Wu-Jen (Apath)

	Unofficial rules compendium
	Contents 1 Game Rule Information 1.1 Class Skills; 1.2 Class Features 1.2.1 Weapon and Armor Proficiency; 1.2.2 Bonus Languages; 1.2.3 Watchful Spirit; ; 1.3 Power Secrets; 1.4 Arcane Schools; 1.5 Spell Secrets and taboos; ;
	Contents 1 Game Rule Information 1.1 Class Skills; 1.2 Class Features 1.2.1 Weapon and Armor Proficiency; 1.2.2 Bonus Languages; 1.2.3 Watchful Spirit; ; 1.3 Power Secrets; 1.4 Arcane Schools; 1.5 Spell Secrets and taboos; ;

Wu jen are variants wizards with a far eastern theme. They are seldom found living with the rest of human society. Instead, they live as hermits in the wilderness, purifying their bodies and minds to contact the various natural and supernatural powers of the world. From these entities they learn their spells—magical means to control the invisible forces of the world. Wu jen crave magical power outside organized colleges of wizardry. Their thirst drives them to seek out others like themselves— hermits, recluses, or exiles who have gained the secrets they seek. Most wu jen are trained by a single mentor in this fashion, outcast from proper society and set apart by their fearsome supernatural powers. Some gained their power on their own, trough the aid of spirits,or as dropouts from other magical classes. Wu jen starting age is in the youngest age bracket for their race.

Alignment: Wu jen tend to stand apart from the lawful societies predominant in most cultures, flouting the rules and norms of decent folk. They have a strong tendency toward chaos, but in any event they cannot be lawful.

Background: Wu jen crave magical power outside organized colleges of wizardry. Their thirst drives them to seek out others like themselves— hermits, recluses, or exiles who have gained the secrets they seek. Most wu jen are trained by a single mentor in this fashion, outcast from proper society and set apart by their fearsome supernatural powers. Some gained their power on their own, trough the aid of spirits,or as dropouts from other magical classes. Wu jen starting age is in the youngest age bracket for their race.

Game Rule Information

Wu jen have the following game statistics.

Class Skills

A wu jen’s class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Craft (Int), Fly (Dex) Knowledge (all skills, taken individually) (Int), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Spellcraft (Int), and Survial (Wis).

Skill Points Per Level: 2 + Int modifier.

Class Features

All the following are class features of the wu jen.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency

Wu jen are proficient with all simple weapons and with the longsword. They are not proficient with any type of armor or shield. Armor of any type interferes with a wu jen’s arcane gestures, which can cause her spells with somatic components to fail. This replaces the wizard's normal weapon and armor proficiencies.

Bonus Languages

A wu jen add Draconic and Giant for one of the bonus languages available to the character because of her race, since many ancient tomes of magic are written in these languages and apprentice wu jen often learn them as part of their studies. This replaces the wizard's normal bonus languages.

Watchful Spirit

Once per day, a wu jen can reroll an initiative roll she has just made before she knows her place in the initiative order. She takes the better of the two rolls. This replaces the Scribe Scroll bonus feat wizards receive at first level.

Power Secrets

A wu jen can ferret out an advantage from supernatural creatures that she (or her companions) defeat. The creature must be killed, rendered helpless, or surrender. A certain creature can only offer its power to the shugenja once per day. The rite to gain a power secret takes one minute. In this ritual, the wu-jen can prepare an additional spell of a level no higher than half the defeated creature's challenge rating and of a school depending on the creature type. These additional spells are still limited by the wu jen's capacity to prepare spells per day - this is a handy way to replace used spells or to exchange prepared spells that seem more useful.

Creature spell secrets, by school

Abjuration - Ooze or Plant
Conjuration - Outsider
Divination - Aberration
Enchantment - Fey
Evocation - Monstrous Humanoid
Illusion - Fey
Necromancy - Undead
Transmutation - Magical Beast
Universal - Fey, Magical Beast, Monstrous Humanoid, Outsider, or Undead

Creature Secrets - by Elemental Arcane Schools
Some elemental arcane schools are tied to subtypes

Air - Creatures of the Air subtype
Earth - Creatures of the Earth subtype
Fire - Creatures of the Fire subtype
Metal - Construct (if made of metal)
Void - Creatures of the Augmented subtype
Water - Creatures of the Water subtype
Wood - Plant creatures

Dragons are special in this regard, a dragon can give up a power secret of any school. Animals, constructs, and humanoids do not have power secrets. Nor do familiars and animal companions. This replaces the wizard's arcane bond.

