Diamond Classes: Kingking
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Martial Emperor

Note: This archetype uses Dreamscarred Press’s Path of War and initiator subsystem.

Requirements:

• Initiating: Initiator level 5th.

This alters the kingking’s prestige class requirements.

Maneuvers: At every even level, a martial emperor gains a new maneuver known. Their available disciplines for these maneuvers are Golden Lion and three of their previously available disciplines, chosen when they take their first martial emperor level. The martial emperor must meet a maneuver’s prerequisites to learn it, as normal. The martial emperor adds their full class level to their initiator level to determine their total initiator level and highest-level maneuvers known.

At 3rd level and again at 6th level and 9th level, a martial emperor gains an additional maneuver readied.

This replaces cosmopolitan expertise.

Stances: At 4th level and again at 6th level and 10th level, a martial emperor learns a new stance from any of the disciplines available to them as a martial emperor. They must meet the stance’s prerequisites to learn it, as normal.

Grand Display (Ex): At 2nd level, the martial emperor may make a grand display as an immediate action after successfully reducing an opponent to 0 or fewer hit points, confirming a critical hit, or succeeding on a combat maneuver check. If the martial emperor does, they recover 1 maneuver (provided that it is not a maneuver they expended this round). At 6th and 10th level, the martial emperor recovers 1 additional maneuver when using this ability.

This replaces the courtier selected at 2nd level.