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GOBLIN INNOCULATOR
Eww it go right fast down when it were injected don't it?! No worries, it work 'cause I tested it with me first! Hehehe!
Few if any of the lesser goblinoids have been known to not succumb to sheer madness upon developing psychic powers. Some can make use of that madness however, applying an odd combination of psychic ability and their beloved alchemical practices, making them useful chemists of war when brute strength helps not at all. Innoculators get their name from their tendency to come up with cures to conditions affecting different tribes of orcs (most likely as the result of biological warfare) and then injecting it into them with their syringes one by one. However, there is little rhyme or reason to it as Innoculators don't always know little to anything about biology - there is no practiced method of injecting a patient. They do it right on the field, and on any body part they can find, as fast and as efficiently as possible.
The intelligently mad blue goblins and their green skinned cowardly, hunter/scavenger cousins both take to this class quite well. There isn't really a true developed path to a goblin innoculator - all of them take after both the shoddy sciences of practical devices and magic of alchemy. And all of them consume the mystical drug 'Synapse Snapple' which in its own way, puts them into a permanent mind altering state of clarity that leads them down this path.
BECOMING A GOBLIN INNOCULATOR
In order to become a goblin innoculator, you must have spent several days in an alchemists lab coming up with the potion 'Synapse Snapple' and then consumed it to heighten your psionic senses into offering insight into combining psychic power with alchemy. Synapse Snapple costs 100 gp to make. You can gain knowledge of this item after producing potions for up to a month and selling them to orc or goblinoid tribes (on a consistent basis during your travels).
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Race: Any Small Sized Goblinoid
Skills: Craft (Alchemy) 6 ranks, Techcraft 4 ranks
Additional: Able to manifest at least one 2nd level psychometabolism and metacreativity power
Class Skills
The Goblin Innoculator's class skills (and the key ability for each skill), Craft (Int), Knowledge (Psionics) (Int), Survival (Wis), Tumble (Dex), Sleight of Hand (Dex), Hide (Dex), and Move Silently (Dex)
Skills Points at Each Level : 4 + int
Hit Dice: d6
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Abilities
1. +0 BAB, +0 Fort, +2 Ref, +2 Will; +1 Manifester level, Injections
2. +1 BAB, +0 Fort, +3 Ref, +3 Will; Telekinetic Injection, Minor Replication
3. +2 BAB, +1 Fort, +3 Ref, +3 Will; +1 Manifester level, Psychic Articulator
4. +3 BAB, +1 Fort, +4 Ref, +4 Will; Major Replication, Cleansing, Overcome Immunity
5. +3 BAB, +2 Fort, +5 Ref, +5 Will; Perfect Replication, Psychic Vessel, +1 Manifester level
Important House Rule Note: This class assumes that Craft (Alchemy) is a skill usable by either psionic power manifesters or spell casters, rather then just the latter.
Weapon Proficiencies: Goblin Innoculators gain no new weapon or armor proficiencies aside from proficiency with a special syringe they create.
Injections (Ex)
The goblin innoculator has the ability to craft alchemical recipes and poisons that require injury to transmit - crafting can include any poison or alchemical substance that the goblin has crafted before. Crafting this requires a full round action, and is automatically applied to the syringe. The craft check cannot be sped up, and has no cost.
They also may craft one syringe, that costs 5 gp to produce, and 2 days. Crafting the syringe is a DC 55 (int modifier + any points in craft (applicator)). For the sake of crafting the syringe, assume that the goblin innoculator already has a +45 to the check. In this way, crafting can be sped up or slowed down as normal for most craft checks. Losing the syringe or having it destroyed means the innoculator must craft another one, using the above rules again. The syringe is like a weapon, even though it deals no damage and as such can receive magical or psionic enhancements, just like any weapon (enhancement bonuses such as +1, +2, etc. deal that amount of additional damage - +1, ie., deals 1 damage because the syringe normally deals no damage and the equation is thus 0 (syringe mundane damage) +1 (enhancement bonus damage)).
Applying injury poison via the syringe requires a melee attack versus enemy's AC as normal. Because the attack deals no damage, it automatically bypasses DR for the purpose of poisoning. Applying alchemical substances via injury to an opponent deals their usual affects as normal, however note that the substances must be liquid.
Finally, the Goblin Innoculator is considered to have Poison Use (as the assassin class feature in the SRD) for the purpose of applying poison to his syringe. Note however that, when used upon allies, there is a 20% chance that a previous poison contained within the syringe will be applied to the target.
