Pathfinder Balros
I put way too much effort into this. I am so proud. Read ahead for Balros, made for the Pathfinder D&D system!
Balros, Human Fighter 5.
Str 18
Dex 18 (17+1 4th level tick)
Con 18 (16+2 human)
Intelligence 14
Wisdom 12
Charisma 9
HP: 20 (con mod 4 x 5 levels) + 10 (1st level) + 4d10. I rolled a 4 (BAH!), a 10 (YAY!), a 9 (woo) and a 6 (mmph...). HP total is, thusly, exactly 59.
AC: 10+4(dex)+4(chain shirt)+1(enh)+1(armor training) = 20. Touch: 14. FF: 16. (No AC penalty).
Speed: 30 feet.
Languages: Common, Elven, Orcish
Fort: +9
Ref: +6
Will: +3
Trained class skills: Athletics, Survival, Escape Artist (fighter extra), Stealth (human extra).
Cross class trained skills: Perception (intelligence bonus extra) and Disable Device (intelligence bonus extra).
Athletics: +12
Disable Device: +6
Escape Artist: +12
Perception: +5
Stealth: +12
Survival: +9
Class features: +5 BAB, Armor Training +1, Weapon Training (close) +1, 3 extra feats (1st, 2nd, and 4th level).
Feats: General feats apply bonuses to
your statistics and grant you the ability to take actions
otherwise prohibited to you. The following general feats
replace those found in the 3.5 rules set. Unless otherwise
noted, feats not listed here are unchanged. (This means that named feats are replaced while feats not mentioned are not replaced).
Defensive Combat Training (1st level)
Improved Unarmed Strike(human)
Combat Expertise(1st level fighter bonus)
Improved Disarm(2nd level fighter bonus)
Weapon Focus (unarmed strike)(3rd level)
Deflect Arrows (4th level fighter bonus)
Equipment: +1 Chain Shirt (1250g), Amulet of Mighty Fists +1 (6000g), Cloak of Resistance +1 (1000g), Masterwork Throwing Axe (380g), Backpack (2g), Bedroll (2sp), Chain (10g), Lock (amazing DC 40) 150g, Masterwork Manacles (50g), Silk Rope x2 (20g), Trail Rations x10 (5g), Everburning Torch (11g), Antitoxinx2 (100g), Thunderstone (30g), Climber’s Kit (50g), Explorer’s Outfit (10g), Block and Tackle (5g), Potion of Comprehend Languages (50g), Potion of Cure Light Wounds x4 (200g), Jayanda’s Guide to Healthy Living (priceless).
60 PP
94 GP
3 SP
Attacks:
Unarmed Strike, 1d20+12, 1d4+6 damage.
Disarm: 1d20+10 (1d20+12, +2 from feat, -4 for using a light weapon (his fists). If he used a non-light weapon, bonus is 1d20+11 but he couldn't instantly wield the weapon he disarms).
Attack With Disarmed Weapon: 1d20+10, or +1 attack/damage if weapon is in "close" catagory.
Balros's CMB DC: 15+5(BAB)+4(str)+4(feat) = 28.
"Buddy". Masterwork Throwing Axe. Wooden haft, with orcish insignia for "Friendship" on the hilt. Gift from small orc tribe Balros befriended. Normally orcs would try to beat Balros up but he challanged them to an athletic competition, with feats of endurance and strength and speed. He didn't win all of them but he very well held his own and gave good, healthy sport. Rather than make enemies, Balros made friends with these orcs, who brought him back to their small tribe and treated him as a welcome guest. During his stay he learned to speak better Orcish, he competed in friendly games of strength and mettle. He won a non-lethal duel with the orc Raidleader, but then lost the duel with the orc Chieftain. Balros was a very good sport though, and became fast friends with the whole tribe. As a gift of friendship, they gave him a masterwork throwing axe, which Balros has named "Buddy". This axe is not Balros's main weapon, or even his secondary choice, but it is a valued item to him. Balros harbors no hatred for orcs, though he may disapprove of them choosing to raid and be overly violent often. The human would rather have fighting be a last resort, and if he again encounters orcs, he'll try to use his Orcish and Buddy to show his friendship to orcs and work out a peaceful solution - perhaps a contest of strength or endurance, or if fighting must break out, that it be simply a matter of skill, an honorable fight rather than one to the death.
"Van-Hwesta", (Fair Breeze in Elvish) Cloak of Protection +1. A gift from Elves after Balros exposed a corrupted human-settlement plot to have Dwarves and Elves in a local area war with each other over territory, hopefully to wipe each other out so the humans could have the forest and ore mines to themselves.
