Hoardmaster Dedication

Feat 4

Prerequisites Trained in Arcana, Nature, Occultism, or Religion

You have begun to construct a dragon’s hoard of your very own. Choose a draconic benefactor (Draconic Codex 207) with a trait that matches the trained skill you used to qualify for this feat (arcane for Arcana, primal for Nature, occult for Occultism, and divine for Religion). Pick a theme for your hoard that matches the kind of hoard that dragon collects. You can’t change this later. You gain the Additional Lore feat for Treasure Lore. If you were already trained in Treasure Lore, you also become trained in a Lore skill of your choice.

Your hoard is small, for now, but will eventually rival even the greatest archdragons. Your hoard is represented by your crux, a palm-sized magic item of negligible Bulk with a level equal to your level, the magical trait, and a trait matching your draconic benefactor’s tradition. Choose this item’s appearance when you take this feat. This item is representative of your hoard, being of the same theme as the hoard you are constructing. If your crux is lost or destroyed, during your daily preparations you can designate any similarly sized item you own as your crux. Your previous crux loses any power it may have had.

Your hoard is an extradimensional space that is only accessible via your crux. By performing the proper rituals with your crux you can stow any number of items within, or retrieve any number of items from, your hoard over the course of an hour so long as those items match your hoard’s theme. You can only have 10 bulk of items in your hoard at any time.

Finally you gain the Covet Your Hoard action. This and all other feats and actions from this archetype gain the tradition trait of your draconic benefactor.

Covet Your Hoard (concentrate, manipulate) Requirements You are holding or wearing your crux; Effect You stow an item of up to 1 bulk with your crux, adding it to your hoard. You can also use this action to retrieve an item from your hoard, but you must have a free hand to do so.
 
Special You can take Hoardmaster Dedication even if you have the Draconic Acolyte Dedication and have not taken two other Draconic Acolyte feats. Your draconic gift and your crux may be the same item.

Ever-Growing Hoard

Feat 6

Prerequisite Hoardmaster Dedication

Your hoard must grow to someday rival a true dragon’s. The maximum capacity of your hoard increases to 25 bulk, and the maximum bulk of an item you can stow or retrieve from your hoard via Covet Your Hoard increases to 2.

At 10th level and every four levels thereafter, increase the bulk capacity of your hoard to 50, then 100, then 200. At 10th level and every four levels thereafter, increase the maximum bulk of an item you can stow or retrieve from your hoard via Covet Your Hoard by 1.

Warrior's Crux

Feat 6

Prerequisite Hoardmaster Dedication

You have learned the trick of turning your crux’s growing power into raw draconic might. Your crux may be any magical armour, shield, weapon, or worn item of up to 1 bulk. If your crux is a weapon, armour or a worn item, or a shield, it gains a special ability as if it had a spellheart attached to it. This counts against the maximum of one talisman or spellheart per item.

• Armour or Worn Item You gain resistance 2 to bludgeoning, piercing, slashing, and the damage type of your Draconic Benefactor’ breath weapon.
• Shield You gain the Greedy Block reaction.
  Greedy Block Requirements You are holding your crux; Trigger You would take damage of the type dealt by your Draconic benefactor’s breath weapon; Effect You gain resistance 5 to the required damage type, and gain 2d4 temporary Hit Points.
• Weapon You gain the Avaricious Strike action.
  Avaricious Strike Requirements You are wielding your crux; Effect You deal 2d6 damage in a 10ft cone or a 15ft line with a basic save against your Class DC or Spell DC, whichever is higher, all based on your Draconic benefactor.

Mystic's Crux

Feat 8

Prerequisite Hoardmaster Dedication, you are expert in the skill you used to qualify for this archetype.

Your connection to your crux’s power runs deep enough to even fuel the casting of magic. Your crux can be a staff, wand, or coda of up to 1 bulk. You gain the Trick Magic Item skill feat, but can only use it to activate your staff, wand, or coda that is your crux.

If you Cast a Spell from your crux, and it shares the damage type of your Draconic Benefactor, add a status bonus to that spell’s damage equal to the spell’s rank.

Instant Demand

Feat 8

Prerequisite Hoardmaster Dedication
Frequency Once per hour
Requirements You are holding or wearing your crux and have a free hand

You must be able to showcase the spoils within your hoard at a moment’s notice. You retrieve an item from your Crux.

Grand Opening

Feat 10

Prerequisite Hoardmaster Dedication
Frequency Once per hour
Requirements You are holding or wearing your crux

Your hoard should not just be for you alone to view, and you have learned how to briefly reveal its splendour for all to see. Choose a point you can see within 30ft and unveil your hoard for but a moment. Any creature within a 20ft burst must make a basic save against the saving throw of your Draconic Benefactor, or take 3d6 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, and 3d6 damage of your Draconic Benefactor’s damage type. They are also Dazzled for one round on a failed save, or for one minute on a critical failure.
 
Special So long as all items within your hoard follow your theme, the sheer splendour of your hoard changes the damage dice to d10s and makes anyone within the AOE Blinded for one round on a failed save, or for 1 minute on a critical failure.

Hoardmaster's Claws

Feat 12

Prerequisites Warrior’s Crux

Increase the resistance for Armour or Worn Item to 7. Increase the resistance for Shield to 10, and the temporary Hit Points to 4d6. Increase the damage for Weapon to 6d6, and the range of the cone and line to 20 and 30 respectively.

Once per hour, when you make a Strike while wearing or wielding your warrior’s crux, you may change all damage types in your strike to the damage type of your draconic benefactor and gain a status bonus to damage equal to half your level.

Soulhoard

Feat 12

Prerequisite Hoardmaster Dedication

As your hoard grows as does your soul, blossoming into a store of power you can use to fuel yourself. You gain the Incredible Investiture general feat even if you don't qualify for it. At 16th level, and every four levels thereafter, increase your limit on invested magical items by 1.

You also gain the Hoarder’s Empowerment action.

Hoarder’s Empowerment (concentrate) Frequency Once per day; Trigger You would be forced to make a saving throw or you become the target of the attack; Requirements You are holding or wearing your crux; Effect You gain a status bonus to your saving throw or AC equal to the number of items you have invested over 10. You then lose investment of items until you only have 10 invested items.

Artificial Drathyrum

Feat 14

Prerequisite Mystic's Crux, You are master in the skill you used to qualify for this archetype

Your body has begun to produce a facsimile of dragon’s magic-granting ichor, drathyrum. During your daily preparations you can mark up to one ally with your ichor. They gain the Borrow Drathyrum action.

Borrow Drathyrum (concentrate) Requirements You are within 30ft of the ally who marked you within Drathyrum, and their crux is currently a wand, stave, or coda; Effect The ally who marked you with drathyrum uses Trick Magic Item on their crux and casts a spell from it. This does not count against its number of activations or spend any of its charges.

Inheritance of Scales

Feat 14

Prerequisite Hoardmaster Dedication

The power you draw from your hoard is now able to cloak you in the shape of the dragons you imitate. Once per day, while you are holding or wearing your crux, you may cast the spell Dragon Form as an innate spell, but can only take the form of your Draconic benefactor. Use the higher of your Class DC or spell DC for this spell.

At 18th level, Dragon Form is instead cast at 8th level.