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<blockquote data-quote="Obly99" data-source="post: 8795377" data-attributes="member: 7035194"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">Player in Yellow</span></strong></p><p>Originally found here (<a href="https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?454484-Servant-of-the-Great-Old-Ones-Player-in-Yellow-%28PrC%29&p=20020291#post20020291" target="_blank">Servant of the Great Old Ones - Player in Yellow (PrC)</a>), I rewrote many abilities by taking from Hastur-related archetypes (<a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/190682/Weekly-Wonders--Eldritch-Archetypes-Volume-IV--Archetypes-of-Hastur" target="_blank">Weekly Wonders - Eldritch Archetypes Volume IV - Archetypes of Hastur - Necromancers of the Northwest | Weekly Wonders | DriveThruRPG.com</a>) and from the King in Yellow template (<a href="http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/the-king-in-yellow" target="_blank">The King In Yellow - Spheres of Power Wiki</a>)</p><p>A Player in Yellow is a servant of the King in Yellow, tainted by his touch of madness which has changed them to the depths of their souls. The players go forth and spread his cult, the cult of the Yellow Sign, using the insidious and addictive beauty of the play named for their lord as their weapon.</p><p></p><p><strong>Becoming a Player in Yellow</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Hit Die:</strong> d8.</p><p></p><p>Becoming a player in yellow requires watching the play the King in Yellow and approaching an existing servant of the King in Yellow to teach you the ways of the King, to teach you your role in the play. Those who are deemed worthy of a role can become Players in Yellow to spread their King’s will.</p><p></p><p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Alignment:</strong> Chaotic Evil.</p><p></p><p><strong>Class Feature:</strong> Bardic Performance.</p><p></p><p><strong>Deity:</strong> Must worship Hastur or its Avatar the King in Yellow.</p><p></p><p><strong>Feats:</strong> Deific Obedience (Hastur), Servant of the Old Ones, Words of Binding Madness.</p><p></p><p><strong>Skills:</strong> Bluff 10 ranks, Disguise 10 ranks, Perform (Act) 10 ranks, Profession (Yog-Sothothery Philosopher) 10 ranks.</p><p></p><p><strong>Special:</strong> Must have watched or read the King in Yellow.</p><p></p><p><strong>Class Skills</strong></p><p>The Player in Yellow’s class skills (and the key ability modifier for each skill) are Acrobatics (Dex), Appraise (Int), Bluff (Cha), Climb (Str), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Disguise (Cha), Escape Artist (Dex), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (all) (Int), Linguistics (Int), Perception (Wis), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis), Sleight of Hand (Dex), Spellcraft (Int), Stealth (Dex), and Use Magic Device (Cha).</p><p></p><p><strong>Skill Ranks per Level:</strong> 6 + Int modifier.</p><p></p><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td><p style="text-align: center"><strong>Level</strong></p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center"><strong>Base Attack<br /> Bonus</strong></p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center"><strong>Fort Save</strong></p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center"><strong>Ref Save</strong></p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center"><strong>Will Save</strong></p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center"><strong>Special</strong></p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center"><strong>Spells per Day</strong></p> </td></tr><tr><td><p style="text-align: center">1st</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+0</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+0</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">Act of Madness, Maddening Play, Pallid Mask, Servant of the Yellow King</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">–</p> </td></tr><tr><td><p style="text-align: center">2nd</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">Plea to the King, Soliloquy of Maddening Passion</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1 level of existing class</p> </td></tr><tr><td><p style="text-align: center">3rd</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+2</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+2</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+2</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">Fascinating Performance</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1 level of existing class</p> </td></tr><tr><td><p style="text-align: center">4th</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+3</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+2</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+2</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">Command of the Yellow Sign, Lesser Yellow Sign</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1 level of existing class</p> </td></tr><tr><td><p style="text-align: center">5th</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+3</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+2</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+3</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+3</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">Blessing of the Yellow Sign, Masque of the Yellow Shroud, Mystery Shroud</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1 level of existing class</p> </td></tr><tr><td><p style="text-align: center">6th</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+4</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+2</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+3</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+3</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">Soliloquy of Carcosa</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">–</p> </td></tr><tr><td><p style="text-align: center">7th</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+5</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+2</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+4</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+4</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">I Wear no Mask, The King’s Voice</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1 level of existing class</p> </td></tr><tr><td><p style="text-align: center">8th</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+6</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+3</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+4</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+4</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">Enter the Empty City, The King’s Tatters</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1 level of existing class</p> </td></tr><tr><td><p style="text-align: center">9th</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+6</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+3</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+5</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+5</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">Role of the Shepherd</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+1 level of existing class</p> </td></tr><tr><td><p style="text-align: center">10th</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+7</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+3</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+5</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">+5</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">Call the King in Yellow, Yellow Sign, The King in Yellow, The Unspeakable Name</p> </td><td><p style="text-align: center">–</p> </td></tr></table><p></p><p><strong>Class Features</strong></p><p>All of the following are class features of the Player in Yellow.</p><p></p><p><strong>Weapons and Armor Proficiencies</strong></p><p>Player in Yellow do not gain proficiency with any additional weapons or armor.</p><p></p><p><strong>Spellcasting</strong></p><p>At the indicated levels, a Player in Yellow gains new spells per day as if he had also gained a level in a spellcasting class to which he belonged before taking the prestige class. He does not, however, gain other benefits a character of that class would have gained, except for additional spells per day, spells known (if he is a spontaneous spellcaster), and an increased effective level of spellcasting. If the character had more than one spellcasting class before becoming a Player in Yellow, he must decide to which class he adds the new level for the purposes of determining spells per day.