+1 Chain Shirt. A gift from Dwarves, from the same conflict as above.
Armbands of Mighty Fists +1: Gift from Monks of the Sweeping Limb. Balros climbed a small mountain to find a monk's temple and practice his skills with them. He wasn't accepted as he was too old to start training (and his spirit too free), but he forged a lasting friendship with many of the monks after he sparred with them and held his own very nicely. He gave them a gift, too, when he got there - he stopped a group of Grimlocks that had been planning to cause an avalanche onto the monestary and told the monks where the other grimlocks were hiding. In return, they gave him a pair of armbands that would increase his martial prowess.
Never knowing who his father was, Balros spent his early years as the bastard son of a housemaid for a petty noble household. For the first six years of his life his mother had little time for him and his low station prohibited him from socializing with many people. He received no formal education and was being groomed to become yet another servant - not a very favored one, but he did get to hear and watch all kinds of political intruige, and to this day Balros still remembers a lot of what he witnessed. Close to his 9th birthday, however, a rival House managed to financially destroy his masters and, to partially save themselves from complete ruin, his masters sold the services of his mother and the other servants to the rival house. Fearing the rumors that this rival house sacrificed the children of servants, Balros's mother abandoned him to the care of an old veteran. The veteran was hale but infirm, and put Balros to work in return for a roof and hot meals. In the veteran's kindness, he taught the boy how to read and how to write, and let the boy (if he did his tasks well) read the books and journals the vet had collected in his life, as well as (on rare occasions, as a special treat) clean the impressive array of weapons the veteran had gathered. First among these books was a dusty tome the veteran proudly said was the reason he lived so long and was still so healthy. Jayanda's Guide to Healthy Living. The book detailed dietary instructions, exercise regimens, and even included some informal training excercises to build one's strength, agility, and health. As for the weapons... one of the veteran's advice to Balros has stuck with him "Depend not utterly upon a length of steel to defend you, but learn that yourself is weapon and shield enough". Even so, the vet did teach Balros the basics of swordplay, axe-handling, and hammer-swinging.
As the years passed by, Balros took the veteran's and the books' lessons to heart and quickly grew into a tall, slightly lanky, but strong and hearty teenager. Life then decided to strike another blow to Balros - at age 15, the veteran's failing health finally claimed him, and the evil House that had swept up his mother had finally discovered that he was the son of one of their servants, whom they had cleverly forced into immense debt. They took everything from the old man's home and tried to take Balros, but he fought them and managed to escape. Balros swore he would free his mother from the House, though as the years passed by the house only grew more and more powerful.
For the next ten years, Balros was on his own. He started out with nothing - except for the Guide, which he managed to steal away before the House could claim it. Using his bright mind and excellent physical condition, Balros managed to snag all sorts of jobs and lived in various gutters and boarding houses. Even so poor, he adamantly stuck to his daily exercise and self-training... and living where he did, more than often he would have to use his self-taught prowess to fend off assaulter or to escape gangs. The only thing he ever managed to keep was the Guide. After two years of this, he finally amassed enough wealth to buy some supplies, a weapon or two, some decent armor, and food and water for a long journey. Keeping his mother in mind yet daring not to expose himself to the House, Balros struck off from the city to explore the world at large.
It's been eight years since Balros struck off on his own. the 25-year-old man at the prime of his life. His sharp mind and perfect physical condition has kept him more than alive... his adventures have given Balros a thirst for adventure and intruige and a sense of daring that's landed him in a lot of trouble, but also pulled him out of them all too. He's seen and done a lot in his travels, from single-handedly convincing a group of brigands to turn themselves in to a town guard, to climbing a small mountain to find a monk's temple and practice his skills with them. He wasn't accepted as he was too old to start training (and his spirit too free), but he forged a lasting friendship with many of the monks after he sparred with them and held his own very nicely. He gave them a gift, too, when he got there - he stopped a group of Grimlocks that had been planning to cause an avalanche onto the monestary and told the monks where the other grimlocks were hiding. In return, they gave him a pair of armbands that would increase his martial prowess. His +1 Chain Shirt and +1 Cloak of Resistance was a gift from a group of elves and a group of dwarves, respectively, that he had stopped from trying to kill each other and showed them both that the real enemy was the corrupt officials in the nearby town that wanted the gem mine in the forest for themselves and the forests' trees for themselves too and had been hoping to get the elves and dwarves to kill each other off first so the officials could swoop in and claim everything.
