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    The Order of the Black Dragon is a large knightly order that promotes trade between nations and provides protection to merchants. Originally a small provincial organization, it has expanded significantly and its emblem has become a symbol of safety. The Order ultimately serves mysterious ancient masters through a convoluted hierarchy. Those who join The Order can pursue one of five tracks, including Knight, which focuses on combat abilities like increased damage and additional attacks of opportunity. While Knights are traditionally honorable, some use their reputation for more nefarious ends.

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    The Order of the Black Dragon is a large knightly order that promotes trade between nations and provides protection to merchants. Originally a small provincial organization, it has expanded significantly and its emblem has become a symbol of safety. The Order ultimately serves mysterious ancient masters through a convoluted hierarchy. Those who join The Order can pursue one of five tracks, including Knight, which focuses on combat abilities like increased damage and additional attacks of opportunity. While Knights are traditionally honorable, some use their reputation for more nefarious ends.

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    The Order of the Black Dragon is a large knightly order that promotes trade between nations and provides protection to merchants. Originally a small provincial organization, it has expanded significantly and its emblem has become a symbol of safety. The Order ultimately serves mysterious ancient masters through a convoluted hierarchy. Those who join The Order can pursue one of five tracks, including Knight, which focuses on combat abilities like increased damage and additional attacks of opportunity. While Knights are traditionally honorable, some use their reputation for more nefarious ends.

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    The Order of the Black Dragon

    The Order

    New Track: Knight

    The Order is a predominantly military organization


    dedicated to guiding and promoting trade between nation states. With deep coffers and an almost invisible
    agenda, it has found welcome in most major trade cities.
    Therein, by small steps or great leaps, it has grown.
    Once a provincial organization, The Order of the
    Black Dragon is now an enormous knightly order so
    steeped in tradition that its roots in the machinations of
    an ancient black dragon are almost forgotten. Recently,
    it has branched out into other regions in the plane, and
    the simple device of a black, scale-shaped shield has
    become iconic, an emblem of safety for lost travelers
    and frightened merchants. Few know that, despite its
    wide reach, The Order is merely one of thousands of
    organizations linked to the strange and ancient conspiracy known as The Halcyon. It, in turn, is a servitor
    of an even more ancient hierarchy, one deeply decayed
    by time. Despite that gradual loss of cohesion, these
    strange and distant masters retain a measure of control
    over their pawns. Even now, The Order heeds their call,
    passed along across vast distances by hundreds or thousands of intermediaries.

    Skilled swordfighters, accomplished riders and excellent jousters, Knights are the go-to men when a monster
    needs slaying, or a war needs fighting. While traditionally Knights are considered honourable and just, plenty
    of less-than-scrupulous individuals use that image to
    take advantage of unsuspecting victims.
    Acquiring the Knight track changes your KOM to
    Strength unless Strength is already your KDM.
    Special: Knight is only available with Guild Initiation.
    Restriction: Knight abilities do not function while unarmed or using weapons based on unarmed attacks,
    such as Knuckledusters.
    1st Circle Deadly Blades: Any successful combat maneu-

    ver you perform deals additional damage equal to your


    KOM plus your character level. This damage is [Precision] damage, and applies to all maneuvers, including
    Charge, except Power Attack and Deadly Aim. This
    damage never stacks with itself. So, for instance, if you
    Trip on a Charge due to some special ability, it only applies once.
    2nd Circle Valiant Challenge: Creatures in your [Melee]

    Joining The Order


    The Order is represented by five different tracks. These
    are the Elementalist (Acid), Assassin, Knight, Mechanist
    Savant, and Dragon tracks. Buy-in for The Order may
    involve higher-than-normal social commitments. As a
    result, The Order offers the additional benefit of access
    to caravans at the first circle, and then limited access to
    planar travel at the fourth circle. They are also an excellent source of quests with monetary rewards, but these
    quests are often terribly difficult, particularly as one progresses deeper into the mysteries behind The Order.

    range must attack you if able when making melee attacks. The first instance of this ability to apply against
    a given creature overrides subsequent instances, so the
    first Knight to arrive is the mandatory target until he
    leaves, even if a second Knight also engages the same foe
    at a later time.
    3rd Circle Indefatigable: As a move action, you may

    become [Steadied] for one [Round]. While [Steadied],


    you may make one additional attack of opportunity
    each [Round], and whenever you make an attack of opportunity, you may place yourself anywhere inside your
    [Melee] range. This does not trigger attacks of opportunity, as it is not movement.
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    [Steadied] is a new
    condition granted
    by the Knights Indefatigable ability.
    It has no inherent
    effect, but represents the Knights
    defensive stance.

    4th Circle As The Six Hundred: You may Charge twice as

    a standard action: make a Charge, and then make a second Charge immediately afterwards. The penalties and
    benefits of these Charges do not stack.
    5th Circle Interrupt: While [Steadied], once per [En-

    counter], you may negate any one ability used within


    your [Melee] range as an immediate action. This includes spells or spell-like abilities cast within your [Melee] range, but not regular attacks. You may also use this
    ability against ongoing effects such as [Fast healing].
    They are negated for one [Round], which still counts
    against their duration.
    6th Circle On Heroes: As part of a Charge, at any point

    in the Charge, you may move anywhere within your


    [Melee] range and make a [Bonus attack]. This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity. After
    you make this [Bonus attack], you may continue your
    Charge in a straight line from your current location.
    7th Circle New And Old: You may use any combat ma-

    neuver other than Charge in place of an attack of opportunity. Alternatively, you may Flurry with your attacks
    of opportunity. This allows you to make two attacks
    instead of one.
    Additionally, you may now use Interrupt twice per
    [Encounter].

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