</p><p></p><p><strong>Act of Madness (Su)</strong></p><p>A Player in Yellow's class levels stack with any levels he may possess in order to determine the benefits of his bardic performance class feature.</p><p></p><p><strong>Maddening Play (Su)</strong></p><p>A Player in Yellow can create a lesser version of the opera King in Yellow using 10 rounds of his bardic performance. This spectacle is performed as either a 1 man play or with aides. The first act is 30 minutes and somewhat trite, while the 2nd act is another 30 minutes but has a fascinating effect. Creatures which attempt to leave during the second act must make a Will save (same DC of your Bardic Performance) or be forced to remain and watch. A creature can make a new save every 10 minutes. Any creature which watches the entirety of the 2nd Act gains a mild or moderate depravity of your choice (same applied to entire audience) for 1 week (see below). If this is used on the same creature before a week has passed the new depravity replaces the former (they do not stack). In addition a creature that has watched a Maddening Play feels compelled to watch it again. If able to watch for a reasonable price (a few gold at most, but within their means) a creature must make a Will save or be compelled to watch it again given the opportunity; every month that has passed since a creature watched a Maddening Play grants a +1 bonus on this save and a successful save stifles the urge for 1 day. The fascinating is a charm, mind-affecting effect while the compulsion to watch it again is a compulson mind-affecting effect.</p><p></p><p><em>Mild Depravity Effects</em></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Aggressive:</strong> You are easily angered and cannot hide your feelings. In combat, you try so hard to hurt your enemies that you neglect your own defense, and you take a –1 penalty to Armor Class.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Bestial:</strong> You take on a ferocious, wild demeanor. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus on Handle Animal, Ride, and wild empathy checks. You take a –1 penalty on other Charismabased ability checks and skill checks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Compulsive:</strong> Pick a compulsive ritual to adopt. For example, you and your equipment are never clean enough. You can only break out of the compulsive pattern by eating bugs, which sometimes disagree with you. Once each day, make a DC 10 Fortitude save; if you fail, take 1d4 points of nonlethal damage.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Crazed: </strong>You can no longer easily cope with sudden changes in circumstance. If you are surprised at the outset of an encounter, for your fi rst action you have an equal chance of charging the foe or running away.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Disoriented: </strong>You lose track of events. If you are surprised at the outset of an encounter, you are dazed for 1 round.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Mildly Phobic:</strong> You gain a lesser phobia, which requires you to succeed on a Will save or become shaken whenever you encounter the object of your phobia. The DC of the save equals 12 + the CR of the challenge that is the object of the phobia. (Treat CRs of less than 1 as 0.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Neglectful: </strong>You disregard hygiene and cultural mores. You take a –2 penalty on Charisma-based ability checks and skill checks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Opinionated:</strong> You are so wrapped up in commenting on everything you hear that you are often caught off-guard. You are always flat-footed in the first round of combat.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Prophetic:</strong> Your dark dreams torment you with strange visions of things that might occur in the future. You zealously proclaim a different prophecy each week, making sure everyone you meet knows what is about to transpire. Your DM determines what prophetic insight you envision each week (10% are actually accurate!). In addition, you take all the usual ill effects of continual nightmares (see Dreams and Nightmares, page 52).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: left"><strong>Sycophantic:</strong> You fill the air with a torrent of unctuous flattery of your companions, opponents, or imaginary friends. You take a –2 penalty on Perception checks. Enemies gain a +2 bonus on Perception checks to hear you.</p> </li> </ul><p></p><p><em>Moderate Depravity Effects</em></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Delusional:</strong> You’re convinced that the world is an illusion and that you and your companions are being controlled by inhabitants of a distant, alien realm. You take a –2 penalty on Wisdom-based ability checks and skill checks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Deranged:</strong> Your grasp upon reality becomes tenuous. You take a –2 penalty on Intelligence-based ability checks and skill checks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Distracted:</strong> You pay more attention to the whispers in your mind than to your surroundings. You take a –2 penalty on skill checks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Hallucinating:</strong> You see things that aren’t there, and often have trouble sorting reality from your imagination. You take a –6 penalty on initiative checks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Hysterical:</strong> Everything you meet is hilarious. It takes a short time to perceive the humor; then a laughing jag overwhelms you. During the second round of a combat encounter, you can take only a single move action or standard action.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Jittery:</strong> You are easily startled and spooked. If you are hit while flat-footed, you become panicked.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Moderately Phobic:</strong> You gain a moderate phobia, which requires you to succeed on a Will save (DC 14 + the CR of the challenge) or become frightened whenever you encounter the object of your phobia. This symptom replaces (doesn’t stack) with mildly phobic.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Solipsistic: </strong>You believe that you are the only thing that matters in the universe. As a result, whenever you are struck in combat, you have to make a DC 20 Will save. If you fail the save, you take an additional 1 point of damage per die of damage received.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Treacherous: </strong>Any time the chance to make an attack of opportunity presents itself, whether against an opponent or an ally, make a DC 20 Will save. If you fail the save, you must make the attack of opportunity, even if the target is your closest ally. If presented with multiple targets, determine randomly which you attack.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Weak-Willed:</strong> The constant presence of strange voices whispering in your ears has sapped your will. You take a –3 penalty on Will saves.</li> </ul><p></p><p><strong>Pallid Mask (Ex)</strong></p><p>Your face is a mask perfectly under your own control and the distinction between the actor and the character begins to blur making your personal truth highly malleable. You gain a bonus to Bluff checks made to convince another of the truth of your words of 5 + your character level; this bonus does not stack with that granted by a Glibness spell. If a magical effect is used against you that would detect your lies or force you to speak the truth the user of the effect must succeed on a caster level check (1d20 + caster level) against a DC of 20 + twice your Player in Yellow level to succeed. Failure means the effect does not detect your lies or force you to speak only the truth. A creature is not aware of making this caster level.