Balros, Human Fighter 5.
Str 18
Dex 18 (17+1 4th level tick)
Con 18 (16+2 human)
Intelligence 14
Wisdom 12
Charisma 9
HP: 20 (con mod 4 x 5 levels) + 10 (1st level) + 4d10. I rolled a 4 (BAH!), a 10 (YAY!), a 9 (woo) and a 6 (mmph...). HP total is, thusly, exactly 59.
AC: 10+4(dex)+4(chain shirt)+1(enh)+1(armor training) = 20. Touch: 14. FF: 16. (No AC penalty).
Speed: 30 feet.
Languages: Common, Elven, Orcish
Fort: +9
Ref: +6
Will: +3
Trained class skills: Athletics, Survival, Escape Artist (fighter extra), Stealth (human extra).
Cross class trained skills: Perception (intelligence bonus extra) and Disable Device (intelligence bonus extra).
Athletics: +12
Disable Device: +6
Escape Artist: +12
Perception: +5
Stealth: +12
Survival: +9
Class features: +5 BAB, Armor Training +1, Weapon Training (close) +1, 3 extra feats (1st, 2nd, and 4th level).
Feats: General feats apply bonuses to
your statistics and grant you the ability to take actions
otherwise prohibited to you. The following general feats
replace those found in the 3.5 rules set. Unless otherwise
noted, feats not listed here are unchanged. (This means that named feats are replaced while feats not mentioned are not replaced).
Defensive Combat Training (1st level)
Improved Unarmed Strike(human)
Combat Expertise(1st level fighter bonus)
Improved Disarm(2nd level fighter bonus)
Weapon Focus (unarmed strike)(3rd level)
Deflect Arrows (4th level fighter bonus)
Equipment: +1 Chain Shirt (1250g), Amulet of Mighty Fists +1 (6000g), Cloak of Resistance +1 (1000g), Masterwork Throwing Axe (380g), Backpack (2g), Bedroll (2sp), Chain (10g), Lock (amazing DC 40) 150g, Masterwork Manacles (50g), Silk Rope x2 (20g), Trail Rations x10 (5g), Everburning Torch (11g), Antitoxinx2 (100g), Thunderstone (30g), Climber’s Kit (50g), Explorer’s Outfit (10g), Block and Tackle (5g), Potion of Comprehend Languages (50g), Potion of Cure Light Wounds x4 (200g), Jayanda’s Guide to Healthy Living (priceless).
60 PP
94 GP
3 SP
Attacks:
Unarmed Strike, 1d20+12, 1d4+6 damage.
Disarm: 1d20+10 (1d20+12, +2 from feat, -4 for using a light weapon (his fists). If he used a non-light weapon, bonus is 1d20+11 but he couldn't instantly wield the weapon he disarms).
Attack With Disarmed Weapon: 1d20+10, or +1 attack/damage if weapon is in "close" catagory.
Balros's CMB DC: 15+5(BAB)+4(str)+4(feat) = 28.
"Buddy". Masterwork Throwing Axe. Wooden haft, with orcish insignia for "Friendship" on the hilt. Gift from small orc tribe Balros befriended. Normally orcs would try to beat Balros up but he challanged them to an athletic competition, with feats of endurance and strength and speed. He didn't win all of them but he very well held his own and gave good, healthy sport. Rather than make enemies, Balros made friends with these orcs, who brought him back to their small tribe and treated him as a welcome guest. During his stay he learned to speak better Orcish, he competed in friendly games of strength and mettle. He won a non-lethal duel with the orc Raidleader, but then lost the duel with the orc Chieftain. Balros was a very good sport though, and became fast friends with the whole tribe. As a gift of friendship, they gave him a masterwork throwing axe, which Balros has named "Buddy". This axe is not Balros's main weapon, or even his secondary choice, but it is a valued item to him. Balros harbors no hatred for orcs, though he may disapprove of them choosing to raid and be overly violent often. The human would rather have fighting be a last resort, and if he again encounters orcs, he'll try to use his Orcish and Buddy to show his friendship to orcs and work out a peaceful solution - perhaps a contest of strength or endurance, or if fighting must break out, that it be simply a matter of skill, an honorable fight rather than one to the death.
"Van-Hwesta", (Fair Breeze in Elvish) Cloak of Protection +1. A gift from Elves after Balros exposed a corrupted human-settlement plot to have Dwarves and Elves in a local area war with each other over territory, hopefully to wipe each other out so the humans could have the forest and ore mines to themselves.
