Cleric

Benefits

• Underestimated by males from cultures where women warriors are rare: +3 to hit and +3 damage on her FIRST blow only, the first time such an opponent confronts her. Does NOT work on Warriors 5th level+ or any other class 8th level+.

Hindrances

• -3 reaction from NPCs of male-dominated societies (fades as they come to respect her).

Benefits

• +1 reaction from NPCs generally; +3 among members of his own culture.
• If from a Berserker culture: berserkers in his presence go berserk in 5 rounds instead of 10; and if he has the incite berserker rage granted power, it works better per the source.

Hindrances

• Distrusts and is distrusted by civilized authority: -3 reaction from NPCs in positions of power (rulers, officials, orthodox clergy).

Benefits

• Receives TWO free weapon proficiency slots that must be spent on Specialization in one Unarmed Combat style (Punching, Wrestling, or Martial Arts). The only priest who can specialize in unarmed combat.

Hindrances

• Bound by the ascetic discipline and restrictions of his order per the source.

Benefits

• +3 reaction from nobles of his own culture, +2 from nobles of other cultures.
• Can demand free shelter from anyone in his own land, for himself + 2 persons per experience level.
• Starts with more gold than other priests.

Hindrances

• Must live well: may only buy high-quality goods, paying at least TWICE the minimum price for anything (can't dodge this via a friend buying cheaper).

Benefits

• Answers to NO religious superior — takes orders from no higher authority (unless the god personally issues them).

Hindrances

• Actively opposed by the orthodox priesthood of his god (they disrupt his meetings, temple-building, plans). Must always pay FULL price to build a temple (never the priestly cut-rate).

Benefits

• +2 to Charisma score (cannot exceed 18 from this bonus).
• +2 reaction from anyone not utterly opposed to his philosophy (on top of the Charisma reaction bonus).

Hindrances

• May NEVER wear armor and may never use weapons (except a dagger or knife for eating). Keeps his weapon-prof slots; if he ever abandons the kit, may spend them at 2/level.

Benefits

• Always sheltered in his own community (even from the land's authorities); +2 reaction from peasants everywhere.

Hindrances

• Vow of simplicity: of his starting money, no more than 75 gp may be spent on goods other than weapons.

Benefits

• Gains the Medium Granted Power 'Prophecy': may receive god-sent visions whenever the DM decides, and may deliberately enter a trance to seek a vision once per day (more limited than a true Prophecy-god's priest).

Hindrances

• People are edgy around self-proclaimed prophets: -2 reaction from normal NPCs.

Benefits

• Special Detect Magic: usable once per day per experience level (e.g. 5th level = 5/day); as the 1st-level priest spell, with a 10% chance per level to determine the magic's sphere.

Hindrances

• Strange, 'wrong'-seeming rites: -2 reaction from all civilized NPCs.

Benefits

• May convert ('spend') weapon proficiency slots into nonweapon proficiency slots, trading martial training for learning.
• +3 reaction from fellow scholars (most of the time — see hindrance).

Hindrances

• Academic feuds: when meeting another scholar, roll 1d6 — on a 1, instead of the +3, he gets a -6 reaction (he once offended this scholar's pet theory). Must always carry writing materials.

Benefits

• In her chosen terrain, restores 1d4 hp to a patient treated within 4 rounds of the wounding.
• In her chosen terrain, patients under her care heal at double the normal natural rate.
• In her chosen terrain, finds herbs far better than an ordinary herbalist.
• From 5th level, identifies plants and pure water flawlessly within her terrain.
• Gains one additional terrain every 5 levels; each new terrain takes its own 5 levels to reach flawless identification.

Hindrances

• Outside her terrain, nonmagical healing needs a Herbalism check at -2. A failure means a 25% chance the herb picked was poisonous.
• May never brew poison, the sole exception being to test an antidote. Breaking this loses the kit.

Benefits

• Against her chosen undead species, prepared: +2 to hit and +2 damage.
• Traces a lair from signs and rumours to a general area, and hunts from there.

Hindrances

• Never declines a chance to destroy undead. Not a suicide charge, but the ultimate self-sacrifice is accepted.
• Sentient undead outrank mindless ones as targets.
• Cannot tolerate a sentient undead even when it is friendly or neutral, and will plot against a good lich.

