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Ver. 1.3.1

Chanter

Class

The Chanter is a spellcaster whose magical energy expresses itself more verbally than somatically. This somewhat uncommon ability gives the Chanter access to an aspect of magic that most mages are unable to tap into.

Chanters are able to compose and use a variety of special verbal spells called Chants. These can have effects on the minds and bodies of their teammates, and their enemies.

Playing as a Chanter

While Adventuring

You use your special verbal magic to help your allies overcome obstacles. You're very knowledgeable about ancient cultures and customs, which may come in handy when figuring out a puzzle. You use your social skills to resolve disputes amongst the party.

During Social Interaction

Your interpersonal skills are unmatched. You are usually the voice of your party in challenging social situations. You influence, charm, manipulate, deceive, blackmail, and even seduce your way to accomplishing your goal.

In Combat

You use your chants to support your teammates in various ways. You can quickly shift focus between healing, support, and offense as needed.

While Resting

You read, study new songs and chants, and help your team heal while discussing the next plan of action.

Starting Equipment

When creating a leveled character that starts with this class, consult the Investigator Starting Equipment table to determine what items you start with. You receive all of the items listed for your starting level and all levels below it. You can choose to replace any number of items with their equivalent value in credits (CR).

Class Features

Chanter Specialties

At Level 1, choose three Natural Skills from the Chanter's Natural Skills list. Then gain one level in your choice of two of the following specialties:

• Sense Motive (Insight)
• Diversion (Peformance)
• Socialization (Diplomacy)
• Investigation (Logic)
• A musical instrument of your choice (Performance)

Verbal Magic

More Info: Verbal Magic

You have the unusual gift of verbal magic. This ability allows you to use your magical abilities to influence the minds and bodies of those around you through your voice. At Level 1, you gain the ability to use Basic Chants. You can use your chant powers a limited number of times per day, as shown in the Chanter table.

You can activate a chant as an action, and stop chanting at any time as a free action. Only one chant can be active at a time. If your concentration is broken, your chant is interrupted.

Basic Chants

At Level 1, you learn two Basic chants.

All chants are available as class feats. You may learn additional chants at this level and at higher levels by taking their respective class feats. (You don't need to spend character points on the two chants you choose as part of this feature.)

Learning Experience

At each level you receive this bonus, choose one of your knowledges and increase its level by 1, or gain 1 point in a new knowledge subject of your choice. If your Intelligence score is 15 or greater, you may do this twice each time you receive this bonus. If it's 20 or greater, you may do this three times.

Knowledges can't be increased beyond 10 at any level.

Specialty Improvement

At each level you receive this bonus, choose one of your specialties and increase its level by 1. Specialties can't be increased above 3.

If you don't have any specialties that can be improved when you receive this bonus, you may gain 1 point in a new specialty of your choice..

Spellcasting

At Level 3, you may begin to learn and cast spells. Increase your caster level to 1.

Assign initial values to your magical skills. As a Chanter, you have 3 points to spend on these skills, and you can choose from the forms that are a part of your training (Divine and Psionic).

Clear the Mind

Starting at Level 3, when you unlock your normal spellcasting abilities, you can use your energy to recover expended chant slots.

As a restful action, you can spend one hour to recover any number of Basic-level chant slots. Each slot you recover consumes 10 energy.

Spell Studies

At each level where you receive this bonus, you may learn new spells from the Spell Study Guide. This usually, but not always, occurs at each level where your caster level increases.

You may choose to learn a spell of lesser rarity with this ability. For example, whenever you have the option to learn a Rare spell, you may choose to learn an Uncommon or Common spell instead. If you do, you lose the opportunity to learn a Rare spell at that level.

• Level 3: 1 Common Chanter spell
• Level 5: 3 Common Chanter spells
• Level 8: 1 Uncommon Chanter spell and 2 Common Chanter spells
• Level 12: 3 Uncommon Chanter spells
• Level 16: 3 Uncommon Chanter spells and 1 spell of any type
• Level 20: 1 Rare Chanter spell and 2 Uncommon Chanter spells
• Level 23: 2 Rare Chanter spells and 2 Uncommon Chanter spells
• Level 26: 3 Rare Chanter spells and 2 Uncommon spells of any type
• Level 29: 1 Epic Chanter spell

Natural Skill Improvement

At each level you receive this bonus, increase each of your natural skills by one level.