Arcane Schools

Wu jen tend to specialize in one of the elemental schools of magic, but this is not a restriction, just a trend.

Spell Secrets and taboos

At 3rd level, and every level thereafter, a wu jen can choose one spell known to her that then becomes permanently modified as though affected by any one metamagic feat. The spell’s level does not change, and once the choice of spell and modification are chosen, they cannot be changed. As the wu jen goes up in level, she can choose the same spell to be modified in different ways with multiple spell secrets. A single spell can be modified so that its spell level + metamagic modifiers are no higher than the wu jen's level at the time the spell secret is learned. She does not need to know the feat she applies to the spell.

Depending on the level increase of the level increase of the chosen metamagic, feat, the wu jen must accept a taboo of varying intensity. The more powerful the rating of the taboo, the more debilitating it is for the wu jen. The table below lists common wu jen taboos, their strength, a description, and the game effects of each.

Rating	Taboo	Consequence
1	Can only use simple gear	Cannot use masterwork items - Magic items do not count
1	Cannot bathe	Eccentricity 1
1	Cannot cut her hair	Eccentricity 1
1	Cannot cut her nails	Eccentricity 1
1	Cannot eat eggs	Eccentricity 1
1	Cannot eat grain and grain products	Eccentricity 1
1	Cannot eat spiced food	Eccentricity 1
1	Cannot restrain body gasses (burps, farts)	Eccentricity 1
1	Cannot sit facing in a certain direction	Eccentricity 1
1	Cannot wear a certain color	Eccentricity 1, can be picked several times
2	Cannot use alcohol	DC +5 on Medicine checks to speed healing or fight poison and disease
2	Cannot eat meat	+5 on Survival DC to forage for food
2	Cannot handle fire	+5 DC on Survival rolls to avoid natural hazards
2	Cannot touch a dead body	Cannot loot the fallen, inspect bodies for clues and so on
2	Cannot touch wounds or infections	Cannot heal or perform first aid
2	Cannot use metal armor	Can only use cloth, leather, and hide armor
3	Can only sit facing in one direction	-5 on Diplomacy checks
3	Cannot speak to one gender	Creatures the wu jen summons willnever be of this gender
3	Cannot touch one gender	Touch spells, Heal checks etc
3	Cannot touch the ground	Must use high clumsy shoes that give land speed penalty of -10 ft (-5 ft if your base spedd in 20 ft)
3	Cannot use metal weapons	Non-metal weapons are the club and quarterstaff
3	Must loudly announce the name of each spell cast	Makes spell identification automatic
3	Must make an offering when preparing spells	Spell preparation takes an additional hour Cost is insignificant (flowers, food, incense)
4	Can only eat food she gathers himself	Must use Survival to gather food or starve (normally DC 15)
4	Cannot handle money	All wealth must be handled by comrades or an assistant
4	Cannot own more than she can carry	Can only own personal gear and portable wealth
4	Cannot speak	Cannot speak to other creatures Can still cast spells with verbal components and to control summoned creatures
4	Cannot touch flowing water	Besides the obvious, +5 on Survival DC to forage for food
4	Cannot touch other creatures	Touch spells, Heal checks etc

Breaking a taboo costs the wu jen the use of all spell secrets until she next prepares spells.

Certain taboos have little effect besides making the wu jen seem more eccentric to outsiders. Total the wu jen's eccentricity rating from taboos; this number is added to any Diplomacy check to gather information about the wu jen. If the total exceeds the wu jen's Charima, she has become intollerably eccentric and suffers a -5 penalty on Bluff and Diplomacy checks. Wu jen players are encouraged to come up with additional quirky 1-point taboos whose sole game effect is to add eccentricity.

This replaces the bonus feats the wizard receives at level 5 to 20.