"In the name of Balance, I will punish you!"
--Nerali, Magical Warrior of Baphomet
It is not uncommon for young people to be chosen by mysterious patrons, learning of their destiny only when an adorable animal shows up and won't stop following them, or a small charm falls out of space and smacks them in the head.
Whether they know of their patron or not, and how much they know if anything, has no bearing on a magical warrior's power.
Individual Magical Warriors display a wide variety of specific powers, but all have an outfit and weapon granted and augmented by their patron, as well as an adviser they can consult.
Wizards, Bards, Archivists and other classes which have good will saves and at least one Kn. Skill have the easiest time becoming Magical Warriors. There are, however, many ways of gaining Knowledge skills as class skills, and so a character of any class may find themselves called to fight under their patron's banner.
Race: Patrons typically favour attractive and strong willed races, but any character who meets the requirements can enter the class.
Alignment: Magical Warriors often fight "for beauty and truth," or at least an aesthetic ideal and a belief that their way of life is superior. They tend to be Lawful, but nothing requires them to be.
Requirements
Base Will Save: +4
Skills: Knowledge (any one, see Patron) 8 ranks
8 ranks in any of the following: Bluff, Diplomacy, Disguise, Intimidate, Perform (Any), Use Magic Device
d8 Hit Die
Good Ref and Will
3/4 BAB
4+Int Mod Skill Points
Class Skills: Balance, Diplomacy, Disguise, Handle Animal, Intimidate, Jump, Knowledge (type by Patron), Sense Motive, Spellcraft, Tumble, Use Magic Device
| Level | Special |
| 1 | Patron, Craft of the Warrior, Patron's Regalia, Diminutive Advisor |
| 2 | Sphere (Basic), Smite 1/day |
| 3 | Bonus Feat, Regalia Power Up (increased damage), Quick Transformation (Standard) |
| 4 | Smite 2/day, Regalia Power Up (improved armour) |
| 5 | Sphere (Advanced), Regalia Power Up (increased damage), Quick Transformation (Move) |
| 6 | Regalia Power Up (improved armour) |
| 7 | Smite 3/day, Regalia Power Up (increased damage), Quick Transformation (Swift) |
| 8 | Sphere (Expert), Regalia Power Up (improved armour) |
| 9 | Quick Transformation (Free), Regalia Power Up (increased damage) |
| 10 | Smite at will, Regalia Power Up (improved armour), Quick Transformation (Immediate) |
Weapon and Armour Proficiencies: A Magical Warrior gains proficiency in one weapon and one armour of her choice.
Patron: Each Magical Warrior is chosen by a patron. The nature of this patron determines the Knowledge skill they must have 8 ranks in to enter the class and get a bonus to from their familiar, the target of their smite attack, and the sphere they gain access to.
Craft of the Warrior: Every warrior has their own suite of powers which draw on their history. Magical Warriors gives advancement to pre-existing class features, such as sneak attack, bardic songs per day (but not bardic music known), caster level (but not spells known), and initiator level (but not new maneuvers). It does not grant new class features, nor does it grant spells per day, spells known, or similar abilities.
Patron's Regalia: All Magical Warriors receive a weapon and armour from their patron, which, when not in use, change to an innocuous form or are stowed in an extra-dimensional space. As a Full Round Action, a Magical Warrior may transform, unleashing this armour and weapon for the duration of her combat, or until she becomes exhausted.
The armour of the Magical Warrior takes the form of any one type of armour, which always benefits from an enhancement bonus equal to 1/3 the Magical Warrior's character level.
The weapon of the Magical Warrior may be any one weapon, ranged or melee, or a ranged touch blast which she fires from her hand and deals 1d6 damage (the type may be chosen from the following: Cold, Electricity, Fire, Light, Sonic, Positive or Negative Energy).
The Magical Warrior always applies her Charisma modifier as a Deflection bonus to Armour Class, and as a bonus to damage rolls made with her weapon.