</p><p></p><p><strong>Servant of the Yellow King (Ex</strong>)</p><p>You have pledged your soul to the King in Yellow, while his touch has maddened you leaving your sanity marred it shields you against the deepest madness. You gain the greater madness schizophrenia with the following difference: the Will save is 16 instead of 22, the penalty on Wisdom and Charisma-based checks is only -2 (with the exception of Profession [Yog-Sothothery Philosopher] which does not take the penalty) and you can take 10 or 20 but the dice result is halved (5 and 10 respectively). This madness can only be removed with miracle or wish and in any case even if removed it returns in 1d4 days. However, with this madness comes true clarity. You use your Charisma score instead of Wisdom for your Will saves and use Charisma for all Wisdom-based skill checks and rolls. You gain immunity to confusion, madness, insanity, and nightmare (with the exception of your schizophrenia madness). You gain Psychic Sensitivity as a bonus feat.</p><p></p><p><strong>Plea to the King (Su)</strong></p><p>At 2nd level, the Player in Yellow can make a secret plea to the King in Yellow himself by writing his name in his own blood upon a flat surface under starlight. Once per day, as a full-round action, the Player in Yellow can make a plea to Hastur to gain deep insight about an object, person, or place. The Player in Yellow makes a special check, rolling 1d20 and adding his Bard level, his Player in Yellow level and his Charisma modifier, and the DC for this check depends on how well known the subject of the plea is. If the subject is relatively well known, the DC is 10; if the subject is not well known, the DC is 20; if the subject is obscure, the DC is 30. If the check is successful, then when the Player in Yellow next sleeps, he receives detailed dream visions of the subject’s history, as with the spell legend lore. If the subject was a magic item, he also identifies all the properties of that item, whether or not the item is cursed, and how to activate any of its abilities. If the result of the check is a natural 1, then regardless of whether the check was successful or not, the Player in Yellow is wracked with horrible dreams and visions regarding the subject, being subjected to the nightmare spell with no saving throw (this overcome the immunity given by servant of the yellow king class feature).</p><p></p><p><strong>Soliloquy of Maddening Passion (Su)</strong></p><p>At 2nd level, the Player in Yellow can use his bardic performance to create a tune which forces a single creature within 30 feet who can hear the Player in Yellow to succeed on a Will save (same DC of the bardic performance) or be affected by confusion. Further, any character that is affected by this ability cannot attack the Player in Yellow unless he can act normally (even if he is nearest creature). A natural 1 on this saving throw results in the target suffering permanent confusion, as the spell insanity. This is sonic, language-dependent, compulsion, mind-affecting effect.</p><p></p><p><strong>Fascinating Performance (Su)</strong></p><p>At 3rd level, the Maddening Play now fascinates viewers (Will negate, same DC of the bardic performance) at the start of the 2nd act, who fails the save against the charm cannot make the save for leave early. Obvious dangers immediately break the charm effect. Also, one of the creature which watches the entirety of the 2nd Act of your choice is more charmed and becomes infatuated with you (Will negate, same DC of the bardic performance), if it’s attracted to your gender (as an elixir of love with unlimited duration and that work on any type of creature of any size, not only humanoid of Medium or smaller size). The creature can reroll the save once per day. At the start of each day, you can chose to consume half of your total daily round of bardic performance to automatically cause the creature to fail its saving throw. If you take overtly hostile or dangerous actions against the infatuated creature, the charm is automatically broken. This is a charm, mind-affecting effect.</p><p></p><p><strong>Command of the Yellow Sign (Su)</strong></p><p>At 4th level, as a standard action you can use 1 round of your bardic performance to make the Yellow Sign appear and glow on your face or hand and issue a command to a single creature within 60 ft. which falls into one of the following categories:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the creature is a worshipper of Hastur or of the King in Yellow.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the creature is of a race typically associated with the worship of Hastur or of the King in Yellow (like the Byakhee, the Flying Polyp or a Keeper of the Yellow Sign).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the creature has assisted to the play or has read The King in Yellow, has ever watched a Maddening Act or has suffered the effect of an active Yellow Sing or Lesser Yellow Sign (see below).</li> </ul><p>This work as a <em>dominate monster</em> with caster level equal to your character level with the difference that ignore immunity to enchantment, mind-affecting or compulsion effect if the creature falls into one of the first two categories. A creature forced to take actions against its nature does not receives a new saving throw with a +2 bonus if he falls into one of the first two categories (obviously self-destructive orders are still not carried out). A Will save (same DC of the bardic performance) negate the effect and the creature become immune to command of the yellow sing for 24 hours from the same Player in Yellow.</p><p></p><p><strong>Lesser Yellow Sign (Su)</strong></p><p>At 4th level, once per day, the Player in Yellow can make a lesser yellow sign which forces anyone who views it to succeed on a Will (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier) save or become known to Hastur (B4), and possibly subject to Hastur’s attacks and special abilities, including its dream, demand, and other abilities. A yellow sign created in this way lasts for 1 year, or until the Player in Yellow creates a new one (the old sign remains, but simply loses its potency).</p><p></p><p><strong>Blessing of the Yellow Sign (Su)</strong></p><p>At 5th level, mindless undead creatures do not attack you unless attacked first, and all other undead and mythos creature/cultist understand that the Player in Yellow to be an ally and are well-disposed toward him in most cases (the starting attitude of undead creatures and mythos creature/cultist change to friendly unless the specific undead or cultist has its specific reasons for having a different attitude [like the cult of Cthulhu]).</p><p></p><p><strong>Masque of the Yellow Shroud (Su)</strong></p><p>At 5th level, the Player in Yellow can use his bardic performance to create a tune which enhance his combat capacity. While this performance is active you gain a profane bonus on attack rolls or a profane bonus to AC equal to your Charisma modifier. At the beginning of each round you may change to which the bonus applies.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mystery Shroud (Sp)</strong></p><p>The Player in Yellow shrouded in an aura of mystery. At 5th level, the Player in Yellow gains <em>nondetection</em> as a constant spell-like ability with caster level equal to his character level. At 10th level, this increase to a <em>mind blank</em> spell.</p><p></p><p><strong>Soliloquy of Carcosa (Su)</strong></p><p>At 6th level, the Player in Yellow can use his bardic performance to create a tune which forces a single creature within 30 feet who can hear the Player in Yellow to succeed on a Will save (same DC of the bardic performance) or be locked in a vision of the Empty Carcosa; a creature that fails is locked as long as you continue. Each round they may make another Will save at -4 but they are otherwise flat-footed and unaware of their surroundings. Any damage dealt to the creature frees it from the revelry. A creature that receives these visions finds their dreams haunted by them, the visions arriving in daydreams if they do not sleep. Each night the recipient must make a Will save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier) or suffer an effect of <em>nightmare </em>with caster level equal to your caster level. This is sonic, language-dependent, compulsion, mind-affecting effect.