Channeler

You've learnt how to make contact with spirits of extraordinary origin and to channel their beings, fusing them into yourself momentarily to gain their strength and wisdom.

The iconic Channeler, Kiko.

Initial Proficiencies

At 1st level, you gain the listed proficiency ranks in the following statistics. You are untrained in anything not listed unless you gain a better proficiency rank in some other way.

Progression of Proficiencies is also shown here alongside on the class table itself.

Perception

Trained in Perception

• 9th Expert in Perception

Saving Throws

Trained in Fortitude

Trained in Reflex

Expert in Will

• 5th Expert in channeled form's Form Endurance Mastery save
• 11th Master in channeled form's Form Endurance Mastery save; Critical Success in when getting a result of Success
• 13th Expert in Fortitude
• 15th Expert in Reflex
• 17th Master in Will; Critical Success in when getting a result of Success

Skills

Trained in Society

Trained in a number of additional skills equal to 4 plus your Intelligence modifier

• 3rd Can raise a skill to Expert
• 7th Can raise a skill to Master
• 15th Can raise a skill to Legendary

Attacks

Trained in simple weapons

Trained in your channeled form's favored weapon

Trained in unarmed attacks

• 7th Expert in simple weapons
• 7th Expert in your channeled form's favored weapon
• 7th Expert in unarmed attacks

Defenses

Trained in light armor

Trained in medium armor

Trained in unarmored defense

• 13th Expert in light and medium armor
• 13th Expert in unarmored defense
• 19th Master in light and medium armor
• 19th Master in unarmored defense

Spells

Trained in spell attacks and DCs

• 9th Expert in spell attacks and DCs
• 17th Master in spell attacks and DCs

Class DC

Trained in channeler class DC

Class Features

You gain these features as a Channeler.

Abilities gained at higher levels list the levels at which you gain them next to the features' names.

Ancestry and Background

In addition to what you get from your class at 1st level, you have the benefits of your selected ancestry and background.

Attribute Boosts

In addition to what you get from your class at 1st level, you have four free boosts to different attribute modifiers.

At 5th level and every 5 levels thereafter, you get four free boosts to different attribute modifiers. If an attribute modifier is already +4 or higher, it takes two boosts to increase it; you get a partial boost, and must boost that attribute again at a later level to increase it by 1.

Initial Proficiencies

At 1st level you gain a number of proficiencies that represent your basic training. These are noted at the start of this class.

Forms

You've learnt how to make contact with spirits of extraordinary origin. These spirits, called forms, can be from anywhere, and can be anything; You from different timelines, where a single decision you made changed your whole life's outcome, or spirits of people long past their time.

At 1st level, you begin play with two forms, chosen from the list of available Channeler Forms. You can channel these forms, melding with them; When you do, the way you conduct yourself and your physical appearance both change, resembling the appearance and mannerisms of the form you assume. This however does not mean you fully become that form; Aspects of yourself persist still. You cannot Impersonate the form you assume. Forms may let you peer into some of their knowledge, using their experience to fight in combat, or to recall information you yourself might not know. The choice to channel a form is voluntary, and you can dismiss a form any time. At 3th level, and every 4 levels after, you gain a new form.

You gain the A New Face action, allowing you to channel a new form.

Formcasting

Some of the forms you commune with and channel possess spellcasting ability. These forms are called spellcasting forms. When you embody these forms, you can tap into a sliver of that ability.

Each morning, you commune with all your spellcasting forms to prepare the spells you will use that day. You start the day with two cantrips and a 1st-rank innate spell chosen from your form's spell list and a focus spell granted by your form. The innate spell you gain from your spellcasting forms is called your lendspell. While channeling a spellcasting form, you gain the Cast a Spell activity and can cast each form's lendspell only once. As part of your communing, you make contingencies in-case plans change. As part of your A New Face action, you may swap out your current form's lendspell for any spell on its spell list as long as it has not been expended. If something has the prerequisite of being able to use the Cast a Spell activity, such as a spellheart, you only qualify while you are channeling a spellcasting form.

As you increase in level as a channeler, the potency of your spells increases. Like cantrips and focus spells, the rank of your lendspells is equal to half your level, to a maximum of 8th rank. When preparing or swapping your lendspells, the highest rank of spell you can choose to prepare is equal to the rank of the lendspell you are preparing or swapping out. If you choose a lower-rank spell, you can choose to heighten it up to the rank of your lendspell. At 6th level, you gain a second lendspell. This lendspell's rank is equal to your highest rank lendspell -1. You may swap out all of your lendspells as part of the A New Face action.