The syringe can hold up to one dosage of poison or alchemical substance. You are automatically considered proficient with the syringe.
Minor Replication (Ps)
By expending his psionic focus, the Goblin Innoculator can duplicate the effects of another poison or alchemical substance without the need of a craft check or GP expenditure, assuming they have 10 minutes of uninterrupted study of the substance itself - the knowledge is retained thereafter for the rest of the day, but is lost/forgotten at the beginning of a new day.
They may also apply the effects of any psychometabolism power they manifest and then transmit it via the injection, however this will get rid of anything that was previously in the syringe. Applying the power is considered manifesting as normal and requires a full round action in addition to whatever action is needed to manifest the power initially. When transferring the power via injection, it does not require additional power point expenditure. The power preserves itself in the syringe for a full day.
Note that the syringe, whenever it contains anything, is considered a psionic device. Only the innoculator may use the syringe in this way without requiring a Use Psionic Device check - the latter must succeed on a DC equal to 10 + innoculator's manifester level + innoculator's key ability score + level of the highest level power contained within the syringe. Failure indicates that whatever they intended to use that was stored within the syringe at the time affects them instead of their target.
Psychic Articulator (Ex)
You can apply the effects of both a psychometabolism psionic power and an alchemical substance or poison in the same injection upon one target.
Alternatively, you can apply two powers into the syringe, and apply them both to the same target or to separate targets with separate attacks.
This affect lasts only for the duration of an encounter. Thereafter, the power/substance/poison that was originally stored in the syringe is the only thing remains, unless the player specifies that they wish to use that power/substance/poison upon injecting an enemy with the syringe.
In a nutshell: This ability allows you to store one use of an additional 'phantom' power/substance/poison in your syringe per encounter. Powers for this purpose do not need to be manifested or applied as per the normal rules for applying a power as a dose in the syringe. Alchemical substances and poisons must still be replicated or crafted, must be stored elsewhere, and are not expended when used in this way.
Major Replication (Ps)
Just like Minor Replication, except that you may duplicate an alchemical substance or poison and apply it to your syringe in a standard action and without the need of studying it beforehand (assuming you expend your psionic focus), however you must still have extensive knowledge of it (ie. having crafted it before). Injecting an enemy is now a melee touch attack rather then a regular one.
Overcome Immunity (Ps)
By making a manifester level check versus the victim's constitution score, you can overcome one immunity, racial bonus they have to a save, or energy resistance to affect them with a poison or alchemical substance. This is a free action, however you must be aware of the victim's resistance, racial bonus to a save, or immunity in order to overcome it and affect them with something they would otherwise be unaffected by or more resistant to.
Cleansing (Ps)
There is no longer any chance of poisoning allies with a poison that previously existed in the syringe when injecting allies with another substance or power that exists in the syringe at the time.
Perfect Replication (Ps)
Just like Major Replication, except that you no longer need to make a craft check for poisons or alchemical substances and, if you expend your psionic focus, you can duplicate poisons or alchemical substances and apply them to your syringe in a swift action. You may also replicate enemy powers that you are aware the enemy can use with a psicraft check equal to DC 10 + enemy's manifester level + enemy's key ability score.
You may also replicate by having distant knowledge of the poison or alchemical substance. An example of acquiring distant knowledge is succeeding on a knowledge check to recall the poison or alchemical substance, or having studied it in a book for 1d4 hours each day, for a week. Alternatively, if it suits you better, you may study a live sample for 10 minutes, as minor replication.
Finally, by expending your psionic focus, you may apply a power to your syringe as a swift action, where initially manifesting said power for this purpose is a free action.
Psychic Vessel (Su)
You may duplicate the effects of any spell, spell like, psi like, or supernatural ability via transmission with the syringe (assuming the effect normally effects individual targets via transmission). You may also store up to three 'doses' which can be included in the form of powers transmitted to the syringe, above abilities replicated, alchemical substances or poisons. Transmitting any of these is at the goblin innoculator's option. Powers stored within the syringe now last for up to a week instead of one day.
PLAYING A GOBLIN INNOCULATOR
You have a love for coming up with cures for any ailment that befalls a party, buffs to aid them in any scenario, and manifestations and chemical applicators for problems, large and small.
Combat: Goblin Innoculators must be at the front lines of combat in order to be truly effective and although they can stand behind the beefier PCs and sub as the party healer, this isn't using them to their full potential. Despite their low HD and BAB, their administered syringe can transmit very harmful affects upon an individual enemy that can make or break a battle. They can also squirt chemicals from the syringe at 5ft. range, however this isn't as guaranteed a method as a melee administering and requires an enemy to be helpless or held down in a grapple.
