Starting at 2nd level, a dragoon gains one dragoon talent. He gains one additional dragoon talent for every 2 dragoon levels attained after 2nd. Unless otherwise noted, a dragoon cannot select an individual dragoon talent more than once.
Table: Dragoon Talents
| Dragoon Talent | Prerequisites | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Acrobatic Recovery (Ex) | — | Stand up from prone as a move action or a swift action without provoking an attack of opportunity. Alternatively, you also stand up from prone as a free action, but this provokes an attack of opportunity. However, the dragoon can avoid provoking this attack of opportunity by successfully using the Acrobatics skill as if she were moving through a threatened square at full speed (a +10 to the DC). |
| Adrenaline (Ex) | Blood of the Dragon class feature | After suffering physical trauma, the dragon blood within you begins to coagulate, stanching blood loss and hardening your defenses for a brief period. When taking lethal damage to your hit points, you reduce all bleed damage on you by an amount equal to your Constitution modifier. Additionally, you receive a circumstance bonus to your Fortitude saves for the same amount, lasting for 1 round. You must have at least 1 dragon blood point remaining for this talent to activate. |
| Acrobatic Maneuvers (Ex) | — | Gain a +5 bonus to your Acrobatics skill check when jumping through threatened squares. This talent may be taken up to two times, with its effects stacking. |
| Aerial Takedown (Ex) | Deadly Lancer class feature | Treat your high jump distance as a dive attack's altitude difference when directly attacking airborne creatures with your high jump attack. |
| Agile Finish (Ex) | Deadly Lancer class feature | Gain a +1 dodge bonus to your AC for every three dice of Deadly Lancer damage you inflict. This effect lasts for 1 round. |
| Bladed Tail (Ex) | Tail Sweep class feature | Deal normal damage to creatures you knock prone with your Tail Sweep ability. |
| Combat Feat | — | Gain a bonus combat feat. This talent may be taken only once. |
| Crater (Ex) | Deadly Lancer class feature | Divert the crashing power of your dive attacks to the terrain around your target. After landing a dive attack on a grounded target, you may subtract two Deadly Lancer dice from your damage to cause all ground within 5 feet of that target to become difficult terrain. You may further increase this area of effect by subtracting an additional two Deadly Lancer dice for every 5 feet gained. Additionally, creatures caught in its area of effect must make a Reflex save (DC: 10 + the original amount of Deadly Lancer dice) or be knocked prone. |
| Cratered Arena (Ex) | Crater dragoon talent | When using your Crater talent, you may create a wall of debris 5 foot high around the perimeter of the affected area. This wall has an amount of hit points equal to 2 × your crater radius and hardness equal to your Constitution modifier. A Climb skill check (DC 15) allows a creature to climb over at the cost of expending 5 feet of movement speed. |
| Critical Defense Bonus (Ex) | Dragoon 2 (1st rank), Dragoon 6 (2nd rank), Dragoon 10 (3rd rank) | Gain a +4 bonus to your AC when defending against an attack roll made to confirm a critical hit. This talent may be taken up to three times; the 1st rank being accessible at 2nd level or higher, the 2nd rank at 6th level or higher, and the 3rd rank at 10th level or higher. These effects stack with eachother. |
| Deep Breathing (Ex) | Dragoon 8, Dragon's Breath class feature | You may breath a 30 foot cone or line of your selected Dragon's Breath element. |
| Dragon's Breath Mastery (Su) | Dragon's Breath class feature | When utilizing your Dragon's Breath ability, you may expend an additional dragon blood point to select up to a number of targets equal to your Constitution bonus caught within its area of effect. These targets are excluded from its effects. |
| Dragon's Roar (Ex) | Blood of the Dragon class feature | Let loose a ferocious roar, frightening nearby enemies. By spending 1 point of dragon blood as a standard action, you can perform a roar to inflict the Shaken status effect to all enemies within 60 feet for 1 minute. A successful Will save (DC: 10 + half your dragoon level + your Constitution modifier) negates this effect. |
| Enhanced Dragon Sight (Ex) | Dragon Sight class feature | While your Dragon Sight ability is active, among your usual benefits, you also suppress any Blinded or Dimmed status effects on you. Additionally, Dragon Sight bestows you the ability to see the auras of living creatures, effectively allowing you to discern the living from the nonliving (undead or constructs). |
| Enemy Step (Ex) | Wall Jumping class feature | Treat corporeal creatures at least one size larger than yourself as walls when using the Wall Jumping class feature. |
| Evasive Jump (Ex) | Elusive Jump class feature | Increase your maximum long jump distance with the Elusive Jump ability from 15 feet to 20 feet. Additionally, you are treated as if you possess the Evasion ability should you land outside of a spell or ability's area of effect. |
| Fighter Training (Ex) | Dragoon 6 | Count half your total dragoon level as fighter levels for the purpose of qualifying for feats. If you have levels in warrior, these levels stack with the levels gained from warrior's Fighter Training class feature. |
| Flanking Force (Ex) | Flexible Flanker dragoon talent | When an ally threatens an enemy that you also threaten, that ally gains the benefits of your Flexible Flanker talent. |
| Flexible Flanker (Ex) | — | You may choose any square adjacent to you and treat that square as your location for determining who you are flanking, even if that square is occupied by a creature, object, or solid barrier. |
