REVEREND MOTHER

Requirements

To qualify to become a Reverend Mother, a character must fulfill the following criteria.

Gender: Female only.

Skills: Autohypnosis 8+ ranks, Sense Motive 8+ ranks.

Feat: Weirding Way, Prana Conditioning, Bindu Conditioning.

Special: In a special ceremony, the candidate must drink a small amount of “The Water of Life” (a deadly poison) and commute the poison to an inert state.

Class Information

The following applies to the Reverend Mother prestige class.

Wound Bonus: +2

Chakra Die Type: 1d8

Class Skills

The Reverend Mother’s class skills (and key ability for each skill) are as follows.

Autohypnosis (Wis), Bluff (Cha), Chakra Control (Wis), Diplomacy (Cha), Fuinjutsu (Int), Genjutsu (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (behavioral sciences, civics, history, philosophy & theology) (Int), Linguistics (Int), Perception (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis).

Skill Points at Each Level: 4 + Int modifier.

Other Memory

After undergoing the trial of the Agony, the Reverend Mother gains the

ability to reach into the collective memory and gain insight into a

needed skill—even one in which she has no ranks and cannot use

untrained (but not a language). After a full round of concentration, the

Reverend Mother gains a +1 to +5 bonus to a single skill check attempt

made the next round.The Reverend Mother can use other memory

once per day per Reverend Mother level.

Feat Memory

At 5th level and beyond, a Reverend Mother can reach into the

collective memory of her species and produce an ability normally gained as a general feat.The Reverend Mother must meet prerequisites of the feat. After a

full round of concentration, the Reverend Mother can use the feat

ability as though she possessed it for 1 round per class level. The

Reverend Mother can use this ability once per day.

collective memory of her species:

Is defined as another Player character or NPC that is on the site in possession of the feat.

New Adept Ability Choice:

Bonus Feat (Ex): The Reverend Mother gains an additional general,

feat of her choosing. However, she must still meet all prerequisites to

select the feat.

Additionally, a Reverend Mother may make a special check with a

bonus equal to her level +her Intelligence modifier to see whether she

knows some relevant information about notable people, legendary

items, or noteworthy places. This takes 10 minutes and can be

attempted once per day per class level.

The Reverend Mother may not take 10 or take 20 on this check; this

sort of knowledge is essentially random. The GM determines the

Difficulty Class of the check by referring to the table above.