Book of vile Dorkness pt1

Τα feats που ξεκλειδώνονται σε όσους διαβάσουν το βιβλίο είναι τα ακόλουθα:

BOOST SPELL RESISTANCE [GENERAL]
By making a deal with an evil power, the character
makes himself even more resistant to magic.
Prerequisite: Any evil alignment.
Benefit: If the character already has innate spell
resistance, he gains a +2 profane bonus to his existing
spell resistance score.

CORRUPT SPELL [METAMAGIC]
The character can transform one of her spells
into a thing of evil due to a deal she makes with
an evil power.
Prerequisite: Any evil alignment.
Benefit: This feat adds the evil descriptor to a
spell. Furthermore, if the spell deals damage,
half of the damage is unholy damage. For example,
a corrupted fireball cast by a 6th-level wizard
deals 6d6 points of damage: 3d6 points of fire
damage and 3d6 points of unholy damage.
Thus, creatures immune to fire still potentially
take 3d6 points of damage. The corrupted spell
uses up a spell slot one level higher than the
spell’s actual level.
Special: A character may take this feat multiple
times, choosing a different spell each time.

CORRUPT SPELL-LIKE ABILITY [GENERAL]
One of the creature’s spell-like abilities is powered by evil. A
dark pact provides the creature with unholy energy.
Prerequisite: Any evil alignment.
Benefit: This feat adds the evil descriptor to a spell-like ability.
Furthermore, if the spell-like ability deals damage, half of
that damage (rounded down) is unholy damage. For example,
if a corrupted fireball from a pit fiend deals a total of 35 points
of damage, half of that amount (18 points) is fire damage and
the other half (17 points) is unholy damage. Nonevil creatures
immune to fire still take the 17 points of unholy damage.
Each of a creature’s spell-like abilities can be corrupted
three times per day, though the feat does not allow the creature
to exceed its normal usage limit for any ability. Thus, if
a pit fiend chooses to corrupt its fireball ability, it can use a
corrupted fireball up to three times that day. Thereafter, it
could use its fireball ability again normally (since it can use
fireball at will), or it could corrupt another of its spell-like
abilities, such as meteor swarm.
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time
it is taken, the creature can apply it to each of its spell-like
abilities three additional times per day.

DARK SPEECH [VILE]

The character learns a smattering of the language of truly

dark power.

Prerequisite: Base Will save bonus +5, Int 15, Cha 15.

Benefit: The character can use the Dark Speech to bring

loathing and fear to others, to help cast evil spells and create

evil magic items, and to weaken physical objects (see Dark

Speech in Chapter 2).

Normal: Attempting to utter a word of the Dark Speech

always ends in immediate death for a speaker who is not

trained in its dark power. Fortunately, it is impossible to

make someone use the Dark Speech if he or she is unwilling,

because the language’s pronunciation is so exacting.

Special: The character gains a +4 circumstance bonus on

saving throws made when someone uses the Dark Speech

against him or her.

DEFORMITY (CLAWED HANDS) [VILE]

Because of intentional self-mutilation, the character has

deformed arms and hands ending in sharp claws.

Prerequisite:Willing Deformity.

Benefit:The character has the ability to deal 1d6 points of

damage as an unarmed claw attack. The character is considered

armed even when unarmed.

Special: The character does not draw attacks of opportunity

when attacking unarmed, and he threatens areas even

when unarmed.

DEFORMITY (EYES) [VILE]

The character has either drilled a hole in her forehead trying

to add a third eye, or she has supernaturally scarred one of

her regular eyes.

Prerequisite:Willing Deformity.

Benefit: As a supernatural ability, the character can use

see invisibility for 1 minute per day.

Special: The character takes a –2 deformity penalty on

Spot and Search checks.

DEFORMITY (FACE) [VILE]

Because of intentional self-mutilation, the character has a

hideous face.

Prerequisite:Willing Deformity.

Benefit: The character gains a +2 circumstance bonus on

Intimidate checks and a +2 deformity bonus on Diplomacy

checks dealing with evil creatures of a different type.

DEFORMITY (GAUNT) [VILE]

Through intentional starvation and macabre operations, the

character is grossly underweight. He has a skeletal appearance,

and his weight is now half normal for creatures of his kind.

Prerequisite:Willing Deformity.

Benefit: The character gains a +2 deformity bonus to

Dexterity and a –2 deformity penalty to Constitution. Furthermore,

he gains a +2 circumstance bonus on Escape

Artist checks and Intimidate checks.

Special: A character with this feat may not take the

Deformity (obese) feat.

DEFORMITY (OBESE) [VILE]

Through intentional gorging and general gluttony, the character

is obese. Grossly overweight, she is now at least triple

the normal weight for creatures of her kind.

Prerequisite:Willing Deformity.