This armour and weapon is granted by her patron, and cannot be destroyed save by the patron's whim. If the weapon or armour is sundered, it will reform with 24 hours. Particularly grievous attacks against the regalia may prevent the regalia from reforming automatically, effectively placing a geas (which can be completed within 1 day's time once it is begun) upon the Magical Warrior, but in these events, the Warrior always retains a piece of the item in question, and once the geas is completed, the item reforms within 1d6 minutes.
Diminutive Adviser: A Magical Warrior is always accompanied by an intelligent adviser, who conveys the will and lessons of her Patron, and aids her in understanding her enemies. This functions as a familiar, save that the creature has an intelligence score equal to that of the base creature, or 10+Magical Warrior Class level, whichever is higher, and always has max ranks in the knowledge skill (using the Magical Warrior's HD) which the Magical Warrior's patron required. This means that a Magical Warrior's familiar is always able to aid her on her Patron's knowledge skill, effectively granting a +2 to rolls, and allowing the familiar to make it's own roll if the Magical Warrior's fails. Each level of Magical Warrior is treated as two levels of Wizard for the purposes of the Adviser's special abilities and natural armour.
Effectively, Magical Warriors gain Obtain Familiar and Improved Familiar (or just Acquire Familiar in Tome) as bonus feats. Typically, their Improved Familiar is a celestial or fiendish version of a normal animal.
Sphere: At 2nd level, a Magical Warrior gains basic access to one sphere, the nature of which is based on her Patron. This improves to Advanced at 5th level and Expert at 8th level.Magical Warrior Teams wrote:It is not uncommon for multiple Magical Warriors to fight as a single team. In this case, they often share a single patron, who grants them one adviser for the group. These advisers are treated as the adviser of the Magical Warrior with the highest class level, with each other Magical Warrior acting as a bonus class level for determining special abilities, natural armour, intelligence and ranks in the patron's preferred Knowledge of the adviser.
Smite: A 2nd level Magical Warrior learns her mission is to destroy enemies of her Patron. To that end, she is granted the ability to smite a particular category or categories of foe 1/day as a paladin of her class level. She may smite one additional time per day at 4th and 7th level. When she reaches 10th level, she gains the ability to smite at will.
A Magical Warrior with levels of Paladin counts both her Paladin and Magical Warrior levels to determine the number of times per day she may use each smite ability, and may, at her option, apply both smite abilities to a single attack if appropriate to her target. A Magical Warrior with levels in any other class which grants a Smite ability may do the same.
Patrons generally grant the ability to smite one or two of the below categories:
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| Aberration |
| Arcane Spellcasters |
| Construct |
| Creatures of a specific alignment part (good, evil, lawful or chaotic) |
| Divine Spellcasters |
| Dragon |
| Giant |
| Humanoid (typically a broad type or group of subtypes. "Goblinoids, Orcs and Kobolds," or "Civilized [Dwarves, Elves, Gnomes, Halflings and Humans]" for example) |
| Magical Beasts |
| Monstrous Humanoids |
| Oozes |
| Undead |
| Vermin |
| "Servants of [Nemesis]" (Example- Servants of Lolth, which would include drow, bebiliths, monstrous spiders, driders, etc) |
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This Smite ability counts as any other form of Smite for the purposes of trading it out. Some patrons give their magical warriors the Ranger's Favored Enemy class feature (a la the Holy Judge paladin variant), others a righteous fury akin to rage (a la the Half Orc paladin substitution levels).
Bonus Feat: At 3rd level, the Magical Warrior gains a bonus feat for which they qualify.
Regalia Power Up: At 3rd level, the Magical Warriors Regalia increases in Power. The weapon granted by her patron deals damage as if it were one size larger. Alternatively, the Magical Warrior may choose a second weapon to wield in her off hand. At 5th level, the weapon becomes a Minor Item, gaining an appropriate ability. At 7th level, it's damage increases as if it were another size larger. At 9th level, the weapon becomes a Moderate Item, gaining an appropriate bonus.
