This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== Path of the Perfect Self ====== <WRAP center 50%> {{:paths:pasted:20231120-213308.jpeg|The path to perfection is arduous and lengthy, few complete it.}} </WRAP> //For the truly exemplary, martial skill transcends the battlefield; it is a lifestyle, a doctrine, a state of mind. These warrior-artists search out methods of battle beyond swords and shields, finding weapons within themselves just as capable of crippling or killing as any blade. Followers of this Path elevate their bodies to become weapons of war, from battle-minded ascetics to self-taught brawlers. They tread the path of discipline, and those with the will to endure that path discover within themselves not what they are, but what they are meant to be.// ---- ===== Key Skills ===== When you purchase the Path of the Perfect Self, you gain the following Key Skills: * [[priority:skills:acrobatics|Acrobatics]] * [[priority:skills:athletics|Athletics]] * [[priority:skills:negotiation|Negotiation]] * [[priority:skills:perception|Perception]] * [[priority:skills:stealth|Stealth]] ===== Crash Like Water ===== <WRAP round box> ==== Iron Fists (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 2, [[priority:skills:knowledge|Knowledge Religion]] 3, 10 EXP You are considered to be armed even when unarmed—you do not provoke attacks of opportunity when you attack foes while unarmed. Your unarmed strikes can deal lethal or nonlethal damage, at your choice. Your unarmed attacks use your fists and you may not wield a weapon and attack with unarmed attacks (but you may hold an item or weapon that you are not “armed” with). When attacking you decide if you wish to make Light strikes or One handed strikes. Light strikes inclict 1d6 bludgeoning damage and are considered light weapons. One handed strikes inflict 1d8 bludgeoning damage and are considered one handed weapons Usually, your unarmed strikes deal lethal damage, but you can choose to deal nonlethal damage instead with no penalty to the attack roll. You have the same choice to deal lethal or nonlethal damage while grappling as well. Your unarmed strike is treated as both a manufactured weapon and a natural weapon for the purpose of spells and effects that enhance or improve either manufactured weapons or natural weapons. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Lethal Legs (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** Iron Fists, [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 4, [[priority:skills:knowledge|Knowledge Religion]] 5, 15 EXP When making unarmed strikes you may now use your legs instead of fists meaning you may have both arms restrained, full or otherwise unusable. When using your legs as unarmed strikes you may make trip combat maneuvers as a half action and gain a +2 on trip attempts when using your unarmed strikes. When you hit with an unarmed strike using your legs you may spend 4 TP to roll a free trip attempt on the target as well. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Octopus Fighting (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** Lethal Legs, [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 8, [[priority:skills:knowledge|Knowledge Religion]] 8, 20 EXP You may make unarmed strikes with your fists, elbows, legs, knees and even head. In addition You may make a grapple check as a half action and gain a bonus on the check and CMD to resist grapple, equal to the number of free limbs you have (up to +4). When you hit with an unarmed strike you may spend 4 TP to roll a free grapple against the target as well. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Flurry of Blows (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** Iron Fists, [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 2, [[priority:skills:knowledge|Knowledge Religion]] 3, 20 EXP As a Full Round Action, you may make an additional attack with a natural or unarmed weapon, all attacks are made at a -2. At 5 BaB and every additional 5 past you may make another additional attack with an additional -2 for each additional attack made. Example: At BaB 10 as a Full Round action you may make 3 additional attacks at a -6 on all attacks. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Stunning Fist (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** Martial Training, [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 6, [[priority:skills:knowledge|Knowledge Religion]] 5, 20 EXP You must declare that you are using this Talent before you make your attack roll (thus, a failed attack roll ruins the attempt, and wastes the [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]]). By spending 3 TP, you may use Stunning Fist to force a foe damaged by your unarmed attack to make a Fortitude saving throw (DC 10 + ½ your Base Attack Bonus + your Secondary Attribute modifier), in addition to dealing damage normally. A defender who fails this saving throw is stunned for 1 round (until just before your