</p><p></p><p><strong>I Wear No Mask (Su)</strong></p><p>At 7th level, as a swift action you can suppress your Pallid Mask ability and reveal the full horror of your soul. When you do so, you radiate an aura of evil which can be felt even without magic; you are considered an evil cleric of your hit dice for the purposes of Detect Evil and any creature within 60 ft. of you gets the unswerving knowledge that you are in fact Evil and of your presence (this is blocked by line of effect). A Knowledge (planes) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery Philosopher) DC 25 reveals you serve an Outer God, a DC 30 check reveals you serve Hastur. Any creature that is not an ally who is well acquainted with your nature as a servant of The Unspeakable One must make a Will save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier) or be frightened for as long as they can directly sense you and 1d6 rounds thereafter, if they are placed within this area again they grow terrified once more; success grants immunity for 24 hours. You gain a melee touch attack which deals 1d6 damage per 3 HD; this damage bypasses all damage reduction and energy resistance. It is a pain effect. A creature that take this damage must make a Will save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier) or suffer the effect of confusion for 1d6 rounds. You can reveal your true nature in this way for only a limited period of time each day, for a number rounds equal to your Player in Yellow level plus your Charisma modifier. The rounds don’t have to be used consecutively, but must be used in 1-round increments. It is a swift action to reveal your nature but a free action to conceal it once more.</p><p></p><p><strong>The King’s Voice (Su)</strong></p><p>At 7th level, once per round as a free action, you may pose a question to a single target within 30 feet. The target can resist with a successful Will save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier). If the save fails, the character immediately answers the question in the most efficient and truthful manner possible. This is a sonic, language-dependent, compulsion, mind-affecting effect and the creature must be able to understand the question (a common language and sufficient intelligence). Once the saving throw is successful, a creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours.</p><p></p><p><strong>Enter the Empty City (Sp)</strong></p><p>At 8th level, a Player in Yellow can escape this reality, entering the Empty Carcosa (<a href="https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Carcosa" target="_blank">Carcosa - PathfinderWiki</a>). He can cast <em>interplanetary teleport</em> once per day as a spell-like ability with caster level equal to his character level, but only to travel to Carcosa, or to return to the planet on the Material Plane from which he departed from Carcosa. The first time he uses this ability to travel to Carcosa, he arrives in a random location there. Thereafter, each time he uses this ability to travel to the planet on the Material Plane from which he departed, he arrives within 5d100 feet of where he was when he last left the plant, and each time he uses the ability to travel to Carcosa, he arrives within 5d100 feet of where he was when he last left Carcosa. He can bring up to eight willing creatures with her each time she uses this ability.</p><p></p><p><strong>The King’s Tatters (Su)</strong></p><p>At 8th level, a Player in Yellow is increasingly similar to the King in Yellow. You can become shrouded in tattered strips of yellow cloth that wind over and across your body. You can dismiss or recall this cloth as a move action. These tatters do not take up a magic item slot, nor do they interfere with worn magic items. While worn this cloth give you an armor bonus to AC equal to your Player in Yellow but you cannot wear any armor or use any shield while those cloth are present. Whenever a non-worshipper of Hastur or King in Yellow creature makes a melee weapon attack against the Player in Yellow or ends its movement in a square adjacent to the Player in Yellow while those cloth are presented, it must make a successful Reflex save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier) to avoid being touched by one of these animated tatters of cloth. A creature that makes a melee attack with an unarmed strike, touch spell, or natural weapon is automatically touched by the tatters. Upon being touched, the creature’s dreams will forever more be haunted by the King’s whispers and poisonous truths. The victim suffers a –4 penalty on all saving throws against mind-affecting effects or effects that cause fatigue or exhaustion created by the Player in Yellow or any other servant of Hastur. This penalty increases to –8 against the effects of a nightmare spell cast by any creature. This is a mind-affecting curse effect.</p><p></p><p><strong>Role of the Shepherd (Su)</strong></p><p>At 9th level, all the creatures which watches the entirety of the 2nd Act of Maddening Play and have less HD of your Player in Yellow levels must make a Will save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier) or change their alignment to Chaotic Evil, becoming fanatical Hastur cultist. They see you as they cult leader and follow you wherever you lead. Only wish or miracle can remove the effect.</p><p></p><p><strong>Call the King in Yellow (Su)</strong></p><p>At 10th level, the Player in Yellow can invoke the lines of the King in Yellow to call an avatar of his master Hastur into existence for a short time. Once per month, by expending 20 rounds of bardic performance, the Player in Yellow player can summon Hastur as a full-round action. When he does, he suffers 1d10 points of Wisdom damage. Hastur is not under the control of the Player in Yellow, and is able to act however it wishes for 3 hours, after which time it departs from whence it came.</p><p></p><p><strong>Yellow Sing (Su)</strong></p><p>At 10th level, once per day as a swift action, you can touch any solid surface and inscribe the Yellow Sign upon it. Once inscribed, the Yellow Sign remains for a year, but is active only on certain nights when the light from Hastur’s distant world shines in the night sky as a star. Any creature that looks upon an active Yellow Sign must succeed at a Will save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier, or 40; whichever is higher) to avoid becoming dominated by Hastur (as <em>dominate monster</em>); whether or not the save is successful, the creature doesn’t have to save against that Yellow Sign again for 24 hours. A Yellow Sign can be removed with dispel chaos, dispel evil, or erase, any of which requires the caster to succeed at a DC (15 plus twice your Player in Yellow level) caster level check. Mage’s disjunction automatically removes a Yellow Sign.</p><p></p><p><strong>The King in Yellow (Su)</strong></p><p>At 10th level, once per year, you can perform the play The King in Yellow. The play is divided into two parts of 1 hour each. The play The King in Yellow and its two parts count as Maddening Play for the need to make a Will save for leave during the second act and for the purpose of Fascinating Performance and Role of the Shepard. The first act is simple, almost banal, while the second act is of unearthly, poisonous beauty that enthralls the mind and soul. Performing the opera requires a suitable venue (a theater is generally fine), 10,000 gp on props, at least 1,000 spectators, at least 20 aiders as actors, and 2 successful Performance (Act) checks DC 40. If the work is performed in an unsuitable place, without the expense for the props, without enough spectators or aiders or without being able to perform the two skill checks, no supernatural effect occurs. If all the preparations and execution are correct the true power of the King in Yellow is revealed. Within one-mile radius x your Charisma modifier (minimum 1), centered on the opera's performance site, everything begins to get sucked into Carcosa. Starting from the moment of activation, creatures have 10 rounds to leave before everything is brought to Carcosa as per the effect of <em>Plane Shift</em> (Will DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier, or 40; whichever is higher; negate the effect). Dimensional anchor, dimensional lock, and other non-mythic methods of avoiding teleport give a +8 saving throw. The only way to stop the transport of the Region to Carcosa is to kill or incapacitate you before the end of the tenth round. You cannot leave the location in which you have activated the power during this period by moving or by magical methods, any effects automatically fail, even wish or miracle. The buildings and environments of the region are not transported directly but their "soul" is torn and taken to Carcosa where they create an area equal to that of the ritual. In the original area all that remains is the silent environments and crumbling and ghostly buildings that are soon occupied by spectre and worst horrors, attracted by the evil that took place there. Generally, just before starting the opera or just as soon as the opera is finished, a Player in Yellow uses his Call King in Yellow ability to protect himself from would-be heroes.