Bengalii (PEACH) [Archive] - Wizards Community

Bengalii (PEACH) [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Aleolus
10-17-07, 03:45 AM OK, this is a race I came up with a while ago, got some help fine tuning it, now I want an official opinion on how well I did with them.

Bengalii
--Str +2, Dex +2
--Medium Outsider (Native)
--Base Movement: 40ft.
--Darkvision 60ft, Low-Light Vision
--+4 racial bonus on listen and spot checks
--A natural armor bonus to AC of +2
--Scent (Ex)
--Fury (Ex): When a Bengalii enters combat, it must make a Will save (DC=10+character's HD) or fly into a berserk rage (a Bengalii may not voluntarily fail the save). A Bengalii attacks until all opponents or itself are dead. The Bengalii gains +1 to Strength, +1 to Constitution, and takes a -2 to AC; and may not end the rage voluntarily. Otherwise, this ability functions like the Barbarian's Rage class ability. The bonuses given by entering their Fury start off at +1 at their first HD, the for every 3 HD (counting class levels) after that increases by +1 (+2 at 4th, +3 at 7th, and so forth). Their penalty to AC does not change.
-- Claws: A Bengalii gains two natural claw attacks doing 1d4 damage. The Bengali can also make an off-hand claw attack with a free hand, whilst fighting with a weapon, as a secondary attack at a -5 penalty. This unarmed attack does not provoke attacks of opportunity, and the Bengalii can choose to have it's unarmed strike deal lethal or nonlethal damage.
-- Graceful: +2 racial bonus on all Balance, Jump, and Tumble checks. +1 racial bonus to reflex saves.
-- Sprint (Ex): can move at eight times her normal speed for a number of rounds equal to 1+ her Con modifier, then becomes fatigued (-2 Str, -2 Dex, can't run or charge) for the rest of the encounter.
-- Languages: Common, Celestial. Bonus Languages: Any related to a good aligned race, plus certain others that can be learned by a good-aligned race, such as Orcish. Bengalii have little tolerance for evil creatures and rarely, if ever, can tolerate them long enough to learn their language.
-- Favored Class: Fighter OR Barbarian. A multiclass Bengalii ignores the higher of his/her Fighter or Barbarian class levels when determining if he/she takes an XP penalty. If both are at the same level, neither counts.
-- A Bengalii Barbarian looses it's Fury racial feature, and instead gains 1 additional use of their rage class feature each day.
-- Level Adjustment: +2
JulesCARV
10-17-07, 04:10 AM I knew a Bengali woman a while back. She was a math major. I think she went into investment banking. She was quite an attractive young lady.

The fury feature seems somewhat odd, though. To me, at least, guardinals never seemed like the most "righteous wrath against evil" type celestials -- while I wouldn't call them laid back, they didn't seem notable for their berserk rage either.

In fact, it seems to me that they have little relation to guardinals in general. They don't have any abilities I associate with guardinals (resistance to petrification or electricity, lay on hands, speak with animals) and they have several abilities that I don't associate with guardinals (fury, sprint, graceful).
Aleolus
10-17-07, 10:17 PM OK, I took out who they're descended from, just left them as Planetouched, so how do they look? Didn't change the ability thing at all.

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Aleolus 10-17-07, 03:45 AM	OK, this is a race I came up with a while ago, got some help fine tuning it, now I want an official opinion on how well I did with them. Bengalii --Str +2, Dex +2 --Medium Outsider (Native) --Base Movement: 40ft. --Darkvision 60ft, Low-Light Vision --+4 racial bonus on listen and spot checks --A natural armor bonus to AC of +2 --Scent (Ex) --Fury (Ex): When a Bengalii enters combat, it must make a Will save (DC=10+character's HD) or fly into a berserk rage (a Bengalii may not voluntarily fail the save). A Bengalii attacks until all opponents or itself are dead. The Bengalii gains +1 to Strength, +1 to Constitution, and takes a -2 to AC; and may not end the rage voluntarily. Otherwise, this ability functions like the Barbarian's Rage class ability. The bonuses given by entering their Fury start off at +1 at their first HD, the for every 3 HD (counting class levels) after that increases by +1 (+2 at 4th, +3 at 7th, and so forth). Their penalty to AC does not change. -- Claws: A Bengalii gains two natural claw attacks doing 1d4 damage. The Bengali can also make an off-hand claw attack with a free hand, whilst fighting with a weapon, as a secondary attack at a -5 penalty. This unarmed attack does not provoke attacks of opportunity, and the Bengalii can choose to have it's unarmed strike deal lethal or nonlethal damage. -- Graceful: +2 racial bonus on all Balance, Jump, and Tumble checks. +1 racial bonus to reflex saves. -- Sprint (Ex): can move at eight times her normal speed for a number of rounds equal to 1+ her Con modifier, then becomes fatigued (-2 Str, -2 Dex, can't run or charge) for the rest of the encounter. -- Languages: Common, Celestial. Bonus Languages: Any related to a good aligned race, plus certain others that can be learned by a good-aligned race, such as Orcish. Bengalii have little tolerance for evil creatures and rarely, if ever, can tolerate them long enough to learn their language. -- Favored Class: Fighter OR Barbarian. A multiclass Bengalii ignores the higher of his/her Fighter or Barbarian class levels when determining if he/she takes an XP penalty. If both are at the same level, neither counts. -- A Bengalii Barbarian looses it's Fury racial feature, and instead gains 1 additional use of their rage class feature each day. -- Level Adjustment: +2
JulesCARV 10-17-07, 04:10 AM	I knew a Bengali woman a while back. She was a math major. I think she went into investment banking. She was quite an attractive young lady. The fury feature seems somewhat odd, though. To me, at least, guardinals never seemed like the most "righteous wrath against evil" type celestials -- while I wouldn't call them laid back, they didn't seem notable for their berserk rage either. In fact, it seems to me that they have little relation to guardinals in general. They don't have any abilities I associate with guardinals (resistance to petrification or electricity, lay on hands, speak with animals) and they have several abilities that I don't associate with guardinals (fury, sprint, graceful).
Aleolus 10-17-07, 10:17 PM	OK, I took out who they're descended from, just left them as Planetouched, so how do they look? Didn't change the ability thing at all.