This feature can't increase any skill higher than 7 unless you're level 20 or higher. This feature cannot be used to become Legendary.

TIP: To increase a skill beyond 7 at an earlier level, use the Skill Improvement General Feat.

Apprentice Chants

At Level 5, you learn two Apprentice-level chants. You gain two Apprentice chant slots, and can learn additional chants by taking their respective class feats. You can recover Apprentice-level chant slots using your Clear the Mind ability at a cost of 20 energy per slot.

Ability Score Improvement

At each level where you receive this bonus, increase one of your ability scores by 2, or two different scores by 1 each.

Ability scores can't be increased above 20 using this feature until your overall level reaches 15, and no ability score can be increased above 30 at any level.

After updating your score, be sure to update the relevant modifiers, including skills and other calculated stats that factor in the increased scores.

Fount of Knowledge

As a Chanter, your verbal magic draws power from your knowledge of the Tolgethic language, and you've spent a great deal of time reading and researching folklore, both ancient and modern. Over time, you've become a well of what you may have thought to be useless information, but you never know when it might come in handy.

Starting at Level 7, you gain a Proficiency Bonus which you can add to checks to Research, Investigate, or Recall Information on any subject. This bonus increases with your level according to the Chanter table.

Unshakeable Resolve

Starting at Level 9, your ability to multitask while chanting improves. You can perform any number of single-frame actions during your turn without interrupting your chant.

Intermediate Chants

At Level 10, you learn two Intermediate-level chants. You gain two Intermediate chant slots, and can learn additional chants by taking their respective class feats. You can recover Intermediate-level chant slots using your Clear the Mind ability at a cost of 30 energy per slot.

Chanter Bonus

At each level where you receive this bonus, choose one of the following:

• Increase your Passive Perception by 1.
• Increase your Passive Agility by 1.
• Learn a Common spell from the Chanter Spell Study Guide.

Chant Blending

Once a chanter hones their gift, they can begin to blend multiple chants together. Starting at Level 14, you gain the ability to have two different chants active at one time.

Activating each chant requires a separate action and expends a chant slot of its respective level. If your concentration is broken, both chants are ended.

Advanced Chants

At Level 15, you learn two Advanced-level chants. You gain two Advanced chant slots, and can learn additional chants by taking their respective class feats. You can recover Advanced-level chant slots using your Clear the Mind ability at a cost of 50 energy per slot.

Hyperfocus

At Level 18, your conentration improves and you gain the ability to sustain your chants while performing other tasks. Your chants now continue through any event that would normally break your concentration except for being knocked unconscious or stunned. You have advantage on all Determination saves.

Expert Chants

At Level 20, you learn two Expert-level chants. You gain two Expert chant slots, and can learn additional chants by taking their respective class feats. You can recover Expert-level chant slots using your Clear the Mind ability at a cost of 75 energy per slot.

Mashup Artist

As you near the full potential of your powers, you're able to combine even more chants together. Starting at level 24, you gain the following abilities:

• You can have up to three chants active at one time. Each one takes a separate action and expends a separate chant slot of its respective level. All of your chants end if you're knocked unconscious or stunned.
• You can expend multiple lower-level chant slots for a higher-level chant. Every two slots of a given level equals one slot of the next-highest level.

Master Chants

At Level 25, you learn two Master-level chants. You gain two Master chant slots, and can learn additional chants by taking their respective class feats. You can recover Master-level chant slots using your Clear the Mind ability at a cost of 100 energy per slot.

Storyteller Savant

At Level 30, you've truly mastered the art of verbal magic and become a legendary folklorist. You gain the following benefits:

• You may learn two additional Master-level chants and two additional Expert-level chants.
• For all chants you know that call for a save, the difficulty increases to 30.
• You can start a chant as a free action.
• You have unlimited uses of chants at the Intermediate level and below. You must still expend slots to use them for higher-level chants via the Mashup Artist feature.

Chanter Class Feats

This section shows regular class feats for the Chanter. For a list of chants that can be unlocked as feats, see Verbal Magic.