Pathfinder 1e Character Sheet: Bernie

Beast Mastery Sphere (handle animal package)

Handle Animal You gain 5 ranks in the Handle Animal skill, plus 5 ranks per talent spent in the Beastmastery sphere (maximum equal to your total Hit Dice). If you already have ranks in Handle Animal you may immediately retrain them. You do not get to retrain skill ranks when only gaining Beastmastery sphere talents as temporary talents, such as through the armiger’s customized weapons class feature or the brawler’s martial flexibility ability. Talents with the (handle animal) tag grant new ways to tame and train your animal allies. Talents with the (handle animal) tag substitute your ranks in Handle Animal for your base attack bonus when determining the saving throw DC of those talents (10 + 1/2 your ranks in Handle Animal + your practitioner modifier) unless otherwise stated.

You also gain the following ability: Tame You may attempt to train an animal to readily obey your commands in and out of combat. This requires 8 hours and a creature of the animal type that has an attitude toward you of indifferent or better. This time may be divided as per the magic item crafting rules. You may only train one creature at a time with this ability. At the end of this period, make a Handle Animal check with a DC of 10 + the creature’s Hit Dice. If successful, the creature is now considered tame. You may not tame a creature with more Hit Dice than you have ranks in Handle Animal. You may have multiple tame creatures under your control, but their total Hit Dice cannot exceed your ranks in Handle Animal. If you attempt to tame a creature that would exceed your Hit Dice cap, you must choose which other creatures to release. Animal companions and familiars, such as from class features, the Animal Companion talent, or the Pet talent, never count against this Hit Dice cap. You may not use this ability on a creature with the swarm subtype. A creature with a template adds the challenge rating adjustment of the template to its HD (minimum increase +0) for determining if you may tame it and for how many creatures you can have tame. Variant creatures with increased challenge ratings (such as a pyrohydra compared to a normal hydra, if using the Broad Skills talent), treats the challenge rating increase of the variant as if it were a template for this purpose. A creature whose permanent Intelligence score is raised above 2 is no longer a valid target for this ability and is automatically released. This effect ends if you go two full days without spending at least 1 hour training your tame creatures. This is treated as an extraordinary mind-affecting compulsion effect for the purposes of opposed control checks, such as another compulsion effect affecting your tame creature. Use your ranks in Handle Animal in place of your caster level for the opposed check.

Animal Companion - You gain an animal companion as the druid class feature. Your effective druid level for this companion is the highest between your base attack bonus, Handle Animal ranks, or Ride ranks - 3 (minimum 1). Your companion always counts as an animal ally. If you possess the Broad Skills talent, you may instead choose a plant or vermin companion. Should you release your companion or your companion dies, you may gain a new companion after 1 week. If you are in the environment where the new companion typically lives, you may instead gain that new companion in 24 hours. In addition, your companion is always considered combat trained and gains Light Armor Proficiency as a bonus feat. If the companion is suitable to serve as a mount, you do not take an armor check penalty on Ride checks while riding this companion. This talent counts as possessing the mount class feature. Abilities that grant talents temporarily can not be used to gain this talent, such as taking the Extra Combat Talent feat with martial flexibility or gaining it from an armiger’s customized weapon. You may take this talent a second time. If you do, your effective druid level when determining the effects of this talent becomes equal to the highest between your base attack bonus, ranks in Handle Animal, or ranks in Ride. Associated Feats: Animal Ally, Boon Companion (if taken twice). Special: If you already possess a companion, or gain one at a later time from another source, you gain the benefits of this talent as if taken twice. Your effective druid level from this talent stacks with those from other sources, to a maximum of your character level.

Improved Animal Companion (BTH) Prerequisites: Beastmastery sphere; animal companion, mount, or other similar ability; additional requirements (see details). Benefit: When selecting your animal companion or mount, you can choose from special creatures to serve as your improved companion, such as creatures from the Beast Speaker feat (Heroes of Golarion), Monstrous Mount feat (Inner Sea Combat), or other similar source. An improved companion chosen using this talent advances the same way as detailed in the ability that grants you access to your animal companion or mount (such as a druid’s animal companion, cavalier’s mount, paladin’s divine bond, or the Beastmastery sphere Animal Companion talent). You can also dismiss an improved companion, as dictated by your class feature. Subject to GM discretion, other special creatures can be made available with this feat. If a chosen improved companion has prerequisites, as described in its entry, you must meet any additional prerequisites to select that improved companion. For example, to select a behir available through the Beast Speaker feat, you must have 7 ranks in either Diplomacy or Intimidate and 7 ranks in Knowledge (arcana). An improved companion chosen with this talent gains additional abilities and bonuses listed in the mastery entry in its stat block when your effective druid level is equal to or higher than that companion’s indicated mastery level. If you dismiss an improved companion and gain a new creature of a different type, your effective druid levels may not be a sufficient level to gain that creature’s mastery benefits. Associated Feats: Beast Speaker, Beast Speaker Mastery, Monstrous Mount, Monstrous Mount Mastery. Wiki Note: Some improved animal companions can be found in the Sphere Bestiary, including in the Monster Collections.

Bounty Hunter’s Tools (discipline) You gain proficiency with the bola, garrote, grappling hook, harpoon, kyoketsu shoge, lasso, mancatcher, net, net launcher, sap, and whip. You may deal nonlethal damage with any of these weapons at no penalty and treat them all as having the grapple special feature.