next turn). A stunned character drops everything held, can’t take actions, loses any Dexterity bonus to AC, and takes a –2 penalty to AC. Constructs, oozes, plants, undead, incorporeal creatures, and creatures immune to critical hits cannot be stunned. As your Base Attack Bonus increases, you may apply new effects to the target of your Stunning Fist. You may only apply one effect at a time to any given creature, and you must choose which to apply before attempting the attack roll: === Table: Stunning Fist Conditions === {{tablelayout?rowsHeaderSource=Auto}} ^ Base Attack Bonus ^ Stunning Fist Condition ^ | 5 | Fatigued | | 7 | Sickened (1 minute) | | 10 | Staggered (1d6 + 1 rounds) | | 12 | Blinded or Deafened | | 15 | Paralyzed (1d6 + 1 rounds) | </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Perfected Strike (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** Stunning Fist, [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 8, 25 EXP You may now spend 1 [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]] to grant additional effects to your unarmed strikes for a number of minutes equal to your Secondary Attribute modifier, as shown below. By spending 1 TP, you gain all of the listed effects which you qualify for. === Table: Perfected Strike === {{tablelayout?rowsHeaderSource=Auto}} ^ Base Attack Requirement ^ Effect ^ | 5 | Your unarmed strikes are considered to be magic weapons, for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. | | 7 | Your unarmed strikes are considered to be made of silver and cold iron, for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. | | 10 | Your unarmed attacks are also treated as lawful weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. | | 12 | Your unarmed attacks are treated as adamantine weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction and bypassing hardness. | </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Quivering Palm (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** Perfected Strike, [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 22, [[priority:skills:knowledge|Knowledge Religion]] 15, 45 EXP You can cause vibrations within the body of another creature that can thereafter be fatal if you so desire. You must announce your intent before making your attack roll. Creatures immune to critical hits cannot be affected. Otherwise, if you strike successfully and the target takes damage from the blow, the quivering palm attack succeeds. Thereafter, you can try to slay the victim at any later time, as long as the attempt is made within a number of days equal to your [[priority:prowess|BaB]]. To make such an attempt, you merely will the target to die (a free action), and spend [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]] equal to the creature's [[priority:health|Hit Dice]]. Unless the target makes a Fortitude saving throw (DC 10 + ½ your [[priority:prowess|BaB]] + your Secondary Attribute modifier), it dies. If the saving throw is successful, the target is no longer in danger from that particular Quivering Palm attack, but it may still be affected by another one at a later time. You can have no more than 1 Quivering Palm in effect at one time. If you use Quivering Palm while another is still in effect, the previous effect is negated. </WRAP> ===== Flow Like Water ===== <WRAP round box> ==== Purity of Body (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 8, Knowledge Religion 5, 20 EXP You gain immunity to all diseases, including supernatural and magical diseases. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Wholeness of Body (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 11, Knowledge Religion 7, Purity of Body, 20 EXP You may heal yourself a number of your Hit Points equal to your total Hit Dice as a Move Action by spending 2 [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]]. You may double the TP cost to use this ability as a Swift Action. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Diamond Body (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 17, Knowledge Religion 11, Wholeness of Body, 25 EXP You gain immunity to poisons of all kinds. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Diamond Soul (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 20, Knowledge Religion 13, Diamond Body, 30 EXP You gain spell resistance equal to your HD + 10. In order to affect you with a spell, a spellcaster must get a result on a caster level check (1d20 + caster level) that equals or exceeds your spell resistance. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Timeless Body (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 23, Knowledge Religion 15, Diamond Soul, 40 EXP You no longer take penalties to your ability scores for aging, and cannot be magically aged. Any such penalties that you have already taken, however, remain in place. Age bonuses still accrue, and you still die when your time is up. