Horrifically Overpowered Class Features for Pathfinder 1e Base Classes - The Cavalier (Patreon)

We began with core classes in the Horrifically Overpowered Fighter Class Features article, which covers why I still do Horrifically Overpowered products and articles, and gives the Horrifically Overpowered Class Feature feat to access these class features. Now, we're on to the base classes, and the Cavalier.

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Horrifically Overpowered Cavalier Class Features 

You access these class features with the Horrifically Overpowered Class Feature feat (see the Fighter article, or Index).

(Armor? Check. Mount? Check. Banner? Check. Swordlance? Check. Art by Николай Акатов.)

Horrifically Overpowered Cavalier Skills (Horrifically Overpowered): Knowledge (nobility) becomes a class skill for you. Each time you gain a rank of the Cavalier class, you also gain one rank of the Diplomacy, Handle Animal, Knowledge (nobility), and Ride skills. You cannot have more total ranks in a skill than your character level. You gain a bonus to each of these skills equal to your cavalier level. You gain a bonus feat at every off Cavalier class level. This bonus feat must be Skill Focus (Diplomacy, Handle Animal, Knowledge [nobility], or Ride), or a feat that adds a numeric bonus to one of those feats, or a feat that requires one or more ranks of at least one of those skills. You must meet the prerequisites for these bonus feats.

Horrifically Overpowered Cavalier Weapon and Armor Proficiencies (Horrifically Overpowered): When attacking with any simple or martial melee weapon from the back of a charging mount, it deals double damage. If you have Spirited Charge, you deal triple damage from a charging mount with simple and martial melee weapons. These multipliers are all the same as the multipliers of a lance, and thus do not increase the charging damager multiplier of a lance.

While mounted, you can wield a 2-handed weapon with one hand, and decide if you are treating it as a 2-handed or 1-handed weapon for each calculation that impacts, as you prefer.

Horrifically Overpowered Challenge (Horrifically Overpowered): Your mount gains all the benefits of your challenge, even if you aren't mounted. You gain three additional uses of challenge per day. You gain a +5 bonus to attack rolls against the target of your challenge. Challenge also applies to your ranged attacks. You do not take a penalty to AC when using challenge, and gain a +2 bonus to your AC from attacks against the target of your challenge and a +2 bonus to saving throws the target of your challenge forces you to make.

Horrifically Overpowered Mount (Horrifically Overpowered): At 1st level, you gain one of the following benefits:

*Anti-Archetypical: Your mount gains two of the following companion archetypes without meeting its prerequisites or giving up any of its abilities: Aberrant Companion, Ambusher, Apex Species, Augmented Companion, Auspice, Bodyguard, Bully, Charger, Daredevil, Deathtouched Companion, Draconic Companion, Elemental Companion, Feytouched Companion, Precocious Companion, Racer, Totem Guide, Tracker, Verdant Companion, Wrecker.

*Beast Speaker and Beast Speaker Mastery as bonus feats you do not need to meet the prerequisites for. For these feat your effective druid level is your cavalier level +6. These feats only apply to your mount, not another companion. You cannot select sun hawk.

*Beast Rider, Bully Breed, Pack Tactics, Share Healing, and Take This as bonus feats you do not need to meet the prerequisites for.

*Celestial Servant as a bonus feat you do not need to meet the prerequisites for. Your mount actually gains the half-celestial template.

*Corpse Companion as a bonus feat you do not need to meet the prerequisites for. Your companion's Charisma is equal to your highest ability score. This feat only apply to your mount, not another companion.

*Evolution Pool: Your mount gains an evolution pool with a number of evolution points equal to half your cavalier level (minimum 1).

*Fiendish: Your mount gains the half-fiend template.

*Gene-Touched Companion. Your mount gains the starting, 4th-, and 8th-level abilities. This feat only apply to your mount, not another companion.

