the damage dealt. To use this Miracle, a Sword Saint cannot attack with a weapon in its other hand. Any creature that is immune to sneak attacks is immune to the additional damage granted by Threading the Needle, and any item or ability that protects a creature from critical hits also protects a creature from the additional damage of Threading the Needle. This additional damage is precision damage, and isn’t multiplied on a critical hit. As a swift action, a Sword Saint can spend only one more additional round of Focus to double its precision damage bonus. ___ **Focused Movements (Su)** ___ At 5th level or higher, The Sword Saint can expend 1 round of Focus and receive the following benefits until the end of its current Focus. a Sword Saint within arm’s reach of a wall can use it to slow its descent. When first gaining this Miracle, it takes damage as if the fall were 20 feet shorter than it actually is. The Sword ability to slow his fall (that is, to reduce the effective distance of the fall when next to a wall) improves at 20th level it can use a nearby wall to slow his descent and fall any distance without harm. ___ Also a Sword Saint starts to move while barely touching the surface underneath it. As a full-round action, it can move up to twice its speed, ignoring difficult terrain. While moving in this way, any surface will support it, no matter how much it weighs. This allows the Sword Saint to move across water, lava, or even the thinnest tree branches. Sword Saints must end its move on a surface that can support it normally. It cannot move across air in this way, nor can it walk up walls or other vertical surfaces. When moving in this way, the Sword Saint does not take damage from surfaces or hazards that react to being touched, such as lava or caltrops, nor does it need to make Acrobatics checks to avoid falling on slippery or rough surfaces. Finally, when using this Miracle, the Sword Saint ignores any mechanical traps that use a location-based trigger. ___ A Sword Saint also adds it level to all Acrobatics checks made to jump, both for vertical jumps and horizontal jumps. In addition, it always counts as having a running start when making jump checks using Acrobatics. By spending 1 additional round of Focus as a swift action, a Sword Saint gains a +20 bonus on Acrobatics checks made to jump for the rest of the current Focus. </div> </div> \pagebreak <div class='pageNumber auto'></div> <div class='wide'> ### **Miracles (II)** At 6th level, a Sword Saint may select miracles from the following list. Each of these miracles cost 2 additional rounds of Focus to use. ___ **Hastened State (Su)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 2 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the beginning of its next turn. Whenever making an melee attack action, a Sword Saint may make one extra attack with its chosen weapon. The attack is made using the Sword Saints full base attack bonus, plus any modifiers appropriate to the situation. (This effect is not cumulative with similar effects, such as that provided by a speed weapon or other miracles, nor does it actually grant an extra action. ___ A Sword Saint also gains a +1 bonus on attack rolls and a +1 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves. Any condition that makes you lose your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class (if any) also makes you lose dodge bonuses. All of the Sword Saints modes of movement (including land movement, burrow, climb, fly, and swim) increase by 30 feet, to a maximum of twice the subject’s normal speed using that form of movement. This increase counts as an enhancement bonus, and it affects the creature’s jumping distance as normal for increased speed. These bonuses do not stack with any other "State" Miracle or the Haste spell. ___ **Special** If the Sword Saint also possesses the "Quickened State" Miracle and if the Sword Saint can spend an additional 1 round of Focus, it receive an additional +1 to AC, Reflex, and To-Hit, and an additional 10 Ft. to all modes of movement ___ **Muscle Reaction (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 2 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits. As an immediate action, the Sword Saint may act in a surprise round it would not normally act in, and cannot be flat-footed that round and the Sword Saint gains a +10 bonus to its initiative check. This can still be used at the beginning of a non surprise round combat to still gain the initiative bonus. ___ **AllSeeing Strike (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 2 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the beginning of its next turn. The Sword Saint can hone all of its senses and not only detect unseen enemies, but also find the hairline crack in their defenses. The Sword Saint performs one strike as a full-round action and gain a temporary +10 insight bonus on this attack's to-hit. Additionally, it is not affected by the miss chance that applies to the Sword Saint trying to strike a concealed or invisible target. ___ **Stance, Pin-point Deflection (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 2 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the