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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kirin'Tor" data-source="post: 1801903" data-attributes="member: 17624">Right Now!Favored of the AudienceThose who have seen your character simply cannot bear the throught of his death.PreReq: CHA 17+Benefit: Once per day, when your character would otherwise be dropped to less than 1 HP, he may make a Charisma check (DC = 5 + number of HP that would otherwise be dropped below 0) to have a former associate (NPC) jump in to take the hit for him, talk down\distract the assailant, or otherwise prevent the damage.Example: John, a former assassin\con-man turned business tycoon, has a CHA 17, 20 hp, and is shot in the face several times. His HP would be dropped to -7, but if he makes a DC 12 CHA check, his doting wife (we'll call her Marlena) will dash toward the attacker (who we'll call Tony), pleading for his life. Tony, so distracted by Marlena's outburst, just barely misses John with his shots.Avoid DeathNo matter how dire the circumstances, you always seem to avoid certain death.PreReq: Favored of the Audience, CHA 20+, 5000+gp stash (Wealthy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)Benefit: No matter the circumstances, nor how long you've 'been dead' you just won't die. Long lost family members may save you, or have undergone surgery to appear as you for the last several years. Your attacker may be posessed by satan (or god) an fail to kill you. Or, you may simply fall directly onto 30-foot-long razor spikes while chained to a gorilla, and climb out several minutes later.As a free action you may declare (which may be out-loud, or silently in your mind, so as to surprise other PC's and your DM later) that you are alive, no matter the previous state of your character. You reappear at 50% to 100% your regular HP (DM's decision), and must atleast _attempt_ to explain your reappereance.Example: Stefano, a high level rogue\bard\assassin\wizard, possesses the Avoid Death feat. While in a death-defying (in it's own right) cliff-face battle with John (see above), is stabbed directly in the head, and falls 100ft. from the cliff, into a rushing river. One month later, his body is recovered and cremated. Stefano's player waits several sessions, before unveiling that, just before the session where he died began, he hatched a plan where by a hobo is abducted, given plastic surgery to look like him, and brain washed so as he can be controled remotely via a tinyear bud. This hobo then took place in the cliff battle, leaving the real Stefano at home to scry on the events.ok...that's all. Back to darkness...</blockquote>

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