Feat: Unyielding Identity

Unyielding Identity [General]

Your sense of self is a fortress built through experience, conviction, and self-knowledge. Attempts to redefine, rewrite, or suppress who you are find little purchase within your mind.

Prerequisites: Iron Will.

Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus on saving throws against mind-affecting effects that would alter your beliefs, personality, memories, alignment, loyalties, emotional state, or sense of self. This bonus applies against effects such as charm, compulsion, domination, magical alignment alteration, memory modification, and similar abilities at the DM's discretion.

In addition, whenever you succeed on a saving throw against such an effect, you gain a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks for 1 round as your certainty reinforces your resolve.

Special: A fighter may select Unyielding Identity as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Normal: Creatures receive no special protection against attempts to alter their identity beyond the saving throw granted by the effect itself.

Spell: Legacy of the Pioneers

Legacy of the Pioneers

Transmutation

Level: Bard 4, Cleric 5, Sorcerer/Wizard 5
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: 30 ft.
Targets: One willing creature/level, no two of which may be more than 30 ft. apart
Duration: 1 minute/level
Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

You call upon the memory of those who walked difficult roads before the present generation. Their struggles, triumphs, sacrifices, and perseverance echo through your magic, bolstering those who now face their own challenges.

Affected creatures gain a +2 morale bonus on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks. This bonus increases to +3 when a creature is attempting an action that would advance a deeply held personal conviction, defend an oppressed community, challenge an unjust authority, reveal an important truth, or overcome significant social adversity.

In addition, affected creatures become immune to fear effects generated by creatures with fewer Hit Dice than themselves. If already under the effect of a fear condition, the condition is immediately suppressed for the duration of the spell.

Once during the spell's duration, an affected creature may choose to draw deeply upon the legacy invoked by the spell as a free action. Doing so grants an additional +4 morale bonus on a single Diplomacy, Intimidate, Perform, Profession, Sense Motive, or Will save. This benefit may be used only once per creature per casting.

When cast, blue, white and pink glows form around the caster, and in the caster's mind they are able to see many that have come before them and faced the same types of hardships. These manifestations differ from casting to casting and may resemble heroes, reformers, artists, healers, explorers, martyrs, laborers, scholars, activists, or other individuals whose courage altered the course of history. The figures never speak, but observers often report feelings of reassurance, determination, or solidarity.

Material Component: A small candle, lantern wick, or scrap of parchment bearing the name of a deceased individual whose actions improved the lives of others.

Spell: Beyond the Binary

Beyond the Binary

Divination
Level: Bard 3, Cleric 3, Sorcerer/Wizard 3
Components: V, S, M (a crystal prism worth 10 gp)
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 minute/level

Your perception expands beyond simple either-or thinking, allowing you to perceive multiple possibilities simultaneously.

For the duration, you gain a +2 insight bonus to Armor Class, attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks.

Once during the spell's duration, after making any d20 roll, you may roll a second d20 and choose which result to use.

The spell is prized by explorers, diplomats, investigators, and adventurers who must navigate situations where the truth is more complicated than first appearances suggest.

Spell: Spectrum's Light

Spectrum's Light

Divination
Level: Bard 2, Cleric 2, Sorcerer/Wizard 2
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One creature
Duration: 10 minutes/level
Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

You reveal the many facets of a creature's nature.

For the duration, all allies gain a +2 insight bonus on Sense Motive checks made against the target and may immediately attempt a new Sense Motive check even if one would not normally be allowed.

Additionally, the target gains a +2 morale bonus on saving throws against charm, compulsion, and fear effects. By better understanding itself, the creature becomes more difficult to manipulate.

This spell has become popular among counselors, mediators, and clergy who believe self-knowledge is a source of strength.

Spell: Speak Without Fear

Speak Without Fear

Enchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting]

Level: Bard 2, Cleric 2, Paladin 2
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One living creature
Duration: 10 minutes/level
Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

The target is filled with confidence and conviction, gaining a +4 morale bonus on saving throws against fear, charm, compulsion, and intimidation effects.

While under the spell's effects, the target gains a +4 morale bonus on Diplomacy, Perform, and Sense Motive checks made while speaking honestly about their beliefs, identity, experiences, or personal convictions.

If the target is currently frightened, shaken, cowering, or under a magical effect that discourages speech or self-expression, Speak Without Fear immediately grants a new saving throw against that effect with a +4 bonus.

Many activists, reformers, community leaders, and wandering clerics regard this spell as a sacred reminder that truth often requires courage, but courage becomes easier when shared.

Feat: Open Advocate

Open Advocate [General]

Your willingness to speak openly on behalf of marginalized people inspires others to find their own voices.

Prerequisites: Cha 13+, Diplomacy 4 ranks.

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Diplomacy and Gather Information checks. Whenever you successfully use Diplomacy to improve a creature's attitude by at least one category, all allies within 30 feet gain a +1 morale bonus on saving throws against fear effects for 1 hour.

In addition, once per day as a swift action, you may grant a single ally within 30 feet a +4 competence bonus on a saving throw against a charm, compulsion, fear, or intimidation effect.

Special: A fighter may select Open Advocate as one of their bonus feats.

Spell: Shared Burden

Shared Burden

Conjuration (Healing)
Level: Cleric 4, Healer 4, Bard 4
Components: V, S, DF
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: One living creature
Duration: 1 hour/level
Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

You create a bond of care and solidarity with the target creature.

Whenever the target takes hit point damage, the caster may choose to absorb up to half of that damage as a free action. This transferred damage bypasses damage reduction and resistances.

As long as the spell remains active, the target gains a +2 sacred bonus on saving throws against fear, disease and death effects.

If the target would be reduced below 0 hit points, the caster may immediately end the spell to heal the target 4d8 + caster level hit points. The caster then becomes fatigued.

Shared Burden was created by healers who understood that true compassion is not merely easing another's suffering. It is willingly accepting a portion of that suffering yourself.