Purple Dragon Knight
The PDK has a fully custom ability system built around timed auras and several active abilities.
Durations
Most PDK abilities last 1 turn per PDK level (1 turn = 1 minute), so a level 20 PDK gets 20-minute effects. Step into an ally aura and the buff lands immediately, with a brief flourish over your head as it reaches you; a second, fainter one marks it leaving when you step out or the aura ends. In between it holds steadily — the flourishes mark the buff arriving and leaving, nothing else, so they stay quiet while you hold position.
An aura keeps running when you change areas — the ring reappears a moment after you arrive, and the time it has left is unaffected by travelling.
Auras end when you rest, when you die, and on a relog — recast after any of those. Resting also gives your daily uses back, so an aura you were running is never wasted by ending there.
Aura radius scales with PDK level:
| PDK Level | Radius |
|---|---|
| 1–9 | 5 m |
| 10–19 | 7 m |
| 20–29 | 9 m |
| 30+ | 10 m |
Proficiencies
The PDK is automatically granted the following proficiencies at level 1:
- Light, Medium, and Heavy Armor Proficiency
- Shield Proficiency
- Simple, Martial, and Exotic Weapon Proficiency
Rallying Cry (timed aura)
3 uses per day. Grants allies within range an attack and damage bonus. The aura lasts PDK level turns. Recasting refreshes the duration and spends another use. Only one ally aura (Rally or Shield) can be active at a time — casting one replaces the other.
| PDK Level | AB bonus | Damage bonus |
|---|---|---|
| 1–4 | +1 | +1 |
| 5–9 | +1 | +2 |
| 10–14 | +2 | +3 |
| 15–19 | +2 | +4 |
| 20–24 | +3 | +5 |
| 25+ | +4 | +6 |
- Level 15+: Also grants allies +2 Will saves.
- Level 25+: Also grants allies immunity to fear.
The damage bonus is added to your weapon's own damage, which means a critical hit multiplies it along with everything else — the +6 at level 25 lands as +18 on a ×3 weapon. This is how every damage bonus in the game works, Barbarian Rage included.
Heroic Shield (timed aura)
3 uses per day. Grants allies within range damage reduction. The aura lasts PDK level turns. Recasting refreshes the duration and spends another use. Replaces Rallying Cry if active.
| PDK Level | DR / +20 |
|---|---|
| 1–4 | 3 |
| 5–9 | 5 |
| 10–14 | 7 |
| 15–19 | 9 |
| 20–24 | 12 |
| 25+ | 15 |
Commanding Presence (active, 1 use/day, requires PDK level 5)
A timed enemy aura that debuffs non-player hostiles within range. It lasts PDK level turns and cannot be dismissed early — once activated it runs its full duration. Enemies make a Will save when they enter range and periodically while they remain in it.
Save DC: 10 + (PDK level / 2) + CHA modifier
On a failed save, enemies receive:
| PDK Level | AB penalty | Save penalty |
|---|---|---|
| 1–9 | −1 | −1 Will |
| 10–19 | −2 | −1 all saves |
| 20–29 | −2 | −2 all saves + 10% slow |
| 30+ | −3 | −2 all saves + 10% slow |
If the target also has the Oath of Wrath mark, the DC increases by 2 and the save penalty increases by 1.
Inspire Courage (active, uses per day)
Grants all nearby allies a temporary combat burst.
- Temp HP:
10 + (PDK level × 2) - Duration:
PDK levelturns - Bonus: +1 AB, +2 damage, +2 Will saves
- Level 20+: Also grants fear immunity for the duration
Oath of Wrath (active, uses per day)
Marks a single hostile non-PC target with a debuff aura. Select a target, then your knight hurls the mark at them — it queues like any other ability, so it can be interrupted before it lands.
Duration: PDK level turns.
| PDK Level | AC penalty (dodge) | AB penalty | All-save penalty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–9 | −1 | −1 | −1 |
| 10–19 | −2 | −2 | −2 |
| 20–29 | −3 | −3 | −2 |
| 30+ | −4 | −3 | −3 |
The mark also increases Commanding Presence save DCs against this target — by 2, and it deepens that ability's save penalty by a further 1.
Final Stand (active, uses per day)
An emergency ability that pulses outward from the PDK and affects all allies within 10 meters.
| PDK Level | Temp HP | DR | All-save bonus | Ally rez heal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1–9 | 20 | 5 | — | — |
| 10–14 | 35 | 8 | +1 | — |
| 15–19 | 50 | 10 | +2 | — |
| 20–24 | 65 | 12 | +2 | 25% max HP |
| 25–29 | 80 | 15 | +2 | 35% max HP |
| 30+ | 100 | 15 | +3 | 50% max HP |
- Level 20+: Can resurrect dead allies within range, healing them for the listed % of their max HP.
- Duration:
PDK levelturns.
Level Milestones
| PDK Level | Message |
|---|---|
| 5 | Commanding Presence unlocks |
| 10 | Auras expand and improve |
| 20 | Final Stand can now resurrect allies |
| 30 | Warlord tier reached |