| Flowing Lancer (Ex) | — | Move through combat as if made of water. You may use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier for melee attack rolls with spears, lances, or polearms. |
| Glide (Ex) | Deadly Lancer class feature | Gain 5 feet of horizontal range for every 5 feet of altitude achieved for your dive attacks. |
| Irresistible Advance (Ex) | Phalanx Fighting and Spear Brace dragoon talents | Gain a bonus to your bull rush and overrun CMB checks. This bonus depends on the type of shield used: +1 with a buckler, +2 with a light shield, or +3 with a heavy shield. |
| Mana Burn (Ex) | Lancet class feature | Upon landing a successful strike with your Lancet ability, you can force your target to make a Will save (DC: 10 + half your dragoon level + your Constitution modifier) or suffer MP damage equal to the amount of dice rolled for your Lancet's healing. |
| Melee Accuracy Bonus (Ex) | Dragoon 2 (1st rank), Dragoon 10 (2nd rank) | Gain a +1 bonus to your attack when attacking with a melee weapon that you are proficient with. This talent may be taken up to two times; the 1st rank being accessible at 2nd level or higher, and the 2nd rank at 10th level or higher. These effects stack with eachother. |
| Phalanx Fighting (Ex) | — | Gain proficiency in shields (except tower shields) and when you wield a shield, you can use any polearm or spear of your size as a one-handed weapon. Additionally, while wielding a shield that would prevent your shield-hand from being free, you can attack two-handed with a polearm or spear that you are proficient with at the cost of losing the benefits of that shield until the start of your next turn. |
| Phlebotomize (Ex) | Deadly Lancer class feature | You can choose to deal your Deadly Lancer damage as bleed damage instead. The amount of bleed damage is equal to 2 points per Deadly Lancer damage dice inflicted. |
| Pinpoint Lancer (Ex) | — | Attack your enemies with pinpoint accuracy over brute force. You may use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier for melee damage rolls with spears, lances, or polearms. |
| Predatory Pounce (Ex) | Deadly Lancer class feature | When using your Deadly Lancer class feature on a target that is flat-footed, you can use d8s instead of d6s. |
| Shaft Trip (Ex) | — | Gain the Improved Trip feat even if you do not meet the prerequisites. Additionally, you treat spears, lances, and polearms, as trip weapons. |
| Shellbreaker (Ex) | Deadly Lancer class feature, Dragoon 6 | After dive attacking a creature, its DR of all types is reduced by an amount equal to half the number of Deadly Lancer dice inflicted (minimum 1) for one round. |
| Smite (Ex) | — | Deal an additional +2 damage with melee weapons that you are proficient with. This additional damage does not get multiplied on critical hits. |
| Sonic Thrust (Ex) | Deadly Lancer class feature | Divert the crashing power of your long jump attack to instead assault the creatures behind your target. After traveling at least 10 feet as part of a long jump attack, you may choose to divert the Deadly Lancer bonus damage that would be inflicted as a 15 foot cone originating from that target, being oriented in the same direction as your attack. Targets within the area of effect take Deadly Lancer damage as slashing damage, with a Reflex save (DC: 10 + half your dragoon level + your Strength or Dexterity modifier) halving the damage. |
| Spear Brace (Ex) | Phalanx Fighting dragoon talent | Brace a polearm or spear on an equipped shield to aid in handling and fighting with it. You maintain your shield bonus to AC even while fighting two-handed with your polearm or spear. |
| Springing Charge (Ex) | Dragoon 6 | When you long jump a distance of 10 or more feet using a charge action, you may move after the attack, but your total distance that you can move cannot be greater than your speed. You can use Acrobatics skill checks to move through threatened squares in this manner at full speed without the imposed +10 DC modifier. You cannot use this ability to attack a foe that is adjacent to you at the start of your turn. |
| Springing Dive (Ex) | Deadly Lancer class feature | You may subtract a number of Deadly Lancer dice from your damage to position yourself farther away from your target after delivering a successful dive attack. For every Deadly Lancer die subtracted, you gain an additional 5 feet of distance where you may land away from your target. |
| Strafe (Ex) | Dragon's Breath class feature, Dragoon 6 (1st rank), Dragoon 10 (2nd rank), Dragoon 14 (3rd rank) | Gain a +1 bonus to your DC when using your Dragon's Breath ability. This talent may be taken up to three times; the 1st rank being accessible at 6th level or higher, the 2nd rank at 10th level or higher, and the 3rd rank at 14th level or higher. These effects stack with eachother. |
| Tactical Drop (Ex) | Deadly Lancer class feature | You may opt not to deal extra damage from Deadly Lancer on your dive attack, instead allowing you to make a free trip, bull rush, sunder, or disarm combat maneuver check upon a successful hit. This combat maneuver does not provoke attacks of opportunity, with it still receiving the circumstance attack bonus gained from any altitude differences. You still deal normal damage on this attack. |
| Wheeling Thrust (Ex) | Dragoon 6 | You may deliver all of your available attacks with a polearm or spear as a single, powerful thrust. Whenever you use a full-attack action to make multiple attacks with a polearm or spear that deals piercing damage against the same target, you total the damage from all your hits before applying that target’s damage reduction. You suffer a -5 penalty to confirm critical hits during this period and a -2 penalty to your AC for 1 round after utilizing this talent. |