Shinobi

Prestige

Shinobis are the opposite of the Samurai among Ithiskarian. Representing the feminine or Saori aspect. Shinobi represent cunning, stealth, elegance and grace. Trained from young, Shinobis are even fewer than Samurai in numbers and go through rigorous selection processes to even make the cut. The few girls who pass become Shinobis to the various clans of Ithiskar or perhaps other organusatins or even independent. They becoome deadly assassins, spies, skirmishes. They are also no less formidable in combat to their Goran equivalence and are considered masters of the Katana. Must be Ithiskarian or have significant Ithiskarian backstory reasoning, must be female or at least significant backstory reasoning on why its not a female.

Entry Requirements

All groups are required (AND). Within a group, requirements combine using that group’s operator (AND/OR).

Group 1

Inside group: OR

Fighter level 3+
Ranger level 3+
Monk level 3+

Group 2

Inside group: AND

Rogue level 4+

Group 3

Inside group: AND

Stealth — Expert
Acrobatics — Expert
Athletics — Trained

Prestige Level Progression

Prestige Level	Counts-As Mode	Counts As
L1	Choose	Rogue Ranger Monk Fighter
L2	Fixed	Rogue
L3	Fixed	Rogue
L4	Choose	Rogue Ranger Monk Fighter
L5	Fixed	Rogue
L6	Fixed	Rogue
L7	Fixed	Rogue
L8	Choose	Rogue Ranger Monk Fighter
L9	Fixed	Rogue
L10	Fixed	Rogue
L11	Fixed	Rogue

Features

L2 — Shinobi Dedication - Shinobi's Honor

Code: PSH1-2 · Mechanics: Shinobi Dedication - Shinobi's Honor

Prestige Feature

Class Feature: Shinobi Dedication - Shinobi's Honor (PSH1-2)

If you use a non-shinobi weapon, wear medium or light armor or carry a shield, you do not benefit from any of Shinboi's class feature nor can you use them

L2 — Shinobi Fade

Code: PSH1-1 · Mechanics: Shinobi Fade

Prestige Feature

Class Feature: Shinobi Fade (PSH1-1)

For the last action in your turn, if you are not in melee range of an enemy or in melee range of an off-guard enemy, you may spend an action to dash 15ft and make a stealth check,

L2 — Shinobi Weapon Proficiency

Code: PSH1 · Mechanics: Shinobi Weapon Proficiency

Prestige Feature

Class Feature: Shinobi Weapon Proficiency (PSH1)

These are considered your Shinobi Weapons

- Katana

- Shuriken

- Kunai

- Dagger

- Kusarigama

You gain proficiency equal to your weapon proficiency for them, or expert, whichever is higher.

If you pick the former, then they follows your weapon proficiency,

If you pick the later for every 5 levels prestiege class afterwards, increase their proficiency by one tier.

L3 — Shinobi Masteries

Code: PSH2 · Mechanics: Shinobi Masteries

Prestige Feature

Class Feature: Shinobi Masteries (PSH2)

You gain the following martial masteries|

Swiftstrike Counter(2 Action)

3 Points, Katana

Target a creature who missed an attack or had an attack parried by you in the previous turn. You launch a swift furious strike. Make two attacks, with the second attack MAP reduced by 2. Your first attack does a bonus of 5 damage on-hit and gains 2 armor piercing.

Swift Throw (Free Action)

2 Point, have shuriken or Kunai and using a katana or dagger

Once per turn, you can make a ranged attack with a shuriken or kunai after killing an enemy or critically hitting an enemy with a Shinobi melee weapon and then target towards an enemy within 15ft with the thrown weapon

L4 — Shinobi Sense and Stalk

Code: PSH3 · Mechanics: Shinobi Sense and Stalk

Prestige Feature

Class Feature: Shinobi Sense and Stalk (PSH3)

You can spend 2 actions to reduce your movement speed down to 10ft and gain a -5 to defence.

During this you gain a +2 bonus to stealth and perception check and gain 45ft of tremor sense You cannot make attacks for 1 turn when you do this

L5 — Outclass

Code: PSH4 · Mechanics: Outclass

Prestige Feature

Class Feature: Outclass (PSH4)

Shinobis are highly skilled in combat and even more skilled at finding favorable fights.

When in melee range with one enemy and have no enemy within 30ft, you gain a +3 to defence against incoming attacks from that creature, This bonus increase to +5 if that creature was the receiving end of a surprise round

L6 — Fade and Evade

Code: PSH5 · Mechanics: Fade and Evade

Prestige Feature

Class Feature: Fade and Evade (PSH5)

When you do Shinobi's fade, you gain a +2 to defence.

L7 — Superior Shinobi Mastery

Code: PSH6 · Mechanics: Superior Shinobi Mastery

Prestige Feature

Class Feature: Superior Shinobi Mastery (PSH6)

You gain the following Martial Masteries

Katana Eviscerate(2 Action)
5 Point, Katana.

Dash 5ft and make an attack with -2 to hit against a target who is off-guard and you are making a sneak attack against, You leap onto the target and plunge your Katana into the foe.

Forgo your sneak attack damage, you instead make an attack that replaces your normal weapon attack damage with a attack that does 25% of the target current HP in piercing damage while applying any on-hit effects

Entangled Barrage(2 Action)

3 Point, Kusarigama only'

When you trip a creature using the Kusarigama. You can dash immediately 30ft to within melee range of the creature and make an attack against it with advantage, This attack gains +2 armor piercing and counts as a sneak attack. However you gain a -3 to defence until the start of your next turn,

L8 — Ninja Vault

Code: PSH7 · Mechanics: Ninja Vault

Prestige Feature

Class Feature: Ninja Vault (PSH7)

You are able to make an acrobatics creature to leap over a large or smaller creature when taking the move or Rogue's Dash action and wielding a Shinobi weapon The DC is the creatures defence score

CS: You go over and can make a shuriken thrown attack with a +2 to hit against the creature. On-hit, the creature is off guard

S: You go over and can make a shuriken thrown attack against the creature

F: You fail to go over

CF: You are knocked prone.

L9 — Superb Fade

Code: PSH8 · Mechanics: Superb Fade

Prestige Feature

Class Feature: Superb Fade (PSH8)

You can now do Shinobi Fade as an any action or as a reaction if a target moves within 10ft of you

L10 — Master Shinobi Masteries

Code: PSH9 · Mechanics: Master Shinobi Masteries

Prestige Feature

Class Feature: Master Shinobi Masteries (PSH9)

You gain the following Martial Masteries

Tempest Flurry (3 Action)
Katana only, 8 Points

Select a target within 5ft when you are not off-guard or being flanked and have only 1 enemy within 10ft. You roll 8D8. This is your armor piercing value. You then make 6 attacks, each attack has the previous armor piercing value but has its damage halved and attacks as a -2 instead of following MAP.

If you land more than 3 attacks, you reduce their armor value by 25% if its non-magical or 10% if its magical till the target takes a long rest to fix.

Shadow Barrage(3 Action)

8 Point, Dagger only

You gain a +10 to defence for one turn., for each attack that missies, you can make an attack in return accounting for MAP

L11 — Ghost Walk

Code: PSH10 · Mechanics: Ghost Walk

Prestige Feature

Class Feature: Ghost Walk (PSH10)

You cannot be detected by non magical check after rolling for stealth, no matter the stealth check.