I'm in.OgreBattle wrote:How about a design challenge where we make a level 1-10 class (at least) for the random name we get.Maxus wrote:We could totally turn this in a game around here. Roll 2d20 and then make a class based on the name.Koumei wrote:If you wanted to cover all variety of classes, you'd want separate charts.
d20 roll First Bit Second Bit 1 Soul Blade 2 Mage Sword 3 Rage Lurk 4 Death Stalker 5 Dark Mage 6 Night Warrior 7 Bone Thief 8 Sword Priest 9 Blade Cock 10 Sun Caster 11 Dusk Hurler 12 Hex Master 13 Life Hunter 14 Blue Scion 15 Shadow Crawler 16 Ghost Adept 17 Wraith Sage 18 Cock Witch 19 Mind Speaker 20 Blunt Dancer
So I just got Ghost Witch and Rage Blade.
Rules are:
Roll 2d20. Refer to the chart above or one you make yourself and post here.
For example, here's my Monstrous version made by ripping off Koumei's table above.
| d20 roll | First Bit | Second Bit |
| 1 | Angel | Blade |
| 2 | Devil | Sword |
| 3 | Undead | Lurk |
| 4 | Beast | Stalker |
| 5 | Dinosaur | Mage |
| 6 | Demon | Warrior |
| 7 | Dragon | Thief |
| 8 | Water | Priest |
| 9 | Celestial | Lord |
| 10 | Psionic | Caster |
| 11 | Lycanthrope | Hurler |
| 12 | Ancient | Master |
| 13 | Fae | Hunter |
| 14 | Fire | Scion |
| 15 | Shapechanger | Crawler |
| 16 | Monster | Adept |
| 17 | Wraith | Sage |
| 18 | Earth | Witch |
| 19 | Elemental | Speaker |
| 20 | Spectral | Dancer |
I just got Sword Scion. So I guess I'll use this space to lead off with something about an ancestral weapon.
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Sword Scion
"By Grandpa's Hammer!"
Every so often, an adventurer is lucky enough to inherit or find, by some sort of means, a magical weapon that just suits them. They stick with the weapon, and it's good to them.
Starting Age: As Barbarian
d10
Good BAB
Good Saves
4 + Int skill points
1 Ancestral Weapon, Favorite Weapon
2 Hands of the Forebearers
3 Great Weapon
4 Memories of Before
5 Undying Steel
Ancestral Weapon: The Sword Scion has a really great, really old martial or exotic weapon that's important to them. It's a magic weapon, with an enhancement bonus of +1/3 the Scion's character level.
Favorite Weapon: The Scion's Ancestral Weapon is also their favorite weapon--it's comfortable for them, and reassuring to hold and use. They get the Combat School feat with this weapon (even if it's a bow or other ranged weapon), and a morale bonus to saves equal 1/2 their class level (round up).
Hands of the Forebearers: The Sword Scion feel like they aren't alone when they hold the weapon--because they aren't. Anyone or anything capable of seeing ethereal beings or ghosts can can clearly see the past owners of the swords joining their hands with yours, as a sort of spiritual imprint. The weapon is a Ghost Touch weapon and the Scion gets Mettle.
Great Weapon: The Scion's ancestral weapon displays a power hitherto unknown. Perhaps it's Holy, or maybe it's a Bane against a certain monster. It's not like these things come with an instruction manual, so the Scion can hardly be blamed for not finding out about it until now. The Ancestral Weapon gains a Minor magic property. At character level 8, the Ancestral Weapon manifests a Moderate Property. At level 12, it displays a Major Property. Alteratively, the Ancestral Weapon turns out to be really accommodating to magical upgrades, and will either be upgraded, or maybe gain thematic powers from slaying certain monsters or being present at a magical site, where it absorbs something of the power into itself.
Memories of Before: The Sword Scion frequently has vivid dreams about past events and people associated with the weapon. In addition to providing feelings of deja vu, the Scion finds himself instinctively using techniques like he's always known them. The Scion gains a bonus [Combat] feat, preferably involving weapon attacks, rather than something like Great Fortitude.
Undying Steel: The Ancestral weapon can't be permanently destroyed or lost, by some quirk of fate. If sundered, it can be reforged from the pieces. If the pieces are lost, they turn back up. The sword is immune to effects that would totally destroy it, like Disintegrate or a Rust Monster or a Sphere of Annihilation (in the later case, even if it's sucked into the Sphere, it exits a wormhole elsewhere and gets found some while later). As an upside, the sword ignores DR.
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I'm not 100% happy, but if you're going to focus a class around "I inherited an old weapon!" this isn't too bad, I think. It's something of a base class/paragon class, I guess.
And yeah, I know the Samurai's Ancestral Weapon is automatically magic and ghost touch. At level 1 or 2, it doesn't make too much of a difference there.