Sword Saint ends its current Focus. The Sword Saint, When it would normally be hit with an attack from a ranged weapon, the Sword Saint may instead deflect it and not only take no damage from it, but also redirect the ranged projectile at an enemy within 10 Ft range. You must be aware of the attack and not flat-footed. Attempting to deflect a ranged attack counts as an attack of opportunity action. ___ To perform a pin-point deflection the Sword Saint must make an attack at its highest BAB and If its result is greater than the attacking creature’s result, the creature’s attack automatically misses. The Sword Saint must declare the use of this ability after the creature’s attack is announced, but before its attack roll is made. Upon performing a successful deflection the Sword Saint can as an Attack of Opportunity action make an attack against a creature within 10 ft of the Sword Saint using the same roll it used to deflect. Unusually massive ranged weapons such as boulders or ballista bolts (up to the GM's discretion) cannot be deflected. For every successfully deflected attack, the Sword Saint receives a cumulative -2 to To-Hit until the beginning of the Sword Saints next turn. Only one Stance Miracle can be active at a time and a Stance Miracle can only be switched to another Stance miracle once per turn as a swift action. ___ **Special** If the Sword Saint possess Both "Stance, Deadly Defence" and "Stance, Pin-Point Deflection", It may use both Simultaneously at the cost of 3 Focus ___ **Hastened Flurry (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 2 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the beginning of its next turn. As part of a full-round attack action The Sword Saint can focus all its might and speed on a single opponent. When doing so, It may make one additional attack, taking a –2 penalty on all of its attack rolls, as if using the Two-Weapon Fighting feat. These attacks can only be with its chosen weapon (it does not need to use two weapons to utilize this ability). At 8th level, the Sword Saint can make two additional attacks when he uses Hastened Flurry, as if using Improved Two-Weapon Fighting (even if the Sword Saint does not meet the prerequisites for the feat). At 15th level, the Sword Saint can make three additional attacks using Hastened Flurry, as if using Greater Two-Weapon Fighting (even if the Sword Saint does not meet the prerequisites for the feat). A Sword Saint applies its full Strength bonus to its damage rolls for all successful attacks made with Hastened Flurry, whether the attacks are made with an off-hand or with a weapon wielded in both hands. A Sword Saint may substitute disarm, sunder, and trip or any other combat maneuvers for sword attacks as part of a Hastened Flurry. A Sword Saint cannot use any weapon other than their chosen weapon as part of a Hastened Flurry. A Sword Saints with natural weapons cannot use such weapons as part of a Hastened Flurry, nor can it make natural attacks in addition to its Hastened Flurry. </div> </div> \pagebreak <div class='pageNumber auto'></div> <div class='wide'> ### **Miracles (III)** At level 10 a Sword Saint may select miracles from the following list. Each of these miracles cost 3 additional rounds of Focus to use. ___ **Blitz State (Su)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 3 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the beginning of its next turn. Whenever making an melee attack action, a Sword Saint may make one extra attack with its chosen weapon. This attack is made using the Sword Saints full base attack bonus, plus any modifiers appropriate to the situation. (This effect is not cumulative with similar effects, such as that provided by a speed weapon or other miracles, this also grants an additional movement action. ___ A Sword Saint also gains a +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves. Any condition that makes you lose your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class (if any) also makes you lose dodge bonuses. The Sword Saint is moving at such speeds that its form seems to blur from the smallest movements which grants the subject concealment (20% miss chance). ___ All of the Sword Saints modes of movement (including land movement, burrow, climb, fly, and swim) increase by 50 feet, to a maximum of three times the subject’s normal speed using that form of movement. This increase counts as an enhancement bonus, and it affects the creature’s jumping distance as normal for increased speed. These bonuses do not stack with any other "State" Miracle or the Haste spell. ___ **Special** If the Sword Saint also possesses the "Quickened State" and "Hastened State" Miracles and if the Sword Saint can spend an additional 2 round of Focus, it receive an additional +2 to AC, Reflex, and To-Hit, and an additional 20 Ft. to all modes of movement ___ **Unbelievable Reflexes (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 3 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the Sword Saint ends its current Focus. The Sword Saint gains the benefits of the improved evasion and improved uncanny dodge rogue class features. Sword Saints us its