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Empty Body (Su) ==== **Requirements:** [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 25, Knowledge Planes 15, Timeless Body, 35 EXP You gain the ability to assume an ethereal state for 1 minute per Hit Dice, as though using the spell [[priority:magic:spells:tier7:ethereal_jaunt|]]. Using this ability is a Half Action that costs 5 TP. This ability only affects you - you may not bring others with you. Your Unarmed Strikes may affect creatures in the Material world, when you are under the effect of this Talent. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Ascended Body (Ex) ==== **Requirements:** [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 25, Knowledge Religion 20, Timeless Body, 50 EXP You ascend to a higher state of being. You are forevermore treated as an outsider rather than as a humanoid (or whatever your original creature type was) for the purpose of spells and magical effects. Additionally, you gain damage reduction equal to your [[priority:health|HD]]/chaotic. Unlike other outsiders, you can still be brought back from the dead as if you were a member of your previous creature type. Lastly, you cease to age, remaining within your current age category forever. You may choose to pass along after fulfilling a great duty, or when at least one hundred years have passed since you gained this Talent. Upon making this choice, you die as if of old age, though your body and worn equipment completely disappear, as if fading onto the wind. </WRAP> ===== Ascetic Style ===== <WRAP round box> ==== Ascetic Form ==== * **Requirements:** [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 8, 20 EXP You may apply the effects of Talents that affect or otherwise augment unarmed strikes. For example, this Style allows you to use [[paths:perfect_path|Path of the Perfect Self]] Talents through the chosen weapon, such as Stunning Fist or Flurry of Blows. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Ascetic Strike ==== * **Requirements:** Ascetic Form, [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 12, 30 EXP You may spend 5 [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]] as a Full Round Action to make a devastating single attack. Roll one attack at your highest Base Attack Bonus, and gain a +1 bonus on the attack roll for every additional attack you would normally be capable of making. Upon a successful hit, you deal damage as if all attacks you were capable of making hit successfully. Missing the attack still expends the TP. </WRAP> <WRAP center round info 80%> For example, if Shozin the warrior has a Prowess of 11, he may spend 5 TP to make an Ascetic Strike against his chosen target. Because his Prowess is 11, Shozin would normally have 3 attacks as part of a Full Attack Action, meaning he gains +2 to this attack roll. On a normal hit, Shozin deals 1d8 + 10 damage with his blade, but on a successful Ascetic Strike, he deals 3d8 + 30 damage instead. </WRAP> ===== Boar Style ===== <WRAP round box> ==== Boar Style ==== * **Requirements:** [[priority:skills:intimidate|Intimidate]] 3, 5 EXP You can deal bludgeoning damage or slashing damage with your unarmed strikes as desired if you possess the [[chargen:universal_talents#improved_unarmed_strike|Improved Unarmed Strike]] Talent. While using this style, once per round when you hit a single foe with two or more unarmed strikes, natural weapons or light weapons, you can tear flesh. When you do, you deal 2d6 extra points of damage with that attack and subsequent attacks. This Talent qualifies your character as possessing the gore universal monster ability for any Talents or abilities that may affect or require it. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Boar Ferocity ==== * **Requirements:** Boar Style, [[priority:skills:intimidate|Intimidate]] 6, 15 EXP You add piercing damage to the damage types you can deal with your unarmed strikes, if you are capable of inflicting lethal damage with them. Furthermore, you gain a +2 bonus on [[priority:skills:intimidate|Intimidate]] checks to demoralize opponents. While using Boar Style, whenever you tear an opponent’s flesh, you can spend a free action to make an Intimidate check to demoralize all opponents in a 30 ft. radius centered on you. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Boar Shred ==== * **Requirements:** Boar Ferocity, Intimidate 10, 25 EXP You can use [[priority:skills:intimidate|Intimidate]] to demoralize an opponent as a Swift Action. While using Boar Style, whenever you tear an opponent’s flesh, once per round at the start of that opponent’s turn he takes 1d6 bleed damage. The bleeding may only be stopped by a [[priority:magic:spells:tier1:cure_light_wounds|Cure]] spell or a [[priority:skills:heal|Heal]] check (DC 10 + your Prowess). </WRAP> ===== Crane Style ===== <WRAP round box> ==== Crane Style ==== * **Requirements:** [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 6, 10 EXP You take only a –2 penalty on attack rolls for fighting defensively. While using this style and fighting defensively or using the total defense action, you gain an additional +1 dodge bonus to your Armor Class. