Campaign Design - Sorcerer Heritages: Stoneborn

Stoneborn

You have ties to supernatural forces of earth, rock, and mountain. You may be descended from stone giants or some other earth creature, or your ancestors may have gained the favor of Wünd or Bål.

Heritage Arcana: Any time you cast a spell that deals damage, you may choose to have it gain the Stone descriptor, causing it to deal weapon damage rather than its normal spell damage type. If the spell had the Acid, Cold, Electricity, Fire, Force, or Sonic descriptor, that descriptor is lost. If the spell has an effect other than dealing damage there is no change to its non-damaging effect. For 0^th-level spells the Stone damage acts as a nonmagic weapon. For 1^st - 3^rd level spells, the Stone damage acts as a magic weapon. For 4^th - 6^th level spells, the Stone damage acts as a magic silver weapon. For 7^th - 9^th level spells, the Stone damage acts as a magic silver adamantine weapon. When you cast a spell that does not deal hit point damage, but has the Earth descriptor, you treat your caster level as two higher.

Heritage Powers: The striking power and durability of stone is yours to command.

• Stone Pitch (Su): At 1^st level, you can make sling attacks without requiring a sling. You are considered proficient in these attacks and may add your Charisma bonus rather than Dexterity bonus to your ranged attack rolls. You must have appropriate sling ammunition to use this attack. If no sling bullets are available, you may use any hand-held earth, clay, or stone object for this ability, but suffer a -1 penalty to attack and damage rolls.
  
  
  
  At 5^th level these sling attacks are treated as if the sling used has a +1 enhancement bonus to attack and damage. At 8^th, 11^th, 14^th and 17^th level this bonus increases by +1. At 8^th level or higher you may choose to gain a special magic property rather than an enhancement bonus. You may choose from distance, merciful, seeking, or speed (sacrificing an enhancement bonus equal to the property’s base price modifier). You may also choose to sacrifice +2 of your enhancement bonus to add anarchic, axiomatic, holy, or unholy if your alignment matches the property to be added (chaotic, lawful, good, or evil, respectively). Once you select a special ability it may not be changed until you gain another increase to this ability’s enhancement bonus, and you must always retain at least +1 of your total enhancement bonus to these attacks.


• Ironguts (Su): At 3^rd level, you gain a +1 natural armor bonus and +1 to all Fortitude saves. At 9^th level these bonuses increase to +2, and at 15^th level they increase to +4.


• Tough As Stone (Su): At 9^th level you gain a +2 inherent bonus to your Constitution. This bonus increases to +4 at 13^th level, and to +6 at 17^th level.


• Call of the Earth (Su): At 15^th level, whenever you summon a creature of the Earth subtype with a spell from the sorcerer/wizard list, you summon one additional creature of the same kind.


• Earthborn (Su): At 20^th level you gain the Earth subtype. You need not eat, sleep or breathe. As a move action, you can become an earth elemental of up to Huge size. This functions as a druid's wild shape ability, except you can only become an earth elemental. You may maintain this form each day for a total of ten minutes per caster level. This duration need not be used all at once, you may dispel the form and re-assume it multiple times per day as long as your maximum duration is not exceeded.

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