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Unspeakable Name (Sp/Su)</strong></p><p>At 10th level, whenever any creature on the same plane as you speaks your name you can sense it and can cast <em>Scrying</em> as a spell-like ability with caster level equal to your character level upon them for 5 rounds as a swift action. As a standard action, during this period, you may cast <em>Greater Teleport</em> as a spell-like ability with caster level equal to your character level for transport yourself and potentially others allies to their location. If a creature is immune to scrying, you still sense the direction and vaguely distance (you are off by up to 15%) that your name was spoken, in although you may not teleport there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Obly99, post: 8795377, member: 7035194"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=7]Player in Yellow[/SIZE][/B][/CENTER] Originally found here ([URL='https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?454484-Servant-of-the-Great-Old-Ones-Player-in-Yellow-%28PrC%29&p=20020291#post20020291']Servant of the Great Old Ones - Player in Yellow (PrC)[/URL]), I rewrote many abilities by taking from Hastur-related archetypes ([URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/190682/Weekly-Wonders--Eldritch-Archetypes-Volume-IV--Archetypes-of-Hastur']Weekly Wonders - Eldritch Archetypes Volume IV - Archetypes of Hastur - Necromancers of the Northwest | Weekly Wonders | DriveThruRPG.com[/URL]) and from the King in Yellow template ([URL='http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/the-king-in-yellow']The King In Yellow - Spheres of Power Wiki[/URL]) A Player in Yellow is a servant of the King in Yellow, tainted by his touch of madness which has changed them to the depths of their souls. The players go forth and spread his cult, the cult of the Yellow Sign, using the insidious and addictive beauty of the play named for their lord as their weapon. [B]Becoming a Player in Yellow Hit Die:[/B] d8. Becoming a player in yellow requires watching the play the King in Yellow and approaching an existing servant of the King in Yellow to teach you the ways of the King, to teach you your role in the play. Those who are deemed worthy of a role can become Players in Yellow to spread their King’s will. [B]Prerequisites: Alignment:[/B] Chaotic Evil. [B]Class Feature:[/B] Bardic Performance. [B]Deity:[/B] Must worship Hastur or its Avatar the King in Yellow. [B]Feats:[/B] Deific Obedience (Hastur), Servant of the Old Ones, Words of Binding Madness. [B]Skills:[/B] Bluff 10 ranks, Disguise 10 ranks, Perform (Act) 10 ranks, Profession (Yog-Sothothery Philosopher) 10 ranks. [B]Special:[/B] Must have watched or read the King in Yellow. [B]Class Skills[/B] The Player in Yellow’s class skills (and the key ability modifier for each skill) are Acrobatics (Dex), Appraise (Int), Bluff (Cha), Climb (Str), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Disguise (Cha), Escape Artist (Dex), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (all) (Int), Linguistics (Int), Perception (Wis), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis), Sleight of Hand (Dex), Spellcraft (Int), Stealth (Dex), and Use Magic Device (Cha). [B]Skill Ranks per Level:[/B] 6 + Int modifier. [TABLE] [TR] [TD][CENTER][B]Level[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER][B]Base Attack Bonus[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER][B]Fort Save[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER][B]Ref Save[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER][B]Will Save[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER][B]Special[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER][B]Spells per Day[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]1st[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+0[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+0[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]Act of Madness, Maddening Play, Pallid Mask, Servant of the Yellow King[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]–[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]2nd[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]Plea to the King, Soliloquy of Maddening Passion[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1 level of existing class[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]3rd[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+2[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+2[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+2[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]Fascinating Performance[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1 level of existing class[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]4th[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+3[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+2[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+2[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]Command of the Yellow Sign, Lesser Yellow Sign[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1 level of existing class[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]5th[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+3[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+2[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+3[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+3[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]Blessing of the Yellow Sign, Masque of the Yellow Shroud, Mystery Shroud[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1 level of existing class[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]6th[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+4[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+2[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+3[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+3[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]Soliloquy of Carcosa[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]–[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]7th[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+5[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+2[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+4[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+4[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]I Wear no Mask, The King’s Voice[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1 level of existing class[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]8th[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+6[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+3[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+4[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+4[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]Enter the Empty City, The King’s Tatters[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1 level of existing class[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]9th[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+6[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+3[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+5[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+5[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]Role of the Shepherd[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+1 level of existing class[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]10th[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+7[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+3[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+5[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]+5[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]Call the King in Yellow, Yellow Sign, The King in Yellow, The Unspeakable Name[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]–[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [B]Class