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Gnome Sage

Vemmy, a gnome sage.

"History and science. With these, anything can be accomplished."

With one eye on the past and the other on the future, the gnome sage represents a fusion of gnomish pursuit. Able to take lessons directly from history and apply them to his current endeavors, he is able to push technology forward by studying what has come before.

Requirements

To qualify for the Gnome Sage prestige class, you must fulfill the following requirements.

Race: Gnome.

Force Alignment: Technology and Blue.

Skills: At least 8 ranks in two of the following skills - Knowledge (Technology), Repair, Techcraft. At least 8 ranks in two of the following skills - Knowledge (History), Knowledge (Memetics), Memecraft.

Special: You must be considered a memeticist and a student.

Game Rule Information

Gnome Sages have the following game statistics.

Force Alignment: Technology and Blue.

Force Resistances: SR 5 + level, PR 5 + level, TO 5 + level, CO 5 + level.

Abilities: Whatever ability scores were important to the gnome's prior classes are important to the gnome sage, as this prestige class is an extension of those classes.

Hit Die: d6.

Class Skills: All skills are class skills for the gnome sage.

Skill Points at Each Level: 6 + Int modifier.

Ethos: Any.

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the gnome sage.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Gnome sages gain no new weapon or armor proficiencies.

Student Levels: At the levels on the table above, the gnome sage gains new abilities as though he had also gained a level in any one student class he belonged to before he added the prestige class. The gnome's devices known, device charges, and maximum device level increase as per the effective level.

Memeticist Level: At the levels on the table above, the gnome sage gains new abilities as though he had also gained a level in any one memeticist class he belonged to before he added the prestige class. The gnome's memes known, available memory, and belief-space improve as per the effective level.

Machine Lore (Bl): The gnome sage can use wild empathy on constructs, and gains trapfinding.

She can also use this ability on inanimate machines, such as vehicles; doing so grants the gnome sage an insight bonus to Disable Device, Repair, and Pilot checks pertaining to the item equal to 1 + one-half his class level. This use of this ability requires a full-round action to initiate, then can be maintained with a swift action each round; the duration automatically ends if the gnome sage loses physical contact with the machine. This ability only functions on items that are Technology-aligned.

She gains a +2 insight bonus on bestial lore and delve into blue checks pertaining to constructs, vehicles, machines, and other items that are Technology-aligned.

Memory of Progress (Te): The gnome sage can use her memory to fuel her technological endeavors, using raw data from the world memory to improve their function.

After a night's rest, you can choose to allocate memory to various technologies. This memory is allocated you when determine your belief-space, and thus the memory becomes locked to these functions until you get a night's rest and can reset your belief-space.

• Devices: Each point of memory allocated to devices grants you another device slot.
• Medicine: Each point of memory allocated to medicine grants you a +1 insight bonus on Medicine checks.
• Vehicles: Each point of memory allocated to a vehicle grants it additional capacitor equal to your class level. In addition, you can allocate two points of memory to your ability to manipulate the vehicle, gaining the benefits of a vehicle style ability you do not possess; you can gain vehicle style abilities from styles you do not normally have access to. You cannot use this ability to gain access to abilities that can only be used daily, such as redline or overclock.

Insight Surge (Bl/Te): The gnome sage can experience a surge of insight, allowing them to apply principles of one discipline to another. You gain a number of insight surges each day equal to one-third your class level, rounded down.

You can spend an insight surge as though it were a memory surge for your memeticist class. Insight surges count as memory surges for purposes of feats that require them, and if you gain a feat or ability that would you grant you additional memory surges, you can instead choose to gain insight surges.

As a swift action, you can spend an insight surge to ignore a device's TDM; its TDM increases as normal for device usage, but activation of the device automatically succeeds.

As a swift action, you can spend an insight surge to take 20 on a Medicine check, even if you are in a situation in which you would not normally be able to do so.

As a standard action, you can spend an insight surge to restore on charge to a device, or an amount of capacitor to a vehicle equal to your class level squared.

Akashic Device (Bl): The gnome sage can construct devices that replicate memetic functions. Constructing such a device follows all the normal rules for device construction. When you construct such a device, you choose how much memory it will function with, to a maximum of your class level; the device is treated as having a device level equal to one-half the memory it has. An akashic device can never function as though it were in your belief-space.

Each time the device is used, it produces the meme you put into the device, as though you were using that meme with the indicated memory. If the device has the [Module] descriptor, it uses an amount of capacitor equal to the amount of memory it functions with, squared. [Module] devices made from memes with a recharge of 6 require a High slot; recharge values of 5 or 4 require a Mid slot; and a recharge value of 3 requires a Low slot.

To ready an akashic device, you must allocate one belief-space towards it. If you do not ready devices, when you set your belief-space after a night's rest, you must allocate one belief-space towards an akashic device, or else it does not function that day. Akashic devices are not subject to normal meme recharge rules, but follow the rules for device charges as though they were normal devices, as though they were devices you had constructed as part of your existing student class.

Feats

The following are a selection of feats that are relevant to gnome sages.