Kigoist

Those warrior poets who shed the trappings of the former portion of their name in order to focus on the latter portion of their name tend to take on the moniker of kigoist. This is derived from kigo, the seasonal reference found in traditional haiku.

Kigoists have the following class features:

Weapon Proficiency: A kigoist is proficient with simple weapons.

This ability modifies weapon proficiency.

Kigo (Sp): At 1st level, whenever a kigoist begins to orate, he dedicates his oration to a season: spring, summer, fall, or winter. Each time he expends a round of a haiku's daily duration, the season to which that haiku is dedicated gains a season charge. The maximum number of season charges each season may have dedicated to it is equal to 2 + the kigoist's Charisma modifier (minimum 2).

As a standard action, a kigoist may expend season charges from a season that has had them dedicated to it in order to cast a spell-like ability associated with that season. The number of season charges required to cast a spell-like ability varies from ability to ability.

When casting a spell-like ability using kigo, the kigoist has a caster level equal to his kigoist level and uses Charisma as his key ability.

Spring

  • create water 1 charge
  • light 1 charge
  • cure light wounds 3 charges
  • entangle 3 charges
  • flare burst 3 charges

Starting at 4th level, the kigoist may cast the following:

  • aid 5 charges
  • summon monster II (Small air elemental only) 5 charges

Starting at 8th level, the kigoist may cast the following:

  • grace 5 charges
  • resist energy (acid) 5 charges

Starting at 12th level, the kigoist may cast the following:

  • aid, mass 7 charges
  • summon monster IV (1d4+1 Small air elementals OR Medium air elemental only) 7 charges

Summer

  • spark 1 charge
  • touch of fatigue 1 charge
  • burning hands 3 charges
  • produce flame 3 charges
  • sun metal 3 charges

Starting at 4th level, the kigoist may cast the following:

  • blur 5 charges
  • summon monster II (Small fire elemental only) 5 charges

Starting at 8th level, the kigoist may cast the following:

  • resist energy (cold) 5 charges
  • scorching ray 5 charges

Starting at 12th level, the kigoist may cast the following:

  • displacement (self only) 7 charges
  • summon monster IV (1d4+1 Small fire elementals OR Medium fire elemental only) 7 charges

Fall

  • acid splash 1 charge
  • resistance 1 charge
  • divine favor 3 charges
  • goodberry 3 charges
  • magic fang 3 charges
  • magic weapon 3 charges

Starting at 4th level, the kigoist may cast the following:

  • acid arrow 5 charges
  • summon monster II (Small earth elemental only) 5 charges

Starting at 8th level, the kigoist may cast the following:

  • burst of nettles 5 charges
  • resist energy (electricity) 5 charges

Starting at 12th level, the kigoist may cast the following:

  • greater magic fang 7 charges
  • greater magic weapon 7 charges
  • summon monster IV (1d4+1 Small earth elementals OR Medium earth elemental only) 7 charges

Winter

  • dancing lights 1 charge
  • ray of frost 1 charge
  • bane 3 charges
  • inflict light wounds 3 charges
  • snowball 3 charges

Starting at 4th level, the kigoist may cast the following:

  • darkness 5 charges
  • summon monster II (Small water elemental only) 5 charges

Starting at 8th level, the kigoist may cast the following:

  • resist energy (fire) 5 charges
  • unshakable chill 5 charges

Starting at 12th level, the kigoist may cast the following:

  • sleet storm 7 charges
  • summon monster IV (1d4+1 Small water elementals OR Medium water elemental only) 7 charges

Whenever the kigoist replenishes the daily duration of his haiku, he sets the number of season charges associated with each season to 0.

Cutting Dedication (Ex): Starting at 5th level, if the kigoist has been orating for at least 3 rounds since his last kireji, he dedicates that kireji to a season other than the one to which he is currently dedicating his oration. The season to which his kireji is dedicated gains 1 season charge.

Seasonal Rapidity (Sp): Starting at 5th level, whenever the kigoist would execute a kireji after orating for at least 3 rounds since his last kireji, he may cast a spell-like ability with a charge cost of 3 or less using the kigo class feature as his kireji instead. The chosen spell-like ability must be from the season to which his current haiku is dedicated. This effectively allows him to replace a single attack in a full-attack action with a spell-like ability, while also changing from one haiku subject to the other haiku subject.

This ability replaces omamori edge and accurate omamori.

Journeyman Dedicator (Ex): At 9th level, the maximum number of season charges each season can maintain with the kigo class feature increases by +1, to a minimum of 3.

Poetic Fortitude (Ex): At 9th level and 13th level, the number of rounds that each of the kigoist's haiku can be performed daily increases by +1.

This ability replaces cutting blade.

Morning Dedication (Sp): At 13th level, whenever the kigoist replenishes the daily duration of his haiku, his kigo class feature sets the number of season charges associated with each season to 2 rather than to 0.

Master Dedicator (Ex): At 17th level, the maximum number of season charges each season can maintain with the kigo class feature increases by an additional +1, to a minimum of 4.

Juxtaposed Seasons (Sp): At 20th level, whenever the kigoist has at least 5 season charges dedicated to each season with the kigo class feature, he may expend all of his season charges to cast a spell-like ability from each of the four seasons as a standard action. Three of the four spell-like abilities chosen must have a season charge cost of 3 or less, while the fourth must have a season charge cost of 5 or less.

This ability replaces ofudamori.

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