Features[/B] All of the following are class features of the Player in Yellow. [B]Weapons and Armor Proficiencies[/B] Player in Yellow do not gain proficiency with any additional weapons or armor. [B]Spellcasting[/B] At the indicated levels, a Player in Yellow gains new spells per day as if he had also gained a level in a spellcasting class to which he belonged before taking the prestige class. He does not, however, gain other benefits a character of that class would have gained, except for additional spells per day, spells known (if he is a spontaneous spellcaster), and an increased effective level of spellcasting. If the character had more than one spellcasting class before becoming a Player in Yellow, he must decide to which class he adds the new level for the purposes of determining spells per day. [B]Act of Madness (Su)[/B] A Player in Yellow's class levels stack with any levels he may possess in order to determine the benefits of his bardic performance class feature. [B]Maddening Play (Su)[/B] A Player in Yellow can create a lesser version of the opera King in Yellow using 10 rounds of his bardic performance. This spectacle is performed as either a 1 man play or with aides. The first act is 30 minutes and somewhat trite, while the 2nd act is another 30 minutes but has a fascinating effect. Creatures which attempt to leave during the second act must make a Will save (same DC of your Bardic Performance) or be forced to remain and watch. A creature can make a new save every 10 minutes. Any creature which watches the entirety of the 2nd Act gains a mild or moderate depravity of your choice (same applied to entire audience) for 1 week (see below). If this is used on the same creature before a week has passed the new depravity replaces the former (they do not stack). In addition a creature that has watched a Maddening Play feels compelled to watch it again. If able to watch for a reasonable price (a few gold at most, but within their means) a creature must make a Will save or be compelled to watch it again given the opportunity; every month that has passed since a creature watched a Maddening Play grants a +1 bonus on this save and a successful save stifles the urge for 1 day. The fascinating is a charm, mind-affecting effect while the compulsion to watch it again is a compulson mind-affecting effect. [I]Mild Depravity Effects[/I] [LIST] [*][B]Aggressive:[/B] You are easily angered and cannot hide your feelings. In combat, you try so hard to hurt your enemies that you neglect your own defense, and you take a –1 penalty to Armor Class. [*][B]Bestial:[/B] You take on a ferocious, wild demeanor. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus on Handle Animal, Ride, and wild empathy checks. You take a –1 penalty on other Charismabased ability checks and skill checks. [*][B]Compulsive:[/B] Pick a compulsive ritual to adopt. For example, you and your equipment are never clean enough. You can only break out of the compulsive pattern by eating bugs, which sometimes disagree with you. Once each day, make a DC 10 Fortitude save; if you fail, take 1d4 points of nonlethal damage. [*][B]Crazed: [/B]You can no longer easily cope with sudden changes in circumstance. If you are surprised at the outset of an encounter, for your fi rst action you have an equal chance of charging the foe or running away. [*][B]Disoriented: [/B]You lose track of events. If you are surprised at the outset of an encounter, you are dazed for 1 round. [*][B]Mildly Phobic:[/B] You gain a lesser phobia, which requires you to succeed on a Will save or become shaken whenever you encounter the object of your phobia. The DC of the save equals 12 + the CR of the challenge that is the object of the phobia. (Treat CRs of less than 1 as 0.) [*][B]Neglectful: [/B]You disregard hygiene and cultural mores. You take a –2 penalty on Charisma-based ability checks and skill checks. [*][B]Opinionated:[/B] You are so wrapped up in commenting on everything you hear that you are often caught off-guard. You are always flat-footed in the first round of combat. [*][B]Prophetic:[/B] Your dark dreams torment you with strange visions of things that might occur in the future. You zealously proclaim a different prophecy each week, making sure everyone you meet knows what is about to transpire. Your DM determines what prophetic insight you envision each week (10% are actually accurate!). In addition, you take all the usual ill effects of continual nightmares (see Dreams and Nightmares, page 52). [*][LEFT][B]Sycophantic:[/B] You fill the air with a torrent of unctuous flattery of your companions, opponents, or imaginary friends. You take a –2 penalty on Perception checks. Enemies gain a +2 bonus on Perception checks to hear you.[/LEFT] [/LIST] [I]Moderate Depravity Effects[/I] [LIST] [*][B]Delusional:[/B] You’re convinced that the world is an illusion and that you and your companions are being controlled by inhabitants of a distant, alien realm. You take a –2 penalty on Wisdom-based ability checks and skill checks. [*][B]Deranged:[/B] Your grasp upon reality becomes tenuous. You take a –2 penalty on Intelligence-based ability checks and skill checks. [*][B]Distracted:[/B] You pay more attention to the whispers in your mind than to your surroundings. You take a –2 penalty on skill checks. [*][B]Hallucinating:[/B] You see things that aren’t there, and often have trouble sorting reality from your imagination. You take a –6 penalty on initiative checks. [*][B]Hysterical:[/B] Everything you meet is hilarious. It takes a short time to perceive the humor; then a laughing jag overwhelms you. During the second round of a combat encounter, you can take only a single move action or standard action. [*][B]Jittery:[/B] You are easily startled and spooked. If you are hit while flat-footed, you become panicked. [*][B]Moderately Phobic:[/B] You gain a moderate phobia, which requires you to succeed on a Will save (DC 14 + the CR of the challenge) or become frightened whenever you encounter the object of your phobia. This symptom replaces (doesn’t stack) with mildly phobic. [*][B]Solipsistic: [/B]You believe that you are the only thing that matters in the universe. As a result, whenever you are struck in combat, you have to make a DC 20 Will save. If you fail the save, you take an additional 1 point of damage per die of damage received. [*][B]Treacherous: [/B]Any time the chance to make an attack of opportunity presents itself, whether against an opponent or an ally, make a DC 20 Will save. If you fail the save, you must make the attack of opportunity, even if the target is your closest ally. If presented with multiple targets, determine randomly which you attack. [*][B]Weak-Willed:[/B] The constant presence of strange voices whispering in your ears has sapped your will. You take a –3 penalty on Will saves. [/LIST] [B]Pallid Mask (Ex)[/B] Your face is a mask perfectly under your own control and the distinction between the actor and the character begins to blur making your personal truth highly malleable. You gain a bonus to Bluff checks made to convince another of the truth of your words of 5 + your character level; this bonus does not stack with that granted by a Glibness spell. If a magical effect is used against you that would detect your lies or force you to speak the truth the user of the effect must succeed on a caster level check (1d20 + caster level) against a DC of 20 + twice your Player in Yellow level to succeed. Failure means the effect does not detect your lies or force you to speak only the truth. A creature is not aware of making this caster level. [B]Servant of the Yellow King (Ex[/B]) You have pledged your soul to the King in Yellow, while his touch has maddened you leaving your sanity marred it shields you against the deepest madness. You gain the greater madness schizophrenia with the following difference: the Will save is 16 instead of 22, the penalty on Wisdom and Charisma-based checks is only -2 (with the exception of Profession [Yog-Sothothery Philosopher] which does not take the penalty) and you can take 10 or 20 but the dice result is halved (5 and 10 respectively). This madness can only be removed with miracle or wish and in any case even if removed it returns in 1d4 days. However, with this madness comes true clarity. You use your Charisma score instead of Wisdom for your Will saves and use Charisma for all Wisdom-based