Commander

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“All men must follow, except for those who lead.”

Hit Die: d8

Starting Wealth: 5d6 x 10 gp (average 175 gp).

Class Skills: Animal Ken(Cha), Athletics(Str), Commerce(Int), Deceive(Cha), Craft(Int), Diplomacy(Cha), Intimidate(Cha), Lore(Int), Nature(Int), Perception(Wis), Streetwise(Int), and Warfare(Int).

Skill Ranks Per Level: 6 + Int modifier.

Proficiencies: Commanders are proficient with simple weapons, as well as light armor and bucklers. In addition, if this is this character’s first level in any class, they may select a martial tradition of their choice.

First Level Abilities

Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Reflex Save	Will Save
+0	+2	+0	+2

Combat Training

A commander may combine martial feats to create powerful martial techniques. Commanders use the higher of their Charisma or Intelligence as their practitioner modifier.

The commander also gains the martial focus ability.

Commander

A commander gains the Warleader Tradition feat as a bonus feat at 1st level.

Lingering Commands

The commander is an expert at commanding troops, even under the most difficult of conditions. Whenever the benefits of a shout or tactic the commander initiated would end, their benefits persist for a number of rounds equal to the higher of his Intelligence or Charisma modifiers. Instantaneous effects are not affected by this ability, nor are tactics that end because the commander used a swift action to activate a different tactic.

Second Level Abilities

Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Reflex Save	Will Save
+1	+3	+0	+3

Enhanced Tactics

The commander may select an enhanced tactics. Enhanced tactics are special bonuses and abilities that can affect any ally currently benefiting from one of the commander’s tactics or shouts granted by the Warleader feat. The commander may start an enhanced tactic as part of the same action used to begin a tactic or initiate a shout, and the commander may switch to any enhanced tactic he knows as a free action once per round. The commander may only have one enhanced tactic active at a time.

Some enhanced tactics allow an ally to make a free action even when it isn’t their turn. A single creature cannot make more than one such free action in a round, no matter how many enhanced tactics it might be benefiting from, even from multiple commanders.

Might Feat

You gain a single might feat.

Third Level Abilities

Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Reflex Save	Will Save
+2	+3	+0	+3

Battlefield Specialist

The commander may select a specific terrain he excels at coordinating battles in. The commander chooses one terrain and its associated benefits each time he gains this ability.

Might Feat

You gain a single might feat.

Fourth Level Abilities

Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Reflex Save	Will Save
+3	+4	+1	+4

Enhanced Tactics

The commander may select an additional enhanced tactics.

Might Feat

You gain a single might feat.

Fifth Level Abilities

Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Reflex Save	Will Save
+3	+4	+1	+4

Group Focus

Once per day, the commander may fly into a strenuous and exhausting flurry as a standard action, shouting out commands, redirecting attention, calling out threats, and generally imposing his will and order upon the battlefield, restoring the martial focus of all allies who can see and hear him.

If an affected ally would not benefit from regaining martial focus, they instead gain a morale bonus to their attack rolls, damage rolls, saving throws, AC, and CMD equal to the higher of the commander’s Charisma or Intelligence bonus for 1 round.

Sixth Level Abilities

Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Reflex Save	Will Save
+4	+5	+1	+5

Enhanced Tactics

The commander may select an additional enhanced tactics.

Might Feat

You gain a single might feat.

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