Prestige Class PSH

Shinobi

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 Level

Configured Levels

Prestige Class Details

Code: PSH
Minimum Entry Level: L7

Entry Requirements

Requirement Group 1

Match inside group: OR

Kind	Requirement	Raw Details
Class level (e.g., Fighter 5+)	Class: Fighter at L3+	Group 1 Operator: OR Min Class Level: 3
Class level (e.g., Fighter 5+)	Class: Ranger at L3+	Group 1 Operator: OR Min Class Level: 3
Class level (e.g., Fighter 5+)	Class: Monk at L3+	Group 1 Operator: AND Min Class Level: 3

Requirement Group 2

Match inside group: AND

Kind	Requirement	Raw Details
Class level (e.g., Fighter 5+)	Class: Rogue at L4+	Group 2 Operator: AND Min Class Level: 4

Requirement Group 3

Match inside group: AND

Kind	Requirement	Raw Details
Skill proficiency (min tier)	Skill: Stealth at Expert+	Group 3 Operator: AND Min Tier: Expert
Skill proficiency (min tier)	Skill: Acrobatics at Expert+	Group 3 Operator: AND Min Tier: Expert
Skill proficiency (min tier)	Skill: Athletics at Trained+	Group 3 Operator: AND Min Tier: Trained

Prestige Level Progression

Prestige Level	Counts-As Mode	Fixed Counts-As	Allowed Counts-As Choices
P1	Choose at level-up — pick one of the allowed classes	—	Rogue Ranger Monk Fighter
P2	Fixed — this level always counts as the class below	Rogue	Rogue
P3	Fixed — this level always counts as the class below	Rogue	Rogue
P4	Choose at level-up — pick one of the allowed classes	Rogue	Rogue Ranger Monk Fighter
P5	Fixed — this level always counts as the class below	Rogue	Rogue
P6	Fixed — this level always counts as the class below	Rogue	Rogue
P7	Fixed — this level always counts as the class below	Rogue	Rogue Ranger Monk Fighter
P8	Choose at level-up — pick one of the allowed classes	—	Rogue Ranger Monk Fighter
P9	Fixed — this level always counts as the class below	Rogue	Rogue
P10	Fixed — this level always counts as the class below	Rogue	Rogue
P11	Fixed — this level always counts as the class below	Rogue	Rogue

Prestige Features

Prestige Level 2

Shinobi Dedication - Shinobi's Honor

P2 Grants ClassFeature

PSH1-2

Granted 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

Kind: Class Trait
Scope: Class Feature
Usage: Passive
Spell Learning Mode: Scholar / Spellbook
Known Spell Swaps / Level: 1

Shinobi Fade

P2 Grants ClassFeature

PSH1-1

Granted 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,

Kind: Class Trait
Scope: Class Feature
Usage: Passive
Spell Learning Mode: Scholar / Spellbook
Known Spell Swaps / Level: 1

Shinobi Weapon Proficiency

P2 Grants ClassFeature

PSH1

Granted 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.

Kind: Class Trait
Scope: Class Feature
Usage: Passive
Spell Learning Mode: Scholar / Spellbook
Known Spell Swaps / Level: 1

Prestige Level 3

Shinobi Masteries

P3 Grants ClassFeature

PSH2

Granted 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

Kind: Class Feat
Scope: Class Feature
Usage: Active
Spell Learning Mode: Scholar / Spellbook
Known Spell Swaps / Level: 1

Prestige Level 4

Shinobi Sense and Stalk

P4 Grants ClassFeature

PSH3

Granted 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

Kind: Class Trait
Scope: Class Feature
Action: Two Actions
Usage: Active
Spell Learning Mode: Scholar / Spellbook
Known Spell Swaps / Level: 1

Prestige Level 5

Outclass

P5 Grants ClassFeature

PSH4

Granted 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

Kind: Class Trait
Scope: Class Feature
Usage: Passive
Spell Learning Mode: Scholar / Spellbook
Known Spell Swaps / Level: 1

Prestige Level 6

Fade and Evade

P6 Grants ClassFeature

PSH5

Granted Feature

Fade and Evade (PSH5)

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

Kind: Class Trait
Scope: Class Feature
Usage: Passive
Spell Learning Mode: Scholar / Spellbook
Known Spell Swaps / Level: 1

Prestige Level 7

Superior Shinobi Mastery

P7 Grants ClassFeature

PSH6

Granted 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,

Kind: Class Trait
Scope: Class Feature
Usage: Passive
Spell Learning Mode: Scholar / Spellbook
Known Spell Swaps / Level: 1

Prestige Level 8

Ninja Vault

P8 Grants ClassFeature

PSH7

Granted 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.

Kind: Class Trait
Scope: Class Feature
Action: One Action
Usage: Active
Spell Learning Mode: Scholar / Spellbook
Known Spell Swaps / Level: 1

Prestige Level 9

Superb Fade

P9 Grants ClassFeature

PSH8

Granted 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

Kind: Class Trait
Scope: Class Feature
Usage: Passive
Spell Learning Mode: Scholar / Spellbook
Known Spell Swaps / Level: 1

Prestige Level 10

Master Shinobi Masteries

P10 Grants ClassFeature

PSH9

Granted 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

Kind: Class Trait
Scope: Class Feature
Usage: Passive
Spell Learning Mode: Scholar / Spellbook
Known Spell Swaps / Level: 1

Prestige Level 11

Ghost Walk

P11 Grants ClassFeature

PSH10

Granted Feature

Ghost Walk (PSH10)

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

Kind: Class Trait
Scope: Class Feature
Usage: Passive
Spell Learning Mode: Scholar / Spellbook
Known Spell Swaps / Level: 1