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GOBLIN INNOCULATORS IN THE WORLD
"Hello! How you doin', how you doin' warrior?! Yeh, big fella orc with sword! Yeh, I make you stronger, yeh? You want chemicals, help make you bigger? Hey! Yeh! Hey! Don't blow me off fella stranger orc friend! I goblin, goblins make best chemicals make you best strong! Yeh! What?! Grut Spit no better, it's all lies! *curses in goblin* Last time I lose customer! This can't go on no more!"
- Nob Wink, goblin merchant and alchemist on the day that he declares vendetta against Grut Spit, only to be murdered by the telepathic Innoculator just hours later.
Daily Life: Goblin Innoculators usually spend most of their free time testing out new potions via injection, usually on themselves. Occasionally, they'll sell them, for an Innoculator is always in need of money. Despite his ability to spontaneously brew new mixtures in a matter of seconds, gp for materials is always a limiting factor until of course they reach a high enough level to forgo it completely.
Notables: Grut Spit (Neutral Evil Blue Psion 3, Goblin Innoculator 5) detests competition and when a vendetta is declared against him, well, he deals with it quickly. His telepathy augmenting Neural Buzz potion helps him weed out potential backstabbers. It's not that he's paranoid... well he is; it's just that he really hates it when others try to harm him or his business, even in the slightest. It's common sense, y'know? And they're fools, they're all fools, who wants fools frolicking about when all they are is fools? Murdering all of their relatives is all a part of the game plan too.
Organizations: Goblin Innoculators will associate with anyone of any alignment, as long as it earns them cash and allows them to practice their art or science (each individual has differing opinions on whether or not it is a science or an art).
NPC Reaction
Most NPCs consider Goblin Innoculators mere merchants or alchemists, perhaps the kind with slightly less of a head and more of an obsession with 'quack theories'. This is all thrown out the window when they see them in battle however, able to bring to bear an endless variety of potions that they seem to be able to draw from their sleeves in an instant.
GOBLIN INNOCULATORS IN THE GAME
Adaptation: Goblin Innoculators can belong in pretty much any setting with both psionics and magic. Games that throw racial affiliation out the window help too, since Innoculators usually are more interested in customers and less so in furthering the goals of some goblin god or serving their nation of origin.
Encounters: The PCs can encounter an innoculator anywhere. It'd be particularly useful to hire them along as mobile alchemy factories. Be warned however, their desire to riches may not always contradict their alignment - an evil or neutral innoculator may sooner run away at chemically altered speed with the gold you give them then put it to use for your sakes. Then again, the same applies to rogues or anybody who isn't lawful/good, really (and even then, many LG's only appreciate a party with other LGs to help 'hold its moral fiber together' in what they believe is the best step to success) - always be on your toes.
Sample Encounter
EL 6: The party hears rumors of a brilliant goblin with dark bluish skin by the name of Grut Spit. Apparently he runs a local alchemist's shop and that his potions are of some of the finest quality, but for a great price. Further investigation yields knowledge that there are no other competitors in most of the city. Questioning the snide little creature reveals no information (you didn't think it would). Your suspicions are eventually realized when you discover that he could be manipulating most of the city with mind altering drugs. On one cold morning, the party is ambushed by city guards...
Grut Spit
Neutral Evil Male Blue Psion 3/Goblin Innoculator 5
Init +0, Senses: Listen +9, Spot +9,
Languages Common, Goblin, Orc, Draconic, Elven, Giant, Gnoll
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AC 10, touch 10, flat-footed 10 (+1 Size, -1 Dex)
23 hp ( 5d4 + 3d6)
Fort +3, Ref +9, Will +13
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Speed 30ft. ( squares)
Melee Syringe +4 (no damage, special: administer)
Base Atk +5, Grp -6
Atk Options Syringe or Powers
Combat Gear Syringe
Powers Prepared As 6th level Psion
Supernatural Abilities None
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Abilities Str 6, Dex 8, Con 10, Int 20, Wis 18, Cha 6
SQ Darkvision 60ft, Naturally Psionic
Feats Weapon Focus (Syringe), Force of Will, Psionic Meditation
Skills Concentration +10, Spot +9, Listen +9, Craft (Alchemy) +19, Move Silently +14, Sleight of Hand +10, Sense Motive +9, Techcraft +16, Knowledge (Psionics) +16
Possessions Tool Belt, Syringe, Vials, Artiste Psi-crystal
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Goblin Innoculator Feats
It Go Right Fast Down...