level as its rogue level for improved uncanny dodge. It also gains a +2 dodge bonus to AC. ___ **Blitz Flurry (Ex**) ___ The Sword Saint can expend 3 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits. A Sword Saint as a full-round attack action, a Sword Saint can give up its regular attacks and charge in a straight line, up to double its movement speed and make one melee attack at your highest base attack bonus against each opponent within reach of your charge. You must make a separate attack roll against each opponent. ___ **Focused Gaze (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 3 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the Sword Saint ends its current Focus. A Sword Saint receives a +20 to preception checks and automatically receives a save to disbelieve any illusion it can see each round at the start of its turn even if it hasn’t interacted with it. If it fails a saving throw against an illusion that is not to disbelieve, she can attempt to save again again 1 round later at the same DC. She gets only one extra chance to succeed at its saving throw. It also gains a blindsense 60ft ___ **Stance, Critical Overlord (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 3 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the Sword Saint ends its current Focus. A Sword Saint gains a +1 to its critical threat range (This bonus stacks with other bonuses such as keen weapon and the critical precision feat) and a +1 to its critical multiplier. It also gains one temporary critical feat from the following list of feats for the duration of its current Focus. Some of these feats require you to be a certain level to use them. Only one Stance Miracle can be active at a time and a Stance Miracle can only be switched to another Stance miracle once per turn as a swift action. ___ **Savage Critical** If you roll a natural 20 on an attack roll you treat your weapon’s critical multiplier as if it were 1 point higher. ___ **Critical Precision** You also gain your precision damage when you critical hit. ___ **Superior Critical** On a critical hit, you deal an extra +1d10 points of damage for each point of the weapon's critical multiplier. These bonus dice are not themselves multiplied by the critical hit. This feat requires you to be level 11 to use. ___ **Staggering Critical** Whenever you score a critical hit, your opponent becomes staggered for 1d4+1 rounds. A successful Fortitude save reduces the duration to 1 round. The DC of this Fortitude save is equal to 10 + your base attack bonus. The effects of this feat do not stack. Additional hits instead add to the duration. This feat requires you to be level 13 to use. ___ **Stunning Critical** Whenever you score a critical hit, your opponent becomes stunned for 1d4 rounds. A successful Fortitude save reduces this to staggered for 1d4 rounds. The DC of this Fortitude save is equal to 10 + your base attack bonus. The effects of this feat do not stack. Additional hits instead add to the duration. This feat requires you to be level 17 to use. </div> </div> \pagebreak <div class='pageNumber auto'></div> <div class='wide'> ### **Miracles (IV)** At level 15 a Sword Saint may select miracles from the following list. Each of these miracles cost 4 additional rounds of Focus to use. ___ **Lesser, Godspeed (Su)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 4 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits. The Sword Saint moves as such speeds that it seems time cease to flow for everyone but it. In fact, you speed up so much so that all other creatures seem frozen, though they are actually still moving at their normal speeds. The Sword Saint is free to act normally for 1 round of apparent time. Normal and magical fire, cold, gas, and the like can still harm it. While Lesser, Godspeed is in effect, The Sword Saint cannot perform any other Miracles. This Miracle can only be performed once per day and once Lesser, Godspeeds duration runs out, the Sword Saint leaves Focus and becomes staggered for double the amount of rounds it was in Focus. ___ **Speed of Light (Su)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 4 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits. The Sword Saint nigh instantly transfer itself from its current location to any other spot within direct line of vision to a maximum of 1000 Ft. You arrive at exactly the spot desired and after using this Miracle, you still have a full round of actions to perform. ___ **Stance, Unstoppable (Su)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 4 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the Sword Saint ends its current Focus. A Sword Saint exhibits so much force and speed that everything that tries to restrain them vibrates off it body. A Sword Saint can move and attack normally for the duration of the miracle. All combat maneuver checks made to grapple the target automatically fail. The subject automatically succeeds on any combat maneuver checks and Escape Artist checks made to escape a grapple or a pin. The Miracle also allows the subject to move and attack normally while underwater, even with slashing weapons such as axes and swords or with bludgeoning