Crimalia RedClaw; Head monk of the Red Claw shifter Monistery
Deep in the Eldeen Reach lies a shifter society that wishes to learn how to fully control thier lycanthropic heritage as well as learn to how to make themselves even stonger while they are not shifted. These Shifter are callled the Weretouched Monks. They got their start after the Purge when they encounted a master of the Way of the Shackled Beast style who devloped the style while in a Silver Flames containmint camp, and became his decpiles, years later they realized that they do not nescerialy need their shifting powers and learned to use their normal bodies to beat their foes, however when need they will use there shape shifting powers to defeat their foe's out right.
Weretouched Monk
Pre-req:Alignment Any lawful
Race: shifter
BAB:+7
Skill: Jump 13
Feat: Beast Strike, Disruptive Strike, Fear No Binds, Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist, Ki Shout, Two Weapon Fighting
Special: 10lvl's in monk and have the monk special ability gained at monk lvl 6 throught the Way of the Shackled Beast fighting style noted in Dragon magazine Issue 355
Hit Die
d8.
Class Skills
The monk’s class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Balance (Dex), Climb (Str), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Escape Artist (Dex), Hide (Dex), Jump (Str), Knowledge (nature) (Int), Listen (Wis), Move Silently (Dex), Sense Motive (Wis), Spot (Wis),Survival (Wis), Swim (Str), and Tumble (Dex).
Skill Points at 1st Level
(4 + Int modifier)
Oh and if you are wondering why I made it so feat heavy, it is because they are ment to be specalist in their unique way of fighting and also I thought that it would help with the balance of giving them ablilties simular to the Weretouched Masters, and the Moon Speakers.
Besides I am more worried about balance than any thing else on this right now, no offense
That's it. I'm going to bed. Right here, at my desk...
My gripes:
-Four kinds of big cat and no Pounce? Seems a shame.
-The Tiger's Weretouched II ability isn't very useful when they already have Beast Strike. How about a Rend instead?
-Unshackle the Beast. Horribly unbalanced toward the Bear, then Lion, then Tiger. Check out the errata for the Weretouched Master for a more balanced take on this. It's important the stat bonuses total the same for all forms.
-You should either lower the skill points, or shift the BAB down one. Also, this is a PRC, so we don't need a method for figuring the level 1 skill points.
-Why in the world is Two Weapon fighting a requirement? It doesn't work with natural weapons, and making it work for Unarmed Strikes is pretty iffy. I'd take it out.
That's all I can think of for now. I really like the idea, and like how you've built on the Dragon article though.
I love how you've incorporated the feats from Dragon. Very nice.
My gripes:
-Four kinds of big cat and no Pounce? Seems a shame.
-The Tiger's Weretouched II ability isn't very useful when they already have Beast Strike. How about a Rend instead?
-Unshackle the Beast. Horribly unbalanced toward the Bear, then Lion, then Tiger. Check out the errata for the Weretouched Master for a more balanced take on this. It's important the stat bonuses total the same for all forms.
-You should either lower the skill points, or shift the BAB down one. Also, this is a PRC, so we don't need a method for figuring the level 1 skill points.
-Why in the world is Two Weapon fighting a requirement? It doesn't work with natural weapons, and making it work for Unarmed Strikes is pretty iffy. I'd take it out.
That's all I can think of for now. I really like the idea, and like how you've built on the Dragon article though.
the special ability of the style that you get if you take all 3 bonus feats, TWF and have 9 ranks in jump by lvl 6 you get to do pouncing flurry
TWF is a pre req for the styles final trick I was trying not say that due to the rule's on info, I hope I do not get in trouble for this comment.
Honestly, I'd make the PRC an alternate path to Pounce for Shifter Monks, but that's just me. I hate to see a feat wasted.
Neat, but why did you replace most of the Lycanthropic varieties with more felines? Where are the Shark, Bat, Rat, Boar, and Jaguar? I haven't read anything that listed Lions, Panthers, or Cheetahs as Were-types on Eberron.
- The Lion's roar could easily be a sonic attack from the Bat traits.
- The increased speed from the Cheetah could go to the Jaguar traits but limit it to the treetops(similar to certain Wuxia films), this would also cover the Panther as well.
- It takes allot more discipline to balance Chaos and Law, rather than just give-in to robotic law. This class looks as if it should require a monk to embrace some Chaos into his discipline and therefore be changing his alignment to ethicly neutral from law.
All in all, I like many of the ideas of this PrC, but you seemed to have skipped over too many Shifter-traits and their bloodlines. If I were to use it, I'd feel the need to tweak it to compensate for these things. Even if only for the flavor.
Good ideas though.... ;;D
Hmmmm....
Neat, but why did you replace most of the Lycanthropic varieties with more felines? Where are the Shark, Bat, Rat, Boar, and Jaguar? I haven't read anything that listed Lions, Panthers, or Cheetahs as Were-types on Eberron.
- The Lion's roar could easily be a sonic attack from the Bat traits.
- The increased speed from the Cheetah could go to the Jaguar traits but limit it to the treetops(similar to certain Wuxia films), this would also cover the Panther as well.
- It takes allot more discipline to balance Chaos and Law, rather than just give-in to robotic law. This class looks as if it should require a monk to embrace some Chaos into his discipline and therefore be changing his alignment to ethicly neutral from law.
All in all, I like many of the ideas of this PrC, but you seemed to have skipped over too many Shifter-traits and their bloodlines. If I were to use it, I'd feel the need to tweak it to compensate for these things. Even if only for the flavor.
Good ideas though.... ;;D
I was thinking fo diffrent Kung-fu disciplens when I made this, I know some are fictiscious, but I was thinking about add those other animals later just I am haveing a probs with the ideas for their abilites. If any one has any ideas for them pls post them here and I will give you creds for your help and put them in if they fit well.
