"Go ahead, make me angry, I'll just smash you better...
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...REGDAR SMASH!"
Thanks to the fell radiations of an ill advised magical experiment, you have the incredible ability to lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster. Many people will say this isn't useful, that it makes you actually a worse fighter, because your anger is a weapon only to your opponent. You tend to smash the shit out of these people.
Requirements
Base Attack Bonus: +7
Base Fortitude Save: +4
Special: Must have drank a magical elixir which releases your id in corporeal form (a process requiring 1 week, reagents totally 6,000g in cost, and the expenditure of 7 third level spell slots over that time). It is encouraged that you create this elixir yourself.
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Must have survived a 4th level or higher magical effect with a maximum damage higher than your full HP.
Game Info
HD: d12
BAB: Full
Saves: Good Fort and Will
Skills: Climb (Str), Handle Animal (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Jump (Str), Listen (Wis), Ride (Dex), Survival (Wis), and Swim (Str)
Skill Points/Level: 2+Int Mod
Level--Special
1-- Hulk State, Property Damage, Pounding Footsteps, Combat Pragmatist
2-- Mighty Bounds, Angrier and Angrier
3-- Furious Resistance, Healing Factor,
4-- The Fires of Anger
5-- Tireless, Always Angry, Dimensional Damage
Hulk: A Hulking Berserker gains enormous physical power from his anger. The flow of adrenaline unlocks certain mystical seals, causing a period of rapid transformation, in which he gains several feet of height and turns green. When he takes 10 points of damage or more, he enters a state of rage, similar to a barbarian of his class level (+levels of Barbarian, if he has any), growing a size category (with all attendant benefits, but not the dexterity reduction), and a +2 morale bonus to melee and thrown attacks and damage. If he has any rage dice from the barbarian class he may use these dice in this state. He also gains DR equal to his Con Mod, overcome by Adamantine, or similar materials (DR Con Mod/Adamantine). He also gains a +2 morale bonus to saves, and a -2 circumstance penalty to AC, and two natural slam attacks, which deal damage as appropriate to his new size.
This transformation is completely involuntary, occurring automatically whenever 10 or more points of damage is dealt to him in a round, or if an attack would kill him in his normal form, in which case, the transformation is instantaneous, increasing the Hulking Berserker's stats before the attack is actually resolved. It is still possible that the attack will kill him, but he will have increased hp, saves, etc with which to resist the attack.
It is possible to enter this state voluntarily, though difficult. The Hulking Berserker must spend a Full Round straining and fuming, letting his fury build. Or he can try to do 10 or more points of damage to himself. You can also choose one or two reasonably uncommon things that will piss you off to the point of entering a Hulk State, such as abusive parents, tyranny, whatever.
A Hulk State will end a number of rounds equal to your (improved) Con modifier after you last took damage, or can be voluntarily ended with a Will Save against DC 15+Your (Improved) Strength Modifier
All abilities of this class, unless otherwise noted, require the Hulking Berserker to be in this Hulk state.
Property Damage: When damaging an object, the Hulking Berserker receives a +8 competence bonus to strength checks and deals double damage.If you're using the 3.5 Core Barbarian rather than Tome wrote:Alright, some people dislike the Tome Barbarian for whatever reason. I get that, there's just something so satisfying about raising your strength into the upper 20s, lower 30s. Plus there are prestige classes that build on it, and maybe your DM doesn't like Tome. In cases such as this, Hulk allows the Hulking Berserker to rage as a barbarian of his class levels, plus barbarian levels, gaining bonuses to Strength and Con as normal. He also gains the DR and size increase as normal.
Pounding Footsteps: The Hulk's great strength drives him greater speed. Whenever he moves faster than a walk (greater than his base speed in 6 seconds), including during a charge, he gains a bonus to his base speed equal to his Strength Modifier x 5'. For example, a human Hulking Berserker with 30 strength in his Hulk State has a speed of 30' if he's just walking around. If he charges or runs, his base speed is treated as being 80', before multipliers.
Combat Pragmatist: You may use anything you can lift off the ground as an improvised weapon, and take no non-proficiency penalties for doing so. This ability will function out of Hulk State.
