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==God Fist==

{{quote
|You never taught me how to stop using my fists!
|orig=Asura, Spellborg Human God Fist
|src=Asura's Wrath
}}

Strike like the fist of an angry god!  The god fist is in essence a [[monk]], one who trains their body to physical perfection and beyond.  For such pugilists, their fists become as those of deities while retaining their original frames of flesh and bone, and then exceeding them.

===Becoming a God Fist===

God fists seek to fight without relying on the tools of war to carry them through.  While all abilities are important, the god fists Mind and Body ability means that whichever abilities are focused upon, only three will ever be required.

{| class="d20 dragon monstats" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
|+ style="font-size: larger; white-space: nowrap;" | Entry Requirements
|-
! Base Attack Bonus:
| +15
|-
! Skills:
| Balance Jump or Tumble 23 ranks, Concentration 23 ranks
|-
! Feats:
| [[SRD:Improved Unarmed Strike|Improved Unarmed Strike]], [[SRD:Improved Natural Attack|Improved Natural Attack (unarmed strike)]], [[SRD:Stunning Fist|Stunning Fist]]
|-
! Special:
| Base saving throws all +10 or higher
|} 

{| class="zebra d20"
|+ <div>{{Anchor|Table: The God Fist}}</div>
<p>Hit Die: d8</p>
|-
! rowspan="2" | Level
! rowspan="2" | [[BAB|Base<br/>Attack Bonus]]
! colspan="3" | [[SRD:Saving Throw|Saving Throw]]s
! rowspan="2" | Special
|-
! [[SRD:Saving Throw#Fortitude|Fort]] || [[SRD:Saving Throw#Reflex|Ref]] || [[SRD:Saving Throw#Will|Will]]
|- 
| 1st || +1 || +2 || +2 || +2
| class="left" | Advancement, Fighting Style, Masterwork Body, Mind and Body
|- 
| 2nd || +2 || +3 || +3 || +3
| class="left" | Wire-Fu
|- 
| 3rd || +3 || +3 || +3 || +3
| class="left" | Fighting Style
|- 
| 4th || +4 || +4 || +4 || +4
| class="left" | Ki Strike (cosmic)
|- 
| 5th || +5 || +4 || +4 || +4
| class="left" | Fighting Style, Improved Wholeness of Body
|- 
| 6th || +6 || +5 || +5 || +5
| class="left" | Adapt Body
|- 
| 7th || +7 || +5 || +5 || +5
| class="left" | Fighting Style
|- 
| 8th || +8 || +6 || +6 || +6
| class="left" | Astral Spark
|- 
| 9th || +9 || +6 || +6 || +6
| class="left" | Fighting Style
|- 
| 10th || +10 || +7 || +7 || +7
| class="left" | Dual Stance, Ultimate Skill
|- class="noalt"
| colspan="42" class="skill" |
'''Class Skills ([[Skill Points::6]] + [[SRD:Intelligence|Int]] modifier per level.'''<br/>
{{3.5e Skills|Autohypnosis, 
Balance, 
Climb, 
Concentration, 
Craft, 
Diplomacy, 
Escape Artist, 
Heal, 
Hide, 
Intimidate, 
Jump, 
Knowledge (arcana) (psionics) (religion), 
Listen,
Martial Lore,
Move Silently, 
Perform, 
Profession, 
Search, 
Sense Motive, 
Sleight of Hand, 
Spot, 
Survival, 
Swim, 
Tumble, 
Use Rope}}
|}

{| class="zebra d20"
|+ {{Anchor|Table: The [[Advanced]] God Fist}}
|-
! Level || Special
|- 
| 11th|| class="left" | Bonus Feat
|- 
| 12th|| class="left" | 
|- 
| 13th|| class="left" | Fighting Style
|- 
| 14th|| class="left" | Bonus Feat
|- 
| 15th|| class="left" | 
|- 
| 16th|| class="left" | Fighting Style
|- 
| 17th|| class="left" | Bonus Feat
|- 
| 18th|| class="left" | 
|- 
| 19th|| class="left" | Fighting Style
|- 
| 20th|| class="left" | Bonus Feat
|}

====Class Features====

All of the following are class features of the God Fist.