skill checks and rolls. You gain immunity to confusion, madness, insanity, and nightmare (with the exception of your schizophrenia madness). You gain Psychic Sensitivity as a bonus feat. [B]Plea to the King (Su)[/B] At 2nd level, the Player in Yellow can make a secret plea to the King in Yellow himself by writing his name in his own blood upon a flat surface under starlight. Once per day, as a full-round action, the Player in Yellow can make a plea to Hastur to gain deep insight about an object, person, or place. The Player in Yellow makes a special check, rolling 1d20 and adding his Bard level, his Player in Yellow level and his Charisma modifier, and the DC for this check depends on how well known the subject of the plea is. If the subject is relatively well known, the DC is 10; if the subject is not well known, the DC is 20; if the subject is obscure, the DC is 30. If the check is successful, then when the Player in Yellow next sleeps, he receives detailed dream visions of the subject’s history, as with the spell legend lore. If the subject was a magic item, he also identifies all the properties of that item, whether or not the item is cursed, and how to activate any of its abilities. If the result of the check is a natural 1, then regardless of whether the check was successful or not, the Player in Yellow is wracked with horrible dreams and visions regarding the subject, being subjected to the nightmare spell with no saving throw (this overcome the immunity given by servant of the yellow king class feature). [B]Soliloquy of Maddening Passion (Su)[/B] At 2nd level, the Player in Yellow can use his bardic performance to create a tune which forces a single creature within 30 feet who can hear the Player in Yellow to succeed on a Will save (same DC of the bardic performance) or be affected by confusion. Further, any character that is affected by this ability cannot attack the Player in Yellow unless he can act normally (even if he is nearest creature). A natural 1 on this saving throw results in the target suffering permanent confusion, as the spell insanity. This is sonic, language-dependent, compulsion, mind-affecting effect. [B]Fascinating Performance (Su)[/B] At 3rd level, the Maddening Play now fascinates viewers (Will negate, same DC of the bardic performance) at the start of the 2nd act, who fails the save against the charm cannot make the save for leave early. Obvious dangers immediately break the charm effect. Also, one of the creature which watches the entirety of the 2nd Act of your choice is more charmed and becomes infatuated with you (Will negate, same DC of the bardic performance), if it’s attracted to your gender (as an elixir of love with unlimited duration and that work on any type of creature of any size, not only humanoid of Medium or smaller size). The creature can reroll the save once per day. At the start of each day, you can chose to consume half of your total daily round of bardic performance to automatically cause the creature to fail its saving throw. If you take overtly hostile or dangerous actions against the infatuated creature, the charm is automatically broken. This is a charm, mind-affecting effect. [B]Command of the Yellow Sign (Su)[/B] At 4th level, as a standard action you can use 1 round of your bardic performance to make the Yellow Sign appear and glow on your face or hand and issue a command to a single creature within 60 ft. which falls into one of the following categories: [LIST] [*]the creature is a worshipper of Hastur or of the King in Yellow. [*]the creature is of a race typically associated with the worship of Hastur or of the King in Yellow (like the Byakhee, the Flying Polyp or a Keeper of the Yellow Sign). [*]the creature has assisted to the play or has read The King in Yellow, has ever watched a Maddening Act or has suffered the effect of an active Yellow Sing or Lesser Yellow Sign (see below). [/LIST] This work as a [I]dominate monster[/I] with caster level equal to your character level with the difference that ignore immunity to enchantment, mind-affecting or compulsion effect if the creature falls into one of the first two categories. A creature forced to take actions against its nature does not receives a new saving throw with a +2 bonus if he falls into one of the first two categories (obviously self-destructive orders are still not carried out). A Will save (same DC of the bardic performance) negate the effect and the creature become immune to command of the yellow sing for 24 hours from the same Player in Yellow. [B]Lesser Yellow Sign (Su)[/B] At 4th level, once per day, the Player in Yellow can make a lesser yellow sign which forces anyone who views it to succeed on a Will (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier) save or become known to Hastur (B4), and possibly subject to Hastur’s attacks and special abilities, including its dream, demand, and other abilities. A yellow sign created in this way lasts for 1 year, or until the Player in Yellow creates a new one (the old sign remains, but simply loses its potency). [B]Blessing of the Yellow Sign (Su)[/B] At 5th level, mindless undead creatures do not attack you unless attacked first, and all other undead and mythos creature/cultist understand that the Player in Yellow to be an ally and are well-disposed toward him in most cases (the starting attitude of undead creatures and mythos creature/cultist change to friendly unless the specific undead or cultist has its specific reasons for having a different attitude [like the cult of Cthulhu]). [B]Masque of the Yellow Shroud (Su)[/B] At 5th level, the Player in Yellow can use his bardic performance to create a tune which enhance his combat capacity. While this performance is active you gain a profane bonus on attack rolls or a profane bonus to AC equal to your Charisma modifier. At the beginning of each round you may change to which the bonus applies. [B]Mystery Shroud (Sp)[/B] The Player in Yellow shrouded in an aura of mystery. At 5th level, the Player in Yellow gains [I]nondetection[/I] as a constant spell-like ability with caster level equal to his character level. At 10th level, this increase to a [I]mind blank[/I] spell. [B]Soliloquy of Carcosa (Su)[/B] At 6th level, the Player in Yellow can use his bardic performance to create a tune which forces a single creature within 30 feet who can hear the Player in Yellow to succeed on a Will save (same DC of the bardic performance) or be locked in a vision of the Empty Carcosa; a creature that fails is locked as long as you continue. Each round they may make another Will save at -4 but they are otherwise flat-footed and unaware of their surroundings. Any damage dealt to the creature frees it from the revelry. A creature that receives these visions finds their dreams haunted by them, the visions arriving in daydreams if they do not sleep. Each night the recipient must make a Will save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier) or suffer an effect of [I]nightmare [/I]with caster level equal to your caster level. This is sonic, language-dependent, compulsion, mind-affecting effect. [B]I Wear No Mask (Su)[/B] At 7th level, as a swift action you can suppress your Pallid Mask ability and reveal the full horror of your soul. When you do so, you radiate an aura of evil which can be felt even without magic; you are considered an evil cleric of your hit dice for the purposes of Detect Evil and any creature within 60 ft. of you gets the unswerving knowledge that you are in fact Evil and of your presence (this is blocked by line of effect). A Knowledge (planes) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery Philosopher) DC 25 reveals you serve an Outer God, a DC 30 check reveals you serve Hastur. Any creature that is not an ally who is well acquainted with your nature as a servant of The Unspeakable One must make a Will save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier) or be frightened for as long as they can directly sense you and 1d6 rounds thereafter, if they are placed within this area again they grow terrified once more; success grants immunity for 24 hours. You gain a melee touch attack which deals 1d6 damage per 3 HD; this damage bypasses all damage reduction and energy resistance. It is a pain effect. A creature that take this damage must make a Will save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier) or suffer the effect of confusion