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#1 drackcove Jul 04, 2011 13:26:46	Inspired by the behemoth class thread(elsewhere on the homebrew forum) here is a theme for just being the biggest brute possible. Gigantic Benefit: increase your size by 1, increase your height by 50% and double your weight. Increase the amount of weight you can carry by 50% and take a -5 racial penalty to Dexterity based ability and skill checks.in addition you take a -2 racial penalty to ac and reflex. This does not increase your reach or the size of weapons you can carry   Lvl 5: +5 hp +2 endurence   lvl 10: you can wield weapons of your size. This still does not increase your reach   Optional powers.   Heavy as the world      lvl 2 utility encounter -                      Martial immediate interupt –             personal trigger: you are subject to force movement Effect:ignore the force movement.   Barrel through        Lvl6 utility At will -                    martial Move Effect: move up to your speed, you can move through enemy squares. Any enemy that misses you with an opprotunity attack from this movement is knocked prone though if they hit you your movement ends.   Stomp                lvl 10 utility encounter -                   martial immediate reaction –             melee 1 trigger:an adjacent enemy stands up from prone Effect:the enemy is knocked prone and takes damage equal to 5 + your highest ability modifier.
#2 stargazer_dragon Jul 04, 2011 14:18:21	I would remove the size catagory increase but leave the hight and weight increase, increasing size has to many other issues connected to it and is not needed for the effect of being larger. themes also often have attack powers incorporated in with them. but is a nice start over all
#3 drackcove Jul 04, 2011 15:32:25	I know that size has consequences, like close burst attacks becoming larger, thats why their are penalties attached to the theme and why it has no attack power. I wanted the player to be big enough to single handily block a hallway and to use close burst weapon powers to crush a large group of enemies (note this may be a bad idea as the penalty to defenses make being surrounded extremely dangerous). In terms of wizards picking this up to increase burst powers...its a little bit of a waste, the increase in weapon damage does almost nothing for them and the penalty to defenses makes them squishier than they already are. Thanks =)