Benefit: The character gains a +2 deformity bonus to

Constitution and a –2 deformity penalty to Dexterity. Furthermore,

she gains a +2 circumstance bonus on Intimidate

checks and saving throws against poison.

Special: A character with this feat may not take the

Deformity (gaunt) feat.

DISCIPLE OF DARKNESS [VILE]

The character formally supplicates himself to an archdevil.

In return for this obedience, he gains a small measure of

power.

Benefit: Once per day, while performing an evil act, the

character may call upon his diabolic patron to add a +1 luck

bonus on any one die roll.

Special: Once a character takes this feat, he may not take

it again; he may not be the disciple of more than one devil.

Nor may he take the Thrall to Demon feat.

EMPOWER SPELL-LIKE ABILITY [GENERAL]

The creature can use a spell-like ability with greater effect.

Benefit: All variable, numeric effects of an empowered

spell-like ability are increased by one-half. An empowered

spell-like ability deals half again as much damage as normal,

cures half again as many hit points, affects half again as

many targets, and so on as appropriate. For example, a night

hag’s empowered magic missile deals one and one-half times

normal damage (roll 1d4+1 and multiply the result by 1.5 for

each missile). Saving throws and opposed rolls (such as the

one made when a character casts dispel magic) are not

affected. Spell-like abilities without random variables are

not affected.

Each of a creature’s spell-like abilities can be empowered

twice per day, though the feat does not allow the creature to

exceed its normal usage limit for any ability. Thus, if a night

hag chooses to empower its magic missile ability, it can use an

empowered magic missile up to two times that day. Thereafter,

it could use its magic missile ability again normally

(since it can use magic missile at will), or it could corrupt

another of its spell-like abilities, such as sleep.

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time

it is taken, the creature can apply it to each of its spell-like

abilities two additional times per day.

EVIL BRAND [VILE]

The character is physically marked forever as a servant of an

evil power greater than herself or as a villain who does not

care who knows that she seeks only death, destruction, and

misery for others. The symbol is unquestionable in its perversity,

depicting a depravity so unthinkable that all who see

it know beyond a doubt that the bearer is forever in the sway

of the blackest powers.

Benefit: Evil creatures automatically recognize the

symbol now emblazoned upon the character as a sign of her

utter depravity or discipleship to a powerful patron,

although the specific identity of the patron is not revealed.

She gains a +2 circumstance bonus on Diplomacy and

Intimidate checks made against evil creatures.

LICHLOVED [VILE]

By repeatedly committing perverted sex acts with the

undead, the character gains dread powers.

Prerequisite: Evil Brand.

Benefit:Mindless undead see the character as an undead

creature. Becoming more and more like an actual undead

creature, he gains a +1 circumstance bonus on saving throws

against mind-affecting effects, poison, sleep, paralysis, stunning,

and disease.

MALIGN SPELL FOCUS [GENERAL]

The character’s spells that have the evil descriptor are more

potent than normal due to a deal she makes with an evil power.

Prerequisite: Any evil alignment.

Benefit: Add +2 to the DC for all saving throws against

any of the character’s spells that have the evil descriptor.

MORTALBANE [GENERAL]

The creature can make a spell-like ability particularly deadly

to mortals.

Benefit: A mortalbane ability is a damaging spell-like ability

that deals 2d6 points of additional damage when used

against living nonoutsiders, but only half damage (rounded

down) against outsiders, undead, and constructs. For example,

if a mortalbane cone of cold from a gelugon would normally deal

45 points of damage, it actually deals 45 + 2d6 points of damage

to a humanoid, but only 22 points of damage to a night hag.

Creatures immune to cold—regardless of their type—still

take no damage from a mortalbane cone of cold.

Mortalbane can be applied to each of a creature’s spell-like

abilities five times per day, though the feat does not allow

the creature to exceed its normal usage limit for any ability.

Thus, if a gelugon chooses to apply Mortalbane to its cone of

cold ability, it can use a mortalbane cone of cold up to five

times that day. Thereafter, it could use its cone of cold ability

again normally (since it can use cone of cold at will).

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time

it is taken, the creature can apply it to each of its spell-like

abilities five additional times per day.

POISON IMMUNITY [GENERAL]

After prolonged exposure to a poison or toxin, the character

has rendered himself immune to it.

Benefit: The character is immune to one specific poison

(chosen by the DM or the character’s player), whether available

as a blade poison, the venom of a specific creature, or

one other toxin. The character also gains a +1 circumstance

bonus on saving throws against other poisons.

Special: A character may take this feat multiple times,

choosing a different poison each time. The +1 bonus against

other poisons doesn’t stack with itself, because the circumstances

of each poison immunity are essentially the same.

QUICKEN SPELL-LIKE ABILITY [GENERAL]

The creature can use a spell-like ability with a moment’s thought.

