Musician of the Spheres (Apath)

Unofficial rules compendium

Musicians of the spheres are bards with an affinity for the planes and the creatures that live among the planes. The ability to summon creatures and inspiring them with bardic performance makes them very powerful, but they lack the healing and trickery powers of ordinary bards.

Class Information

This is an archetype for the bard and skald classes that casts summoner spells.

Alignment: Any. Unlike bards, musicians of the spheres can be of a lawful alignment.

Hit Die: d8.

Class Features

The musician of the spheres has all the standard bard class features, except as noted below.

Spellcasting

A musician of the spheres casts spells from the unchained summoner spell list rather than the bard spell list. All other rules on learning and casting bard spells apply to the musician of the spheres applies, including mandatory verbal components.

This modifies spells and replaces the inspire competence and inspire greatness bardic performances for the bard and spell kenning for the skald.

Banishing Performance (Sp)

At level 15 the musician of the spheres can use bardic performance to cast banishment as a standard action. Each round when using this performance, the bard can make a Knowledge check as if trying to identify a creature to be banished; on a success the save for that type of creature DC increases by 1 as the performance incorporates knowledge of the creature's weaknesses. This replaces inspire heroics.

Summary of Changed Class Abilities

These abilities of the original class are lost or modified in this archetype:

• Spellcasting
• Inspire Competence (3)
• Inspire Greatness (9)
• Inspire Heroics (15)

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