Prophet of Profit (Apath)

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Sanctified prophets must abstain from consuming various kinds of meat, sexual activity, and virtually all physical contact with other people. Despite their eccentric ways, none can deny that in many cases the strictures seem to lead their adherents to vast wealth. The intense strength of will needed to follow the prophecies seems to shape the prophets into preternaturally calm and focused individuals who are as ruthless in the market as they are skilled at twisting words and formulating elaborate loopholes in contracts.

Class Information

This is a prestige class archetype.

Prestige Class: Sanctified Prophet.

Build Classes: Bard.

Role: A sanctified prophet makes an excellent ambassador or spokesman, and a clever investigator.

Alignment: Lawful evil. A sanctified prophet exploits society and advances himself at the expense of others.

Hit Die: d8.

Class Skills

The sanctified prophet's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are .

Skill Ranks at Each Level: 6 + Int modifier.

Class Features

The sanctified prophet has the class features of the bard, except as follows.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency

Sanctified prophets are proficient with all simple weapons, plus the XXX. They are proficient with light armor, and with shields. He can cast sanctified prophet spells while wearing light armor without incurring the normal arcane spell failure chance. Like any other arcane spellcaster, a poison sanctified prophet medium or heavy armor incurs a chance of arcane spell failure if the spell in question has a somatic component. A multiclass sanctified prophet still incurs the normal arcane spell failure chance for arcane spells received from other classes.

Spells

A sanctified prophet casts arcane spells drawn from the sorcerer/wizard spell list, but is limited to divination and enchantment spells. He can cast any spell he knows without preparing it ahead of time. Spells of 5th level or higher are not on the sanctified prophet's spell list.

Add the following spells to the sanctified prophet's spell list at the indicated spell levels. He does not automatically learn these spells when they become available—they must be selected as part of his spells known.

1st—divine favor, floating disk, magic aura
2nd—arcane lock, augury, zone of truth
3rd—glibness, make whole, obscure object
4th—discern lies, divination

To cast a spell, a sanctified prophet must have a Charisma score of at least 10 + the spell's level. His bonus spells are based on Charisma, and saving throws against these spells have a DC of 10 + the spell level + the caster's Charisma modifier (if any). His selection of spells is extremely limited—at each sanctified prophet level, he gains one or more new spells, as indicated on Table: sanctified prophet Spells Known.

At 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, and 19th level, he can choose to learn a new spell in place of one he already knows, provided the new spell is of the same level as the one he is replacing. This replaces the bard's spellcasting ability.

Inspiring Greed

This is the same as the bard's bardic performance, except the sanctified prophet uses Bluff rather than a perform skill, and that the inspiration is based on greed and economic prospects rather than the performing arts.

Auspicious Display (Ex)

At 4th level a sanctified prophet projects an air of confidence and inviolability by displaying his wealth and status. So long as the prophet wears 1,000 gp worth of purely decorative jewelry, clothing, or other adornments, he gains a +1 dodge bonus to AC and a +1 morale bonus on saving throws. This bonus (and the necessary value of his accoutrements) increases as he gains levels, to +2 for 4,000 gp at 9th level, +3 for 9,000 gp at 14th level, and +4 for 16,000 gp at 19th level. This replaces versatile performance.

Mystical Contacts (Ex)

At 6th level, once per week a sanctified prophet can call in favors from his trading partners to purchase a spellcasting service at half its normal price. The prophet must still find a spellcaster capable of casting the spell he desires (which usually means finding a large enough settlement), and must provide any expensive material components required by the spell at their full price.

Purchase Spells (Su)

Starting at 7th level, a sanctified prophet can cast spells not normally available to him by expending a certain amount of gold. A sanctified prophet can spontaneously cast any 1st-level spell he knows—even if he has expended all of his spells for that day—by sacrificing 500 gp worth of currency (gp, sp, and so on) or gems. If the spell has a material component cost, it is added to the base cost of this ability. Currency or gems used in this way must be on the prophet's person, and goods other than standard currency or precious gems cannot be sacrificed to use this ability. Casting a spell in this way does not expend any of the prophet's uses of spells for that day, and once sacrificed, the currency spent to use this ability cannot be retrieved in any way—the money has effectively disappeared forever.

At 10th level, the sanctified prophet can cast a 2nd-level spell he knows by sacrificing 1,500 gp.

At 13th level, he can cast a 3rd-level spell by sacrificing 3,000 gp.

At 16th level, he can cast a 4th-level spell by sacrificing 5,000 gp.

Business Acumen (Ex)

At 8th level, a sanctified prophet can treat settlements as one size category larger when determining their base values and purchase limits.

At 12th level, this ability improves so that the prophet can treat settlements as two size categories larger.

At 14th level, the prophet can treat settlements as three size categories larger.

At 18th level, the prophet can treat settlements as four size categories larger.

Prophet's Chest (Sp)

At 12th level, a sanctified prophet can hide a chest on the Ethereal Plane, as per the spell secret chest, except that the prophet does not need an expensive chest or replica—any chest will do. The prophet can summon the chest back to the Material Plane as a standard action up to three times per day. So long as the prophet accesses the chest once every month, it suffers no chance of being lost on the Ethereal Plane. A sanctified prophet can have only one chest on the Ethereal Plane in this way. This replaces soothing performance.

Planar Contacts (Su)

At 13th level, a sanctified prophet can purchase an outsider's services for half the normal cost when he casts a planar ally spell or is within 30 feet of an ally who casts a planar ally spell. When negotiating with a creature called by a planar binding spell (either his own or an ally's), the prophet gains a +4 bonus on any opposed Charisma checks.

Summary of Changed Class Abilities

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

• Rogue Talents (all)
• Trap Sense
• Advanced Rogue Talent