Type of Feat: Class
Prerequisite: Priest level 1, Paladin level 3.
Required for: Divine Might, Divine Shield, Extra Turning, Lifeleech, and Planar Turning.
Specifics: With this feat, the character can force undead to flee in terror. This ability may be activated three times per day, plus the character's Charisma modifier. The priest's level and Charisma are used to determine how many undead are turned.
Use: Selected. If the character has twice as many levels as the undead have Hit Die, the undead are instantly destroyed.
Special: Priest domains can influence this feat.
Domains that influence Turn Undead:
- Air Domain: Turn Elementals
- Chaos Domain: Turn Outsider (non-chaotic)
- Death Domain: Command Turned Undead
- Destruction Domain: Turn Constructs
- Earth Domain: Turn Elementals
- Evil Domain: Turn Outsider (non-evil)
- Fire Domain: Turn Elementals
- Good Domain: Turn Outsider (non-good)
- Law Domain: Turn Outsider (non-lawful)
- Moon Domain: Turn Shapeshifters
- Plant Domain: Turn Vermin
- Sun Domain: Improved Turning
- Water Domain Turn Elementals
Notes[]
- The affected area has a radius of 20 meters, centered on the turner. Creatures are affected from nearest to furthest, with friendly creatures exempt. Creatures must be seen to be affected.
- The total hit dice of all affected creatures is limited to 2d6 plus the turner's charisma modifier and level. This is increased by another d6 if the caster has the sun domain.
- The duration of the forced flight is 5 rounds, plus one round per the turner's level.
- The "level" used by this feat for all purposes listed so far (total hit dice affected, destroying instead of turning, and duration) is the turner's cleric level plus the higher of (paladin level−2) and (blackguard level−2) if either is positive.
- For the purpose of determining the highest level (hit dice) creature that can be turned, the turner's level is modified (from −4 to +4) by a turn check, and no creature with more hit dice than the modified level can be turned. The turn check is a die roll: d20 + charisma modifier, plus another d4 if the turner has the sun domain.
| turn check | level modifier |
|---|---|
| 0 or less | −4 |
| 1 to 3 | −3 |
| 4 to 6 | −2 |
| 7 to 9 | −1 |
| 10 to 12 | +0 |
| 13 to 15 | +1 |
| 16 to 18 | +2 |
| 19 to 21 | +3 |
| 22 or higher | +4 |
- Turn resistance is added to a creature's hit dice when determining if, and how, that creature is affected by this feat. This makes the creature harder to turn and harder to "instantly destroy", and if the creature is turned, it takes a bigger bite out of the total hit dice that can be affected.
- Whether or not a creature is affected by turn undead is determined by that creature's racial type (which can change under the influence of a polymorph). Undead are always affected (unless friendly), while additional races may be affected based on clerical domains and the planar turning feat.
- Constructs can be affected (damaged, not turned) via the destruction domain.
- Elementals can be turned via the air, earth, fire, and water domains.
- Outsiders can be turned via the good and evil domains, or via the planar turning feat.
- Vermin can be turned via the plant domain.
- An affected creature cannot be cured with the restoration or mind protection lines of spells. However, the effect may be dispelled, with the turner's hit dice as the effective caster level of the turn effect.
- Outsiders get a bonus to their turn resistance equal to their spell resistance, unless the turner has planar turning in which case the bonus is half that amount. The spell-resistance-based turn resistance stacks with any normal turn resistance the outsider may have.
- Constructs, if affected by a turning attempt, are not forced to flee, nor are they destroyed if the turner's level is twice theirs. Instead, constructs receive 1d3 points of magical damage per the modified level used to determine the highest level creature that can be turned.