At 4th level, the Magical Warrior's armor becomes more protective, the armor bonus from the armor increases by 50%. At 6th level, the armor becomes a Minor Item, gaining an appropriate special ability. At 8th level, the armor bonus from the armor increases again, this time by 33% (For a total increase of 100% from the armor's base armor bonus). At 10th level, the armor becomes a Moderate Item, gaining an appropriate ability.
Once the Magical Warrior has gained four character levels beyond Magical Warrior 9, the weapon becomes a Major Item, gaining an appropriate ability, and once she gains four character levels beyond Magical Warrior level 10, her armor becomes a Major Item, gaining an appropriate ability.
Quick Transformation: At 3rd level, the Magical Warrior learns to transform into their battle regalia more quickly, taking only a standard action to do so.
At 5th level, they may transform as a move action, at 7th level as a swift action, at 9th level as a free action, and at 10th as an immediate action.
ACF: Talented Magical Warrior
Replaces: Diminutive Adviser
Benefit: Instead of a cute animal to tell you what to do, you get a little more out of your Transformation. Choose one class skill Good save, or weapon proficiency for the class your magical warrior levels stack worth for Craft of the Warrior. While you are transformed, you gain a competence bonus on checks with that skill equal to your magical warrior class level, our half it for attacks our saves with the chosen weapon or save. If you have the feast Versatile Magical Warrior, each persona may provide a bonus to a different skill, weapon or save.
ACF: Symbiote Warrior
Replaces: Patron's Regalia and Regalia Power Up, Diminutive Advisor.
Benefit: Instead of the Patron's Regalia weapon and armor the Magical Warrior gains a Nethar Symbiote with HD equal to the Magical Warrior's character level-2. When not in use, the symbiote will replicate normal clothing, but may be "unleashed" consistent with the Magical Warrior's transformation, taking a full round. As the Magical Warrior increases in level, their symbiote also improves, always having appropriate HD for their character level.
Whether active or inactive, the Magical Warrior's symbiote also serves as their advisor. The symbiote has the Intelligence and skills that the Magical Warrior's advisor would have, and improves as a familiar.
Because it combines the Magical Warrior's regalia and advisor, Symbiote Warriors also gain the Focused Magical Warrior feat (see below), with the caveat that their advisor is an outsider, rather than a construct, and their symbiote is considered to be both a weapon and armor. Finally, the Magical Warrior may sacrifice a level's worth of Craft of the Warrior benefits (ie, their Magical Warrior level is counted as 1 less) or Smite uses to instead take a Symbiote feat.
Note, all attacks granted by the symbiote, whether the basic bite and claws or weapons granted through weapon shaping, are considered to be Regalia weapons.
Feat: Versatile Magical Warrior [General]
"I'm going to change!"
The Magical Warrior has a number of personas, choosing the one to assume as fits the situation.
Prerequisite: Craft of the Warrior
Benefit: You may choose a number of Classes you possess levels in equal to your Magical Warrior class level. Each class now forms its own persona that you can transform into, with its own Craft of the Warrior benefit, weapons and armors. You may only benefit from one persona at a time, and each time you wish to change your persona, you must Transform.
Feat: Focused Magical Warrior [General]
Some Patrons grant their boons in more discrete packages.
Prerequisite: Patron's Regalia
Benefit: Your Devoted Adviser and a piece of your Regalia are one in the same. Your adviser has the Construct type (instead of the Magical Beast type), and may have the Living Construct subtype at your option (if you're not using Tome). Your adviser has a telepathic link with you at all times, and if destroyed, is reformed exactly as your regalia would be, and maintains a telepathic link through the piece of the regalia you keep if you must complete a geas to reform it. Because your regalia is sentient, it can aid you even better in combat, suggesting tactics, and using the Aid Another action on your attacks, if it is your weapon, or effectively using it to help you dodge, if it is your armour, granting a +2 misc bonus to your AC.
Finally, if you are unconscious or caught unawares, a Weapon Adviser can deflect a single attack each round (replace your AC with an attack roll at your highest bonus for one attack you are subject to each round if unconscious or denied your dexterity to AC), and an Armour Adviser may take a single standard or move action with your stats each round while you are unconscious.
