Need help working on a home-brewed Class.


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I am currently working on a Base Class that combines ideas from the Synthasist Summoner Archetype and the Beastmorph Alchemist Archetype. The core concept of this class is a character who alters their own body to gain aspects of monsters and beasts. In theory both of those archetypes are not bad but they both suffer from being stuck in concept to the class they were based off of. I want to create a class from the start based entirely around this concept. Any advice, help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I want to keep this class a non-casting class so keep that in mind. I was almost considering making this as a Barbarian Archetype but I am not sure if it would work how I want.


"Through years of studying the world around him, the Imitator has learned the ability to mimic the abilities of creatures to such a degree that they can physically alter their body to resemble the creature being mimicked. Some are even rumored to be capable of full transformations into creatures and even into other people."

I would call the class the Imitator and I would center their abilities around studying the world around them (this includes people, animals, plants and outsiders) and being able to imitate them to the point of even physically altering their bodies to become more like, or even flat out become, the subject of their study.

I would give them bonuses to disguise when imitating others, the ability to study things and learn about them, the ability to utilize multiple alterations at one time, a bonus to handle animal, a bonus to knowledge: nature, and the ability to use the abilities of things such as the poison of plants.

They should only be capable of morphing their bodies for certain periods of time and the further from their original form and the more things they associate into their morphed state, i.e. the poison of a plant along with the talons of an eagle and the legs of a cheetah, the shorter time they can spend in that morphed state. a human can sustain the look of another human for a long time, while a human maintaining a hybrid of an elephant, dolphin, crow, wasp and rose bush would only be capable of holding it for a short period of time.

I would give the class 3/4 BAB progression, good fortitude saves, poor reflex saves and good will saves.

That's my two cents so far. Ultimately though it's your class and it's up to you as to what you do and don't want in it. However, I will admit, this has spiked my interest and I may end up play testing this once you have it all fleshed out....

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