'''{{Anchor|Advancement}}:''' A god fist advances a monk's effective monk level for AC bonus, flurry of blows, stunning fist attempts, unarmed strike damage, and other class abilities based on your monk level.  Each god fist level counts as two levels of monk.  If you don't have any monk levels, your unarmed strike damage rises as if you were a monk twice your god fist class level but you do not gain the other class abilities.  You can ignore the alignment restriction of the monk class as well.

Beyond monk 20th, the monk gains a +1 bonus to AC at 24th and every four levels beyond.  They gain a +10 bonus to speed at 21st and every three levels beyond.  When they reach monk 21st, their unarmed strike gains an additional 1d6 points of damage and begins rising again from monk 1st.  Therefore a effective 21st level monk would deal 2d10 + 1d6 + [[strength]] modifier in damage, and an effective 40th level monk would deal 2d10 + 2d10 + [[strength]] modifier in damage.  This additional damage is base weapon damage, not bonus damage, and thus is multiplied on a critical hit.  This pattern continues indefinitely (60th level monks deal 2d10+2d10+2d10, and so forth).

Finally, the monk's bonus speed becomes extraordinary and untyped, not enhancement.

'''{{Anchor|Fighting Style}}:''' At 1st level and every three levels beyond (4th, 7th, etc) a god fist learns a fighting style.  Fighting styles are functionally equivalent to martial initiator stances, and as such they cannot normally be used at the same time as a martial stance (barring effects such as being able to use two stances at once).  To enter a fighting style is a swift action, and it lasts indefinitely until you are rendered helpless or [[Uncentered (3.5e Condition)|uncentered]].  Unlike martial stances, fighting styles offer more than just a constant passive benefit.  While in a fighting style you gain access to a series of maneuvers and abilities which can be used while maintaining said style.  Most maneuvers, by default, can be used at will as a listed action.  They are classified into minor, moderate, and major abilities, as well as one final ability at 10th.

A god fist starts only knowing one fighting style but gains more as he gains levels.  The list of fighting styles and their minor, moderate, major, and final abilities are listed in their own section below.

'''{{Anchor|Masterwork Body}}:''' A god fist must prepare his mind and body to be the best around.  He gains [[Masterwork Body (3.5e Feat)|Masterwork Body]] as a bonus feat.  If he already has the feat he may choose any other fighter or monk bonus feat he qualifies for.

'''{{Anchor|Mind and Body}} {{Ex}}:''' A god fist cannot be found suffering from MAD just to fight, and he knows there is little separation between the physical and the metaphysical.  A god fist chooses one physical ability score to match up with one mental ability score.  For example, [[strength]] with [[wisdom]], [[dexterity]] with [[intelligence]], and [[constitution]] with [[charisma]].  He may use whichever ability score is highest for any ability which uses an ability score (however, skill points are not changed).  He can switch the pairings to a new array by meditating for 1 hour. Additionally, a god fist needs only half the usual sleep required to awake fully rested.

'''{{Anchor|Wire-Fu}} {{Su}}:''' The god fist is not one to be limited by the mere laws of physics.  At 2nd level, a god fist is under a constant ''[[SRD:Air Walk|air walk]]'' effect, allowing him to treat any area as solid ground, even mid-air.  It can be dispelled (caster level equal to character level) but the effect can be re-assumed as a free action on the god fists turn.  As a side effect, the god fist no longer takes any fall damage even when falling at full speed.

'''{{Anchor|Ki Strike}} {{Ex}}:''' At 4th level the god fist's unarmed strikes improve, allowing him to bypass DR/epic and DR/cosmic, as well as acting as ''ghost touch'' weapons.

'''{{Anchor|Improved Wholeness of Body}} {{Su}}:''' At 5th level, a god fist gains a [[monk|monk's wholeness of body]], except that they can recover up to 5x their effective monk level in hit points per day.  If the god fist already has the wholeness of body class feature, then their pool of healing recovers per encounter instead of per day.

'''{{Anchor|Adapt Body}} {{Ex}}:''' A 6th level god fist is under the effects of ''[[SRD:Adapt Body|adapt body]]'' as a constant extraordinary ability.

'''{{Anchor|Astral Spark}} {{Su}}:''' A 8th level god fist has a unquenchable life spark that transcends life and death itself.  The god fist becomes biologically immortal and ceases to age.  The god fist no longer takes penalties to his ability scores for aging and cannot be magically aged. Any such penalties that he has already taken, however, remain in place. Bonuses still accrue, up to the maximum +3 as normal.  In addition, the god fist becomes immune to Death effects.