weapons such as flails, hammers, and maces, provided that the weapon is wielded in the hand rather than hurled. The Sword Saint also gains a +4 to melee damage and to-hit with its chosen weapon. Only one stance miracle can be active at a time and a Stance Miracle can only be switched to another Stance miracle once per turn as a swift action. ___ **Stance, Untouchable (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 4 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the Sword Saint ends its current Focus. A Sword Saint on the defensive is a rare sight but are nearly impossible to hit when they are because the enemy is usually chasing its after image. The Sword Saint Gains a +4 dodge bonus to AC and are granted concealment with a miss chance of (50%). Only one stance miracle can be active at a time and a Stance Miracle can only be switched to another Stance miracle once per turn as a swift action. ___ **Land of a Thousand Cuts (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 4 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the beginning of its next turn. As a full-round attack action, a Sword Saint may make a single attack at its highest BaB on each enemy within 15 ft. of it. This range increases for every 5 ft. the Sword Saint's natural reach exceeds 5 ft. for example (A large Sword Saint with a natural reach of 10 ft. would have a 20 ft. range on its "Land of a Thousand Cuts" Miracle). ___ If all enemies within the range of this miracle are successfully hit, The Sword Saint may strike each enemy once again at its highest BaB but receives a -2 to To-Hit against each enemy. If the Sword Saint still manages again hit each enemy within the range of the miracle successfully, It may make another attack against each enemy with in range with a -4 to To-Hit. If by all the gods wills the Sword Saint keeps successfully hitting all enemies within range of this miracles it will keep taking a recursive -2 to To-Hit that stacks until the Sword Saint finally misses an attack. Missing a single attack while using this Miracle will result in an immediate end of this miracles attack. For every time the Sword Saint succeeds in striking all enemies within range of this miracle, It takes a cumulative -1 to AC that lasts until the beginning of the Sword Saints next turn. </div> </div> \pagebreak <div class='pageNumber auto'></div> <div class='wide'> ### **Capstone Miracle (V)** At level 20 a Sword Saint may select one capstone miracle from the following list. Each of these miracles cost 5 additional rounds of Focus to use. ___ **Godspeed (Su)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 5 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits. The Sword Saint moves at such speeds that it seems time ceases to flow for everyone but it. In fact, it speeds up so much so that all other creatures seem frozen, though they are actually still moving at their normal speeds. The Sword Saint is free to act normally for 2 rounds of apparent time. Normal and magical fire, cold, gas, and the like can still harm you. While Godspeed is in effect, The Sword Saint can perform other Miracles at the cost of Godspeeds duration. For each miracle used while in Godspeed lowers the duration by 1. This Miracle can only be performed once per day unless the Sword Saint also has the "Lesser, Godspeed" Miracle. If so it can perform "Godspeed" twice per day and once the Miracle's duration runs out, the Sword Saint becomes exhausted instead of staggered. ___ **Limit Breaker (Su)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 5 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the Sword Saint ends its current Focus. When a Sword Saint uses this Miracle it pushes its body past its mortal limits to perform at a godly level. A Sword Saint gains it full strength and dexterity stat instead of its modifier in all checks that use these stats. When the Sword Saint ends its Focus while this Miracle is active, it will be exhausted instead of staggered an take ability damage to its strength and dexterity equal to the amount of rounds it used Limit Breaker. this Miracle can only be used once per day. ___ **Vitality Surge (Su)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 5 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the Sword Saint ends its current Focus. When a Sword Saint uses this Miracle it forces its muscles to tense up to an adamantine level and forces its regenerative system to speed up to 100x the normal rate. A Sword Saint gains a natural armor bonus to AC equal to constitution stat and it also gains Fast-Healing 5 and DR 5-. When the Sword Saint ends its Focus while this Miracle is active, it will be exhausted instead of staggered an take ability damage to its constitution equal to the amount of rounds it used Vitality Surge. this Miracle can only be used once per day. ___ **Divine Stance (Ex)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the Sword Saint ends its current Focus. When a Sword Saint uses this Miracle it merges all of its skills and stances into one divine technique. A Sword Saint in the "Divine Stance" may select up to two separate "Stance" Miracles and use the them simultaneously. The