Hammer of Moradin becomes Hammer of Thor [Archive] - Wizards Community

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boatmanj

04-07-07, 05:50 PM
Currently playing in a campaign where we decided to use the Asgardian pantheon. I'm playing a dwarf and was looking for a good prestige class. He's a fighter/cleric and worships Thor, when going through PrCs, we found hammer of Moradin and looking at the abilities they were very reminiscent of the Thor of legend (Lots of thunder related things, ability to throw the hammer and have it return), so we made a few minor tweaks and decided to push forward, so I thought I'd get everyone's opinion on the changes that were made.

Prereqs: Everything stayed the same except we got rid of the regional requirement and changed the Patron requirement to Thor as opposed to Moradin for obvious reasons. Also the special requirement was changed to being a member of the Hammer of Thors (not Moradin)

Goblinkiller, Drowbasher, Giantslayer: Obviously we needed to relook through these because they are enemies to the children of Moradin, but Thor's a bit different. So we checked the Dieties and Demigods and found Thor is a 20th level Ranger with the favored enemies of Giants, Dragons, Goblinoids, Aberrations, and Undead. So we took the first three of these and decided to use them instead. Giving us Goblinkiller, Dragonslayer, Giantbasher (liked how Dragonslayer sounded better than basher).. So not a big change there but made sure we kept it Thor-themed.

Chaos Crusher: Obviously Chaos Crusher won't make a lot of sense if you're worshipping a Chaotic Good god. So we flipped it to Law Breaker. Allowing a Hammer of Thor to imbue the Anarchic instead of the Axiomatic property to his hammer.

Other than that, the class matches Thor pretty well. Let me know if it looks good or what othe changes can be made. WotC actually has Hammer of Moradin right on their website in their Excert from the Players Guide to Faerun if you want to take a look at it, I recommend it to any dwarf that meets the requirements. I'm finding it to be a very powerful prestige class.

Hammer of Moradin (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20040305a)
Karzach

04-08-07, 12:33 AM
You might want to consider changing Bones of the Earth to something more Thor related than that, but otherwise, its a good fit.