The playtests got me wondering what other combo could be a good idea (at least in theories).
Any ideas?
Yeah, hybrid base classes aren't exactly a new idea. I wish there were more pdfs or printed material for it though.
We should have a new PDF available in the next month or so...
This one is kinda a tri-gestalt Adept-Expert-Warrior more than an hybrid, dunno if it’s balanced.
Alignment: Any.
Hit Die: d10.
Class Skills:
The crusader's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Climb (Str), Craft (Int), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (all skills taken individually) (Int), Profession (Wis), Ride (Dex), Spellcraft (Int), Survival (Wis), Swim (Str) and a choice of 7 skill of her choosing.
Skill Ranks per Level: 6 + Int modifier.
TABLE: CRUSADER
Level_BaB____________Fort__Ref__Will__Special__________Spells per Day
_______________________________________________________0___1st_2nd_3rd_4th_ 5th
1st___+1_____________+2____+0___+2_____________________3___1___—___—___—___ —
2nd___+2_____________+3____+0___+3____Summon familiar__3___1___—___—___—___—
3rd___+3_____________+3____+1___+3_____________________3___2___—___—___ —___—
4th___+4_____________+4____+1___+4_____________________3___2___0___—___—___ —
5th___+5_____________+4____+1___+4_____________________3___2___1___—___—___ —
6th___+6/+1__________+5____+2___+5_____________________3___2___1___—___—___ —
7th___+7/+2__________+5____+2___+5_____________________3___3___2___—___—___ —
8th___+8/+3__________+6____+2___+6_____________________3___3___2___0___—___ —
9th___+9/+4__________+6____+3___+6_____________________3___3___2___1___—___ —
10th__+10/+5_________+7____+3___+7_____________________3___3___2___1___—___ —
11th__+11/+6/+1______+7____+3___+7_____________________3___3___3___2___—___ —
12th__+12/+7/+2______+8____+4___+8_____________________3___3___3___2___0___ —
13th__+13/+8/+3______+8____+4___+8_____________________3___3___3___2___1___ —
14th__+14/+9/+4______+9____+4___+9_____________________3___3___3___2___1___ —
15th__+15/+10/+5_____+9____+5___+9_____________________3___3___3___3___2___ —
16th__+16/+11/+6/+1__+10___+5___+10____________________3___3___3___3___2___ 0
17th__+17/+12/+7/+2__+10___+5___+10____________________3___3___3___3___2___ 1
18th__+18/+13/+8/+3__+11___+6___+11____________________3___3___3___3___2___ 1
19th__+19/+14/+9/+4__+11___+6___+11____________________3___3___3___3___3___ 2
20th__+20/+15/+10/+5_+12___+6___+12____________________3___3___3___3___3___ 2
Class Features:
The following is a class feature of the crusader.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: The crusader is proficient in the use of all simple and martial weapons and with all types of armor and shields.
Spells: A crusader casts divine spells, which are drawn from the crusader spell list. Like a cleric, a crusader must choose and prepare her spells in advance. Unlike a cleric, a crusader cannot spontaneously cast cure or inflict spells.
To prepare or cast a spell, a crusader must have a Wisdom score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a crusader's spell is 10 + the spell level + the crusader's Wisdom modifier.
Crusaders, unlike wizards, do not acquire their spells from books or scrolls, nor do they prepare them through study. Instead, they meditate or pray for their spells, receiving them as divine inspiration or through their own strength of faith. Each crusader must choose a time each day during which she must spend an hour in quiet contemplation or supplication to regain her daily allotment of spells. Time spent resting has no effect on whether a crusader can prepare spells.
Like other spellcasters, a crusader can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given on Table: CRUSADER. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Wisdom score.
Where Table: CRUSADER indicates that the crusader gets 0 spells per day of a given spell level, she gains only the bonus spells she would be entitled to based on her Wisdom score for that spell level.
Each crusader has a particular holy symbol (as a divine focus) depending on the crusader's magical tradition.
Summon Familiar: At 2nd level, a crusader can call a familiar, just as a wizard can using the arcane bond ability.
Crusader Spell List:
Crusaders choose their spells from the following list.
0 Level: create water, detect magic, ghost sound, guidance, light, mending, purify food and drink, read magic, stabilize, touch of fatigue.
1st Level: bless, burning hands, cause fear, command, comprehend languages, cure light wounds, detect chaos, detect evil, detect good, detect law, endure elements, obscuring mist, protection from chaos, protection from evil, protection from good, protection from law, sleep.
2nd Level: aid, animal trance, bear's endurance, bull's strength, cat's grace, cure moderate wounds, darkness, delay poison, invisibility, mirror image, resist energy, scorching ray, see invisibility, web.
3rd Level: animate dead, bestow curse, contagion, continual flame, cure serious wounds, daylight, deeper darkness, lightning bolt, neutralize poison, remove curse, remove disease, tongues.
4th Level: cure critical wounds, minor creation, polymorph, restoration, stoneskin, wall of fire.
5th Level: baleful polymorph, break enchantment, commune, heal, major creation, raise dead, true seeing, wall of stone.
Cool idea. I did a class that I called elemental fist a long time ago. It was a monk with touch magic. its capstone ability was the ability to turn into a elemental, though I can't remember how I managed it. Flurry of blows was amusing when you had a flesh to stone held in hand...This one is kinda a tri-gestalt Adept-Expert-Warrior more than an hybrid, dunno if it’s balanced.
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I'm trying to come up with a Noble class (Aristocrat npc class + Noble Scion prestige class).
I'm also thinking of a thief class (modified Rogue)
interesting, though wouldn't a cavalier actually have a use in this too?
A d8 3/4 bab with a lot of proficiencies... using stuff from the cavalier could be interesting.