for 1d6 rounds. You can reveal your true nature in this way for only a limited period of time each day, for a number rounds equal to your Player in Yellow level plus your Charisma modifier. The rounds don’t have to be used consecutively, but must be used in 1-round increments. It is a swift action to reveal your nature but a free action to conceal it once more. [B]The King’s Voice (Su)[/B] At 7th level, once per round as a free action, you may pose a question to a single target within 30 feet. The target can resist with a successful Will save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier). If the save fails, the character immediately answers the question in the most efficient and truthful manner possible. This is a sonic, language-dependent, compulsion, mind-affecting effect and the creature must be able to understand the question (a common language and sufficient intelligence). Once the saving throw is successful, a creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours. [B]Enter the Empty City (Sp)[/B] At 8th level, a Player in Yellow can escape this reality, entering the Empty Carcosa ([URL='https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Carcosa']Carcosa - PathfinderWiki[/URL]). He can cast [I]interplanetary teleport[/I] once per day as a spell-like ability with caster level equal to his character level, but only to travel to Carcosa, or to return to the planet on the Material Plane from which he departed from Carcosa. The first time he uses this ability to travel to Carcosa, he arrives in a random location there. Thereafter, each time he uses this ability to travel to the planet on the Material Plane from which he departed, he arrives within 5d100 feet of where he was when he last left the plant, and each time he uses the ability to travel to Carcosa, he arrives within 5d100 feet of where he was when he last left Carcosa. He can bring up to eight willing creatures with her each time she uses this ability. [B]The King’s Tatters (Su)[/B] At 8th level, a Player in Yellow is increasingly similar to the King in Yellow. You can become shrouded in tattered strips of yellow cloth that wind over and across your body. You can dismiss or recall this cloth as a move action. These tatters do not take up a magic item slot, nor do they interfere with worn magic items. While worn this cloth give you an armor bonus to AC equal to your Player in Yellow but you cannot wear any armor or use any shield while those cloth are present. Whenever a non-worshipper of Hastur or King in Yellow creature makes a melee weapon attack against the Player in Yellow or ends its movement in a square adjacent to the Player in Yellow while those cloth are presented, it must make a successful Reflex save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier) to avoid being touched by one of these animated tatters of cloth. A creature that makes a melee attack with an unarmed strike, touch spell, or natural weapon is automatically touched by the tatters. Upon being touched, the creature’s dreams will forever more be haunted by the King’s whispers and poisonous truths. The victim suffers a –4 penalty on all saving throws against mind-affecting effects or effects that cause fatigue or exhaustion created by the Player in Yellow or any other servant of Hastur. This penalty increases to –8 against the effects of a nightmare spell cast by any creature. This is a mind-affecting curse effect. [B]Role of the Shepherd (Su)[/B] At 9th level, all the creatures which watches the entirety of the 2nd Act of Maddening Play and have less HD of your Player in Yellow levels must make a Will save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier) or change their alignment to Chaotic Evil, becoming fanatical Hastur cultist. They see you as they cult leader and follow you wherever you lead. Only wish or miracle can remove the effect. [B]Call the King in Yellow (Su)[/B] At 10th level, the Player in Yellow can invoke the lines of the King in Yellow to call an avatar of his master Hastur into existence for a short time. Once per month, by expending 20 rounds of bardic performance, the Player in Yellow player can summon Hastur as a full-round action. When he does, he suffers 1d10 points of Wisdom damage. Hastur is not under the control of the Player in Yellow, and is able to act however it wishes for 3 hours, after which time it departs from whence it came. [B]Yellow Sing (Su)[/B] At 10th level, once per day as a swift action, you can touch any solid surface and inscribe the Yellow Sign upon it. Once inscribed, the Yellow Sign remains for a year, but is active only on certain nights when the light from Hastur’s distant world shines in the night sky as a star. Any creature that looks upon an active Yellow Sign must succeed at a Will save (DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier, or 40; whichever is higher) to avoid becoming dominated by Hastur (as [I]dominate monster[/I]); whether or not the save is successful, the creature doesn’t have to save against that Yellow Sign again for 24 hours. A Yellow Sign can be removed with dispel chaos, dispel evil, or erase, any of which requires the caster to succeed at a DC (15 plus twice your Player in Yellow level) caster level check. Mage’s disjunction automatically removes a Yellow Sign. [B]The King in Yellow (Su)[/B] At 10th level, once per year, you can perform the play The King in Yellow. The play is divided into two parts of 1 hour each. The play The King in Yellow and its two parts count as Maddening Play for the need to make a Will save for leave during the second act and for the purpose of Fascinating Performance and Role of the Shepard. The first act is simple, almost banal, while the second act is of unearthly, poisonous beauty that enthralls the mind and soul. Performing the opera requires a suitable venue (a theater is generally fine), 10,000 gp on props, at least 1,000 spectators, at least 20 aiders as actors, and 2 successful Performance (Act) checks DC 40. If the work is performed in an unsuitable place, without the expense for the props, without enough spectators or aiders or without being able to perform the two skill checks, no supernatural effect occurs. If all the preparations and execution are correct the true power of the King in Yellow is revealed. Within one-mile radius x your Charisma modifier (minimum 1), centered on the opera's performance site, everything begins to get sucked into Carcosa. Starting from the moment of activation, creatures have 10 rounds to leave before everything is brought to Carcosa as per the effect of [I]Plane Shift[/I] (Will DC 10 + your Player in Yellow level + your Charisma modifier, or 40; whichever is higher; negate the effect). Dimensional anchor, dimensional lock, and other non-mythic methods of avoiding teleport give a +8 saving throw. The only way to stop the transport of the Region to Carcosa is to kill or incapacitate you before the end of the tenth round. You cannot leave the location in which you have activated the power during this period by moving or by magical methods, any effects automatically fail, even wish or miracle. The buildings and environments of the region are not transported directly but their "soul" is torn and taken to Carcosa where they create an area equal to that of the ritual. In the original area all that remains is the silent environments and crumbling and ghostly buildings that are soon occupied by spectre and worst horrors, attracted by the evil that took place there. Generally, just before starting the opera or just as soon as the opera is finished, a Player in Yellow uses his Call King in Yellow ability to protect himself from would-be heroes. [B]The Unspeakable Name (Sp/Su)[/B] At 10th level, whenever any creature on the same plane as you speaks your name you can sense it and can cast [I]Scrying[/I] as a spell-like ability with caster level equal to your character level upon them for 5 rounds as a swift action. As a standard action, during this period, you may cast [I]Greater Teleport[/I] as a spell-like ability with caster level equal to your character level for transport yourself and potentially others allies to their location. If a creature is immune to scrying, you still sense the direction and vaguely distance (you are off by up to 15%) that your name was spoken, in although you may not teleport there. [/QUOTE]
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