Pegasus Knight (3.5e Class)

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Date Created:	5/15/10
Status:	40%
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Balance:	Fighter

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Pegasus Knight

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Making a Pegasus Knight

Pegasus knights specializing in mounted fighting and can fill the place of a fighter with ease, and though not as durable, she can still wield a variety of weapons, though tends to refer to weapons easily used while mounted on the back of her faithful pegasus, such as lances. With a powerful to defend the pegasus, and a powerful magical beast to defend the knight, few things would dare stand against their combined save for one, critical foe.... a low ceiling. Pegasus knights fare best when they can make use of the high mobility of their mount and take to the skies if things get rough. Combat in tight corridors deny them their special abilities while in flight and reduce the speed at which their large mount can move while on the ground.

Abilities: Pegasus knights rely heavily on strength to help them wield their mighty lances and rely on dexterity to keep them mounted on their steeds. A pegasus knight also finds being charismatic helps in dealing with people and animals alike.

Races: Any Medium/Small.

Alignment: Any non-evil

Starting Gold: 150

Starting Age: "As Fighter"

Table: The Pegasus Knight

Hit Die: d8
Level	Base Attack Bonus	Saving Throws			Special
Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort	Ref	Will	Special
1st	+1	+2	+0	+0	Pegasus Grace, Wild Empathy
2nd	+2	+3	+0	+0	Bonus Feat, Speak with Pegasai
3rd	+3	+3	+1	+1
4th	+4	+4	+1	+1
5th	+5	+4	+1	+1	Pegasus Calling, Share Spells
6th	+6/+1	+5	+2	+2	Bonus Feat
7th	+7/+2	+5	+2	+2
8th	+8/+3	+6	+2	+2	Aerial Defense
9th	+9/+4	+6	+3	+3
10th	+10/+5	+7	+3	+3	Pegasus Trick, Bonus Feat
11th	+11/+6/+1	+7	+3	+3
12th	+12/+7/+2	+8	+4	+4	Death from Above
13th	+13/+8/+3	+8	+4	+4
14th	+14/+9/+4	+9	+4	+4	Bonus Feat
15th	+15/+10/+5	+9	+5	+5	Pegasus Trick
16th	+16/+11/+6/+1	+10	+5	+5	Aerial Strike
17th	+17/+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+5
18th	+18/+13/+8/+3	+11	+6	+6	Bonus Feat
19th	+19/+14/+9/+4	+11	+6	+6
20th	+20/+15/+10/+5	+12	+6	+6	Pegasus Shield, Pegasus Trick
Class Skills (Skill Points::2 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level) Balance (Dex), Bluff (Cha), Diplomacy (Cha), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Jump (Str), Knowledge (Nature) (Int), Ride (Dex), Sense Motive (Wis), Spot (Wis), Survival (Wis),

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Pegasus Knight.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Pegasus knights are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, as well as with light and medium armor. Pegasus knights are not proficient with shields.

Pegasus Grace (Su): A pegasus knight is quite graceful and adds her charisma modifier to all of her saves.

Wild Empathy (Ex): A pegasus knight can improve the attitude of an animal. This ability functions just like a Diplomacy check to improve the attitude of a person. The pegasus knight rolls 1d20 and adds her pegasus knight level and her Charisma bonus to determine the wild empathy check result. The typical domestic animal has a starting attitude of indifferent, while wild animals are usually unfriendly.

To use wild empathy, the pegasus knight and the animal must be able to study each other, which means that they must be within 30 feet of one another under normal visibility conditions. Generally, influencing an animal in this way takes 1 minute, but, as with influencing people, it might take more or less time.

The pegasus knight can also use this ability to influence a magical beast with an Intelligence score of 1 or 2, but, unlike a ranger, takes no penalty on this check.

Bonus Feat (Ex): At second level, and every four levels thereafter, a pegasus knight may choose a bonus feat from the list of fighter bonus feats.

Speak with Pegasai (Sp): As Speak with Animals, but it only works on Pegasai and can be used at will.

