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Sage

Class

Sages are mysterious spellcasters that have a deep connection to the world of good and evil spirits. They practice magic that heals and repels evil, both through conventional spells and the practice of Alchemy. They are excellent Diviners and can use their connections to other planes to communicate across great distances.

Sages are practicioners of Soulbonding, a rare form of advanced magic that allows them to induce magical effects on those they have a strong relationship with. In the Torchlight Society they use this magic along with their alchemy and fortune telling abilities to act as healers and protectors.

Class Information

Playing as a Sage

While Adventuring

You protect your team using your Soulbonding magic to keep a constant eye on them. You use your diviner's sense to look for possible dangers and clues to overcome obstacles. You probably have a few potions brewing as you travel, and supply them to your team as needed.

During Social Interaction

You're regarded as "out there" by most other people. Your speech is cryptic and poetic, which can make you difficult to understand, but also very difficult to influence or deceive. You aim to de-escalate situations in order to avoid violence.

In Combat

You support your team through your Soulbonding powers and potions. You prefer to stay out of direct fights.

While Resting

You meditate to revitalize your diviner's sense, and prepare potions that you and your allies might need in the coming days.

Starting Equipment

When creating a leveled character that starts with this class, consult the Mercenary 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

Sage Specialties

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

• Cooking (Technology)
• First Aid (Medicine)
• Wound Treatment (Medicine)
• Sense Motive (Insight)

Alchemist's Craft

The Sage specializes in the formulation of complex potions and other alchemical substances. You have a Proficiency Bonus which you can add to checks to brew, prepare, and identify alchemical items. Your bonus increases with your level according to the Sage table.

Alchemist's Pouch

At Level 1, you can designate a small container in your inventory as your Alchemist's Pouch. This is a container where you keep a small reserve of alchemical items for use in your potions.

As a Sage, your pouch can be used up to three times per day to provide ingredients for a batch of Basic-level potions you brew.

Basic Alchemy

At Level 1, you learn the Basic Standard Potion Recipes and your choice of three Basic-level alchemy recipes. Consult the Alchemy Recipes section.

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.

Sage Bonus

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

• Increase your passive perception by 1.
• Learn an additional alchemy recipe of your highest alchemy level or lower.
• Learn an additional common spell from the Sage Spell Study Guide.

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 Sage, you have 3 points to spend on these skills, and you can choose forms that are a part of your training (Divine, Psionic, and Spectral.)

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: 2 common Sage spells
• Level 6: 2 common Sage spells and 1 common spell of any type
• Level 8: 1 uncommon Sage spell and 2 common Sage spells
• Level 13: 3 uncommon Sage spells and 2 common spells of any type
• Level 17: 1 rare Sage spell and 3 uncommon Sage spells
• Level 20: 2 rare Sage spels and 2 uncommon spells of any type
• Level 24: 3 rare Sage spells
• Level 27: 1 epic Sage spell and 3 rare Sage spells
• Level 30: 3 epic Sage spells and 2 rare spells of any type

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.

Diviner's Sense

Sages have a deep spiritual connection to the world of spirits. Using this connection, they can reach out to the spirits for useful information or assistance. Starting at Level 5, you can use the Diviner's Senses listed below.

You have a limited number of uses of your Senses each day, which increases with your level according to the Sage table. When you use each Sense for the first time since your last full rest, you're guaranteed to contact a Good Spirit and get the desired outcome. If you use the same Sense more than once between full rests, there is a 50% chance, as determined by a private d20 roll by the GM, of you inadvertently contacting an Evil Spirit, which causes your Sense to achieve the opposite effect.

Palm Reading

You spend 15 minutes reading the future of a single willing creature you can touch based on the palms of their hands. Ask the GM a single, specific question about that creature.

• : The GM offers a truthful, though indirect, reply, such as a short cryptic phrase or omen.
• : You receive a random or inaccurate reply.

Gaze Into The Beyond

You spend 30 minutes to contact the spririt world for guidance. Ask the GM a single, specific question about a current objective or anticipated event.

• : The GM offers a truthful, though indirect, reply, such as a short cryptic phrase or omen.
• : You receive a random or inaccurate reply.

Portent

You use your senses to gain useful insights about a person or your surroundings. Use this Sense when making a Wisdom-based ability or skill check or a Spellcasting skill check.

• : You gain a +5 bonus to the result.
• : You take a -5 penalty to the result.

Apprentice Alchemy

At Level 6, you move on to more difficult potionmaking. You learn the Apprentice Standard Potion Recipes and your choice of three additional Apprentice-level alchemy recipes. Your Alchemist's Pouch can now be used to provide ingredients for Apprentice-level potions.

You can now brew Basic-level potions trivially.

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 beyond 20 using this feature until your overall level reaches 15, and no ability score can be increased beyond 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.

Soulbonding

Your Soulbonding ability allows you to use your spells to affect creatures based on your level of connection to them, instead of physical range.