Benefits

• Near-perfect detection of underground features: even the subtle cases fail at most 1 time in 10.
• Premonition of disaster: a Wisdom check gives 1d12 hours' warning of an earthquake or eruption, or 1d6 hours' warning of a rockfall or collapse.
• Earth elementals he summons are always of maximum size and are exceptionally loyal.

Hindrances

• Spells and special abilities function ONLY while in direct contact with unhewn rock.

Benefits

• +1 hit point per die on every cure wounds spell he casts.

Hindrances

• Refuses armor short of dire need.
• Famously tactless.

Benefits

• At 2nd level: trailless passage at full speed through overgrowth.

Benefits

• +3 reaction from his own clan, +2 from same-craft dwarves of other clans, and shelter from the clan.

Benefits

• May buy ranger-grade Move Silently for the same permanent +10% XP surcharge as the Outcast.
• A chaotic or evil Pariah answers to no superior in his faith.

Hindrances

• Open worship is suppressed by the mainstream dwarf priesthoods — usually endless argument, occasionally imprisonment.

Benefits

• +3 reaction from lawful dwarves, and food and shelter provided.

Hindrances

• High-priest missions are organised and equipped at his own expense.
• The Highborn's conspicuous-consumption rule applies: +10-25% on goods and services, or the reaction bonus decays.

Benefits

• +1 reaction with dwarves, and shelter in any stronghold.

Benefits

• Equipment and weapon-proficiency grants from the religion, including a blessed weapon. Your DM sets the specifics.

Hindrances

• May never refuse a fight that concerns his religion.
• Refusing a quest strips his specialization and the religion reclaims the blessed weapon.

Benefits

• +2 to hit, +2 damage and +2 on saving throws while defending the temple or holy ground.

Hindrances

• Chain of command: temple duty and assigned missions come first.

Benefits

• All of the Battlerager's killing-rage benefits, on a warrior/priest chassis.
• Members of his own religion do not apply the Battlerager reaction penalty.

Hindrances

• The rage takes five rounds to build before any of it applies, and only a Wisdom check at the start of a round ends it early. A check at the trigger can hold it back for the encounter — the source names no ability or target number for that one, and none is invented here.
• While raging: current hit points are hidden, the dwarf must attack the nearest target, cover gives no protection from missiles, a friend who interferes forces an Intelligence check or becomes an enemy, a printed list of healing spells will not affect him, and any taunt against him succeeds automatically.
• When the rage ends every benefit goes with it, the 10 temporary hit points included — and losing them can be fatal. The dwarf then fights at -1 to hit, -3 damage and +1 AC (worse) for as many rounds as the rage itself lasted.
• A silence spell bears on the rage. How it applies is a DM call.
• No weapon specialization, ever.
• Cannot cast while enraged. Spells cast before the rage persist.
• -3 reaction from dwarves outside his own religion; -2 from other races.

Benefits

• True visions of the future, twice per month — symbolic, open to interpretation. Unbidden visions may also occur, and may or may not be true.
• A druidic Oracle uses the standard druid spheres. A clerical Oracle's spheres are Major: All, Divination, Protection, Sun; Minor: Charm, Guardian, Healing, Necromantic — every other sphere is forbidden. Both turn or command undead as their base class does.

Hindrances

• No clear vision of an event the Oracle is fated to act in personally.
• Using a vision for personal gain draws an immediate DM-imposed curse.

Benefits

• Takes warrior-group proficiencies without the usual extra-slot cost.
• Spheres — Major: All, Combat, Healing, Protection. Minor: Guardian, Necromantic, Divination, Sun. Every other sphere is forbidden. Turns or commands undead as an ordinary priest.

Benefits

• Spheres and undead turning are exactly those of the base priest class.

Hindrances

• Starts poor.
• -2 reaction with religious NPCs of ANY faith, including the character's own.

Benefits

• Move Silently, Hide in Shadows and Climb Walls at a base of 10% each, plus 10 discretionary points per level, following the Shinobi Fighter pattern.
• No weapon proficiency changes.
• No more than half a clan is ninja-class. A clan member of any other class MUST take their shinobi kit — it is not an optional choice within the clan.

Hindrances

• Full clan obligation, identical to a ninja's: assignments are not optional, and the clan's interest outranks every other loyalty.