+1 Chain Shirt. A gift from Dwarves, from the same conflict as above.
Armbands of Mighty Fists +1: Gift from Monks of the Sweeping Limb. Balros climbed a small mountain to find a monk's temple and practice his skills with them. He wasn't accepted as he was too old to start training (and his spirit too free), but he forged a lasting friendship with many of the monks after he sparred with them and held his own very nicely. He gave them a gift, too, when he got there - he stopped a group of Grimlocks that had been planning to cause an avalanche onto the monestary and told the monks where the other grimlocks were hiding. In return, they gave him a pair of armbands that would increase his martial prowess.
Never knowing who his father was, Balros spent his early years as the bastard son of a housemaid for a petty noble household. For the first six years of his life his mother had little time for him and his low station prohibited him from socializing with many people. He received no formal education and was being groomed to become yet another servant - not a very favored one, but he did get to hear and watch all kinds of political intruige, and to this day Balros still remembers a lot of what he witnessed. Close to his 9th birthday, however, a rival House managed to financially destroy his masters and, to partially save themselves from complete ruin, his masters sold the services of his mother and the other servants to the rival house. Fearing the rumors that this rival house sacrificed the children of servants, Balros's mother abandoned him to the care of an old veteran. The veteran was hale but infirm, and put Balros to work in return for a roof and hot meals. In the veteran's kindness, he taught the boy how to read and how to write, and let the boy (if he did his tasks well) read the books and journals the vet had collected in his life, as well as (on rare occasions, as a special treat) clean the impressive array of weapons the veteran had gathered. First among these books was a dusty tome the veteran proudly said was the reason he lived so long and was still so healthy. Jayanda's Guide to Healthy Living. The book detailed dietary instructions, exercise regimens, and even included some informal training excercises to build one's strength, agility, and health. As for the weapons... one of the veteran's advice to Balros has stuck with him "Depend not utterly upon a length of steel to defend you, but learn that yourself is weapon and shield enough". Even so, the vet did teach Balros the basics of swordplay, axe-handling, and hammer-swinging.
As the years passed by, Balros took the veteran's and the books' lessons to heart and quickly grew into a tall, slightly lanky, but strong and hearty teenager. Life then decided to strike another blow to Balros - at age 15, the veteran's failing health finally claimed him, and the evil House that had swept up his mother had finally discovered that he was the son of one of their servants, whom they had cleverly forced into immense debt. They took everything from the old man's home and tried to take Balros, but he fought them and managed to escape. Balros swore he would free his mother from the House, though as the years passed by the house only grew more and more powerful.
For the next ten years, Balros was on his own. He started out with nothing - except for the Guide, which he managed to steal away before the House could claim it. Using his bright mind and excellent physical condition, Balros managed to snag all sorts of jobs and lived in various gutters and boarding houses. Even so poor, he adamantly stuck to his daily exercise and self-training... and living where he did, more than often he would have to use his self-taught prowess to fend off assaulter or to escape gangs. The only thing he ever managed to keep was the Guide. After two years of this, he finally amassed enough wealth to buy some supplies, a weapon or two, some decent armor, and food and water for a long journey. Keeping his mother in mind yet daring not to expose himself to the House, Balros struck off from the city to explore the world at large.
It's been eight years since Balros struck off on his own. the 25-year-old man at the prime of his life. His sharp mind and perfect physical condition has kept him more than alive... his adventures have given Balros a thirst for adventure and intruige and a sense of daring that's landed him in a lot of trouble, but also pulled him out of them all too. He's seen and done a lot in his travels, from single-handedly convincing a group of brigands to turn themselves in to a town guard, to climbing a small mountain to find a monk's temple and practice his skills with them. He wasn't accepted as he was too old to start training (and his spirit too free), but he forged a lasting friendship with many of the monks after he sparred with them and held his own very nicely. He gave them a gift, too, when he got there - he stopped a group of Grimlocks that had been planning to cause an avalanche onto the monestary and told the monks where the other grimlocks were hiding. In return, they gave him a pair of armbands that would increase his martial prowess. His +1 Chain Shirt and +1 Cloak of Resistance was a gift from a group of elves and a group of dwarves, respectively, that he had stopped from trying to kill each other and showed them both that the real enemy was the corrupt officials in the nearby town that wanted the gem mine in the forest for themselves and the forests' trees for themselves too and had been hoping to get the elves and dwarves to kill each other off first so the officials could swoop in and claim everything.