Planar Custodian (Apath)

Unofficial rules compendium

A planar custodian is an arcanist studying the fabric or reality and learning to close its loopholes. Most planar custodians work to maintain the structure of reality as we know it. Planar custodians are hereditary enemies of darkfire adepts and often caught up in their plots.

Class Information

This is a prestige archetype, a summoner focused on banishing planar invaders.

Prestige Class: Riftwarden from Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Paths of Prestige.

Build Class: Summoner.

Role: A planar custodian is a summoner that trades his eidolon for power over the weave of reality.

Alignment: Any. Most planar custodians are good and use their power to guard the safety of the universe, but there are no strictures in the class against being evil.

Hit Die: d8.

Class Skills

The planar custodian's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Craft (Int), Fly (Dex), Handle Animal (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (all) (Int), Linguistics (Int), Profession (Wis), Ride (Dex), Spellcraft (Int), and Use Magic Device (Cha).

Skill Ranks at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier.

Class Features

The following are class features of the Planar custodian prestige class.

Spells

A planar custodian learns and casts spells exactly like a summoner does.

Counter-Summons (Su)

A Planar custodian can ready an action to use a summon monster spell or spell-like ability as a counterspell, even though the casting time for a summon monster spell is 1 full round. When used to counterspell this way, summon monster can counter any conjuration (summoning) spell or spell-like ability of its level or lower, including an outsider's summon ability.

At 10th level, this ability can be used as an immediate action, without the need to ready an action beforehand.

Planar Guide (Ex)

At 1st level, 4th level, and every six levels thereafter, a Planar custodian chooses one of the following benefits. She may choose each benefit more than once, each time applying to a different plane or outsider subtype. These bonuses stack with similar bonuses from other classes, but unlike with a ranger's abilities, these bonuses do not escalate when new enemies or terrains are selected.

1. Favored Enemy: Choose one outsider subtype as a favored enemy (as the ranger class feature).
2. Favored Terrain: Choose one plane other than the Material Plane as favored terrain (as the ranger class feature).
3. Terrain Mastery: Choose one plane to gain terrain mastery (as the horizon walker class feature.) A Planar custodian must have the appropriate plane as a favored terrain before gaining terrain mastery with it.

Planar Channel (Su)

A Planar custodian can channel baneful energies against creatures with the extraplanar subtype, regardless of alignment or plane of origin, as the cleric's channel energy ability. The Planar custodian deals damage as a cleric of a level equal to her planar custodian level. This energy can only harm, not heal. This ability cannot be used with feats, magic items, or other effects that modify channel energy. A Planar custodian can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + her Charisma bonus.

Summon Monster

This is the same as the summoner ability of the same name.

Counterport (Su)

At 2nd level, a Planar custodian can ready an action to counterspell a teleportation effect that allows a creature to enter or exit an area within 30 feet of her. She can use Spellcraft to identify a teleportation effect immediately as creatures arrive and can counter the teleportation effect with an identical spell or with any conjuration spell or spell-like ability of at least 1 spell level higher, returning teleporting creatures to their point of origin.

Eradication (Su)

At 6th level, a Planar custodian gains a +1 sacred bonus on saving throws against the spells and spell-like, supernatural, and extraordinary abilities of outsiders. In addition, she increases by 1 the save DC and caster level of any spell or spell-like or supernatural ability that she uses against outsiders, or that counters, dispels, or prevents planar travel or teleportation.

These bonuses increase by +1 for every six levels after 6th.

Planar Scourge (Su)

At 8th level, an extraplanar creature that fails its save against the Planar custodian's planar channel gains the panicked, sickened, or staggered condition, chosen by the Planar custodian, for 1d4 rounds. In addition, when a conjuration effect causes a creature to appear in a square threatened by the Planar custodian, that creature provokes an attack of opportunity from the Planar custodian.

Immediate Counterport (Su)

At 14th level, a Planar custodian can use counterport to counter a teleportation effect as an immediate action, without the need to ready an action beforehand.

Planar Purge (Su)

At 16th level, an extraplanar creature that fails its save against a Planar custodian's planar channel is banished to its home plane (as the banishment spell; no save). Extraplanar creatures with Hit Dice greater than twice the Planar custodian's class level are unaffected by this ability, but still take damage from planar channel as normal.

Harmful Counterport (Su)

At 20th level, a Planar custodian can use her counterport ability to forcibly redirect a creature using a teleportation effect within 30 feet to a new valid destination within 30 feet of her instead of negating the teleportation. The wrenching redirection deals 1d6 points of damage per class level to the redirected creature. A successful Fortitude save (DC 10 + half the Planar custodian's character level + the Planar custodian's Cha modifier) halves the damage and negates the redirection.

In addition, as a full-round action, the Planar custodian can expend two uses of her planar channel ability to forcibly recall a creature that used teleportation to exit an area within 30 feet of the Planar custodian since the end of the Planar custodian's last turn. Planar channel deals damage equal to the amount normally dealt by one use of planar channel. This damage affects only that target, and affects it regardless of its current distance from the Planar custodian. If the target fails its save, the teleportation effect is reversed and the creature returns to the point from which it teleported (or the nearest available space, if that space is now occupied by another creature).

Table: Planar Custodian

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Spells per Day
						1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
1st	+0	+0	+0	+2	Cantrips, counter-summons, summon monster I, Planar channel 1d6, planar guide	1	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	+1	+0	+0	+3	Counterport	2	—	—	—	—	—
3rd	+2	+1	+1	+3	Summon monster II. Planar channel 2d6	3	—	—	—	—	—
4th	+3	+1	+1	+4	Planar guide	3	1	—	—	—	—
5th	+3	+1	+1	+4	Summon monster III, Planar channel 3d6	4	2	—	—	—	—
6th	+4	+2	+2	+5	Eradication +1	4	3	—	—	—	—
7th	+5	+2	+2	+5	Summon monster IV, Planar channel 4d6	4	3	1	—	—	—
8th	+6/+1	+2	+2	+6	Planar scourge	4	4	2	—	—	—
9th	+6/+1	+3	+3	+6	Summon monster V, Planar channel 5d6	5	4	3	—	—	—
10th	+7/+2	+3	+3	+7	Counter-summons (immediate), planar guide	5	4	3	1	—	—
11th	+8/+3	+3	+3	+7	Summon monster VI, Planar channel 6d6	5	4	4	2	—	—
12th	+9/+4	+4	+4	+8	Eradication +2	5	5	4	3	—	—
13th	+9/+4	+4	+4	+8	Summon monster VII, Planar channel 7d6	5	5	4	3	1	—
14th	+10/+5	+4	+4	+9	Imediate counterport	5	5	4	4	2	—
15th	+11/+6/+1	+5	+5	+9	Summon monster VIII, Planar channel 8d6	5	5	5	4	3	—
16th	+12/+7/+2	+5	+5	+10	Planar guide, planar purge.	5	5	5	4	3	1
17th	+12/+7/+2	+5	+5	+10	Summon monster IX, Planar channel 9d6	5	5	5	4	4	2
18th	+13/+8/+3	+6	+6	+11	Eradication +3	5	5	5	5	4	3
19th	+14/+9/+4	+6	+6	+11	Gate, Planar channel 10d6	5	5	5	5	5	4
20th	+15/+10/+5	+6	+6	+12	Harmful counterport	5	5	5	5	5	5

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