| Rockblood |
So I've had this idea going on in my head for a very long time but never really could think of how to make it work. There is this anime called claymore which is one on my ok list and in the show there are special warriors called claymores. They are humans that had to go through torturous taining to become half yoma (animes version of demons) to better fight the yoma. They do this by being the only ones that can sense where the yoma is hiding for they can disguise themselves as any kind of humanoid and the humans wouldn't no better. Claymores can be both male and female but training the males was closed down because all claymores have one major weakness. They are consistently fighting their yoma side to stay in control and if they use to much of their power they will turn into a special kind of yoma called a awakened being. Depending on what claymore they used to be usually determines the power of the awakened being. Males awakened a lot faster then females and that is why they stopped training males. However males were much more powerful then the female claymores. Each claymore had a unique ability that made them stand out from the others. Examples being able to twist their arm 22 times turning it into a drill, being able to regenerate faster then the norm for claymores, vibrating their sword so fast it looks like a snake to where its almost impossible to tell where its attacking from even with magical means, ect. They wear little to no armor though what little they do wear seems to be medium armor and they all carry claymores as their weapon of choice that was specially made for the user. I pretty much have all the flavor down but having a hard time thinking up mechanics and requirements to be one other then being female and having demon blood put into the characters body. Any ideas and what all can be done? As for the stats like bab, fort, ref, and will I honestly think it would be up to the one power picked to deside on that like if they desided to be stronger then claymores that didnt pick the str power good fort and will but porr reflex and good bab. Thats another thing is the powers. How many should I make before saying its done?
| Volvogg |
You could use the bloodrager as a substitute instead of creating something from scratch. The rage mimics the claymore's ability to increase their strength/power and the bloodline powers/spells should suffice to mimic some (probably not all) of the claymore's other various powers. I know that you asked for a prestige class but I found using the above was a good approximation when used in my own campaign.
Cheers
Volf
| Rockblood |
While that really does help me make a baseline for the claymore (will be using that bab, fort, ref, and will for the claymore) the bloodline powers for the abyssal are the same. All claymores are half demon so no other bloodlines would work with them. Also their abilies are more supernatural then arcane magic so the rage will probably be put in them to (shows when they dive into their demonic power through progessive changes like eye color, sharpening teeth, ect.) so while that class could work as a replacement for the claymore idea I'm wanting to make a spell-like ability martial prestige class (though they might work as a base class to but i dont now if i need to do that much work) that can either increase her skill in her claymore sword or learn to better use her demonic power with the threat of being a full demon if to much is used.