The Purifiers

the Jester

Legend
It might seem a lil powerful at first glance, but remember that your earliest entry is 8th level. What do you think?

Purifier

The Purifiers are an order of fanatical Chaos-haters. They seek to destroy the marks Chaos makes on creatures, objects and locations. Typically, a purifier would sooner see a Chaos-touched creature die than see him ‘forced to live in that condition’, often regardless of the creature’s own wishes.

Many purifiers begin as clerics or paladins, typically of Galador. They are drawn from the ranks of all classes, however.

Hit Dice: d8
Prerequisites: Non-Chaotic alignment. Base attack +7. Knowledge (religion) (8 ranks), Survival (8 ranks). Track. Must be able to cast a lawful spell or have a lawful-aligned supernatural or spell-like ability.

Class Skills: Bluff (cha), Climb (str), Concentration (con), Gather Information (cha), Handle Animal (cha), Intimidate (cha), Knowledge (local, religion) (int), Listen (wis), Ride (dex), Search (int), Sense Motive (wis), Spot (wis), Survival (wis), Use Rope (dex). Skill points/level: 4 + int bonus.

Base Attack: Good (as fighter)

Good Saves: Fort and Will

Poor Saves: Ref

Level---Special Abilities
1---Detect chaos, dispel chaos 1/day
2---Censure chaotic outsider
3---Chaos bane +1/+1d6
4---
5---Dispel chaos 2/day
6---Censure clergy
7---
8---Chaos bane +2/+2d6
9---Dispel chaos 3/day
10---Ray of purification

CLASS FEATURES

Weapon and Armor Proficiency:
A purifier gains proficiency in simple and martial weapons and all armor and shields other than tower shields.

Detect Chaos (Sp): At will, a purifier may use detect chaos (as per the spell).

Dispel Chaos (Sp): A purifier may use dispel chaos as a spell-like ability. He may do so once per day at first level, gaining one additional use per four levels.

Censure Chaotic Outsider (Su): 3/day a purifier may attempt to censure chaotic outsiders just as a cleric turns undead. He uses his purifier class level, along with any levels from cleric, paladin, guardian of order or other class that gives turning ability, as his turning level. If he successfully turns a chaotic outsider, it acts just like an undead that has been turned. If the undead would have been destroyed, the outsider is instead banished back to its home plane. Note that this ability does not function against chaotic outsiders on their own home plane.

Chaos Bane (Su): At 3rd level a purifier gains a +1 bonus on attack rolls and a +1d6 bonus on damage rolls against chaotic creatures. This bonus increases every five levels thereafter.

Censure Clergy (Su): Beginning at 6th level, the purifier may use his censure ability against chaotically-aligned priests and divine champions (including but not limited to paladins of freedom, blackguards, holy liberators, etc). If he successfully censures a member of the clergy, the victim is stunned for one round, deafened for 1d10 minutes and suffers 1d4 points of strength damage. If he would destroy an equivalent undead, the clergy is stunned for 1d4 rounds, blinded for 1d4 minutes, deafened for 1d6 hours and suffers 1d4 points each of strength and dexterity damage.

Ray of Purification (Su): 1/day a purifier may unleash a terrible violet ray out to a range of 200’. On a successful ranged touch attack, this ray will strip all the Chaos traits off a creature, automatically dispel any Chaotic spell, spell-like, supernatural or psionic effect, automatically banish any extraplanar chaotic creature back to its home plane, or automatically inflict 20d6 points of damage to a chaotic (non-extraplanar) creature that it touches.
 

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I think you need to look at the required ranks in Survival because neither a cleric or a paladin will be able to achieve that many cross-class ranks until they are 13th level. I realise that taking a level or two (or more) in ranger could fix this but I make the comment based on the flavour text.

Alignment: I agree that this should simply be Lawful.

Censure clergy: why not simply change the definition to Chaotic-aligned divine spellcasters?

Ray of Purification: are you sure about the colour? Wouldn't a blinding white ray be more appropriate?
 

Derulbaskul said:
I think you need to look at the required ranks in Survival because neither a cleric or a paladin will be able to achieve that many cross-class ranks until they are 13th level. I realise that taking a level or two (or more) in ranger could fix this but I make the comment based on the flavour text.

Good point. One thing I had in mind with the prereqs was to make some of 'em difficult for any one class, but maybe I'll reexamine this.

Alignment: I agree that this should simply be Lawful.

I've been debating that one too... :)

Censure clergy: why not simply change the definition to Chaotic-aligned divine spellcasters?

Ahhh, perfect... just what I wanted. Thanks!

Ray of Purification: are you sure about the colour? Wouldn't a blinding white ray be more appropriate?

Oh, the color was just window dressing... maybe you're right.

Thank you very much for your feedback, I'm going to do a revision soon and will post it maybe tonight or tomorrow, as time allows. :)
 

On the alignment prerequisite I would say that it would take someone who was seriously aligned to law to activley hunt down chaotics, but a neutral might just let 'em be.

Also the abilities seem almost entirely spells or altered abilities. Nothing 'wrong' with that just I try to make them new things. Although half the time altered abities work just as well.
 
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It's a little odd. Dispel is something I would associate with spellcasters, while this appears to be a ranger-type class, considering the high BAB. And then you have turning-style powers. Chaos Bane seems too powerful though, as I would think it applies to all chaotically-aligned creatures?

The concept is cool though.
 

Actually I like the idea of the ray being royal purple, signifying the lack of trust a "Purifier" has for the common people. Or perhaps a color representing a style of Socialism, blue and gold for British Socialism, red and gold for Communism, black for Fascism, and red and brown for Nazism. (Yes I think of law and chaos as political alignments.)
 


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