*Mighty: Your mount gains the Advanced template. At 3rd level and every odd level thereafter, your mount gains one of the following feats as a bonus feat it does not have to meet the prerequisites for: Devotion Against the Unnatural, Disruptive Companion, Ferocious Beast, Ferocious Feint, Forceful Charge, Improved Forceful Charge, Intercept Blow, Jumper, Narrow Frame, Reflexive Interception, Stable Gallop, Sure-Footed, Tenacious Hunter, Valliant Steed, Well-Trained.

*Monstrous Companion as a bonus feat you do not need to meet the prerequisites for. For this feat your effective druid level is your cavalier level +6. This feat only apply to your mount, not another companion.

*Mythic Companion as a bonus feat. Both you and your mount receive this feat.

*Skaveling Companion as a bonus feat you do not need to meet the prerequisites for. The save DC for its screech is its normal DC or 10 +1/2 your effective druid level for companions + your highest ability score modifier. This feat only apply to your mount, not another companion.

*Totem Beast as a bonus feat you do not need to meet the prerequisites for. Your companion receives two animal aspects, and you can select whet they are each day when you regain uses of your daily abilities. This feat only apply to your mount, not another companion

*Vampiric Companion as a bonus feat you do not need to meet the prerequisites for. Select one kind of vampire. Your vampiric companion gains abilities as if you were a vampire of that type. This feat only apply to your mount, not another companion.

Horrifically Overpowered Order (Horrifically Overpowered): You gain a second order. You do not need to meet any of the prerequisites or requirements of your second order. You do not have to follow the edicts of your second order. You never lose any abilities as a result of violating an edict.

Horrifically Overpowered Tactician (Horrifically Overpowered): You can use this ability three additional times per day, it can be used as a free action, it's duration is tracked in minutes rather than rounds, and it's range is multiplied by 10.

Horrifically Overpowered Cavalier's Charge (Horrifically Overpowered): Your ranged attacks gain the same bonus as melee attacks when charging. When you are mounted, and you mount moves at least 5 feet, you may decide for any attack to count as a charge.

Horrifically Overpowered Expert Trainer (Horrifically Overpowered): At 1st level you can cast animal messenger, animal purpose training, call animal, charm animal, speak with animal, charm animal, and wartrain mount as spell-like abilities, at will, as a swift or free action.

At 4th level you can also use this ability to cast hold animal. At 6th level you can also use this ability to cast companion mind link, and dominate animal. At 8th level you can also use this ability to cast watchful animal.

Horrifically Overpowered Banner (Horrifically Overpowered): Your banner ability works on any ally who can see you OR one banner of yours of your choice... even if that banner is nowhere near you. Your banner bonuses are all 2 higher than normal. The bonuses to saves applies to all saving throws, and the bonus to attacks applies to all attack rolls.

Horrifically Overpowered Bonus Feat (Horrifically Overpowered): Each time you gain a feat from this class feature, you gain two additional bonus feats which need not be combat feats, and your mount gains two bonus feats.

Horrifically Overpowered Greater Tactician (Horrifically Overpowered): Your tactician and greater tactician abilities work with all teamwork feats you have. You gain one addition al bonus teamwork feat for every 2 cavalier level you have.

Horrifically Overpowered Mighty Charge (Horrifically Overpowered): This threat range expansion stacks with any one other source of threat range expansion. You gain Critical Focus and Critical Mastery as bonus feats that you do not need to meat the prerequisites for, but they only apply to attacks made while mounted or charging.

Horrifically Overpowered Demanding Challenge (Horrifically Overpowered): The target of your challenge takes a –8 penalty on all attacks rolls made against creatures other than you and has a 40% spell failure chance on all spells that do not target you or that have you within their area of effect.

Horrifically Overpowered Greater Banner (Horrifically Overpowered): You can wave your banner as a standard action, move action, swift action, or immediate action. An ally can only benefit from each kind of action banner waving once per day. The ability works on all allies able to see your banner.

Writers Note: If you are enjoying this article, you may also enjoy my (non-Horrifically Overpowered) articles on cavalier-paladins, dragon knights, and Unicorn Animal Companions.

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