Mighty Bounds: You jump good, more out of strength than skill, but it's still pretty remarkable. By making a successful Jump check, you can, effectively, fly for short periods of time. With a DC 40 jump check, you gain a fly speed of 60' with clumsy maneuverability for a number of rounds equal to half your strength modifier, or until you land, whichever comes first. The DC is halved with a 20' running start as usual for long jumps.
This movement must start on a solid surface, and must be in a straight line (no turning is possible, and you cannot travel upwards after moving down or level), which must be in the same direction as your running start if you made one. Faster jump speeds can be accomplished with higher jump dcs, as shown below:
| Flight Speed | DC (half with a 20' running start) |
| 120' | 50 |
| 180' | 60 |
| 240' | 70 |
| 300' | 80 |
| 360' | 90 |
Because this is effectively flight, not an actual jump, your distance is not bounded by your height.
Finally, you may use your strength modifier in place of Jump ranks to determine access to anything which requires ranks in jump, such as feats or prestige classes.
Angrier and Angrier: The only limit to your anger is your lifespan. Once in a Hulk State, every 20 points of damage you take increases your Strength and Constitution by 2 points. These increases will subside at a rate of 1 point each per round once you are no longer stressed or in danger (ie, taking damage, or in a hostile environment), or completely once you leave your Hulk State, which ever comes first.
Furious Resistance: Your anger, and the strength which comes from it, harden your mind and body. You gain your strength modifier as a bonus to Fortitude and Will saves. This will not function simultaneously with Divine Grace, or other abilities which add an Ability Modifier to saves.
Healing Factor: The rapid cellular growth which causes your transformation also maintains your body. You gain Regeneration equal to one half your Strength Modifier, and only take real damage from Adamantium weapons and similar. This regeneration will regrow or reattach severed limbs, removed organs, and even replace a removed head. The Hulking Berserker must be completely reduced to it's constituent atoms, so long as even a cell remains, he will return to life, albeit after long periods of time. If the Hulking Berserker is reduced to -10 hp, he drops into a catatonic state, his regeneration drops to 1 hp/day, and he must return to his full normal hp before returning to life. A further 50 points of damage can be done to chop up the body, which will reduce the regeneration to 3 hp/week, and regeneration will start with the largest piece (or a random piece if all pieces are the same size). Disintegration can be used to permanently kill the Hulking Berserker once he has have been chopped into pieces, but must be cast on each individual piece (assume a number of pieces equal to normal hp+60). A Wish spell can be used to perform a ten hour ritual which will permanently kill a Hulking Berserk reduced to pieces.
You also stop physically aging after 10 years into adulthood. If less than this (age of majority+10), you will physically age to this point. If at or beyond this point, you cease to physically age. You will not die from old age, and you will not accumulate penalties for aging, though you still accumulate mental bonuses.
The Fires of Anger: You have experienced the hottest flame you ever will, that of your own rage. Against this internal heat, the flames of the world cannot prevail or even compare. Nothing can diminish this heat, either, not even the fell frost of the deepest arctic pit. You are immune to fire and cold.
Tireless: The same cellular change which turns you into a giant green rage monster also combats the secretions of your muscles which cause fatigue. At level five, while in a Hulk State, you can maintain activity or strain for six hours per point of Con Mod, or four times as long as normal, whichever is longer. This includes Forced March and other overland movement, holding your breath, going without food or water, etc.
Always Angry: That's it. You've finally had it. The entire world makes you angry. That puppy? Fills you righteous, pure, unadulterated fury. That kid walking it? Even worse. The world is such a shit hole, that you are literally always angry. On the upside, you are amazing at hiding it, and pushing it aside to act in spite of it. The other upshot is that you can, at will, as a not-an-action, transform into your Hulk state, opening the flood gates and voluntarily transforming. Your Hulk state now also increases your size by two categories, granting the usual increases, but not the dexterity reduction.
Dimensional Damage: Lets face it, the world is really a pretty fragile thing, and you're really pretty damned strong. With a DC 60 strength check, you can punch a hole in reality, which happens to open somewhere else, creating a Gate. This is a full round action, but may be combined with an attack against someone/thing. If the target is not outright destroyed by your attack, it will be flung through the gate you create.
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done-ish.
Coming later: Completion of Hulking Berserker, Mjolner, The Iron Suit, Symbiotes, probably other stuff.
