DM Entry: Rotfed Gorger (New Prestige Class)

Rotfed Gorger

This prestige class is ready for play testing.

This prestige class is a new concept designed specifically for the Aryathan Jiil games.

Level	Base Attack	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special
1st	+0	+2	+0	+0	Rotfed (heal self)
2nd	+1	+3	+0	+0	Rotfed (steal skills)
3rd	+1	+3	+1	+1	Rotfed (purge poison)
4th	+2	+4	+1	+1	Rotfed (absorb memories)
5th	+2	+4	+1	+1	Rotfed (purge disease)
6th	+3	+5	+2	+2	Rotfed (steal feat)
7th	+3	+5	+2	+2	Rotfed (learn spells)
8th	+4	+6	+2	+2	Rotfed (change shape)
9th	+4	+6	+3	+3	Rotfed (learn class ability)
10th	+5	+7	+3	+3	Rotfed (paralytic touch)

Hit Die: d12. Class Skills: None. Skill Points: (2 + Int modifier).

Requirements

Effective Character Level: 5.
Race: Any living creature that consumes food orally.

Ritual: A special 24 hour ritual in which you devour the entrails of a zombie or ghoul (or some other undead that feeds on the flesh of the living) that was destroyed by turn undead (or some other form of positive energy). Eating the meal takes only about an hour, after which time you are nauseated for the remainder of the 24 hour period. After the meal, you must succeed on a single DC 20 Fortitude save to avoid vomiting during the ritual. If you succeed you become eligible for the rotfed gorger class. Otherwise you must restart the ritual after you are no longer nauseated. Only those who can manage to keep the vile food down have what it takes to truly learn the secrets of the rotfed gorger.

Class Features

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: You do not gain any weapon or armor proficiency.

Rotfed (Su): When you devour at least 1 pound of a creature that was slain within 1 hour per rotfed gorger level, you gain some of the devoured creature’s abilities. You must devour twice as much for each size category you are larger than Medium, or half as much per size category you are smaller than Medium.

Rotfeeding takes 1 full-round action and provokes attacks of opportunity, during which time you are flat-footed.

The devoured creature may be of any creature type. Rotfeeding itself does not prevent raise dead or resurrection. You do not gain any additional benefit from rotfeeding upon the same creature more than once.

You may use any or all of the abilities you have accumulated from levels in this prestige class every time you rotfeed.

You may have as many ongoing rotfed benefits at one time as you have rotfed gorger levels (instantaneous ones do not count toward this limit). Rotfeeding more than that causes you to disgorge the next additional feeding as well as any that you are currently benefitting from, losing all of their benefits). After vomiting in this way, you are nauseated for 1 round and then may rotfeed again as normal.

Heal Self: At 1^st level, you gain fast healing for one round equal to the target’s HD. Duration: 1 round. At 5^th level, the duration lasts for 5 rounds and any extra hit points are gained as temporary hit points that last 1 hour. Duration: 5 rounds and 1 hour. Note: Temporary hit points do not stack if gained from the same source, instead you gain whichever is greater—your current temporary hit points or your new temporary hit points—regardless of the remaining duration on the older ones.

Steal Skills: At 2^nd level, you gain all the ranks of a single skill that the target creature possessed. These stolen ranks count as an insight bonus. You do not gain the knowledge of how many ranks the creature has in any skill until you choose the skill. Duration: 24 hours. At 6^th level, you may pick three skills and know the number of ranks before choosing the skill from which to steal ranks.

Purge Poison: At 3^rd level, you detoxify any sort of venom in your body. You suffer no additional effects from the poison, and any temporary effects are ended, but this does not reverse instantaneous effects, such as hit point damage, temporary ability damage, or effects that don’t go away on their own. Duration: instantaneous. At 7^th level, you cannot be poisoned again for 1 hour after gaining this benefit. Duration: 1 hour.

Absorb Memories: At 4^th level, you gain the memories of the creature from the previous 24 hours. Duration: instantaneous. At 8^th level, you gain its memories from the previous month.

Purge Disease: At 5^th level, you cure all nonmagical diseases that you are suffering from. You also kill parasites, including green slime and others affecting you. Duration: instantaneous. At 10^th level, you cannot be diseased again for 1 hour after gaining this benefit. Duration: 1 hour.

Steal Feat: At 6^th level, you learn which feats the target creature had and may choose one of them as a racial bonus feat, even if you do not meet its prerequisites. Duration: 24 hours. At 10^th level, you can choose all of the target’s feats as racial bonus feats. Feats that cannot be taken twice are ignored if you already have it.

Learn Spells: At 7^th level, you know which spells the target could currently cast (either spontaneously or ones that were prepared). For each spell, you have a 100% chance to cast it once (minus 10% per spell level). Your effective caster level for these spells equals your effective character level. The spells are cast the same way the target creature cast them (spontaneous or by preparation). Duration: 24 hours. At 10^th level, you may spill your own blood to improve your chances to cast such a spell. For each 1 hit point of damage you take, you improve the chance to cast one of the spells by 1%. Spilling your own blood in this fashion is part of the casting time of the spell and counts as an additional somatic and material component.

Change Shape: At 8^th level, you may change shape into the creature upon which you rotfed. See Monster Manual for the change shape ability. Duration: 24 hours. At 10^th level, you instead change as the alternate form ability rather than the change shape ability.

Learn Class Ability: At 9^th level, you learn which class abilities the target creature had and may choose one of them. You may use that ability as if you had the same number of class levels in the same class that granted the creature that class ability. Duration: 24 hours.

Paralytic Touch: At 10^th level, after rotfeeding, you gain a number of uses of paralytic touch equal to that creature’s HD. A paralytic touch causes the target to become paralyzed for 1d4 rounds (Fortitude negates, DC 10 + half your HD + your Constitution modifier). Duration: 24 hours or until discharged.

Ex-Rotfed Gorger

What happens if I no longer meet the race requirement of this prestige class?

If you become a non-living creature and/ or no longer consume food orally (such as by becoming undead), you retain any rotfed gorger abilities you have already learned, but cannot gain any further levels in this prestige class.

This has been added to the Aryathan Jiil Classes and Prestige Classes.pdf on the Google drive.