If a god fist is killed and its soul is not taken within 10 minutes of death, the god fist will respawn on the astral plane in 1d10 days within a golden egg.  If the god fist can be found before then and the process interrupted the god fist will actually die, otherwise he will return to life and be transported to the location of his choice as if using ''[[SRD:Gate|gate]]''.  The golden egg has hardness equal to your effective monk level and as many hit points as the monk in question.

'''{{Anchor|Dual Stance}} {{Ex}}:''' At 10th level, a god fist can maintain two stances at the same time (be it martial initiator stances or fighting styles).  However changing each stance is its own separate swift action, or they can change both at once as a standard action.

'''{{Anchor|Ultimate Skill}}:''' At 10th level, a god fist can now use the ultimate skills of all of their various styles.

The advanced god fist gains a bonus feat (selected from the list of advanced god fist feats) at 11th and every three levels beyond (14th, 17th, etc). 

''Advanced God Fist Bonus Feat List:'' Any monk bonus feat, X.

====Fighting Styles====

A god fist can choose from several fighting styles.  Choose from the list below.

PENDING

===Campaign Information===

====Playing a God Fist====

'''Combat:''' God fists are melee fighters who need not use weapons to battle.  Their stance use allows them to adapt for the situation, becoming a brutal direct damage attacker, battlefield control, skirmish, utility, or whatever the situation calls for.

'''Advancement:''' God fists benefit from any melee oriented class, from monk-specific classes to fighter and barbarian classes.  Initiator classes benefit even more with dual stance.

'''Resources:''' God fists are few and far between, and almost all have been ancient and mystical hermits and practitioners of martial arts who have long since traveled beyond mortal kinship and thought.

====God Fists in the World====

{{quote|I have trained my fists in molten lava, roasting them until they could survive the fires of the sun itself.  LOOK!  My fists are glowing red!  Their loud roar tells me to grasp victory!|orig=Iesus, [[Makekineko (3.5e Race)|Makikoneko]] God Fist}}

'''NPC Reactions:''' Most cannot understand the secrets a god fist has unlocked about mortal potential, and as a result rarely recognize a god fist for what he is.  Most god fists make no effort to change this, for being unsuspected is an advantage.

====God Fist Lore====

Characters with ranks in Knowledge Arcana or Knowledge Psionics can research god fists to learn more about them.  When a character makes a skill check, read or paraphrase the following, including information from lower DCs.

{| class="zebra d20"
|+ Knowledge Arcana or Psionics
! DC || class="left" | Result
|-
| 30 || class="left" | God Fists are monks who have exceeded the barriers of the body and become unto a god themselves.  They can step on air and assume many powerful fighting stances.
|-
| 35 || class="left" | A god fist can beat up the gods, and survive in the harshest of environments without protection.
|-
| 40 || class="left" | Powerful god fists are said to fight like two men at once, gaining benefit from many fighting styles at the same time.  They're so powerful, they don't die even when you kill them.
|- 
| 50 || class="left" | Those that reach this level of success can learn details on specific god fists, their whereabouts, motives, training, and fighting styles of choice.
|}


====God Fists in the Game====

'''Sample Encounter:''' A powerful warrior appears, seeking the mystical plot McGuffian the PCs just uncovered.  Though powerful, he is defeated but warns that there are more of his kind coming, even stronger and faster, the fists of god themselves.  The PCs have 1 year to prepare before they come to destroy their planet.

''EL 25:'' PENDING

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Article Balance	High +
Author	Eiji-kun +
Base Attack Bonus Progression	Good +
Class Ability	Other +
Class Ability Progression	Other +
Fortitude Save Progression	Good +
Identifier	3.5e Prestige Class +
Length	10 +
Minimum Level	20 +
Rated By	TheDarkWad +
Rating	Rating Pending +
Reflex Save Progression	Good +
Skill	Autohypnosis +, Balance +, Climb +, Concentration +, Craft +, Diplomacy +, Escape Artist +, Heal +, Hide +, Intimidate +, Jump +, Knowledge +, Listen +, Martial Lore +, Move Silently +, Perform +, Profession +, Search +, Sense Motive +, Sleight of Hand +, Spot +, Survival +, Swim +, Tumble + and Use Rope +
Skill Points	6 +
Summary	The paragon of physical potential, your martial arts allow you to exceed above and beyond through mystical eastern fighting arts. +
Title	God Fist +
Will Save Progression	Good +