Stempel - 2021-09-18

Ego Divas are those performers who use psionic manifestations to increase their beauty and impact. They use psionics to give beautiful performances. When they show, all attention in the room is focused on them. They change their bodies to suit others interests, they read peoples minds to learn their culture all the while always keeping to their core vision.

Requirements

To qualify to become a Ego Diva, a character must fulfil all the following criteria.

Skills: Perform (any 2) 7 ranks, spellcraft 5 ranks.

Feats: Skill Focus (Performance[any individual performance skill]).

Special:

• Must be able to use Inspire competence +3
• Must be able to manifest 4th level Psion Powers
• Must be gestalt

Class Skills

The Ego Diva's class skills are: Acrobatics, Bluff, Intimidate, Diplomacy, Disguise, Escape Artist, Knowledge: Local, Knowledge: Arcana, Knowledge: Psionics, Perception, Perform, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, Swim

Skill Ranks at Each Level: 6 + Int modifier.

Hit Die: d8

Table

Bardic Performance

The Ego Diva continues to extend their bardic performance rounds per day as they level. You gain 2 additional rounds of bardic performance per level of Ego Diva.

If an Ego Diva can perform Inspire Competence or Inspire courage, then Ego Diva levels are added to their base class for determining the bonuses of inspire courage and inspire competence. An Ego Diva gains no further bardic performances from their base class, nor do they gain the ability to more quickly start a bardic performance.

Diva's Grace (Su): A diva of 2nd level or higher can gracefully dodge out of the way of incoming attacks, they can move through a crowd of fans without ever being grabbed. You take no penalty for moving at full speed when using acrobatics to attempt to move through a threatened square.

Eyes on me (Su): When an 4th level Ego Diva pulls out all the stops, they make their music work for them. Placing the right notes and bolstering their courage, they become more resistant to fear and improve their combat abilities. They receive the same bonuses as Inspire Courage, but only on themselves. Inspire courage gives a morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls. Eyes on me increase the competence and morale bonus by +2. At 9th level, this increases to 3 higher. For example an 11th level bard gets a +2 competence bonus from Inspire Courage, if they are also a 4th level Ego Diva, they can apply a +4 competence bonus but only to themselves.

Reverb (Su): A diva of 7th level or higher can redirect part of an attack to their copies, lessening the blow. To use this Bardic Performance, you must have active Ego Echoes. While you have Ego Echoes active, you gain dr 10/-. Whenever you are hit by an attack that damages you before damage resistance, an Ego Echo is destroyed.

Psych yourself up (Su): Whereas a normal bard can use their performance to help allies succeed at a task, an Ego Diva of 8th level or higher shines the spotlight on themselves. This enhances Inspire Competence. This Bardic Performance is the same as Inspire Competence, however Psych yourself up may only be used on yourself. The competence bonus remains the same as Inspire Competence. Certain uses such as Stealth may still be disallowed at the GM's discretion.

Eternal Grace (Su): A diva of 9th level has become so graceful they are rarely ever caught in a grapple or forced down onto the ground. Whilst this bardic performance is active, you get your charisma modifier to your combat manoeuvrer defence.

Hard work and dedication (Ex)

Through a combination of practice, talent and luck the Artist becomes better at their craft.

An Ego Diva must select a single category of the performance skill as their specialized category. As long as they maintain psionic focus an Ego Diva adds their class level to their specialized category of performance.

Ostentatious Outfit (Su)

Whilst your clothing changes with you naturally as you change shapes and forms, it often no longer has the effect you intended because for example your dress is not supposed to go with wings or your skin is now green and this clashes with your shoes.

You can spend 1 round of bardic performance to manifest an obviously magical outfit that replaces your normal clothing for 1 minute per round spend. The manifested outfit can be as magical, physics-defying, and ostentatious as you desire but it must be made to draw attention. The manifested outfit counts as a masterwork tool for the purposes of individual performance based on your appearance or behaviour. While the outfit is manifested, you take a -10 penalty on any Stealth checks.

Understanding Conversational Partner (Su)

Starting 2nd level, when talking aimed at a single target, you read the other persons surface desires. You slowly and imperceptibly change your body to match their preferences. For every five minutes you spend interacting with your target you gain a cumulative +1 bonus to Charisma based skills up to half your Ego Diva class level.

As long as you maintain psionic focus, you subconsciously adapt your appearance to match the preferences of your interlocutor. For every five minutes you spend interacting with your target you gain a cumulative +1 circumstance bonus to Charisma based skills, up to half your Ego Diva class level. This is a polymorph effect, but specifically does not grant you the +10 bonus on Disguise skill checks.

Ego Echos (Su)

As a proper psion, you never need to worry about arranging backup performers to support you, you always carry them with you.

Each echo looks like a copy of you, though their appearance can vary from ghostly to perfectly real. They can have for example tiny adjustments to their hair style, or a change of outfit, or different body proportions and pigmentation. As in your own shapeshifting, your echos carry an essence of you and are always recognizably a version of you.

You can summon your maximum amount of Ego Echo's when you start a bardic performance. You can summon 1 echo for every 3 Ego Diva levels, you can never have more than this. At 5th level, you can summon echoes with any instrument they know how to play.