Benefit: Using a quickened spell-like ability is a free

action that does not provoke an attack of opportunity. The

creature can perform another action—including the use of another spell-like ability—in the same round that it uses a

quickened spell-like ability. The creature may use only one

quickened spell-like ability per round. A spell-like ability

that duplicates a spell with a casting time greater than 1 full

round cannot be quickened.

Each of a creature’s spell-like abilities can be quickened

only once per day, and the feat does not allow the creature to

exceed its normal usage limit for any ability. Thus, if a

demon chooses to quicken its darkness ability, it cannot use

quickened darkness again the same day, though it could use

its darkness ability again normally (since it can use darkness at

will), or it could quicken another of its spell-like abilities,

such as desecrate.

Normal:Normally the use of a spell-like ability requires a

standard action and provokes an attack of opportunity

unless noted otherwise.

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time

it is taken, the creature can apply it to each of its spell-like

abilities one additional time per day.

SACRIFICIAL MASTERY [VILE]

The character is skilled at offering living sacrifices to evil

gods or fiends.

Prerequisite:Wis 15.

Benefit: The character gains a +4 profane bonus on

Knowledge (religion) checks made when performing a sacrifice.

Normal: Without this feat, a character who performs a

sacrifice makes a normal Knowledge (religion) check modified

as described in Chapter 2.

THRALL TO DEMON [VILE]

The character formally supplicates himself to a demon

prince. In return for his obedience, the character gains a

small measure of power.

Benefit: Once per day, while performing an evil act, the

character may call upon his demonic patron to add a +1 luck

bonus on any one roll.

Special: Once a character takes this feat, he may not take

it again; he may not be the thrall of more than one demon.

Nor may he take the Disciple of Darkness feat.

VERMINFRIEND [VILE]

Vermin regard the character better than they would

normally.

Prerequisite: Cha 15.

Benefit: If a vermin is about to attack the character, she

may make a Charisma check (DC 20). If the check succeeds,

that vermin refuses to attack her for 24 hours.

VILE KI STRIKE [VILE]

The character can focus evil power into his unarmed strike.

Prerequisite: Cha 15, Improved Unarmed Strike.

Benefit: Each time the character deals damage with his

unarmed strike, he deals 1 additional point of vile damage.

VILE MARTIAL STRIKE [VILE]

The character can focus evil power into her weapon blows.

Prerequisite: Cha 15, Weapon Focus with the specified

weapon.

Benefit: Each time the character deals damage with a specific

kind of weapon, she deals 1 additional point of vile damage.

Special: A character may take this feat more than once,

selecting a different weapon each time.

VILE NATURAL ATTACK [VILE]

The character can focus evil power into his natural attacks.

Prerequisite: Natural attack that deals at least 1d8 points

of damage, base attack bonus +5.

Benefit: Each time the character deals damage with his

natural attack, he deals 1 additional point of vile damage.

VIOLATE SPELL [METAMAGIC]

The character can transform one of his spells into an evil

spell, and the wounds the spell inflicts are tainted with the

foulest evil.

Prerequisite: Any evil alignment.

Benefit: This feat adds the evil descriptor to a spell. Furthermore,

if the spell deals damage, half of the damage dealt

is vile damage. For example, a violated lightning bolt cast by

an 8th-level wizard deals 8d6 points of damage: 4d6 points of

electricity damage and 4d6 points of vile electricity damage

(but creatures immune to electricity take no damage). A violated

spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the

spell’s actual level.

Special: A character may take this feat multiple times,

choosing a different spell each time.

VIOLATE SPELL-LIKE ABILITY [GENERAL]

The creature’s spell-like abilities are particularly tainted with

evil.

Benefit: This feat adds the evil descriptor to a spell-like

ability. Furthermore, if the spell-like ability deals damage,

half of that damage (rounded down) is vile damage. For

example, if a violated lightning bolt from a cornugon deals a

total of 35 points of damage, half of that amount (18 points)

is electricity damage and the other half (17 points) is vile

damage. Creatures immune to electricity take no damage

from a violated lightning bolt.

Each of a creature’s spell-like abilities can be violated twice

per day, though the feat does not allow the creature to exceed

its normal usage limit for any ability. Thus, if a cornugon

chooses to violate its lightning bolt ability, it can use a violated

lightning bolt up to two times that day. Thereafter, it could use

its lightning bolt ability again normally once (since it can use

lightning bolt three times per day), or it could violate another of

its spell-like abilities, such as fireball.

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time

it is taken, the creature can apply it to each of its spell-like

abilities two additional times per day.

WILLING DEFORMITY [VILE]

Through scarification, self-mutilation, and supplication to

dark powers, the character intentionally mars her own body.

Benefit: The character gains a +2 deformity bonus on

Intimidate checks.