Blood Knight

“The path of the blood knight is not an easy one. It’s filled with unavoidable and unnecessary violence.” — Reichman a Blood Knight Commander training his students.

Blood Knights are the scions of violence and killing. Sparing only his allies, and those who they aren’t fighting to begin with. Though outsiders deem them mad, his ideology stems from the idea that every threat will try to kill you in the end, no matter how much they surrender.

Role: Blood Knights can fill most martial roles, being able to utilize some magical abilities to enhance his fighting ability though trying to stick mostly to martial combat completely.

Alignment: Any Chaos

Hit Die: d10

Class Skills

The Blood Knight’s class skills are Appraise (Int), Bluff (Cha), Climb (Str), Craft (Int), Disguise (Cha), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (Arcana, Local, Nobility, and Religion) (Int), Perception (Wis), Profession (Wis), Ride (Dex), Spellcraft (Int), Swim (Str), and Use Magic Device (Cha).

Skill Ranks per Level: 2 + Int modifier.

Table: Blood Knight

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special
1st	+1	+2	+0	+0	Trained in the Arts, Give ’em Hell! +1
2nd	+2	+3	+0	+0	Blood Power
3rd	+3	+3	+1	+1	Blood Casting I
4th	+4	+4	+1	+1	Blood Power
5th	+5	+4	+1	+1	Give ’em Hell! +2
6th	+6/+1	+5	+2	+2	Blood Power
7th	+7/+2	+5	+2	+2	Blood Casting II
8th	+8/+3	+6	+2	+2	Blood Power
9th	+9/+4	+6	+3	+3	Give ’em Hell! +3
10th	+10/+5	+7	+3	+3	Blood Power
11th	+11/+6/+1	+7	+3	+3	Blood Casting III
12th	+12/+7/+2	+8	+4	+4	Blood Power
13th	+13/+8/+3	+8	+4	+4	Give ’em Hell! +4
14th	+14/+9/+4	+9	+4	+4	Blood Power
15th	+15/+10/+5	+9	+5	+5	Blood Casting IV
16th	+16/+11/+6/+1	+10	+5	+5	Blood Power
17th	+17/+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+5	Give ’em Hell! +5
18th	+18/+13/+8/+3	+11	+6	+6	Blood Power
19th	+19/+14/+9/+4	+11	+6	+6	Blood Casting V
20th	+20/+15/+10/+5	+12	+6	+6	Bloody Champion

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the blood knight.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency

Blood knights are proficient with all simple and martial weapons. They are also proficient with light, medium, and heavy armor but not shields.

Trained in the Arts (Ex)

A blood knight uses his versatility to his advantage. Decide one of the following mental stats to be his “trained score”, which is the mental stat used for abilities such as blood powers. In addition to this, they gain an adjustment as listed below.

• Intelligence (Int)
  • Increase the blood knight’s skill ranks per level to 4 + Int instead of 2 + Int.

• Wisdom (Wis)
  • Increase the blood knight’s Will progression to match his Fortitude progression.

• Charisma (Cha)
  • Blood knight adds 1 point of his Charisma bonus (if any) up to his class level as a natural armor bonus to Armor Class.

Blood Power

At 2nd level and every even level thereafter a blood knight gains a blood power. These abilities are listed on the blood power page. The DC of any blood power is 10 + 1/2 blood knight level + trained score’s modifier (as listed above).

List of Blood Powers.

Blood Casting (Sp)

Picking up on some minor arcane tricks, the blood knight is able to use this magic upon themselves. At 3rd level they gain 3 spells from the Blood Casting I list. At each new tier of Blood Casting gained, they gain 3 spells from the new list. Caster level is equal to his blood knight levels, and the spell DCs and other variables are modified by his trained score’s modifier.

Though his spell selection is incredibly limited, they can use these spells indefinitely so long as they are conscious and in battle. These spells cannot be used outside of battle. Spells listed here only affect the blood knight even if they say they can affect allies, however spells that are listed are attacks function normally.

Blood Casting I: Ant Haul, Body Capacitance, Bouncy Body, Blood Money, Enlarge Person, Expeditious Retreat, Gravity Bow, Lead Blades, Long Arm, Magic Weapon, Mirror Strike, Reduce Person, Stone Fist, Touch of Gracelessness, Touch of the Sea, Vocal Alteration, Windy Escape, Youthful Appearance

Blood Casting II: Adhesive Blood, Air Step, Alter Self, Badger’s Ferocity, Bear’s Endurance, Blood Armor, Blood Blaze, Boiling Blood, Bull’s Strength, Cat’s Grace, Darkvision, Disfiguring Touch, Eagle’s Splendor, Fox’s Cunning, Owl’s Wisdom, Spider Climb, Steal Size, Twisted Space

Blood Casting III: Ancestral Regression, Beast Shape I, Blink, Blood Scent, Burrow, Countless Eyes, Excruciating Deformation, Fly, Fractions of Heal and Harm, Gaseous Form, Haste, Monstrous Physique I, Paragon Surge, Slow, Undead Anatomy I

Blood Casting IV: Adjustable Polymorph, Age Resistance, Lesser, Beast Shape II, Calcific Touch, Darkvision, Greater, Elemental Body I, Eyes of the Void, Firefall, Hellmouth Lash, Miasmatic Form, Monstrous Physique II, Ride the Waves, Vermin Shape I

Blood Casting V: Baleful Polymorph, Beast Shape III, Caustic Blood, Echolocation, Elemental Body II, Geniekind, Half-blood Extraction, Monstrous Physique III, Overland Flight, Planar Adaptation, Plant Shape I, Polymorph, Undead Anatomy II, Vermin Shape II

Bloody Champion (Ex)

Blood knights, once reaching 20th level, become true scions of war and violence. They gain a competence bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls equal to his trained score’s modifier, and can do a final strike.

Final Strike

This can be used a number of times per day equal to his trained score’s modifier. As a full-round action, the blood knight can count an enemy with at least half HP as helpless for the sake of a coup de grace. If their HP is above half, they instead resolve the attack as an automatic critical hit.

 

Code of Conduct

A blood knight must be of any chaotic alignment and loses his class features if they cease being chaotic.

Blood knights must kill every enemy that they engage in combat, and those which his allies have fought. Prisoners are allowed only if the allies were the ones who took them. Nonlethal damage is for the weak, and is not to be used unless the law deems that you must use it (as in the case of a duel).

To become a blood knight, the trainees must go through three steps:

• Sacrifice something previously dear to you.
• Win a battle by yourself, with no outside help.
• Kill that who you defeated in battle.