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Crane Wing ==== * **Requirements:** Crane Style, [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 10, 25 EXP When fighting defensively with at least one hand free, you gain an additional +1 dodge bonus to Armor class and may take a penalty on attack rolls for every 4 HD you have to gain an additional dodge bonus equal to the penalty on attacks. If you using the total defense action instead, you can deflect one melee attack that would normally hit you. An attack so deflected deals no damage and has no other effect (instead treat it as a miss). You do not expend an action when using this Talent, but you must be aware of the attack and not flat-footed. You may Parry a number of attacks per round equal to the dodge bonus provided by Crane Style. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Crane Riposte ==== * **Requirements:** Crane Wing, [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 16, 35 EXP You now take only a –1 penalty on attack rolls for fighting defensively. Whenever you deflect or Parry an opponent’s attack using Crane Wing, you can make an attack of opportunity against the attacker after the attack misses. You also can a bonus on the parry attempt equal to the Dodge bonus. In addition, when you deflect an attack using Crane Wing while taking the total defense action, you may make an attack of opportunity against that opponent (even though you could not normally do so while taking the total defense action, penalties on the attack roll still apply). </WRAP> ---- //Wax on, wax off.// ===== Shikigami Style ===== <WRAP round box> ==== Shikigami Style ==== * **Requirements:** [[chargen:universal_talents#catch_off_guard|Catch Off Guard]] or [[chargen:universal_talents#throw_anything|Throw Anything]], [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 2, 10 EXP While in this style, you deal damage with improvised weapons as if they were one size category larger than their actual size. Whenever you make a Strike with an improvised weapon against a creature that hasn’t seen you make a Strike using an improvised weapon or that is otherwise ignorant of your skill with improvised weapons, the creature is flat-footed against you for that Strike. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Shikigami Mimicry ==== * **Requirements:** Shikigami Style, [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 5, 20 EXP Whilst using Shikigami Style, you may spend 2 [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]] to grant an improvised weapon an appropriate [[equipment:weapons:weapontraits|Weapon Trait]]. The improvised weapon is treated as possessing this trait until the end of combat. At BaB 8, you may spend 2 additional [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]] to grant the item a second trait, if desired. Traits may not conflict or overlap with one another, and the Game Master has the final say on what improvised weapons may possess what traits. In addition, your improvised weapons deal damage as if they were two size categories larger than its actual size, instead of one. </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Shikigami Manipulation ==== * **Requirements:** Shikigami Mimicry, [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 8, 25 EXP Whilst using Shikigami Style, you may spend 1 [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]] to grant your improvised weapon additional effects for a number of minutes equal to your Secondary Attribute modifier, as shown below. By spending 1 [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]], you gain all of the listed effects which you qualify for, for that weapon. ^ CST Requirement ^ Effect ^ | 5 | Your improvised weapons are considered to be magic weapons, for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. | | 7 | Your improvised weapons are considered to be made of silver and cold iron, for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. | | 10 | Your improvised weapons are also treated as chaotic for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. | | 12 | Your improvised weapons are treated as adamantine for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction and bypassing hardness. | </WRAP> <WRAP round box> ==== Shikigami Rampage ==== * **Requirements:** Shikigami Mimicry, [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 11, 20 EXP You may retrieve any suitable object around you and wield it as a weapon as a Free Action, as long as you can reach it. Whenever you critically strike with an improvised weapon, you may destroy the object on impact, inflicting an additional 3d6 damage to your target, as long as the object possesses a hardness of equal to or less than your [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]]. </WRAP>