Prerequisites: Poison Use, Sneak Attack (or other precision damage) 1d6
If you manage to poison someone via injury with your designated/attuned syringe during a sneak attack or dealing other precision damage, you may allow the secondary affects of the poison to take affect immediately. Additionally, the additional damage dealt by the sneak attack applies normally, even if the syringe does not normally deal any damage.
Biological Warfare Agent
Prerequisites: Goblin Innoculator 2nd level, Craft Alchemy (11 ranks)
You may now craft and/or replicate psionic or mundane diseases, initially transmittable via injury, with an alchemy check and store them in a syringe capable of storing alchemical substances, powers and poisons. Note that the maximum CR of the disease you may replicate with your class's replication ability is your manifester + key ability score divided by two.
As normal, in order to replicate a disease, you must have an amount of prior knowledge of the disease equal to whatever level of replication you have acquired from your levels in the Goblin Innoculator prestige class (minor, major or perfect).
Note: If you wish to use this feat to invent entirely new mundane diseases, you must succeed the appropriate Techcraft check. To create new psionic diseases, you must succeed on the appropriate Psicraft check.
Normal: You may only replicate poisons, alchemical substances, or powers. Note that replicating or crafting magical diseases (as opposed to psionic or mundane ones) requires the appropriate features from another class or feat.
Quartermaster of the Syringe
Prerequisite: Goblin Innoculator 5th level, Must have a syringe
You may now craft a number of syringes equal to your manifester level, however you may only use one of them for your own purposes. You cannot store your own powers, replicated alchemical substances and/or poisons in another syringe besides the one that was specified to you, however others may use these syringes and store their own powers, alchemical substances and/or poisons in them with the aid of your replication ability, assuming they can attune to them and assuming they remain within a 100ft. distance of yourself. Each time you craft a new syringe for yourself, you do not have to attune to it, instead you need only designate it as your syringe usable by you (free action). If you craft a new syringe for other people, they must re-attune to them, assuming the one they attuned to previously was destroyed or lost.
Each person can only attune to one syringe - if they attune to another syringe, their original attuning to the previous syringe disappears and anything stored it in via replication is lost forever.
Attuning requires 1d4 hours of uninterrupted meditation. If they do not attune to the syringe, they must make a Use Psionic Device check to use it (assuming it contains doses of anything), as normal.
Storing alchemical substances, poisons and/or powers in an attuned syringe requires a craft check and/or power point expenditure from the person that is attuned to the syringe and the aid of the person who crafted the syringe (they use their replication ability for this purpose). This requires actions equivalent to as if the Goblin Innoculator were storing alchemical substances, poisons and/or powers in the syringe themselves. The powers that they may store are limited to the discipline of powers that the Goblin Innoculator may store in their own syringe.
A syringe that another person has attuned to cannot be designated as the goblin innoculator's syringe usable by them. When someone else wields a syringe, they wield it as if the goblin innoculator were wielding it (ie. make melee touch attacks if the goblin innoculator were allowed melee touch attacks with their own syringe), except that they use their own key ability modifier and BAB.
If a person using a syringe they have attuned to wanders beyond the Goblin Innoculator's 100ft. range limitation, they may continue using their syringe for a number of hours equal to the Goblin Innoculator's manifester level. Beyond that point, they are no longer attuned to the syringe.
A syringe that one person has attuned to cannot be attuned to another person as well.
Finally, the Goblin Innoculator has a heightened awareness of whenever a syringe that someone has attuned to is used within their 100ft. range. They are also aware of whenever an attack made with the syringe hits its target within this range limitation.
Refurbished Syringes
Prerequisite: Quartermaster of the Syringe
Just like the 'Quartermaster of the Syringe' feat, except that you may now use syringes that others have attuned themselves to as your designated syringe usable by you. This means that you may use the powers, alchemical substances and/or poisons of others. You may also transmit your own powers, alchemical substances or poisons to a syringe not designated by you, however this only lasts for a number of hours equal to your manifester level + your key ability score; and you may not transmit these powers via injury without a Use Psionic Device Check, as normal for creatures using syringes they have not attuned themselves to. In this way, the person attuned to the syringe may use your powers, alchemical substances or poisons you have stored in said syringe.
You are still only allowed to designate one syringe usable by you.