focus cost to perform this is equal to the highest tier of a Stance Miracle being uses plus 1 additional focus. ___ For an example (A Sword Saint using the "Divine Stance" selects the Stance Miracles, "Stance, Untouchable" and "Stance, Deadly Defense". The Focus cost per round would cost 5 since "Stance, Untouchable" is a Tier IV miracle and is the highest Tier of Stance Miracle being used. It dose not matter what other Stance Miracle that is being used. it only increases the Focus per round cost by 1.) ___ Additionally when in this Stance, a Sword Saint reduces the cost of all miracles by 1 (to a minimum of 1 Focus per turn. This dose not reduce the cost of the two Stance miracles being used, nor can the "Honed" class ability reduce the cost of this Stance). A Stance Miracle can only be switched to another Stance miracle once per turn as a swift action. When the Sword Saint ends its Focus while this Miracle is active, it will be exhausted instead of staggered and this Miracle can only be used once per day. ___ **Army of One (Su)** ___ The Sword Saint can expend 5 rounds of Focus and receive the following benefits until the Sword Saint ends its current Focus. When a Sword Saint uses this miracle, it begins break its shackles and transcend the natural laws of this world. The Sword Saint begins to attack at such speed and ferocity, That it seems it attacking from multiple sides at once. The Sword Saint gain 1+1d4 copies of its self. Each of these copies can perform one Standard action to attack or perform a combat maneuver per turn (These copies may not use any miracles). These copies cannot move more than 10 ft. away from the Sword Saint. The Sword Saint and Copies receive a 75% Concealment miss chance and each copy share the exact AC, To-Hit, Damage, CMB, and CMD as the Sword Saint. They all share the same Hit-Points with the Sword Saint and if one copy are affected by a negative affect from an enemy, all copies including the Sword Saint are affected aswell ___ For an example (A Sword Saint has 4 copies around it. An enemy manages to get past one of the copy's miss chance and AC and strikes it for 16 damage and makes a successful "Trip" Combat Maneuver. The Sword Saint in turn would take this damage instead and would fall prone, as would all the copies for failing the "Trip" Combat Maneuver. A Sword Saint can only take damage from an AOE effects like Fireball, once per turn no matter how many copies are hit by the effect). ___ When the Sword Saint ends its Focus while this Miracle is active it will be exhausted instead of staggered and this Miracle can only be used once per day. </div> </div> \pagebreak <div class='pageNumber auto'></div> <div class='wide'> ### **Favored Class Bonuses** ___ #### Core Races **Dwarf** Add +1/10 of a shield bonus to the Dwarf's AC when using the ability "The Sword is my Shield" **Elf** Add +1 to the Elf’s base speed. In combat this has no effect unless the Elf has selected this reward 5 times. **Gnome** Add a +1/10 of a dodge bonus to the Gnome's AC. **Half-Elf** Add +1 to the Sword Saint's total number of Focus rounds per day. **Half-Orc** Add +1/5 to the Half-Orc's strength while in a Focus. **Halfling** Add a +1/10 of a dodge bonus to the Halfling's AC. **Human** Add +1/6 of an additional Miracle. #### Other Races **Goblin** Add +1/4 to the Goblin's dexterity while in a Focus. **Kobold** While the Kobold is Focusing it receives a +1/4 to all Acrobatic checks. **Orc** Add +1/4 to the Orc's strength while in a Focus. **Ratfolk** When Focusing, add +1/10 to all the Sword Saints State Miracles bonus on attack rolls, AC, and reflex saves. **Strix** Add +1 to the Sword Saint's total number of Focus rounds per day. **Tengu** Add +1/5 to the +4 will save bonus to mind affecting attacks from Focusing. #### 3rd Party and Homebrew Races **Android** Add +1/4 bonus to the Androids nanite surge when Focusing. **Catfolk** Add +2.5 feet to the distance the Sword Saint can charge or run. **Changeling** Add +1/4 to melee damage rolls while Focusing. **Dhampir** Add +1/4 to the damage of a bite attack. **Drow** The adds a +1/2 to the Sword Saint's "Muscle Reaction" miracle's initiative bonus. **Duergar** Add Add +1/10 of a shield bonus to the Duegar's AC when using the ability "The Sword is my Shield" **Fetchling** Add +1 foot to the Fetchling's base speed. In combat this option has no effect unless it has selected it five times. **Hobgoblin** Add +1/4 the number of attacks of opportunity per round. This does not stack with the Combat Reflexes feat. **Tiefling** Add +1/5 to all CMB and CMD bonuses when using the "Expert Maneuvers" Miracle. **Wayang** Add Add a +1/10 of a dodge bonus to the Wayang's AC. **Asterion** Add +1 to the Asterion's base speed. In combat this has no effect unless the Asterion has selected this reward 5 times. **Lapith** Reduce To-Hit penalty when using the "Deadly Defense" and "Pin-Point Defelection" by 1/4, to a minimum of -1 to To-Hit **Monsterfolk** Add +1 to the Sword Saint's total number of Focus rounds per day. If this is a "Weak" Monsterfolk they instead gain +1/6 of an additional Miracle. **Mado Oni** Add +1/4 to the Mado Oni's dexterity while in a Focus.