Warrior Elite

Especially in 3.5 and Pathfinder, rangers are sort of misshapen. Now they share a class with paladins and knights-- each a guardian of a certain range, whether its a town or a spot of wilderness. "Favored enemy"is rolled into the more flavorful smite ability.

ERRANT (knight, ranger, steward, samurai)

1	Bodyguard 1/day, Privileged position	0 slot per day
2	Smite, attack +1	0 slots per day
3	Spells, inspiration	1 slots per day
4	Bodyguard 2/day, attack +1	2 slots per day
5	Second Magnitude	4 slots per day
6	Legendary, attack +1	7 slots per day
7	Third Magnitude	10 slots per day
8	Bodyguard 3/day, attack +1	15 slots per day
9	Fourth Magnitude	20 slots per day
10	Rally, attack +1	27 slots per day

Starting Skills: Expertise (surveying) or (heraldry) and any two.

Bodyguard: You may parry an incoming attack aimed at an adjacent ally, reducing the damage by 1d12.

Privileged position:

You get a new skill, “pull rank,” which you can use in circumstances where another character respects your social role as an errant, knight, noble, or other steward 

Pull Rank (cha)

• compel: If you succeed by less than five, pick one. If you succeed by 5+, pick three: convince them it’s appropriate for you to be here, convince them you’re more important than them, convince them to report their orders.

Smite: Pick a favored enemy from the list below, or roll randomly. When attacking such people, get +2 damage.

Table 14: Those Set out for Smiting

1. The truly wicked 

2. The truly pure  

3. Criminals 

4. Animals 

5. The undead 

6. Lawkeepers 

7. Nobles 

8. Peasants 

9. Soldiers 

10. Sorcerers and binders 

11. Priests and Loresages 

12. Wizards and other scholars

Spells:

As you develop your skills, you learn a handful of spells. At third level and every level after, select two spells to learn. All spells you know are recorded in writing, which you consult each day. When you consult your spellbook, you decide which spells you will be able to cast that day and how many times you can cast each one. For each casting of a starting-level spell, you must commit one spell slot. Later magnitudes cost a number of slots equal to their magnitude.

Magnitudes: Errants cannot learn spells of a higher magnitude than their level allows.

Inspiration: The errant can make a charisma test to allow an ally to ignore most debilitating physical conditions for at least a minute. This cannot be used on the same condition twice.

Legendary: Your skills are known far and wide. Rumor rolls about you need test 5 lower than usual. You will be periodically approached by wanderers asking for you to teach them. Most governments will pay you a commission to oversee a region. If you are ever asked (or forced) into an army, you will be given an officer’s title.

Rally: Once per day, an errant can attempt to inspire all allies at once. Additionally, all nearby allies may test constitution to regain 10 hp.

ERRANT SPELL LIST

There are no special restrictions on which spells from the errant spell list errants are allowed to cast.

Spell Name	Domains	Magnitude	Effect
Ancestral Army	Spirit, leadership, shadow	Fourth	You are surrounded by the ghostly hosts of the honored dead. Each round, you may make two extra attacks and have a free use of the parry and bodyguard ability. Also, they wreck up the place. Lasts five minutes. This spell requires concentration.
Antipodes	tactics	First	Each circumstantial bonus you get for combat increases by one. Lasts five minutes.
Attuned Weapon	Strike, fire, cold, metal, weapon	First	Your weapon glows with potent energy. The next time you hit an opponent, it deals an additional d6 of damage.
Charm Animal	Charm, animal	First	One animal target treats you like their friend. You can cast this spell at third magnitude to affect a group of people.
Cut Down	Strike	Fourth	You gain the cut down fighter class feature for the next ten minutes. This spell requires concentration.
Dancing Blade	Enchantment, weapon, wind	Second	Your weapon floats around you and attacks with a bonus equal to your highest magnitude attained, dealing the weapon’s base damage. Lasts five minutes.
Dispel Transformation	dispel	Third	All transformation spells before you end. If they were cast by a higher-level caster, you must make a spellcraft test, modified by their level, to succeed. This spell requires concentration.
Fell the Beast!	leadership	Second	Your allies gain your smite ability for the next hour.
Flyting Weapon	Strike, tactics, weapon, speech	Third	Your weapon sings with crass disses. Each hit inflicts a point of fatigue, and your opponent must test wisdom to flee or use any clever tricks.
Fool Me Once	tactics	Second	Ignore a combat maneuver or trick that an opponent already successfully pulled off on you.
Hate	Emotion, strike	First	For the next hour, you get +2 to hit and damage targets of your smite, but with each hit you inflict you take 2 damage.
Hospitality	Curse, emotion, ritual, item, enchantment	Second	You place a talisman as a centerpiece of your dining table. As long as it physically stays there, no treachery may be performed there.
Mano a Mano	Curse, tactics	Second	Target foe gets a -1 penalty to hit for each ally fighting against you, to a maximum penalty of your level.
Mystery (natural)	Ritual, nature	First	The target gets a random loresage natural mystery. This lasts for 12 hours.
Oath of Peace	Charm, curse, ritual	Third	A defeated foe must agree to follow the law and be non-aggressive.
Parley	Charm	First	The target tests wisdom or becomes willing to hear you out for at least a minute. Fails if they are threatened. This spell requires concentration.
Parsimonious strike	Strike	Second	Strike an enemy who has not acted yet in this combat. If you hit, deal double damage but skip your next turn. This spell requires concentration.
Pathfinding	Nature	First	Reroll a survivalism, expertise (nature), or expertise (surveying) test and take the better result.
Puissant Parry	Tactics	Second	The next time you are attacked, you may reduce the damage taken by 1d12. Lasts five minutes.
Radioactive Weapon	Radiation, strike, light, disease, weapon	Fourth	Your weapon glows with potent energy, brighter than a torch. For the next ten minutes, it deals an additional d6 of damage and forces the target to test constitution or become terminally ill. This spell requires concentration.
Seance	Necromancy, spirit, ritual	Third	You channel the departed spirits of those who have died in the area, or who otherwise have a connection to your location. Through you, they may converse and can answer questions, thought they may require bargaining for the juiciest information.
Sincerity	emotion	First	Become proficient in a skill to convince someone when you are being honest.
Speak with Trees	Nature, speech	First	You may use use expertise (surveying) to bargain and gossip with trees, as per the implicature and rumor skills. This spell requires concentration.
Speak with Weapons	Metal, speech, weapon	First	You may use use craft or expertise (heraldry) to bargain and gossip with weapons, as per the implicature and rumor skills. This spell requires concentration.
Tenacity	Emotion, tactics	First	+2 to a skill
Torque	Emotion, tactics, transformation	Third	Act last in the initiative, but get +2 AC, attack, and strength and constitution tests.
True North	Divination, metal	First (cantrip)	You know the direction of magnetic north.
Unblockable Strike	Strike, ooze	Third	Make an attack that automatically hits.
William Tell	Strike	Third	Make a free ranged attack, and it lands precisely where you intend it. You automatically hit any enemy, etc. This spell requires concentration.
Wyrding Weapon	Strike, divination, weapon	Fourth	Each time you hit a foe, ask a question about them and receive some kind of answer from the DM. This must be an attack at full strength, or else trivia will result. This spell requires concentration.