Tree Dancers are druids with a particular focus on the magical power of nature, ignoring the more physical aspects. Like druids, they are closely in tune with the natural world, but they tend to focus on a larger scale, both in size and time.

Requirements

To qualify to become a Tree Dancer, a character must fulfill all the following criteria.

Skills: Perform: Dance 6 ranks, Knowledge: Nature 6 ranks, Survival 6 ranks, Profession: Herbalist 5 ranks

Feats: Natural Spell, Craft Infusion

Special:

• Must have received training by a Tree Dancer
• Must be able to cast 3rd level Druid spells

Class Skills

The Tree Dancer's class skills are: Acrobatics, Climb, Craft, Diplomacy, Escape Artist, Fly, Handle Animal, Heal, Knowledge: Geography, Knowledge: Nature, Perception, Perform, Profession, Ride, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, Survival, Swim

Skill Ranks at Each Level: 6 + Int modifier.

Hit Die: d8

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Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Tree Dancer gestalt prestige class.

Weapon and Armour Proficiencies

Tree Dancers gain no proficiency with any weapon or armour.

Spells per Day

When a new Tree Dancer level is gained, the character gains new spells per day as if she had also gained a level in a divine spellcasting class she belonged to before adding the prestige class. She does not, however, gain other benefits a character of that class would have gained, except for additional spells per day, spells known (if she is a spontaneous spellcaster), and an increased effective level of spellcasting. If a character had more than one spellcasting class before becoming a loremaster, she must decide to which class she adds the new level for purposes of determining spells per day.

Herbalist

The Tree Dancers is able to connect with the natural world in such a manner that she can sense the properties of different parts of plants, herbs, minerals and animals, as well as their interactions.

She can use her Profession: Herbalist skill in lue of Craft: Alchemy to craft various alchemical items or poisons (provided the right ingredients are available).

Tree Dance

By performing a ritual dance around a tree, the Tree Dancer can cause the tree to change shape within reasonable limits. The tree trunk can be bent to form a bridge, branches can be reshaped to form a stairway up into the canopy or they can be woven together to form a platform, or a hollow area may be created within the trunk for example. It is possible to grow new branches or remove them, though no lumber is produced in this manner, and the total mass of the tree must remain constant. The tree cannot be shaped into any form of device nor can it have any "moving" parts.

The duration of the dance depends on the complexity of the change, with simple changes taking about a minute and major revision taking up to several hours. Exceptionally large trees may require days or weeks depending on the level of modification, with the Dungeon Master being the final arbiter on the required amount of time. It is possible to use this power on multiple trees to have them shape together into a larger construction - in this case, the power is used multiple times, adding the required duration together.

When using this power to build tree houses, a discount may apply at the discretion of the Dungeon Master.

MINOR POWER 1

Tree Network

Starting at 2nd level, the Tree Dancer can access the network of plants that span the plane to transport themselves and a limited number of others between two trees of the same type, as if using Transport via Plants.

Activating this ability requires the Tree Dancer to lead the traveling group in a dance around the tree for 1 minute, plus an additional minute for every other person being transported, up to a maximum of ten minutes. Large creatures count as two people, etc, as per the spell. A Perform: Dance check is not required.

The tree dancer can use this power twice per day and gains an additional use per day every two levels.

Advanced Infusion

At 3rd level, the Tree Dancer gains the ability to craft advanced infusions, granting her additional usage of her Infusion feats

Infusion Bonus Feat

At 3rd level and every 2 levels thereafter, the Tree Dancer gains a bonus Infusion feat such as Healing Infusion, Camouflage Infusion, Water Infusion or Infusion of Light

Ley Line Vision

At 3rd level, the Tree Dancer becomes able to perceive Ley Lines running through the plane. She can sense when she is over a Ley Line, in what direction it runs and where the closest one is if she is not over one. If more than one Ley Line crosses in a location, she can sense both.

This ability provides a bonus on Survival checks to avoid getting lost, and allows the Tree Dancer to instantly know her orientation and the direction and distance she has moved.

MINOR POWER 2

Fertile Growth

Starting at 4th level, the Tree Dancer can cause trees to grow overnight or even spawn in area's which were otherwise devoid of them. The Tree Dancer performs a dance from sundown until dawn, which at the discretion of the DM may require constitution checks if the night is particularly long. She makes a Perform: Dance check during this time, the result determining the number of trees that has grown by sunrise. The terrain can be sparse, medium or dense depending on how close the trees are together, and the Tree Dancer spawns undergrowth appropriate to the terrain with the trees.

Alternatively, the Tree Dancer can choose to let only a single tree grow - in this case, the tree is an exceptionally large sample which may be thicker and stronger than even the largest normal trees of its type, depending on the result of the Perform: Dance check. In this case there is no undergrowth.

If trees could not normally survive in the area - above the tree line for example - this power has no effect.

Ley Line Connection

At 5th level, the Tree Dancer becomes able to connect to Ley Lines.

Whenever the Tree Dancer is standing on a Ley Line, she can perform a ritual dance to connect to the Ley Line. This dance takes one hour to perform. Once completed, she is connected to the Ley Line until the next time she sleeps or until she leaves the vicinity of the Ley Line.

While connected, she gains a +2 bonus on Perception and Survival checks as her connection makes her more aware of the natural environment there. If two or more Ley Lines cross in a certain location, the Tree Dancer can connect to each of them. The effects stack.

Terrain Manipulation

Starting at 6th level, the Tree Dancer can command plants in the area to move, causing them to change position within the general terrain.

As a standard action, the Tree Dancer can move plants that count as Obstacles, that provide Cover or Concealment, or that make Difficult Terrain, to move up to 30 feet per round, thereby adjusting the terrain. They may move plants taking up to 1 square per level of Tree Dancer in this manner.

The plants may be moved independently and need not move in the same direction, but they may only move as whole squares (a square cannot be split up in two). If two or more squares are logically attached (a tree trunk that is two by two squares, they must still be moved together.

MINOR POWER 3

Ley Line Activation

At 7th level, the Tree Dancers becomes able to interact with Ley Lines in a more direct manner, drawing power directly from them.

Whenever the Tree Dancer is standing on a Ley Line, she can perform a ritual dance to access the Ley Lines energies. This dance takes one hour to perform. Once completed, she is connected to the Ley Line until the next time she sleeps or until she leaves the vicinity of the Ley Line.

While connected, she gains a +1 bonus to her caster level and on all saves. If two or more Ley Lines cross in a certain location, the Tree Dancer can connect to each of them. The effects stack.

Move the Forest

Starting at 8th level, the Tree Dancer can cause trees and other plants to change their position overnight, redistributing them to create - or remove - pathways, creating or removing meadows and clearings or even moving an entire forest to a different area.

The Tree Dancer must dance from sundown until dawn, which at the discretion of the DM may require constitution checks if the night is particularly long. During this time, the trees move and shift positions, other plants following suit. Upon completion of the dance, one hectare of trees per Tree Dancer level will have redistributed to locations desired by the Tree Dancer, though no individual tree can move more than one kilometer. Exceptionally large trees - such as Elven Trees - must be moved separately.

Move the Forest cannot be used to move forest into significantly cultivated land. It can move trees over farmland or roads, but it cannot move it into cities or villages, nor affect buildings.

Timeless Body

After attaining 9th level, a Tree Dancer no longer takes ability score penalties for aging and cannot be magically aged. Any penalties she may have already incurred, however, remain in place. Bonuses still accrue, and the Tree Dancer still dies of old age when her time is up.

CAPSTONE POWER