Share Spells (Su): <-class feature game rule information->

Aerial Defense (Ex): <-class feature game rule information->

Pegasus Trick (Ex): <-class feature game rule information->

Death from Above (Ex): <-class feature game rule information->

Aerial Strike (Ex): <-class feature game rule information->

Pegasus Defense (Sp): <-class feature game rule information->

Ex-Pegasus Knights

Pegasus knights who become evil or fail to perform the mourning ritual for more than one year after the death of their pegasus lose the following class abilities: Pegasus Grace, Speak with Pegasai, Pegasus Calling, and Pegasus Shield and recieves a -4 penalty to their wild empathy checks to deal with magical beasts. The only way a pegasus knight may regain these features is to change fully to a good alignment or mourn for fourty-eight hours respectively and then befriend a wild pegasus through wild empathy.

Epic Pegasus Knight

Table: The Epic Pegasus Knight

Hit Die: d8
Level	Special
21st
22nd	Bonus Feat
23rd	Superior Aerial Defense
24th
25th	Pegasus Trick
26th	Bonus Feat
27th
28th	Superior Aerial Strike
29th
30th	Bonus Feat, Pegasus Trick
2 + Int modifier skill points per level.

Superior Aerial Defense: At twenty-third level, a pegasus knight's ability to evade blows grows to a +6 dodge bonus to AC while mounted and in flight.

Superior Aerial Strike: At twenty-eighth level, a pegasus knight's ability to strike a foe while in flight grows, granting them a +6 bonus to attack rolls while mounted and in flight.

Bonus Feat : The epic pegasus knight gains a bonus feat (selected from the list of epic fighter bonus feats) every four levels after 18th.

Epic Pegasus Knight Bonus Feat List: <-list of bonus epic feats->.

Elf Pegasus Knight Starting Package

Weapons: Sling (20 Bullets), Javelin, Spear

Skill Selection: Pick a number of skills equal to 2 + Int modifier.

Skill	Ranks	Ability	Armor Check Penalty
Ride	4	DEX	-2
Handle Animal	4	CHA	—

Feat: Mounted Combat.

Gear: Chain Shirt, Sling (20 Bullets), Javelin, Spear, Standard Adventuring Gear.

Gold: 4d6 GP.

Campaign Information

Playing a Pegasus Knight

Religion: Pegasus knights tend to worship gods of good, justice, freedom, or nature. They are rarely zealous in their beliefs, and often feel that the gods one worships are their own business.

Other Classes: Pegasus knights tend to get along well with most other classes, though are distrustful of rogues. Pegasus knights tend to get along best with clerics, fighters, and paladins, but have been known to form tight friendships with rangers and druids.

Combat: Pegasus knights tend to fight on the front lines of combat, either mounted on their steed, or along side it. When atop their pegasus, the pegasus knight makes use of weapons with a long reach to strike at their enemies while taking advantage of such feats as Ride-By Attack and Trample. When fighting off of their mount, the pegasus knight and her mount aid one another by flanking the foe.

Advancement: Most pegasus knights remain true to their path, growing in strength as a rider. Some pegasus knights, however, multiclass into other various martial classes, such as a fighter or a ranger. More devout pegasus knights sometimes multiclass into clerics.

Pegasus Knights in the World

“

You always have the advantage when you have the high human pegasus knight

”

“

Oh, the gods damn this to the nine hells. Another cave?

”

Pegasus knights regularly find themselves in dealing with local people, filling the same roles in a society that a fighter would, though are generally respected among the societies in which they inhabit.

Daily Life: <-day in the life of a character of this class->.

Notables: Emma "Lightfeather" Davis, Erik "Freedive" Elgeon

Organizations: Pegasus knights tend to congregate in hybrid training academies/stables. These schools are usually named after their founder's knight-name, such as the Lightfeather School, or the Freedive Academy.

NPC Reactions: NPCs are generally friendly towards pegasus knights. The way they hold themselves and the general respect with which they conduct their affairs leads to them being generally likable by the populous. Furthermore, more than one pegasus knight has become the protector of her people and are often regarded as heroes and defenders of good, just as a paladin would be.

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