Starting at Level 10, you gain the ability to use Soulbonding with any Targeting spell you know. Whenever you cast a spell with the Targeting keyword or with a range of Touch, instead of its normal targeting rules, you can have it target an ally or any creature that counts you as a Companion (a +6 or higher Relationship). You don't need to be able to see or even know the whereabouts of a creature you target this way, and they can be any distance from you, as long as they're on the same plane of reality. Spells cast using Soulbonding are cast 2 levels lower. (Determine the casting difficulty as though your skill level were reduced by 2.)

Voice of the Soul

At Level 10, you can use your Diviner's Sense to communicate with a Soulbound creature. You gain the Voice of the Soul Diviner's Sense.

Voice of the Soul

You use your senses to reach out across another reality to contact someone you hold close. Choose a teammate or someone who has a Companion (+6) or higher relationship with you.

• : If the target is willing, you immediately learn their whereabouts and their general condition, and you may communicate both ways with the target for up to ten minutes.
• : You receive inaccurate information and may receive false messages from a meddling spirit impersonating the target.

Intermediate Alchemy

At Level 12, you learn the Intermediate Standard Potion Recipes and your choice of three additional Intermediate-level alchemy recipes. You automatically learn any spells that are required as part of the recipes you learn via this feature. Your Alchemist's Pouch can now be used to provide ingredients for Intermediate-level potions.

You can now brew Apprentice-level potions trivially.

Mind and Body Connections

At Level 14, your Diviner's Sense and Soulbonding powers combine with your alchemical skills in new ways. You gain the following Diviner's Senses:

Alchemical Connection

Using this sense, you can extend the effects of a potion to one of your allies or companions. You must use this ability immediately after drinking a Potion or Elixir. Choose a teammate or someone who has a Companion (+6) or higher relationship with you.

• : The effects of the potion are applied to both you and your target, as though you had both consumed one.
• : The potion has its normal effect on you, but the target becomes ill and suffers a level of exhaustion.

Healing Bond

You can use this sense to heal an ally from anywhere in the world. Choose a teammate or someone who has a Companion (+6) or higher relationship with you.

• : The target recovers Xd10 hit points, where X is your current proficiency bonus.
• : The target receives one level of a random status effect: either Burning, Bleeding, Poisoned, or Drunk.

Compounding Potions

Starting at Level 16, you make a breakthrough in your alchemical studies and gain the ability to combine the effects of multiple potions into one. When brewing a potion or elixir, you can perform up to three recipes on the same base potion to give it their combined effects. This can be done using the same recipe multiple times to stack the effects, or different ones to create compound potions.

Advanced Alchemy

At Level 18, you learn your choice of up to three Advanced-level alchemy recipes. Consult the Alchemy Recipes section. You automatically learn any spells that are required as part of the recipes you learn via this feature. Your Alchemist's Pouch can now be used to provide ingredients for Advanced-level potions.

You can now brew Intermediate-level potions trivially.

Dark Pact

So far, you've mostly concerned yourself with postive spirits. but by now you've begun to become powerful enough to negotiate with dark spirits, inflicting negative effects on those who oppose you.

Starting at Level 20, you can use your Soulbonding ability to target creatures that are Hostile to you (-6 or lower Relationship value) and enemies you can see within 50 feet. When you use a Diviner's Sense that targets a Soulbonded creature, you can now choose to intentionally inflict the Evil Spirit outcome on the target. There is still a 50% chance of either outcome when you use a sense that you've already used since your last full rest.

Alter Course

At Level 20, you learn the Alter Course Diviner's Sense.

Alter Course

You appeal to the spirit world for a change of fortune. Use this sense as a reaction whenever a creature you can see makes any d20 roll.

• : The result of the die roll becomes 20.
• : The result of the die roll becomes 1.

Expert Alchemy

At Level 24, you learn your choice of two Expert-level alchemy recipes. You automatically learn any spells that are required as part of the recipes you learn via this feature. Your Alchemist's Pouch can now be used to provide ingredients for Expert-level potions.

You can now brew Advanced-level potions trivially.

Emotional Attachment

At Level 25, your senses become more powerful, allowing you to use them on a wider range of subjects. When using a Diviner's Sense, you can expend two uses to target a creature that is your Friend (+3...+5) or Enemy (-3...-5), or three uses to target a creature that is an Acquaintance(+1...+2) or Unfriendly(-1...-2).

Dark Magic

As your powers grow, you gain access to additional types of magic you can use against your enemies. At Level 27, you may learn any two Sangromancy spells and any two Hypnotism spells.

Master Alchemy

At Level 30, you learn your choice of two Master-level alchemy recipes. You automatically learn any spells that are required as part of the recipes you learn via this feature.

You can now brew Expert-level potions trivially.

Medium

At Level 30, you become a true medium - a person with the ability to communicate directly through the mind with spirits and other people. You gain the following abilities:

• You can use your Voice of the Soul sense an unlimited number of times and on any target, including unwilling ones.
• You can use any Diviner's Sense an unlimited number of times per day.
• You can use a Diviner's Sense after all of your uses have been expended. If you do, there is a 50% chance of the sense having the opposite of the chosen effect.

Sage Class Feats