Universal Power Conduit
Prerequisite: Goblin Innoculator 5th level
You may transmit any power via syringe. Transmitting the power causes it take affect as normal. If the power is meant to affect an area, then you have the option of suppressing it for up to a number of hours equal to your manifester level + your key ability score. Willing it to take affect after suppression in this way is an immediate action of unlimited range and grants perception of the target depending on the power's discipline. If you wish it to take affect immediately, then it costs no additional action. Whenever an area of effect power takes affect after being injected into a target, if the power is listed as 'centering on the manifester' or requiring something to center upon, it always centers on the target of the injection instead.
The below options apply only to area of effect powers, in accordance to their disciplines. If an area of effect power is suppressed beyond its time limitation for suppression, then it is expended automatically with no affect and the power points spent to initially manifest it are wasted.
Psychoportation - By expending the power's use (move action), you may teleport adjacent to the creature. If you must cross planes in this way, make a manifester level check DC 20 (-5 if it's a plane that you have been to before; +10 if the person is aware of you teleporting). Failure indicates that you are transported to a random plane at GM discretion via the Plane Shift spell.
Passive: If you do not expend the power's use, you may detect whenever the victim teleports or is otherwise transported somewhere magically or psionically. You know the time of day that the victim is transported, where they are transported from and where they are transported to as well as the plane they reside on when transported and the plane they reside on after transportation.
Telepathy: You can read the victim's surface thoughts, assuming they reside on the same plane. The victim can hide their thoughts from you with a bluff check opposed by a check of 5 + your manifester level + key ability score. If they are successful, their thoughts are hidden for 10 minutes. By taking a -5 penalty, the victim may feed you false thoughts for 10 minutes.
If the victim resides on a separate plane from you, they receive a +10 to this bluff check, and success indicates that they may hide or provide false thoughts to you for 1 hour.
Clairsentience: You always know the location of the victim (assuming you are familiar with the location; if the location is foreign in any way, you may familiarize yourself with it with 3d4 minutes of meditation) and may scry on them with immediate success as a standard action, with the exception that you may only see the victim but not hear them.
Psychometabolism: You have knowledge of the victim's physical ability scores, hit points, any mundane poisons or diseases they have been afflicted by and all of their extraordinary abilities and any feats/class features/maneuvers/etc. that are undeniably mundane (if it's up for debate, remember that the GM is always right).
Metacreativity: You have knowledge of any powers or spells that the victim manifests or casts and how powerful they are as well what affects they created. You also have knowledge the victim's caster level and/or manifester level.
Active: If you expend the power's use (free action), you may gain knowledge of all the powers and/or spells the victim is capable of manifesting or casting. You may also study any spells or powers that your manifester level meets the requirements of to learn through meditation and learn them normally, or replicate them assuming you meet the knowledge requirements.
This assumes that the GM uses the psionic/magic transparency rules, as normal.
Psychokinesis: By expending your psionic focus and making a manifester level check + key ability modifier opposed by victim's will save + 10, you can render the victim helpless for as long as you yourself choose to be helpless.
Alternatively, you may expend this power to allow the next power/spell they manifest or cast (with somatic and/or vocal components) to affect them or their allies within range instead (assuming you yourself can see their allies; you control where the spell or power is directed). This is an immediate action.
Normal: You may transmit only psychometabolism powers via syringe.
Extra Doses
Prerequisite: Goblin Innoculator 5th level, Psychic Vessel class feature
Your syringe may now store 2 additional doses. This feat only applies to one syringe. It also stacks - each time it is taken, it can apply to a different syringe, or to the same syringe as previous. Because this feat only applies to one syringe, it should be noted under the specific syringe's name.
Exception: If the syringe you applied this feat to is lost or destroyed, the feat may be re-applied to another syringe - otherwise, this exception is disallowed.
Normal: If you are a 5th level Goblin Innoculator, your Psychic Vessel class feature allows you to store 3 doses worth of alchemical substances, poisons and/or powers.
Injection Overflow
Prerequisite: Goblin Innoculator 5th level, Extra Doses
By expending your psionic focus, you can allow every dose contained within your syringe to affect the same target all at once.
Special: If you have the 'Quartermaster of the Syringe' feat, you can expend your psionic focus when an ally makes a successful attack with a syringe to allow this feat to affect their syringe instead.
Suppress Dosage
Prerequisite: Goblin Innoculator 1st level
You may suppress any affect of a power, alchemical substance and/or poison that you transmit to the target via injection and then will it to take affect as an immediate action at a later date, assuming the opponent still resides on the same plane as you.
Note: This feat does not grant perception of the victim beyond line of sight nor the ability to read the injected victim's thoughts.
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