Bloodmage (Apath)

Unofficial rules compendium

Bloodmages are arcanists who believe there’s literal truth to the old aphorism that “magic runs in the blood”. Bloodmages are consummate spellcasters, often operating as heavy artillery in battle, but their potential to run amok when strained can make them nearly as dangerous to their friends as to their enemies.

Class Information

This is a prestige class archetype.

Prestige Class: bloodmage.

Build Classes: sorcerer

Role: Bloodmages are untiring as log as they handle their abilities very, very carefully. If they fail to do so, they are explosively violate. Theoretically, this makes them good at careful sustained spellcasting, but in practice most bloodmages are as explosive as their blood.

Alignment: Any. While bloodmages are even more chaotic and short-fused than most sorcerers, the most undiciplined ones are quickly culled.

Hit Die: d6.

Class Skills

The loremaster's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Appraise (Int), Bluff (Cha), Craft (Int), Fly (Dex), Heal (Wis), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (all) (Int), Profession (Wis), Spellcraft (Int), and Use Magic Device (Cha).

Skill Ranks at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier.

Class Features

This archetype has all normal sorcerer class features, except as noted.

Bloodline

Each bloodmage has a source of magic somewhere in her heritage that grants her an additional class skill, bloodline arcana, and special bloodline abilities. These abilities and the selection of bloodlines are the same as the same of the sorcerer, but the bloodmage never gains any bloodline feats and does not learn his bloodline spells, tough he can accesses bloodline spells through the absorb bloodline ability.

Table: Bloodmage

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Spells per Day
						0	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1st	+0	+0	+0	+2	Bloodline power, cantrips, Eschew Materials, Spell Focus	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	+1	+0	+0	+3	Blood pool, bloodsurge (1/day, 1d2), hemophilia	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3rd	+1	+1	+1	+3	Bloodline power,	5	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4th	+2	+1	+1	+4	Bloodmage Initiate	6	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5th	+2	+1	+1	+4		6	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
6th	+3	+2	+2	+5	Absorb bloodline (spell)	6	5	3	—	—	—	—	—	—
7th	+3	+2	+2	+5		6	6	4	—	—	—	—	—	—
8th	+4	+2	+2	+6	Bloodsurge (2/day, 1d8)	6	6	5	3	—	—	—	—	—
9th	+4	+3	+3	+6	Bloodline power,	6	6	6	4	—	—	—	—	—
10th	+5	+3	+3	+7	Corpulence (+1)	6	6	6	5	3	—	—	—	—
11th	+5	+3	+3	+7		6	6	6	6	4	—	—	—	—
12th	+6/+1	+4	+4	+8	Absorb bloodline (arcana)	6	6	6	6	5	3	—	—	—
13th	+6/+1	+4	+4	+8		6	6	6	6	6	4	—	—	—
14th	+7/+2	+4	+4	+9	Bloodsurge (3/day, 1d12)	6	6	6	6	6	5	3	—	—
15th	+7/+2	+5	+5	+9	Bloodline power	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	—	—
16th	+8/+3	+5	+5	+10	Corpulence (+2)	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	3	—
17th	+8/+3	+5	+5	+10		6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	—
18th	+9/+4	+6	+6	+11	Absorb bloodline (powers)	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	3
19th	+9/+4	+6	+6	+11		6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4
20th	+10/+5	+6	+6	+12	Bloodline power, bloodsurge (4/day, 1d20)	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6