Campaign Design - Sorcerer Heritage: Abonde-Touched

Abonde-Touched

Misfortune, pestilence, and nightmares follow your family like vermin drawn to carrion. Somewhere in your family history, a hag’s foul influence entered your ancestry. You may actually be related to the hag, or you may still be suffering the effects of a curse that a hag laid upon your kin in generations past. Now the hag’s powers are part of your heritage.

Heritage Arcana: You count as a hag for the purpose of joining a hag’s coven. The coven must contain at least one hag. In addition, whenever you are within 30 feet of another sorcerer with this bloodline or a witch with the coven hex, you can use the aid another action to grant a +1 bonus to the other spellcaster’s caster level for 1 round.

Heritage Powers: The source of your power isn’t pretty, but it does allow you to emulate the preternatural ugliness and toughness of a hag—though doing so won’t help you make friends.

• Horrific Visage (Su): At 1^st level, you can draw upon your hag ancestor to cause one target to perceive you as having a horrifying appearance. As a standard action, you can force one target within 30 feet to make a Will save (DC 10 + ½ your sorcerer level + your Charisma modifier) or be shaken for 1 round for every 2 sorcerer levels you possess (minimum 1 round). This is a mind-affecting, fear-based ability. This fear does not stack with other fear effects. You may use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier.


• Wretched Endurance (Ex): At 3^rd level, you gain a +2 bonus on all saving throws against charm, cold, fear, fire, and sleep effects. And 9^th level, these bonuses increase to +4.


• Dread Gaze (Su): At 9^th level, you gain a form of the green hag’s evil eye power. As a standard action, you may fix your gaze on any one creature within 60 feet. The target must make a Will save (DC 10 + ½ your sorcerer level + your Charisma modifier) or be staggered for 1 round for every 2 sorcerer levels you possess. You may use this ability once per day at 9^th level. At 17^th level, you can use this ability twice per day. At 20^th level, you may use this ability three times per day.


• Dream Walking (Sp): At 15^th level, you can enter the ethereal plane. This functions like ethereal jaunt, but with a duration of 1 minute for every 2 sorcerer levels you possess. Once during this trip, you may cast nightmare as a spell-like ability on a creature you see on the Material Plane. (This is an exception to the normal rule that ethereal creatures cannot affect targets on the Material Plane).


• Fearsome Survival (Su): At 20^th level, your hag-blood gives you considerable resilience. You gain DR 10/cold iron, and gain spell resistance equal to 6 + your sorcerer level.

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