An echo has the same limitations as an unseen servant, for example they cannot attack in any way, and have an effective strength score of 2.

Made for This (Su)

You can alter your body to specifically adapt to a single type of performance, creating the right chest cavity, or the perfect hands for playing and supporting your instrument.

You take an -2 penalty on all Strength and Dexterity based skills to gain a +1 unnamed bonus your Ego Diva specialized performance category. Altering your body takes a move action to activate or dismiss.

Movements of a Focused Mind (Ex)

At 4th level, an Ego Diva's mind and your body are one as you move with focused precision. Your flexibility, reflexes and speed make you hard to pin down as you move about, becoming a graceful continuous movement.

You can start this twice per day, but you must be psionically focused. Movements of the focused mind continue as long as you move at least 10 feet or make a melee attack every round, else it ends. As long as the effect is maintained it costs 1 round of bardic performance per round, but does not take the place of a bardic performance. Whilst Movements of a Focused Mind is active, the Ego Diva gains +1 unnamed bonus on attack rolls, melee damage rolls, Acrobatics checks, and armour class. The bonus to AC is lost under any circumstances that would cause you to lose your Dexterity bonus to AC. At 7th level this increase to +2, and to +3 at 10th level.

Perfect Podium (Su)

At 5th level, an Ego Diva can project the perfect podium for their performance, allowing them to project and shape an emotion with their audience. Once per day, when the Ego Diva starts a performance the area within 30 feet shifts to support their performance. Changes can be as wild and reality defying as they can imagine, through a fitting Crafts, Perform or Knowledge roll might be needed for truly outlandish performances.

Any attempts to hinder the performance take a -4 circumstance penalty. This effect lasts for up to 1 minute per Ego Diva level or until the performance ends, whichever comes first. The podium cannot produce environmental hazards.

Shock and Awe (Ex)

At 5th level an Ego Diva can use their dazzling grace to intimidate opponents. As swift action, Stop current bardic performance when you successfully hit an enemy. Roll your specialized category of performance to Demoralize an enemy, as if using Demoralize Opponent from the Intimidate skill.

Normal: As a standard action, roll Intimidate with DC 10 + target's hit dice + target's wisdom modifier to cause target to become shaken for one round. This duration is increased by 1 round for every 5 by which you beat the DC. This shaken condition doesn’t stack with other shaken conditions to make an affected creature frightened. You can attempt to intimidate an opponent again, but each additional check increases the DC by +5. This increase resets after one hour has passed.

Lingering Crescendo

A good song does not suddenly stop, never to continue, it lingers, slowly fading after reaching a crescendo. At 6th level your performances are so great their effects linger, letting the effects remain for moments longer as they wind down.

You gain Lingering Performance (APG 164) as a bonus feat.

Sought Person (Ex)

Great artists are sought after, their attention precious. When people get access to an artist they are more willing to talk about whatever the artist desires.

An Ego Diva of 6th level or higher gets a +5 competence bonus to gathering information, after they have performed in a relevant social circle.

Stable Stage (Su)

At 7th level you become so good at projecting the perfect stage for your performances that you can do it in combat, preventing interruptions to your performance. Whilst giving a Bardic Performance, the Ego Diva and every ally within 10 feet may ignore difficult terrain.

At 9th level the range increases to 15 feet. Additionally, the Diva and allies moving inside the stage may ignore height differences up to 5 foot and pools of liquids less than 10 feet deep when moving.

Furthermore the Ego Diva can extend their stage to form a bridge over chasms, holes or other height differences by expending 1 round of Bardic Performance per 5 feet square. Height differences cannot be more than 5 feet up per 5 feet square.

Culturally Aware (Su)

Every culture has subtly different expectations around customs and behaviour, mannerisms that indicate someone fits in or stands out. An 8th level or higher Ego Diva can make themselves blend in anywhere, acting in accord with the others customs.

By reading the surface thoughts of those around you, you instinctively know how to behave, which way to shake hands, etc. In a foreign culture, people will more easily trust you. You are never affected by circumstance penalties to social interaction due to missing cultural knowledge or clues.

Spontaneous Song (Su)

At 9th level, when you start to work, everyone in the area joins in to uplift the performance. You inspire everyone in the area, creating a teams spirit and harmony usually only found in disciplined armies. Once per day, the Ego Diva can burst into spontaneous song when working on some larger task. Everyone who voluntarily participates in the performance uses their own ranks in the relevant Perform skill, or may roll as if they have ranks in the relevant Perform skill equal to half the Ego Divas ranks, whichever is higher. Everyone that participated in the spontaneous song (or dance, or other performance not requiring complex instruments) gains a +4 competence bonus on any skill checks made towards the stated goal for the rest of the day.

Subvocalization (Ex)

At 10th level an Ego Diva has learned how to work in harmony with their Ego Echo's. They can work together to provide a symphony of complementary performances that meld together to produce two different effects.

The Ego Diva can start two different bardic performances simultaneously. When performing two bardic performances, each round consumes 2 rounds of bardic performance. This ability can only be used whilst at least 1 Echo is active. This second performance stops if there are no more echos. You can stop each bardic performance independently, also for the purposes of Shock and Awe or spells such as Saving Finale.