Strike [Death]
| Level: | Open Tome 9 |
| Prerequisites: | Four Open Tome techniques |
| Action: | 1 standard action |
| Range: | Melee Attack |
| Target: | One identified creature |
| Duration: | Instantaneous |
| Saving Throw: | Fortitude partial |
Your in depth knowledge of a particular type of creature allows you to perfectly disrupt their vital functions with a single strike.
Make an attack against an identified creature; if successful, the target must make a successful Fortitude save or die. If the target’s saving throw is successful, they take damage equal to your ranks in Academics and are stunned for 1 round then paralyzed for 1d6 rounds after the stun ends.
In addition, when targeting creatures with the same type and subtype as the target creature, you gain a +5 circumstance bonus to Academics checks and deal an additional 1d6 precision damage on weapon damage rolls. These bonuses last until the end of the current encounter and do not stack with themselves.