Cantrips

Some of your spells are cantrips. A cantrip is a special type of spell that you can cast a cantrip at will, any number of times per day. A cantrip is always automatically heightened to half your level rounded up— this is usually equal to the highest rank of any of your channeler's innate spells you have. For example, as a 1st-level channeler, your cantrips are 1st-rank spells, and as a 5th-level channeler, your cantrips are 3rd-rank spells.

Focus Spells

Every spellcasting form you gain grants a focus spell. It costs 1 Focus Point to cast a focus spell, and you start with a focus pool of 1 Focus Point. You refill your focus pool during your daily preparations, and you can regain 1 Focus Point by spending 10 minutes using the Refocus activity to communte with your many forms. Focus spells are automatically heightened to half your level rounded up, much like cantrips. Certain feats can give you more focus spells. The maximum Focus Points your focus pool can hold is equal to the number of focus spells you have, but it can never be more than 3 points. The full rules for focus spells can be found in the Player Core.

2nd / Skill Feats

At 2nd level and every 2 levels thereafter, you gain a skill feat. You must be trained or better in the corresponding skill to select a skill feat.

2nd / Channeler Feats

At 2nd level and every even-numbered level thereafter, you gain a channeler class feat.

3rd / General Feats

At 3rd level and every 4 levels thereafter, you gain a general feat.

3rd / Skill Increases

At 3rd level and every 2 levels thereafter, you gain a skill increase. You can use this increase either to increase your proficiency rank to trained in one skill you're untrained in, or to increase your proficiency rank in one skill in which you're already trained to expert.

At 7th level, you can use skill increases to increase your proficiency rank to master in a skill in which you're already an expert, and at 15th level, you can use them to increase your proficiency rank to legendary in a skill in which you're already a master.

3rd / Channel Rune

You learn the art of transfering the magical energy of weapons into others. You gain the Channel Rune action.

5th / Form Endurance Expertise

Your forms bolster your physical capabilities. At 5th level, while you are channeling a form, your proficiency rank for that form's Endurance Mastery saving throw increases to expert.

5th / Ancestry Feats

In addition to the ancestry feat you started with, you gain an ancestry feat at 5th level and every 4 levels thereafter. The list of ancestry feats available to you can be found in your ancestry's entry.

7th / Weapon Expertise

You begin to find yourself innately familiar with weaponry. Your proficiency rank increases to expert with your channeled form's favored weapon, simple weapons, and unarmed attacks.

9th / Spellcasting Expertise

You begin to make the spellcasting knowledge of your forms your own. Your proficiency ranks for spell attack modifier and spell DC increase to expert.

11th / Armor Expertise

You hone your defenses. Your proficiency ranks for light and medium armor, as well as for unarmored defense, increase to expert.

11th / Form Endurance Mastery

Your body makes perfect connection with your form's physique, bringing out the best of your physical capabilities. At 11th level, while you are channeling a form, the proficiency rank for that form's Endurance Mastery saving throw increases to master. When you roll a success on this saving throw, you get a critical success instead.

13th / Fortitude Expertise

Your body has adapted to the constant shifting. Your proficiency rank for Fortitude saves increases to expert.

13th / Weapon Specialization

You've learned how to inflict greater injuries with the weapons you know best. You deal 2 additional damage with weapons and unarmed attacks in which you are an expert. This damage increases to 3 if you're a master, and 4 if you're legendary.

13th / Favored Weapon Familiarity

Your mind syncs with the your channeled form, swinging your weapons entirely by instinct. At 13th level, while channeling a form that has a favored weapon, you gain a +2 status bonus to attack rolls you make with your form's favored weapon.

15th / Reflex Expertise

Your reflexes improve as your body better adapts. Your proficiency rank for Reflex saves increases to expert.

17th / Will Mastery

Having formed such strong connections, your mind becomes unbreakable. Your proficiency rank for Will saves increases to master. When you roll a success on a Will save, you get a critical success instead.

17th / Spellcasting Mastery

Your forms provide excellent tutelage for mastering magic. Your proficiency ranks for spell attack modifier and spell DC increase to master.

19th / Armor Mastery

Your defenses have been honed to near perfection. Your proficiency ranks for light and medium armor, as well as for unarmored defense, increase to master.