Guardian Sphere - Guardians specialize in protecting their allies and drawing the ire of their enemies. You gain a delayed damage pool equal to your 3 x your base attack bonus. When you receive damage, as part of taking the damage you may redirect all or part of it to your delayed damage pool. Apply damage reduction and resistance before redirecting the damage. You may not redirect damage that would exceed the maximum capacity of the damage pool. Your delayed damage pool empties at the end of your turn each round, inflicting any damage stored in the pool on you, bypassing any damage reduction or resistance you possess and resetting to 0. Any additional effects of the attack, such as poison, are still incurred immediately even if the entire damage of the attack is redirected to the delayed damage pool. Any healing you receive in excess of your maximum hp automatically reduces the amount of damage in your delayed damage pool. Should you lose access to the Guardian sphere, any damage (or other effects if you possess certain talents) is incurred at the end of your turn. In addition, choose one of the following packages:

Challenge As a move action, you may issue a challenge to a creature you can see. You may expend martial focus to reduce this to a swift action. A creature must be able to perceive your challenge to be affected by it. The creature takes a -2 penalty on attack rolls that do not include you as a target and a +2 bonus on attack rolls targeting only you. Creatures receiving this effect are aware of it, though do not gain insight to its duration. This penalty (but not bonus) increases by 1 for every 4 points of base attack bonus you possess. The challenge lasts for a number of rounds equal to 3 + 1/2 your base attack bonus. When you issue a new challenge, any previous challenge you have active ends. Multiple challenges do not stack; if a creature is affected by challenges from more than one creature, they suffer no penalty against the source of any challenge against them and likewise gain the bonus against the sources of all of the challenges. Creatures with no Intelligence score (Intelligence score of (-)) cannot be targeted by your challenge.

Leadership Sphere Practitioners of the Leadership sphere learn how to gather, organize, and command others. When you gain the Leadership sphere, you gain 5 ranks in the Diplomacy skill, plus 5 ranks per additional talent spent in the Leadership sphere (maximum ranks equal to your total Hit Dice). If you already have ranks in the Diplomacy skill you may immediately retrain them. Both base packages of the Leadership sphere require significant time investment and thus are unsuitable for being granted as a temporary talent. Likewise, no (follower) talents may be granted as temporary talents. (Cohort) talents that do not affect the type or number of creatures you can recruit may be gained as temporary talents if you have the (cohort) package. If you possess multiple spheres that grant ranks in Diplomacy, you gain a competence bonus on Diplomacy checks equal to half your base attack bonus instead of retraining the ranks multiple times. This is only applied once. Special: Animal companions, Conjuration sphere companions, drake companions, eidolons, familiars, independent inventions, Leadership cohorts, and any other controlled characters gained by class features, talents or feats cannot gain this sphere or talents from this sphere. When you first take the Leadership sphere, choose one of the following packages: Cohort or Follower. Associated Feat: Leadership. Leadership Sphere and Wealth Hiring NPCs to accompany you on adventures normally costs wealth. Likewise, having a group of commoners working for you would normally be expected to generate wealth. The Leadership sphere is intended neither to force players to pay gold to use abilities they paid character-building resources (talents) for, nor to significantly skew expected wealth. The costs and profits from cohorts and followers from the Leadership sphere are abstracted. Cohorts are paid in the experience they gain, in the miscellaneous items that they recover and sell that the PCs don't bother with, and from surplus income of followers (if the (followers) package is also possessed). Likewise, wealth generated by followers is assumed to go into providing the mechanical benefits they provide, into establishing businesses and homes, into bribes, and towards supporting their leader and his associates. Note: General Profits: Some Leadership talents state that you can make earnings checks, and that these stack with capital gains from other talents. This means that you can make a check for each such talent when calculating earnings.

Cohort Package Specialized NPCs called cohorts are willing to follow you on adventures. A cohort always acts on your initiative. You gain the following ability:

Recruit You may recruit adventurers, mercenaries, and sellswords to actively assist you. Recruiting requires spending 8 hours in a settlement and making a Diplomacy check. You may select the profession and martial tradition you are looking for, and may also specify a particular race from those available. Not all races, professions, and traditions will be available in all locations; the available pool is determined by the GM. The base DC of this check is 10 + the Hit Dice of the person you are looking to recruit, modified per Settlement Size Modifier and Miscellaneous Modifier tables. Modifiers are cumulative. You may take 10 on this check. You may not recruit a creature with more Hit Dice than the maximum shown on Table: Cohort. The exact feats and talents the cohort possesses are up to the GM, though you may reject a given cohort and attempt to recruit another with the normal action. Recruits are usually humanoids with no racial Hit Dice, and are of races available in the region you are recruiting. Creatures with racial Hit Dice, templates, or abilities unsuitable to player races are not suitable to be cohorts. You may have multiple recruited creatures under your control, but their total Hit Dice cannot exceed your ranks in Diplomacy. If you attempt to recruit a creature that would exceed your Hit Dice cap, you must choose which other creatures to release from your service. A cohort serves you loyally and will follow you into and aid you during combat, but will not obey obviously suicidal orders nor subject itself to harm for no obvious purpose. Cohorts are usually within 1 alignment step of you, though some exceptions may occur at the GM’s discretion.